Sincere Specimens

The following objects are institutional examples of the scientific interpretation of dinosaur fossils. They are the result of painstaking work put in by paleontologists and curators to represent as accurate a depiction as possible of a dinosaur's physical size and mobility.

DINOSAUR SKELETON.

Glass negative of a dinosaur skeleton attributed to photographers Harris & Ewing c1913-1917. Retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog

Norman Ross of the division of Paleontology, National Museum, preparing the skeleton of a baby dinosaur some seven or eight million years old for exhibition

Photograph taken on March 19, 1921 of a baby dinosaur fossil found in Montana being prepared for exhibition. Retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog

DINOSAUR. MOUNTED SPECIMEN IN SMITHSONIAN

Glass negative of a mounted dinosaur specimen attributed to photographers Harris & Ewing from 1917. Retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog

Dinosaur bones, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Photograph taken by Carol M. Highsmith sometime between 1980 and 2006. Retrieved from the Library of Congress Online Catalog