Tag Archives: Facial Reconstruction

What To Do With Crests – Updated

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Yesterday — on April 1st, which is about as warning bells as they come — I uploaded a post with a host of new art. This post is as much an admission that that post, somewhat subtly, is a joke. … Continue reading →

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What To Do With Crests

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Over the course of looking at the new specimen of Edmontosaurus (Bell et al., 2014) sporting an odd accretion, I had an epiphany: The “cock’s comb” was, in fact, merely a segment of the neck, falsely and purposely isolated by … Continue reading →

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The Emaciated Tyrannosaur – a Reply to Ford, 1997

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

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A Saw in the Jaw of a Sea-God

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

The Devonian was a time of wonder and mystique. The Age of Fishes, it capped the rise of vertebrates and heralded the rise of skeletal diversity. Fish in this age began to inch towards the shore; some would have crawled … Continue reading →

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Something About Overbites

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Some animals have overbites. it’s fairly common enough that animals (and humans) are born where the upper and lower dentition do not precisely match. Sometimes this alignment can be severe and affects diet. Other times, it is hardly noticeable. But … Continue reading →

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Adding a Little More

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Jaime A. Headden

Sometimes I’m a bit lazy in my stippling of skulls, and try to be loose about details, and this is generally true when the target is pretty tiny. In the case of my cookiecutter shark stipple (if you can find … Continue reading →

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Recrowning the Unicorn

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus [n1] is infamously known as the “unicorn” of hadrosaurs, a lambeosaurine (tsintaosaurin, from Tsintaosaurini) hadrosaurid with a single elongated, solid bony spike protruding from its forehead. The skull was never complete, but it wouldn’t matter, as the diversity … Continue reading →

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All Your Guessing Games

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

What? Another All Your Yesterdays mention? Sorta. You remember when I asked you all what this might be? Someone got the right answer, although I’d love to speculate how they came about it. I have a clue, and it might … Continue reading →

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Guessing Game 2

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

So here’s a follow-up game for my post on Masiakasaurus knopfleri, which I produced a pair of illustrations: One showcased the obvious identity of the animal, the other obscured it. I used the petty trick of trying to flesh out … Continue reading →

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A Skull Reconstruction for Daemonosaurus

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jaime A. Headden

Recall my earlier post on Daemonosaurus chauliodus. At the time, I thought this was a pretty silly dinosaur to provide a reconstruction for, since for the most part I agreed with the authors’ reconstruction, it matched the skull as i … Continue reading →

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