![]() Not surprisingly, the students got it wrong 63% of pre-college and 72% of college students drew an upright T. Rex like monster, made its first appearance in 1954, and has gone on to be one of the most famous and profitable fictional characters ever, starring in at least 28 movies, and has appeared as well in comic books and TV series, both in its ancestral home of Japan and in the U.S.Ĭornell paleontologist Robert Ross and his colleagues recently performed a survey of students in which they were asked to draw a picture of T. Rex has spawned a multitude of comic book imitations and as well as Hollywood versions that have starred in untold numbers of bad science fiction films. Of course, it is not all the fault of the museums. Yale's Peabody museum is still happy to sell you coffee mugs and other memorabilia in which the dinosaur is depicted erect as in Rudolph Zallinger's famous mural, The Age of Reptiles. In any case, damage was done the sight of that huge erect dinosaur had already been imprinted on several generations. But the museums took decades to correct their error. Since the 1960s, scientists have realized that the upright pose could not be correct in reality, the dinosaur's body was held more or less horizontal, with its tail balancing out its huge head, both cantilevered out from the huge rear legs. Rex skeleton installed at the Carnegie Museum in 1942 was similarly displayed, standing nearly 40 feet tall. The tripod pose was scientifically in error, but nearly 100 years later, students still can't get it right.Ī T. ![]() In 1915, paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn presented the world with a nearly complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex, towering over an exhibit space at the American Museum of Natural History, standing up straight like a kangaroo and balancing on its tail. An accurate skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex Holotype specimen lumbers through the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh (Image: Wikipedia commons, by Scott Robert Anselmo)
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