{"id":77628,"date":"2019-03-13T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=77628"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:58:21","slug":"dinosaurs-bones-and-art-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dinosaurs-bones-and-art-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaurs, Bones and Art, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Karyn Simpson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">When Paul Sereno and his team at the Fossil Lab at the University of Chicago find dinosaurs, they typically just look like bits of crushed bone and rock.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dinosaurs, Bones and Art, Oh My\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/323489223?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How do these paleontologists, fossil preparators and paleo artists transform these fragmented fossils into life-size, flesh-and-bone dinosaurs? It takes hundreds of hours, extensive research, and just the right combination of art and science.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Reconstructed dinosaur model at the Paul Sereno Fossil Lab (Karyn Simpson\/ MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karyn Simpson Medill Reports When Paul Sereno and his team at the Fossil Lab at the University of Chicago find dinosaurs, they typically just look like bits of crushed bone and rock. How do these paleontologists, fossil preparators and paleo artists transform these fragmented fossils into life-size, flesh-and-bone dinosaurs? It takes hundreds of hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":77631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4559],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-77628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2019","tag-promo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dinosaurs, Bones and Art, Oh My! - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/dinosaurs-bones-and-art-oh-my\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dinosaurs, Bones and Art, Oh My! - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Karyn Simpson Medill Reports When Paul Sereno and his team at the Fossil Lab at the University of Chicago find dinosaurs, they typically just look like bits of crushed bone and rock. 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