2019年12月4日 · In a series of sketches Mr Kosemen has set about making that point by re-imagining modern day animals from their skeletons. A streamlined swan with featherless wings is pictured on land with a...

2015年6月23日 · Basically, Hollywood dinosaurs just look like fossils with skin draped over it. That's because those artists tend to base their drawings on the fossils alone, while ignoring what the animal might have looked like with layers of fat and other things.

Artist C.M. Kosemen, in his book ‘All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals’, illustrated present-day animals based solely on their skeletons. All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

2020年8月20日 · A re-imagining of an elephant (left), a horse (top right), and a rhino (bottom right) based on their skeletons. © C. M. Cossman Take his reimagining of an elephant (above left).

We have no idea what actual dinosaurs looked like and our only source of inspiration is bones. Often not even a complete skeleton, just limbs, and a tail. The problem with this is that artists, who specialize in drawing ancient animals — called paleoartists — tend to just cover these bones with skin, disregarding any possible fat, muscles ...

2019年12月4日 · In a series of sketches Mr Kosemen has set about making that point by re-imagining modern day animals from their skeletons. A streamlined swan with featherless wings is pictured on land with a scaly back in one re-imagination while a …

2019年12月1日 · "For example there could plant-eating dinosaurs that had pangolin or armadillo-like armor that wasn't preserved in the fossil. There could also be dinosaurs with porcupine-type quills." So, he made illustrations of modern animals on …

2022年10月25日 · A central tenet of the book concerns the fact that many dinosaur reconstructions are outdated, overly conservative, and inconsistent with the variation observed in modern animals.

2019年12月5日 · From the ancient dinosaurs only skeletons remained, and paleontologists are forced to make assumptions about their real appearance only for these modest remains. In the modern world, the image of a dinosaur has long been rooted - it is both in children's encyclopedias and in films, but suddenly the researchers are mistaken?

2020年1月7日 · Upon pondering how ridiculous we've drawn dinosaurs, Koseman decided to flip the switch and draw modern animals the way we draw dinosaurs. The results? Amazing, honestly. Koseman thinks that artists tend to either under-feather or over-feather dinosaurs in their art.