What does a paleo artist do?
Fossils are bones, so how do they reveal what dinosaurs looked like?
There is some degree of speculation about every bit of information that we don’t have, so we make sure our work is informed by what we do have. With colours, where we may not necessarily know the exact details, we can look to modern animals or to the relatives of those dinosaurs. We made sure that every creative decision was backed with as much science as possible. There’s also a lot of debate as to whether dinosaurs roared. Listen to a lion and that’s an impressive sound. Dinosaurs can’t quite do that, but they are still making loud, impressive sounds. Whether or not you could call them roars is a bit of a semantics thing.
Yes, it’s what got me interested in science. I grew up in Malaysia and when I was five, we stumbled across a bootleg CD of the original Walking with Dinosaurs at a night market. I was obsessed from that day onwards.
The change in appearance is like night and day. An utahraptor features in our new series and in the original. Back then it was a scaly lizard-like animal, now it’s covered in a full coat of feathers – it has wings and it has gorgeous birdlike movements. It’s like it’s an entirely different animal.
The spinosaurus is my favourite. I even have one tattooed on my arm! It’s such a bizarre thing and so oddly proportioned that when I first saw it move, it was really like, “Whoa!” This is a creature that weighs upwards of seven tons, and it’s shaped like no other animal on the planet.
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Your who's who of prehistoric creatures!
1 Triceratops
2 Spinosaurus
3 Gastonia
4 Albertosaurus
5 Pachyrhinosaurus
6 Lusotitan
A giant lusotitan — 25 metres in length — was discovered in a backyard in Portugal. As palaeontologists uncover the remains, the story of. Old Grande’s search for a mate unfolds. SHERNA NOAH
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