Friday, May 27, 2016

Pete III finished. For now.

Just for the weekend, the prototype cast of our Daspletosaurus Pete III (RMDRC 06-005) will be shown off in the atrium of the museum, before it gets decent photographs and heads to its forever home. Yes, it has a 2006 specimen number.
The original site as found/explored in July 2005. We were so young.

We've been working on this for a decade. I'm not sure if I should take the day off to celebrate, or take advantage of the free time of getting a huge project off my plate and start something new and exciting. In the meantime, enjoy some of the snowy photos, better well-lit ones to come in a week.

So, this is what a pile of Daspletosaurus looks like

It just looks like such a fast critter, not like dumpy Tyrannosaurus

Nearly 11m of birdy goodness

6 comments:

  1. It doesn't look like Daspletosaurus, it looks more like an albertosaurine closer to Gorgosaurus than to anything else.

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  2. Congratulations!

    Regards,


    Chase



    Stamford Museum, Stamford CT.

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  3. Where will this specimen's "forever home" be, if not the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, then?

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    1. The forever home will make an announcement when they are ready. Ball is in their court now.

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  4. I just can’t get over the size. 11 meters? Why isn’t it a bigger deal in terms of size? It’s clearly the largest known Daspletosaurus.

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