Charles R. Knight
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Charles Robert Knight was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are cu
Photo from c. 1914
Knight's iconic mural of a Triceratops confronting a Tyrannosaurus, painted for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1928, likely his most famous work
Entelodon (then known as Elotherium), the first commissioned restoration of an extinct animal by Charles R. Knight, 1894
Leaping Laelaps by Charles R. Knight, 1897--the dinosaur is now called Dryptosaurus
Triceratops
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Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 69 to 66 million years ago on the island continent of Lar
Charles R. Knight
…in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States. One of his most famous works is a mural of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, which helped establish the two dinosaurs as "mortal enemies" in popular culture. Working at a time when many fossil discoveries were fragmentary and…
LA Triceratops mount 2
Illustration of specimen USNM 4739, the horn cores that were erroneously attributed to Bison alticornis, the first named specimen of Triceratops
Type specimen YPM 1820 of the type species, T. horridus
1896 skeletal restoration of T. prorsus by O. C. Marsh, based on the holotype skull YPM 1822 and referred elements