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| The Fascinating World of Fossils |
| Your Guide, Richard Hanna |
| What did ancient bugs look like? Well, there were dragonflies with a 6ft. wingspan, giant roaches that were big enough for you to ride to school, and other interesting critters inhabiting the Earth during the Age of Insects. Insects were the ruling life form for millions of years. Other lifeforms, older even than bugs, inhabited the Earth at this time, too. The most interesting of all to me is the trilobite. A little armored tank, the trilobite just plowed along through debris on the sea bottom, minding its own business and survived for eons unchanged. One of my first fossils was a trilobite. This piece, origionally sculpted in thermo-plastics is now available in cast polyurothane resin. It is life size 3"in length excluding the antennae. The trilobite is mounted on a sea-floor textured base in a 'swimming' posture. My Olenoides is based on reconstructions from fossils of the Burgess shales and represents an adult individual during the Cambrian Time. |
| Trilobite Olenoides serratus |
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| Free Graphics from Kerrybear. No link required-but appreciated! Just copy, and download to your PC. NO direct hot linking, PLEASE! |
| Compsognathus Compsognathus (means "Pretty Jaw" in latin) was the smallest dinosaur yet found, an adult "Compy" was only about 28 inches from tail to snout. Almost half of this was his tail ! This means that a Compy was about the same size and weight as a chicken. Compsognathus had thin legs and a long tail, so he was built for speed, running to catch lizards and insects. This restoration is life size and based on photographs from the Metropolitian Museum of Natural History in New York. Sculpture is in "matrix" and measures : 16.5" wide and 10" tall. |
| What does someone do who is in love with dinosaur history, fossils and art? They become a hobbyist paleontologist and dinosaur artist. Works on these pages are also scale models of the museum pieces-as realistic and true to the original fossils as my hand could make them. |
| Struthiomimus (ostrich mimic) was a late Cretaceous North American "Ostrich" dinosaur about 11 feet long with a small bird-like head. My replica skull is approximately 'life size' 6.5 inches long, 2 inches wide and stands about 4 inches high including a simulated matrix base. |
| Struthiomimus |
| Sculptures, photos and writing COPYRIGHTED by Richard Hanna. These are made to sell to others also. If you've always wished you could take a museum exhibit home with you, this is the next best thing. Most people cannot tell them from the "real McCoy." Contact the artist for details if you'd like to purchase a sculpture for yourself. They are placed here so they can be seen, learned from and enjoyed-- and I hope you did all! |
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