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What was the first life restoration of a sauropod?

https://svpow.com/2026/02/02/what-was-the-first-life-restoration-of-a-sauropod/
17•surprisetalk•2d ago

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twocommits•1h ago
Rosie O'Donnell?
sparrish•1h ago
I had to click and read to satisfy my curiosity of what "life restoration" was in this context.

I was expecting Jurassic Park action but found the old illustrations to be surprisingly delightful.

happytoexplain•1h ago
Apparently "life restoration" is a standard term for depictions of extinct life. I never knew.
thangalin•27m ago
The first life-like sketch of an amniote shows a critter chasing a dragonfly. Sir William Dawson's diorama from "Air Breathers of the Coal Period" (1863), is based largely on the fossil record at Joggins, Nova Scotia, and is one of the earliest reconstructions of the Coal Age wetlands.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sir-William-Dawsons-dior...

Our knowledge of that time period has expanded so much since 1863. In my book, I asked the illustrator to give a nod to Dawson's drawing by having an amniote chase a dragonfly:

https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf#page=18

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285•nnx•6h ago•99 comments

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16•shayonj•1h ago•0 comments

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336•hn_acker•5h ago•51 comments

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69•jimminyx•4h ago•39 comments

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145•edent•9h ago•85 comments

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28•cyrusradfar•22h ago•16 comments

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2769•qwertox•21h ago•1470 comments

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What was the first life restoration of a sauropod?

https://svpow.com/2026/02/02/what-was-the-first-life-restoration-of-a-sauropod/
17•surprisetalk•2d ago•4 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

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229•jsomers•2d ago•156 comments

Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE

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Compact disc story (1998)

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