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vaspider: anachronic-cobra: carry-on-my-wayward-butt: the-bookie-monster: anaisnein: earlgraytay: mariolanzas: DINOSAURS OVER THE YEARS This is a series of posters I made to show how our perception of Dinosaurs and other animals of the mesozoic changed over the years. These and few more are featured in a Youtube video you can watch HERE this art is available for prints, t-shirts and other goods HERE http://mariolanzas.tumblr.com/ so this is really cool for a number of reasons!! but the sociology one is what’s got my brain going. Obvs our understanding of dinosaurs has changed as we got to learn more about them and got better techniques for reconstructing fossils and shit but!!! I wonder just how much of the ‘dinosaurs are animals’ comes from people growing up with them? like. if you look at the 1800s reconstructions, they’re mean! They’re big scary monsters. they look like they came right out of a medieval bestiary. but no one really knew what a dinosaur was in the 1800s; they were New and Exciting, so much so that they got a whole exhibit at the Crystal Palace if I remember right. but by the 2010s literally everyone who studies dinosaurs has just … grown up with them? they’re a thing that’s existed in the world that you can learn Cool Facts about that died a long time ago. they’re part of the background noise of earth from the time you’re, like, three years old. i wonder just how much of the transformation dinosaurs have gone through- from MONSTER to “thing you might see in your back garden”- is just because people have grown up with dinosaurs. hang on what the hell is this about tall stegosaurus Can we talk about the Elasomosaurus being the freaking Loch Ness Monster? i didnt even read the post because as soon as i saw this dude i needed to put sunglasses on him At some point someone realized “oh shit, we put elasmosaurus on backwards” @mistresskabooms -- source link