Here’s that Brachiosaurus altithorax skeleton you ordered
August 30, 2013
Here’s the mounted skeleton of Brachiosaurus altithorax outside the Field Museum in Chicago, based on the holotype FMNH P25107, with missing parts filled in from the mounted Giraffatitan brancai MB.R.2181 at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. To see it with humans and other animals for scale, go here.
And here’s the same thing in silhouette. It may be informative to compare this to the very different silhouette of the mounted Rapetosaurus krausei, also at the Field Museum.
I’m putting these up so they can be used. Like everything on this blog, these images are released under the CC BY license, so you can do with them what you like as long as you credit us. Go nuts!
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August 30, 2013 at 11:53 am
thanks, Mike – I really need to go there, digitize it, then create a fixed version in which the poor animal’s shoulder girdle doesn’t choke it ;)
August 30, 2013 at 11:53 am
erh, thanks, Matt!
September 4, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Great stuff, thanks for posting these!
Since you both have written a fair bit about copyright in the past year, a quick question on using the image: do you know if the Field Museum can/does claim copyright of the mount, and images that reproduce it?
September 4, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Hmm, that’s a good question. We know that the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin explicitly allows you to do what the heck you like with photos of its material so long as you credit them — awesome! — and the the Natural History Museum in London tends to be less permissive, though see Credit where it’s due. The Field Museum has a policy that seems cool with all non-commercial uses, but not with commercial ones. So I guess that may mean we can’t make Matt’s images CC By. Bummer.
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