The story

Marsh’s skeletons, stitched.

In 1896 O. C. Marsh published The Dinosaurs of North America, with plates of the skeletons of the animals he had named: Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus and more. Dinosaurs by miniblank traces eleven of them from the plates themselves, bone by bone, and embroiders them in one thread. Where science has moved on, we say so: Marsh’s Claosaurus is Edmontosaurus today.

Real fossils, with their numbers.

The megalodon tooth and the T. rex tooth, the trilobites, the pyrite ammonite, the dinosaur egg: all real specimens from museum collections, from photographs the museums share openly under CC0 or CC BY 4.0. Each design names its specimen and its number. The museums are not connected with us and do not endorse these pieces; we credit them as the source, nothing more.

The field kit, from the catalogues.

The rock hammer, the prospecting pick, the hand lens, the compass, the sieve and the tape, as they were engraved in hardware and optical catalogues from 1892 to 1900. And Charles R. Knight’s paintings of 1897 and 1928, among the first to show dinosaurs as living animals, now in the public domain.

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Credits.

Photos: Yale Peabody Museum and Smithsonian NMNH (CC0); MNHN Luxembourg (CC BY 4.0); Kear et al. 2013, PLOS ONE (CC BY 4.0); Charles R. Knight (public domain); O. C. Marsh, The Dinosaurs of North America, 1896 (public domain).

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