Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and director of the Cornell-affiliated Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Robert Ross, adjunct assistant professor in the same department and PRI’s associate director for outreach and Don Duggan-Haas, a PRI education research associate, have published their findings on this question in the Journal of Geoscience Education, to appear this month in print. rexes were depicted as upright, somewhat slow-moving tail draggers? A Cornell research team set out for answers after years of anecdotally observing students drawing the T. rex still stuck in the early 1900s, when T. So why are students’ perceptions of the T. This has been the view of most dinosaur scientists since the 1970s, and has increasingly been represented in textbooks and popular literature. rex, was an agile, dynamic predator with a horizontal frame. ![]() Even Hollywood knows it – the makers of “Jurassic Park,” celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, did their best to portray anatomically correct dinosaurs. An 8-year-old will likely draw something similar. ![]() rex, wrong and right, show how the researchers measured the spinal angle of student drawings.Īsk a college student to sketch a Tyrannosaurus rex, and he or she will probably draw an upright, tail-dragging creature with tiny arms. ![]() Sketches of the two extreme reconstructed postures of T.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |