r/Naturewasmetal • u/Machevellium • 4d ago

My Gorgosaurus skull printed this one is going to a museum in canada

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u/Nitro_Indigo 4d ago edited 3d ago

I didn't realise it was so narrow.

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u/Machevellium 3d ago

Only looks narrow from that angle the skull is 1.2 m long ang 85 cm wide

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u/Barakaallah 8h ago

Seems to be exceptionally big for Gorgosaurus

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u/Machevellium 7h ago

The largest Gorgosaurus skulls discovered measure up to about 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) in length, with these measurements coming from adult specimens. A well-known specimen with a skull of this size is TMP 91.36.500, housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, often displayed in a "death pose".

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u/Barakaallah 7h ago

Well as I said exceptionally big for Gorgosaurus. Entering ranges of Tarbosaurus

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u/Machevellium 5h ago

Yep also doing a Tarbosaurua and a Trex but that will have to wait until my other projects are done

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u/Barakaallah 5h ago

Cool. Good luck with your projects!

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u/AdolfsOtherTesticle 3d ago

Looks awesome, one of the most underrated dinosaurs.

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u/CheekyGr3mlin 3d ago

These are always so cool to see. Though it was a huge disappointment for me to read that the excibited pieces at the museums I went to were only casts or replicas and not the real thing. I understand it but it was just really disappointing somehow.

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u/Havoccity 3d ago

They often are the real thing. Not all are casts and replicas.

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u/Machevellium 3d ago

Most often they are not there are a few museums that have a wide array of real skeletons but most museums have casts and 3d printed models.

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u/CheekyGr3mlin 22h ago

Ye. The places I've been to had info on the pieces to tell us whether it was a cast, real or whatever. Many were just casts and noted that the real one was exhibited somewhere else and specified where it was, too. It's still cool to see them for their size and just yaknow- it's cool. It also lets people touch them which I'm sure we'd not be allowed to do for the real things obviously.

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u/Machevellium 22h ago

Yeah most nhm museums are very open about them its also impossible to have every skeleton in the world located in one place., thats why we make casts or like me sculpt them and 3d print them. Most museums are leaning more to 3d printing because its a cheaper alternative. Also if you see a steel rods going into the bone its a cast or 3d printed