Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Beebesaurus

I finally got my copy, Beebe's copy, of his book Our Search  for a Wilderness, with his bookplate. The seller thought it was an iguana, but I knew it was a sketch of a possible "pre-Archaeopteryx" avian ancestor he had imagined. In 1910.


I think it was 2003 when they dug up Microraptor gui. The model is light- colored, but it has been discovered to be irridescent black. Mira!



I am painting my model black, and displaying it with the book...

3 comments:

Lucas Machias said...

Who did the bookplate?

Steve Bodio said...

I don't know, but I always thought it was to Beebe's design.

Lucas Machias said...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/university-of-alberta-researcher-finds-feathers-on-ornithomimus-dinosaur-1.3292552

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=alberta%20bird%20dino

Speaking of dino feathers. The first NA find.