Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley o…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day. ✨ Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
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