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Tyrannosaurus rex skeletal reconstruction.

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People often tell me that T.rex is heavily overrepresented relative to other equally interesting dinosaurs in all forms of art, including skeletal diagrams. They're not wrong, and I did not intend to make another T.rex after Scotty and Wankel, but it might be said that the money thought otherwise. Working with the most complete and most well-illustrated individual giant theropod does teach you some new things, so we'll see what that means for the two previous skeletals.

References:
-Osborn, H. F. "Fossil Wonders of the West, the Dinosaurs of the Bone-Cabin Quarry, being the First Description of the Greatest "Find" of Extinct Animals Ever Made." Century Mag., Vol. LXVIII, No. 5, Sept., 1904, pp. 680-694.
-Osborn, H. F. (1905). "Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs". Bulletin of the AMNH21(14): 259–265.
-Brochu, C. R. (2003). "Osteology of Tyrannosaurus rex: insights from a nearly complete skeleton and high-resolution computed tomographic analysis of the skull". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoirs7: 1–138. doi:10.2307/3889334
--Tanke, Darren H.; Currie, Philip J. (2010). "A history of Albertosaurus discoveries in Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences47: 1197–1211. doi:10.1139/e10-057.
-Lautenschlager, Stephan (November 4, 2015). "Estimating cranial musculoskeletal constraints in theropod dinosaurs"Royal Society Open Science2 (11): 150495. doi:10.1098/rsos.150495
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Update 03/30/2020: Work on other views requested by the commissioner showed me some things were wrong, namely the length of posterior ribs, positioning of the shoulders, and a remake of the skull was needed.
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I would like to confirm something with you: May I ask what measurement method was used for the 132cm femur length you used in the picture?