Dinosaur Infographic

THE DINOSAUR RENAISSANCE

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	The paintings of Charles R. Knight were the first influential representations of dinosaur studies being carried out in N.America . Knight worked extensively with the American Museum of Natural History and its director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who wanted to use dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to promote his museum and his ideas on evolution.

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	The movie that made them friendly.

	Dinosaurs began appearing in films soon after the introduction of cinema, the first being the good-natured animated Gertie the Dinosaur in 1912.

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	The now-common trope of dinosaurs existing in isolated locations in today’s world appeared in 1912 with Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 book The Lost World. The Lost World crossed into the movies in 1925, setting heights for special effects and attempts at scientific accuracy.

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	The stop-motion techniques of Willis O'Brien went on to bring dinosaurs to life in the 1933 film King Kong, which merged the tropes of dinosaur combat and dinosaurs in a lost world.

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	Dinosaur depictions diversified in the 1930s, spreading to newspaper comic strips in Alley Oop

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	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Godzilla (1954) portray monstrous dinosaur-like prehistoric reptiles that go on rampages after being awakened by atomic bomb tests.

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	Dinosaurs gained a home in television in the 1960s animated sitcom The Flintstones, in another example of dinosaurs shown as coexisting with humans (for comedic effect in this case).

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	Ned Colbert’s The Dinosaur Book (1945) was the first book that combined scientific accuracy with non technical presentation , and its status as the only such book for many years made Colbert an important figure for the coming generations of paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts.

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	Reappraisal of dinosaur physiology suggested that they weren’t the sluggish cold-blooded animals they’d long been assumed to be,and a recognition that dinosaurs formed a natural group.

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	In 1990 the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., featured an exhibition of dinosaur sculpture by Jim Gary that drew more visitors than any of its previous exhibits. His dinosaurs, popular since the 1960s, began being featured in textbooks, encyclopedias, and videos as well as later, by the likes of National Geographic, in their publications for children in 1975.

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	Of particular note is Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel, Jurassic Park, the popularity of which led to a series of films and other media. The first of these, Jurassic Park married advanced CGI [4] with advances in scientific knowledge of dinosaurs.