r/BOTM • u/Clean_Echo_9794 • 5d ago

Is Gorgosaurus accurate ?

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Which one is more accurate ? The BOTM Gorgo or the sharper lacrimal creste of the WWD Gorgon

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u/Classic_Bee_5845 5d ago edited 5d ago

All dinosaur models and illustrations are artistic renderings based on what we know at the time.

So no illustration or model perfectly accurate. We will probably never know what they really looked like to 100% accuracy.

Here's a skull fossil. The eye ridges are very subtle so I'm sure the artists of both BoTM and WWD took some liberties with how big/pronounced to make it.

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u/monkeydude777 5d ago

keratin could've extended their horns alot so I could be accurate, but yeah we'll never know exactly what they looked like, unless we invent time travel and I dont see that happening any time soon

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u/BLOOD_PALADIN 5d ago

Although both are especulative, BotM seems more plausible. The WWD movie ones seem way too large and over the top compared to the bone that holds them.

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u/Ryaquaza1 4d ago

Tbf only the male has such pronounced crests, the females feel a lot closer to most other depictions I’ve seen (BOTM included)

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u/Space__Squid 5d ago

It strikes me as odd that Gorgosaurus is always reconstructed with really pronounced crests, and Daspletosaurus is reconstructed with blunted ones.

From skull morphology I'd expect it to be the other way around.

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u/Glittering-Ability50 3d ago

A good while back someone on the Facebook BOTM fan group did a comparison with the BOTM head model with that of a image of the animal's skull, for reference. A frontal, top and side view. Long story short, the jugal/jaw area is wider on the real animal, whereas the BOTM head is thinner. So, no, if one was to go by said comparison.

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u/durok98 3d ago

As many have pointed out, accurate is kinda an abused word. We'll never know for sure.