These are essentially the hadrosaurs I grew up with, so although they look strange by modern standards, they are sweetly nostalgic. They remind me a great deal of Sibbick’s work from the same period, although Kirk’s portrayal of scaly hadrosaur skin is a little less strange than Sibbick’s super-wrinkly leathery hides. In the ’70s and ’80s, while sticking largely to dry land and keeping their tails off the ground, hadrosaurs were still depicted as largely upright and bipedal, as Lambeosaurus and Corythosaurus above demonstrate. While this would all change in the 1970s, the transition to our modern image of these animals was fairly gradual. Prior to the Dino Renaissance, hadrosaurs tended to be depicted as tripodal tail-draggers, rather cumbersome on land but graceful in the water – often illustrated diving into a lake as an enraged tyrannosaur looked on, flailing its arms and gawping uselessly. ![]() And suitably 1980s-looking they are, too. ![]() A good place to start would be what appear to have been the cover stars (I lack the dust jacket) – these two hadrosaurs, here. Some more Steve Kirk for you now, why not? You might have noticed that my first post on this book only covered theropods (for reasons that are surely well known by now), so let’s now turn to those pesky Other Dinosaurs.
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