Dinosaur airheads - Tyrannosaurus - skull, brain, & air spaces - roll

[mmmmmarcus]

You sir, have just increased my artistic ability about 20 percent. thank you for this reference material x1000!

[Albukhshi]

If I may ask: does the animal's dentaries have a pathology to them, or is this normal? the space between the front parts of the lower and uper jaws is quite wide. this is particularly apparent @ 0:05

[witmerlab]

Good eye! Yeah, this visualization is a composite derived from CT scan data from several T. rex specimens. The colored sinuses and air spaces are from real fossil skulls, but the skull itself is based on a one-third scale sculpture of the "Sue" skull, because, at the time, there were no full-skull CT data available for a fossil skull. As it turns out, the sculpture (although wonderfully executed) isn't perfect. You spotted one of the problems. We now have a better skull to drop our stuff into.

[Albukhshi]

ah, I see. thanks for the info!