Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day #12
For this week's RP-WIDOTD, I'd like to credit museum employee and writer for the blog Extinct Monsters Ben H. Miller, whose series of Framing Fossil Exhibits and the nature of early fossil exhibits and the popular stereotypes being parades of big skeleton mounts was the inspiration for this idea, conceived at 2 AM in the morning. Towering Titans This would be a museum exhibit homaging the idea of mount after mount of giant prehistoric creatures, only here having a more nuanced take on such, focusing on just how these big creatures could evolve in the first place, wheher its interal factors, like dense bones or airsacs to lighten the body, or external factors, like suitable climates and vegetation. The vast majority of the exhibit would be a central platform, with additional ones around the perimitre of the exhibit hall. The first creatures museum-goers would see even before entering from whatever main hall of the museum is are a pair of Edmontosaurus , among the biggest of t...