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Probably yes, considering that this technique has been used countless times to identify remains.

• nonbel 9y ago
  How do they know it is correct?
  • jgh 9y ago
    presumably once they have a possible identification they can use other techniques like dental records to confirm. It's taking them from "we have no idea who this person is" to "this person might be x, y, z" .. but at least at that point it's practical to do a more thorough investigation.
  • jandrese 9y ago
    Human facial reconstruction has the advantage of millions of examples of the soft tissue to study before making the model. Dinosaur artists have zero real life examples to work from so they have to make lots of guesses. For a long time they were thought to be most closely related to reptiles so the artists used modern lizards as a reference. Now that we know many dinosaurs are most closely related to birds it is causing a revolution in dinosaur art.