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I remember seeing this in a Nat Geo article back in 2017. More pictures available here: http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur

by hcrisp 4y ago

smusamashah 4y ago
This is pay walled. Where else I can see it's more and clear pictures. I failed to find a face in the original article.
- austinjp 4y ago
  Link to the header image from article, as far as I can tell since I'm on mobile: https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e5966d6a-e93c-4f3d-839f-a228f34fdb30/nodosaur-fossil-canadian-mine-face.jpg https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e5966d6a-e93c-4f3d-839f-a228f34fdb3...
  - httgp 4y ago
    Holy smokes this looks like it’s straight out of House of the Dragon.
    - ComputerGuru 4y ago
      That doesn’t sound like high praise! The quality of the CGI on that show leads me to deduce they were short-changed rather badly given the reported production costs.
      - BlueTemplar 4y ago
        Were they ? They do have quite a lot of "dragon footage"...
- jimsmart 4y ago
  > I failed to find a face in the original article. The second image in the original Ars Technica article shows the side view of its head/face very clearly. According to the caption: its head is still partly enclosed in the concretion it was found in — which IMO gives it the appearance of having its head resting on a rock. After looking at that, and the third image — an artist's rendition of how it might have looked when alive — the first image should make more sense: its snout is at the front of the image, the bulges of both its eye sockets are clearly visible slightly further back, and the creature looks like it is laying down (and has been somewhat flattened) facing towards the camera, looking slightly to the right of the photographer. HTH.
- metadat 4y ago
  Ask and ye shall receive. JS-free archive link: https://archive.today/NrUsT https://archive.today/NrUsT <3
- 867-5309 4y ago
  set your VPN to France to bypass the paywall
raghavkukreti 4y ago
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... clear cookies > refresh works :)
vwcx 4y ago
The National Geographic journalist left a few interesting comments on HN a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913

I remember seeing this in a Nat Geo article back in 2017. More pictures available here: http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur

by hcrisp 4y ago

I remember seeing this in a Nat Geo article back in 2017. More pictures available here: http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur http://www.natgeo.com/nodosaur

smusamashah 4y ago

This is pay walled. Where else I can see it's more and clear pictures. I failed to find a face in the original article.

austinjp 4y ago
Link to the header image from article, as far as I can tell since I'm on mobile: https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e5966d6a-e93c-4f3d-839f-a228f34fdb30/nodosaur-fossil-canadian-mine-face.jpg https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e5966d6a-e93c-4f3d-839f-a228f34fdb3...
- httgp 4y ago
  Holy smokes this looks like it’s straight out of House of the Dragon.
  - ComputerGuru 4y ago
    That doesn’t sound like high praise! The quality of the CGI on that show leads me to deduce they were short-changed rather badly given the reported production costs.
    - BlueTemplar 4y ago
      Were they ? They do have quite a lot of "dragon footage"...
jimsmart 4y ago
> I failed to find a face in the original article. The second image in the original Ars Technica article shows the side view of its head/face very clearly. According to the caption: its head is still partly enclosed in the concretion it was found in — which IMO gives it the appearance of having its head resting on a rock. After looking at that, and the third image — an artist's rendition of how it might have looked when alive — the first image should make more sense: its snout is at the front of the image, the bulges of both its eye sockets are clearly visible slightly further back, and the creature looks like it is laying down (and has been somewhat flattened) facing towards the camera, looking slightly to the right of the photographer. HTH.
metadat 4y ago
Ask and ye shall receive. JS-free archive link: https://archive.today/NrUsT https://archive.today/NrUsT <3
867-5309 4y ago
set your VPN to France to bypass the paywall

raghavkukreti 4y ago

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... clear cookies > refresh works :)

vwcx 4y ago

The National Geographic journalist left a few interesting comments on HN a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913