Dryptosaurus skeletons

New Jersey State Museum in Trenton | 2015-2019

In July of 2016, this project involved mounting and installing these two Dryptosaurus skeleton casts. They are posed in a fierce fighting pose, based on Charles R. Knight’s famous ‘Leaping Laelaps’ painting of 1897. Dryptosaurus is a distant and somewhat smaller relative of Tyrannosaurus rex and was the first partially-complete skeleton of a carnivorous theropod dinosaur in North America. They are now currently on display at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.