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Like Gastornis was thought to be a carnivore for decades and then carbon isotopes were like, "nah this thing was basically a giant goose honk honk".

Art by Ja Chirinos

Oviraptor was thought to be an egg eater, then much ink was spilled about whether it ate mollusks, and now it's thought to be an omnivore, but mostly a fruit/seed eater like a parrot.

Somehow this Adobe Stock image is the only art of an Oviraptor eating plants I can find. How is that?

And even birds with some teeth are getting in on these dietary mysteries.

Longipteryx was first thought to be a kingfisher-like hunter of aquatic prey, but it has since been found with seed contents in its guts, making it another surprise frugivore.

This is the skull of our Lambeosaurus sp., Liberty. Here's the process of producing resin casts to gift to local establishments in the towns near where we do fieldwork.

Gaps in the bone were filled with Carbowax so rubber wouldn't snag. Underhangs were smoothed out with clay.

Rubber was poured layer by layer. After that a mother mold (a fiberglass cast over the top layer of rubber) was constructed.

Completed mold

1st and 2nd layers of resin poured into the mold

Expanding foam was applied after the resin set