Paleoart is a genre of art in which the artist depicts prehistoric life based on scientific evidence. Consider for a second - what does a Tyrannosaurus Rex look like? Now consider that all the images we have of dinosaurs - unless of just the skeletal system, are the work of paleoartists. No one on this Earth has seen a real live dinosaur. No one on this Earth has seen an actual picture of a dinosaur. All we have to work with are fossils and other scientific evidence; paleoartists have done the rest. After all, dinosaurs roamed the Earth between 245 and 66 million years ago, in a period known as the Mesozoic era. The earliest humans appeared just five to seven million years ago.
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