"Sophie" the Stegosaurus

[tyrantqueen]

A Stegosaurus named Sophie is to go on display in the London NHM. It is notable for being more complete than any other specimen despite its small size.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/can-sophie-uncover-stegosaurus-secrets/ar-BBgjgwH?ocid=mailsignout

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30314544

[leidy]

I cringed a bit at the mention of a Hedge fund manager ponying up the dough.  Although I suppose that's what it's come to.  I was hoping it'd come from some sort of cross-museum cooperation.

I thought the bones looked familiar, and sure enough 'Sophie' is actually 'Sarah' excavated by the Sibers.  I saw an exhibition of their finds some years ago.  They do good work and appear to be as responsible as it gets.

http://www.sauriermuseum.ch/de/presse-partner/fr-medienschaffende/fr-medienschaffende.html

[Meso-Cenozoic]

She's so pretty and graceful looking. I wish the dino figure companies would give their Stegos a longer tail like hers.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

She looks more like S.Hartman's restoration here : http://static.squarespace.com/static/51bf1cd3e4b0a897bf54112b/51bf6665e4b090c42fe6cf72/51bf6bcae4b05a61167e2b5d/1382744703126/Stegosaurus.jpg

Than GSP's version here : http://blog.press.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/stegosaurus_stenops.jpg

Is that due to age?

[ITdactyl]

Sophie takes a walk....
...and swings... her tail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=vJG6YcE10NE


On a side note, I didn't realize we're back to a single row of plates.

[ImADinosaurRARR]

That's some pretty wired walking animation.

I'm learning CGI and, when making a quadruped walk, you have the back leg lift off the ground before the front leg on the same side lifts off. This is so the animal is being "pushed" forward, so the front leg has a larger gait. But this animation has the front leg lift off first, which make it look uncanny. Granted, the animator made it work, but is their any evidence that steggi walked like this?