Photo of the Day #240: Archaeopteryx

Very awesome photograph, Brian!

Brian, I'm sure I couldn't be alone in wishing to have some of your wonderful photographs desktop wallpaper sized. What a great shot!

Thanks for the compliments! I like this one, too. The photos I post here are smaller (and lose a little quality) but now that I have a new camera I DO have wallpaper-sized images (about 10 Megapixels in size). If you'd like one of any new photographs I'd be more than happy to e-mail them to you. I can't send in any large-size photos that I took with my old camera but I can send along the hi-res, large-size versions of all new photos.

That would be the best! Thank you! I've had an Archaeopteryx fossil photo from NatGeo as my desktop for several months and your photo seems like a natural progression. :) (Wouldn't a Seed Scienceblogs wallpaper gallery would be cool?)

Wonderful photo. That looks like a halfway decent reconstruction, too. Any chance you have a photo of the entire skeleton?

Hi Brian,

Very nice photo. You should credit the sculptor,
Bruce J. Mohn

Hi Brian:

I'm very happy to see this guy finally made it out onto the display floor at DMNH. I sculpted the masters for Archaeopteryx bone by bone in 1998 and sold a small number of skeletons to museums and one college. This was the last skeleton produced, but not the last one sold (now on display at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA). This was far and away my favorite pose though.

More of my work can be seen at www.dinoart.com.