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Stephen A. Czerkas
View on WikipediaStephen Andrew Czerkas (born September 19, 1951, in Alhambra, California; died January 22, 2015) was an American sculptor and paleontologist. He frequently worked as a contributor to both museums and the motion picture industry, and was later the director and co-founder of The Dinosaur Museum, which purchased the Archaeoraptor fossil chimera.[1][2] His life-sized replicas of dinosaurs, including members of the Deinonychus and Allosaurus genera, were among the first to incorporate accurate feathering and dorsal spines.[3][4]
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Czerkas' sculptural works have been featured in the National Museum of Natural History, the Vienna Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, among other museums.[3][5][6][7] In addition, Czerkas contributed to the motion picture industry, notably producing photorealistic sculptures for the 1977 film Planet of Dinosaurs.[8]
He is perhaps best known for his part in the Archaeoraptor controversy, in which Czerkas purchased a part-bird, part-dinosaur specimen for The Dinosaur Museum from a Chinese dealer.[9] This fossil specimen courted a great deal of controversy, after which it was determined that the fossil had been glued together as a composite of multiple species.[10][11][12] This controversy continues to circulate in creationist media sources as a purported example of widespread fraud in the evolutionary sciences.[13][14][15]
Czerkas had a wife, Sylvia. Stephen Czerkas died on January 22, 2015, of liver cancer.[4][16]
References
[edit]- ^ "Friday Photos: Dinosaur Museum". National Geographic. 2012-05-18. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Dinosaur Museum: Art and Feathers, Blanding, Utah". RoadsideAmerica.com. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ a b "Why Jurassic Park had it all wrong". Australian Geographic. 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ a b Abdale, Jason R. (2015-01-31). "News: Stephen Czerkas, famous paleo-artist, dies at 63". DINOSAURS AND BARBARIANS. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ Laviola, Karen (1986-03-16). "Dinosaur Art Exhibit Brings Behemoths to Life". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "What would a feathered Velociraptor look like? – Flying Dinosaurs". Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Dinosaurs, Past and Present". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Stephen Czerkas 1951–2015". William Stout's Journal. 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ Sloan, Christopher P. (November 1999). "Feathers for T. rex?". National Geographic. pp. 98–107.
- ^ Dalton, Rex (17 February 2000). "Feathers fly over Chinese fossil bird's legality and authenticity". Nature. 403: 689–690.
- ^ Simons, Lewis M. (2000). "Archaeoraptor Fossil Trail". National Geographic. pp. 128–132.
- ^ Guardian Staff (2000-02-07). "Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? No, it's a fake". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Evolution Fraud and Myths". www.nwcreation.net. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ Sibley, Andrew (September 16, 2005). "Feathered dinosaurs and the Disneyfication of palaeontology". Archived from the original on October 30, 2006.
- ^ "Second Look Causes Scientist to Reverse Dino-Bird Claim". www.icr.org. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ^ "Stephen Andrew Czerkas, 1951 - 2015". dinosaur-museum.org. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
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