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Prehistoric Planet: The Official Podcast

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The Prehistoric Planet's Tyrannosaurus Model

We used a completely up-to-date, highly accurate skeletal model. Reconstructed the musculature. And then after that, we do the design of the exterior of the animal. We work very closely with Dr Darren Nash, who advises us on how the animals look. You can't just like make up a skin texture for these animals. You have to pay attention to what the fossils actually preserve. Of course, conventionally, Tyrannosaurus has been shown as entirely scaly. But since the early 2000s, we've known with absolute certainty that Tyrannosaurus had filaments. They're this fuzzy covering. For prehistoric planet, we went for a sort of sparse kind of peach fuzz

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