Reconstructions

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Q1: What is a reconstruction?

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In most cases, only a few bones are found of any animal. But when many bones are collected it becomes possible to reconstruct what its skeleton looked like.

Most of the models you will see are not copied from single dinosaurs, but a build-up of many different animals. Of course, some museums have almost complete specimens of some animals, so that you see what they were really like, but in many cases a complete skeleton has never been found.