A life-sized dinosaur head carved from a single piece of marble has been unveiled in central London.<\/p>\n
Carrara Triceratops Skull is described as an “artistic interpretation” of a 68-million-year-old sub-adult Triceratops skull, and measures 10ft (3m) high, 7.2ft (2.2m) long, and 5ft (1.5m) wide.<\/p>\n
The skull rests at a 20-degree angle on a grey-veined plinth in Berkeley Square.<\/p>\n
Sculptor Paul Vanstone said: “The idea that these creatures walked this planet, charging at this angle, you get a strong sense of their presence on this planet. I wanted to portray their great scale and power.”<\/p>\n
The prehistoric herbivores roamed the plains of what is now North America about 68-66 million years ago.<\/p>\n
Its flaring bony frill, pointed beak and three-horned head make the Triceratops one of the more recognisable dinosaurs. <\/p>\n
The species goes through four growth stages – baby, juvenile, sub-adult and adult – and reached full maturity aged about 10.<\/p>\n
During the sub-adult growth period the Triceratops horns reorient to point towards the front of the skull and the scalloped detail of the frill becomes more defined.<\/p>\n
The sculpture will remain on display for two years and is the second public artwork displayed by David Aaron, replacing the bronze juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex that previously occupied the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-sized dinosaur head carved from a single piece of marble has been unveiled in central London. Carrara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-353878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}