A seven-foot-long scale model of Torosaurus latas, a plant-eater that lived at the end of the dinosaur era, 65 million years ago. T. latas is one of the dinosaurs first described by the pioneering Yale paleontologist O. C. Marsh, discoverer of the apatosaurus. The model shown here, sculpted by Peabody preparator Michael Anderson, is partly clothed in the green silicone rubber that Anderson will use in creating a mold. In the next two years, a full-size, 21-foot-long bronze torosaur based on this model will be mounted on a pedestal of granite near the museum’s entrance. “I’d have loved to see one ramble down Whitney Avenue,” says Anderson. “This will be the next best thing.”

All photos ©Richard Barnes