They recruited a paleoartist to construct a life-size color model of Psittacosaurus, using careful measurements of the fossilized body and pattern of melanocytes.

他们招募了一位古生物学家，通过仔细测量化石化的身体和黑色素细胞的模式，构建了真人大小的鹦鹉嘴龙彩色模型。

What really sets these modern paleoartists apart is how they draw on the traditions of previous generations, while also challenging the tropes and ideas that came before.

真正让这些现代古艺术家与众不同的是他们如何借鉴前几代人的传统，同时也挑战前人的比喻和想法。

Where paleoartists of old worked with paint and lithographs, many modern artists have gone digital, rendering new visions of prehistoric life as soon as they're announced.

在古代艺术家使用绘画和石版画工作的地方，许多现代艺术家已经转向数字化，在他们宣布后立即呈现史前生活的新景象。

For decades, illustrations of  these few bones were all we had, so paleoartists imagined it as a 16-meter long  t-rex with a croc-like face, and a back sail.

几十年来，我们只有这几块骨头的插图，所以古艺术家把它想象成一只16米长的霸王龙，长着鳄鱼般的脸，还有一面后帆。