David Peters (born 1954)[1] is an American paleoartist notable for his fringe views of prehistoric animals, particularly pterosaurs, which he promotes via his blog The Pterosaur Heresies and website ReptileEvolution.com.
Peters has no formal qualifications in paleontology. During the 1990s and early 2000s Peters was a regular figure at conferences and well known in the field.[2] In 2003, Peters presented an abstract at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting where he claimed that the pterosaur Jeholopterus was hematophagic.[3] By the mid 2000s conflicts between Peters and academic paleontologists meant that appearances at conferences were less frequent and publication in scientific journals more difficult.[2] Peters started The Pterosaur HeresiesWordPress blog in 2011.[4] Peters does not usually examine fossils in person like most paleontologists, but instead uses Photoshop on images of fossils. Peters contends that by using image manipulation, specifically a process he refers to as Digital Graphic Segregation, he can see meaningful details in the fossils that paleontologists do not.[2]
Reception to Peters' ideas by academic paleontologists has been universally negative. Christopher Bennett described Peters' reconstructions of pterosaurs as "outrageously bizarre like Dr. Seuss's imaginary animals" and described his methodology as flawed and non-reproducible due to it being based on low resolution photographs, noting in one instance where Peters had interpreted the presence of a baby pterosaur that was entirely based on marks made during fossil preparation and irregularities in the rock surface, and another where Peters had interpreted a frill based on a rock surface that had been smoothed and painted.[5] Brian Andres recalled that Peters had interpreted marks made when he had prepared a fossil as being of biological significance.[2]Darren Naish wrote extensive rebuttals to Peters' work in 2012[6][7] and 2020.[8] Concern has been raised about Peters work misleading non-experts.[7]
In popular cultureedit
Director Sid Bennett stated in an interview that the flying creatures in The Dinosaur Project were inspired by Peters' interpretations of Jeholopterus.[9]
Bibliographyedit
As author and artist:
Giants of Land, Sea & Air, Past & Present (1986)[6]
A Gallery of Dinosaurs & Other Early Reptiles (1989)[6]
From the Beginning: the Story of Human Evolution (1991)[6]
Don Lessem's Supergiants! The Biggest Dinosaurs (1997)[6]
Referencesedit
^Robinson, S. (1992). "From bones to behemoths: a look at dinosaur art and artists". Rocks and Minerals. 67 (2): 94–110. doi:10.1080/00357529.1992.9926464.
^ abcdTempleton, G. (12 June 2015). "Why paleontologists get riled up over this 'heretical' pterosaur concept art". Vice. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^Peters, D. (2003). "The Chinese vampire and other overlooked pterosaur ptreasures". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23 (Supplement 3): 87A. JSTOR 4524374.
^Peters, D. (12 July 2011). "Welcome to The Pterosaur Heresies". The Pterosaur Heresies. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^Bennett, S.C. (2005). (PDF). Prehistoric Times. 70: 21–23, 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-20.
^ abcdefgNaish, D. (3 July 2012). "Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com". Tetrapod Zoology. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^Naish, D. (23 July 2020). "Why the world has to ignore David Peters and ReptileEvolution.com". Tetrapod Zoology. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^Golder, D. (9 August 2012). "The Dinosaur Project: exclusive director interview". SFX. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
April 12, 2024
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