David Peters

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David Peters is a professional artist and amateur paleontologist, who specializes in pterosaurs. He is a proponent for a technique that he calls, "Digital Graphic Segregation" (DGS for short), which he contends can sort through the immense data contained in a photograph of a fossil, and identify bones, soft-tissue, and even insects in the mouth of the fossilized animal. Using this technique he has managed to rework the tetrapod family tree, so that pterosaurs are more closely related to lizards than to dinosaurs.

Peters has produced many well-drawn reconstructions of pterosaurs and animals that he presumes are related to pterosaurs, that might fool a naive viewer perusing information about reptile evolution. Fortunately, most of the people in the field look at real fossils themselves, and not review-paper publication pictures in their research, and do not see the structures that Peters proposes.

Unfortunately, Peters is a skilled artist capable of producing deceptively expert illustrations that highlight his beliefs (which are based on specious unreproduced characteristics), and since he is also a skilled web designer, his page is the predominant source of images, and material returned by most search engines.

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