A life-sized spinosaurus statue by Zhao Chuang.[Photo by Chen Zebing/China Daily]

A Beijing-based artist uses his knowledge of science to bring dinosaurs to life

Zhao Chuang, 34, is a Beijing-based science artist who is mainly engaged in creating images of creatures such as dinosaurs. It is a work combining science and art.

In order to make the dinosaur image as authentic as possible, Zhao had to study paleobiology and even participate in the excavation of dinosaur fossils.