 One of Knight's most famous pieces was his "Leaping Laelaps", which he produced for the American Museum of Natural History in 1897.This painting was one of the few works of paleoart produced before 1960 to depict dinosaurs as active, fast-moving creatures, anticipating the next era of paleontological artworks informed by the Dinosaur Renaissance.Knight's illustrations also had a large and long-lasting influence on the depiction of prehistoric animals in popular culture.