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What are YOU looking at, little guy?; You're just the right size for a snack.
Topic Started: Jan 10 2009, 07:27 PM (197 Views)
Piano*Dad
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That late Cretaceous would have been a scary-interesting place.
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Red Rice
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I've never outgrown my boyhood love of dinosaurs. The American Museum of Natural History in NYC was my favorite hangout as a kid. The Field Museum in Chicago is great, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto which I just visited for the first time has an impressive collection as well.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Me too, RR. The first museum I ever went to as a kid was the ROM, and when I go to other museums without dino collections, I'm always disappointed. In my mind, museums have dinos!
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My favorite museum growing up was Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. They had a life size replica of a T-rex as the centerpiece. It was too cool. The Field Museum is very cool too.
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Jeff
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I think the NYC Museum of Nat History and the London Nat History museum are the only two that use original bones and not casts. Is this correct? Does Denver use originals?
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The ROM has some bones, but I think all of their full dinos are casts. I know for sure that the T-Rex is a cast. But I know they have some skulls and such that are bone.
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Jeff
Jan 11 2009, 07:23 AM
I think the NYC Museum of Nat History and the London Nat History museum are the only two that use original bones and not casts. Is this correct? Does Denver use originals?
Boston Museum of Science has just recently put in a genuine triceratops - it's their only one, however. We were over there at Xmas - it's very impressive.
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What has always intrigued me about paleontology is how rapidly the discipline has been evolving. That monster in the first picture (Hatzegopteryx) is quite new to science.

Before this guy, the Quetzalcoatlus was the biggie. See below:

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Not anymore. Someone hits on some bones and voila, the timeline shifts. Then you bring in the flight scientists to help think through how much this guy weighed and how on earth it could have gotten itself off the ground. Current thought: it behaved like a frog leaping. It may have been able to jump almost immediately into 40 MPH + speeds.
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Jeff
Jan 11 2009, 07:23 AM
I think the NYC Museum of Nat History and the London Nat History museum are the only two that use original bones and not casts. Is this correct? Does Denver use originals?
That would surprise me. I think the Royal Tyrrell in Alberta has original skeletons. Renauda might know. Also, the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.

One of my favorite museums is the La Brea Tar Pits -- a bit later than dinos, but the sabertooths, mammoths, bears and wolves are fascinating.
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Bozeman, MT has a nice dinosaur wing in its museum. That's Jack Horner's home base, so it's not a big surprise. A lot of good research is done there, and they have exhibits on the research as well as the usual skeletons and recreations.
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