More Deep Time specimens, shared around the internet by NMNH. Stoked for next month!
Torosaurus at the Milwaukee Public Museum. At 11.5 feet long, this skull is a contender for biggest non-whale head in the history of the world.
The Nation’s T. rex and the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time Hall are coming June 8, 2019!
28 years ago today, Sue Hendrickson discovered Sue the T. rex. That means Sue has been with us for about as long as they were alive 67 million years ago.
Let us cherish this moment in which Sue’s first and second lives are in harmony.
The crew from Argentina’s Museo Egidio Feruglio joined forces with the Field Museum to built this 122-foot Patagotitan in under a week. Meet Màximo!
Here’s how Sue’s doing right now.
George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries at the La Brea Tar Pits
Age of Mammals Hall, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Dinosaur Hall, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Building (and taking apart) mounted fossil skeletons at the Smithsonian, 1911 to present day.
New concept art of upcoming Field Museum main hall upgrades!
The main Stanley Field Hall at the Field Museum of Natural History is getting reimagined this spring! Between February and May of this year, the museum will be adding:
-A cast skeleton of Patagotitan, just like the one AMNH got in 2016
-Hanging gardens filled with live ferns
-13 life-sized pterosaur models by Blue Rhino Studios, including 9 Rhamphorhynchus, 2 Pteranodon, and a standing and flying Quetzalcoatlus
Meanwhile, Sue the T. rex will be taken off exhibit for a little over the year for refurbishment and remounting in a more anatomically accurate pose.
More info in the official press release:
Meet a Mount: Kelsey the Triceratops
Kelsey the Triceratops (TCM 2001.93.1) is among the most complete examples of its species ever found. It was found by avocational fossil hunters at a quarry near Newcastle, Wyoming which has produced more than half of all known Triceratops fossils. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis purchased Kelsey in 2001. The Black Hills Institute prepared and mounted the fossils for display.
Kelsey is one of the few known elderly Triceratops individuals. Arthritic neck and hip joints demonstrate the animal’s advanced age. The fossils also show evidence of scavenging by small tyrannosaurs.
Meet a Mount: TCM Gorgosaurus
The most complete Gorgosaurus ever found (TCM 2001.89.1) was discovered and excavated by avocational fossil hunters in Teton County, Montana. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis purchased the skeleton in 2001 and the Black Hills Institute prepared and mounted it for display. It is posed guarding a prone Maiasaura.
Like many large theropod specimens, this Gorgosaurus shows signs of an extremely difficult life. In addition to a broken and badly healed left scapula, this animal has a brain tumor, infected teeth, and injuries to its tibia, ribs, and tail.
The DinoSphere at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
Chronicling the history of Archie, the world's largest mounted mammoth! Archie has been on display for 84 years, but his continued survival isn't necessarily assured.
Permian Critters of the Field Museum
Eryops
Seymouria, Labidosaurus, Captorhinus, Cacops
Bradysaurus
Casea, Dimetrodon, Sphenacodon, Ophiacodon
Aulacephalodon, Jonkeria, Oudenodon