Dinosaurs: ancient fossils, new discoveries.(At the Museum)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-JUN-05

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Now through January 8, 2006

This groundbreaking exhibition presents the most up-to-date look at how scientists are reinterpreting many of the most persistent and puzzling mysteries of the dinosaurs: what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they moved, as well as the complex and hotly debated theories of why--or even whether--they became extinct.

T. REX WALKS IN PLACE

According to the latest research, Tyrannosaurus rex was not the speed demon depicted in Jurassic Park, and in fact, probably didn't run at all in pursuit of its prey--it walked. So how did this stalker walk? Just like the robotic six-foot-long scale model of a T. rex skeleton in the exhibition Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries at the American Museum of Natural History.

Based on a fossil in the Museum's collection, the polyurethane model illustrates the...

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