The AMNH has a new exhibit called “Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs”. Adam Savage visited the museum just before the exhibit opened in November, There are a series of videos on Youtube.

How do you come up with the physical representation of animals we know lived on Earth, when the evidence of their existence is limited to bone, footprints and skin impressions at best? How do you decide on color? Pose? Scale? Even setting? At the ‪@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory‬, curator/paleontologist Roger Benson and senior principal preparators Rebecca Meah and Jake Adams talk to Adam Savage about how they came together to build some of the most striking dinosaurs and dioramas from AMNH’s new exhibition: Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs, and what it felt like seeing these creatures in person for the very first time.

Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs opens Nov. 17: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/impact

A museum paleontology lab isn’t just about extracting fossils from rock for display, it includes scientific research into animals long gone, and what they may tell us about evolution. Roger Benson — Macaulay Curator, Division of Paleontology, AMNH — gives Adam Savage a tour through his lab, and explains how the ‪@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory‬ manages, extracts and studies the specimens from the museum’s many expeditions, both current AND historic.

As a former modelmaker, Adam Savage had a particular interest in visiting the preparators studio at the ‪@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory‬, where the museum’s models are made. And he was not disappointed, as the exhibition department was in the midst of putting the final touches on the plants, mammals and reptiles that are part of the museum’s brand-new exhibit, Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs. Senior Vice President for Exhibition Lauri Halderman and preparators Celeste Carballo and Jason Brougham walk Adam through the challenges and techniques of telling this ancient and complicated story.