Tag: AMNH
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Adam Savage at the American Museum of Natural History
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…
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Paleontologist Mark Norell (Coolest Dude Alive) RIP (1957-2025)
This announcement is from the Witmer Lab at Ohio University. I’m shaken by the news of Mark Norell’s passing—a good friend, a trusted colleague, and a giant in our field. Coincidentally, I got the news as I was working on my talk for the International Symposium on Asian Dinosaurs in Fukui later this month. Here’s…
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How Smithsonian Fossil Preparators Are Re-Excavating a Tyrannosaur from Its Past on Display
Smithsonian Magazine’s National Fossil Day post looks at a tyrannosaur specimen that has been on display for many years. The animal, Gorgosaurus libratus, had been at the museum since 1918. It was found in the rugged badlands around the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada. It lived about 75 million years ago during the Cretaceous…
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See Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s New Hall of Gems
Artnet has a story about a the AMNH’s new Hall of Gems. The new hall has been dedicated to “Nature’s Art”. The Artnet article is interesting with both pictures and descriptions. If you’re in NY, don’t miss this new exhibit. Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The…
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AMNH: Happy 147th Birthday Barnum Brown… Discoverer of T-rex
Happy Birthday, Barnum Brown! Known as one of the greatest dinosaur collectors of all time, Barnum Brown helped the American Museum of Natural History establish its world-class fossil collection. Brown’s extraordinary fossil-hunting career—which took him from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites and to the halls of the Museum—included the discovery of…
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Trilobite Tuesday #26: Trilobite Enrollment
As we’ve said previously, the AMNH has an awesome Trilobite website. Today, we want to highlight the one about Trilobite Enrollment. It is generally accepted that trilobites enrolled to protect themselves from predators and other potentially other events in the surrounding environment. This page has a good discussion about the history and the usefulness of…
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Trilobite Tuesday #6: The Largest Trilobites #trilobite #fossils #TrilobiteTuesday
If you’re interested in the largest trilobites, have a look over at this page on “A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites” or this page at the American Museum of Natural History. The following quote is from the AMNH page. The size variance shown among trilobite species is nothing less than astonishing. Generally when one considers these…
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AMNH: Asteroid Crash Course Live
The American Museum of Natural History is hosting a video course on Asteroids. Catch it over on Youtube on April 17th, 2020 at 1:30 PM. Join Curator Denton Ebel this Friday, April 17, at 1:30 pm on YouTube for a watch party of the Museum’s popular video series exploring asteroids, meteors, and meteorites. Ebel…
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AMNH: Sir David Attenborough on Museum Collections – 360
The American Museum of Natural History has a video on Natural History collections. It’s narrated by Sir David Attenborough. You may know the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibits, but only a tiny portion of our world-class collection is on view. Go behind the scenes in 360 with Sir David Attenborough as he explains…
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Trilobite Tuesday #2: AMNH Trilobite Top Tens
The American Museum of Natural History has an interesting page titled “Trilobite Top Tens”. They have everything from Charles Walcott (NY Wolcott-Rust quarry and Burgess Shale), to Elrathia kingii (one of the most common trilobites), to Sir Roderick Murchison (rock star geologist from the 1800s). The categories are: The AMNH has a great website on trilobites. There is so much information……
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AMNH: Happy Birthday Barnum Brown… Discoverer of T-rex
Happy Birthday, Barnum Brown! Known as one of the greatest dinosaur collectors of all time, Barnum Brown helped the American Museum of Natural History establish its world-class fossil collection. Brown’s extraordinary fossil-hunting career—which took him from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites and to the halls of the Museum—included the discovery of…
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AMNH: Large Sea Snakes, Giant Catfish Once Swam in the Sahara
The American Museum of Natural History has an article about how the Sahara Dessert looked before it became a dessert. The area was underwater 50-100 million years ago. Fossil evidence shows that there were giant species of catfish, sea snakes, and fishes called the area home. The details are in a paper published in the…
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The American Museum of Natural History Is Turning 150!
The American Museum of Natural History is turning 150 years old this year! All the details are here. Special Events for 2019 Discover the stories behind your favorite exhibits (more added each month!) Signup for their newsletter.
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AMNH: T. rex: The Ultimate Predator
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a new exhibit opening on March 11th, 2019. It’s called “T. rex: The Ultimate Predator” and it runs through August 9th, 2020. How did T. rex evolve to become the most fearsome carnivore of the Mesozoic? T. rex: The Ultimate Predator will introduce you to…
