Tag: London
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Natural History Museum: New dinosaur species on display in our Earth Hall
The Natural History Museum in London has a new video on Youtube about their new dinosaur, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae. Meet Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, our new dinosaur! Now on display in our Earth Hall, Enigmacursor is a species new to science and would have roamed North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago. Measuring only 1.5…
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The Conversation: Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum
The Conversation has an interesting piece about Dippy the Diplodocus carnegiei, who is the star of the Natural History in London. Dippy first went on display in 1905 at the Natural History Museum in London. Dippy arrived in London as part of a campaign for public education by the Scottish-American millionaire Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919). At that…
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Scientists Find Plaster Copies of Fossil Destroyed by Nazis
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about an interesting rediscovery. In 1818, Mary Anning discovererd one of most complete ichthyosaur skeletons ever found. The fossil eventually made its way to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, where it was destroyed in WW II by the Nazi bombing. There were a few drawing, but the fossil…
