![]() Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Historyįabricating the Weapons and Armor of The Lord of the Rings.Photo courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.Īn unidentified worker custom shapes an armature. Photo courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.ĭiplodocus carnegii, the museum’s first major dinosaur. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s team of conservators in 1903. The holotype combined with pieces from four other T. This new skull is a composite made of plastic casts molded from the genuine fossil fragments of rex’s skull was ever found, so the 1926 mount used a reconstruction made from plaster and a Looking straight up under the chin of the holotype T. Photo courtesy of Phil Fraley Productions. Installing it on site took a little under four weeks. Building the armature took over nine months. rex to the armature during installation at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Photo courtesy of Phil Fraley Productions.īob Zeller and Paul Zawisha attach dorsal ribs of the holotype T. rex to a metal armature while fabricator Donna Lopp bends a piece of metal tubing that will become the armature for a section of the spine. Lead fabricator Paul Zawisha attaches a cast of the upper pelvis of a T. Photo by Joshua Franzos for Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The second phase, opening June 15, will complete the $36 million dinosaur exhibit renovation. The re-articulated Allosaurus was unveiled in November 2007 in the completed first Photo by Joshuaįranzos for Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Diplodocus carnegii is named after AndrewĬarnegie, while Apatosaurus louisae is named after Carnegie’s wife, Louise. The Diplodocus carnegii, left, and Apatosaurus louisae, right, tower over visitors in Dinosaurs in Their Time at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. When complete, the exhibit will include vegetation and other creatures from ![]() rexes extend their backs parallel to the ground instead of upright. In an exhibit still under construction, two T. Photo by Joshua Franzosįor the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The steel armature that frames the Dryosaurus In a scene from Dinosaurs in Their Time at theĬarnegie Museum of Natural History, the herbivoreĭryosaurus attempts to escape the jaws of Ceratosaurus. ![]() Steel and Science Bring Dinosaurs into theĢ1st Century at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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