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Interactive about extinct animals.
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"Barosaurus belonged to a group of immense, plant-eating dinosaurs, the sauropods, the largest of which lived along the floodplain just east of the ancestral Rocky Mountains about 140 million years ago."
Real fossils were used in reconstructing the model of this juvenile Barosaurus.
"Barosaurus is one of the largest dinosaurs known, much of it's total length resulting from it's greatly elongated neck bones."
"...This remarkable specimen is called a 'mummy' because it also left impressions of skin and other soft tissue in the surrounding rock. It is mounted as it was found, lying on it's back with the knees drawn up. The head and neck twisted backward as the tendons dried out..."
A friend of one of my colleagues works in one of the labs at the American Museum of Natural History. Not only did he get us free tickets to all of the exhibits at the museum, he took us to see the lab where he works in the museum. Here he is showing us a super powerful microscope that it is his job to run. There are about 250 research scientists who work at the AMNH and it is his job to be there to help them run these machines when they need them for research. He showed us how the machine works by letting us look at a bed bug he happened to have on hand. He also showed us some of the storage areas where they keep things that aren't currently on display in the museum.