Photo of the Day #77: Juvenile Barosaurus

For those of you who haven't seen the Barosaurus mount at the AMNH, the adult skeleton is rearing to protect a juvenile from an Allosaurus, and this is the skull of that juvenile. I don't know how much material from it was actually found (not yet, anyway), but as you can see it's a bit dusty. Strangely enough, most of the exhibits at the museum were infested with dust bunnies or otherwise coated with a fuzzy covering of gray. Maybe I should try to get in on the ground floor in the style of Roy Chapman Andrews (who started at the museum as a janitor) by offering to dust the mounts...