Here's another paleo video by the Houston Museum of Natural Science, this time about gluing fossils. The hadrosaur featured in it is "Peanut," a skeleton found in the same area as "Leonardo" (who we'll see more of this weekend on the Discovery Channel). Now they just have to make a video about all-purpose paleontological paper...
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Is the National Geographic Society hurting science more than helping it? In December of 2007 the group launched a media blitz (including two books, a documentary, and a speaking tour) surrounding the exquisitely preserved specimen of "Dakota," purported to be an as-yet-undescribed species of…
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News of the well-preserved skeleton of the Edmontosaurus "Dakota" have been featured prominently in the news lately, but according to an announcement made this weekend, another exquisitely-preserved hadrosaur is going to be put on public display this coming…
George and Charles H. Sternberg's "Trachodon" (=Edmontosaurus) mummy, discovered in Wyoming in 1908. Image from Osborn, H.F. (1912) "Integument of the iguanodont dinosaur Trachodon", Memoirs of the AMNH ; new ser., v. 1, pt. 1-2.
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"Leonardo," the mummy dinosaur, courtesy of the HMNS.
Although it got a brief treatment in the book Horns and Beaks, many people have been waiting for more information on the exceptionally-preserved Brachylophosaurus skeleton named "Leonardo." Due to be unveiled next week at the Houston Museum…
Ha! It's true! We could also do one on Official Paleontological Fossil Wrap. There really are no tools that paleontologists won't figure out a way to make from supplies at Wal-Mart. :)