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Category Archives: Allosaurus
Dinosaurs in the Natural History Museum of LA County
The annual meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) usually include an evening reception with a talk open to a wider audience at the local natural history museum. Usually OK food, expensive booze, and a lot of fun is … Continue reading
Theropod Thursday 22: AMNH Allosaurus
After all the avian theropod it is time for a good old huge and non-avian one. Here’s the AMNH Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs Allosaurus fragilis gypsicranium (the plaster-headed subspecies of A. fragilis) Another view, which shows the plaster in all … Continue reading
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, AMNH, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Theropoda
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Theropod Thursday 15: theropods of the NHM London
We’ve had this one before, but it is so cool that I’ll start this post with it: Allosaurus peeking around the pillars in the NHM Dinosaur Hall.
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Maniraptora, NHM London, Theropoda, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus
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HNM London – analysis of a minor disappointment
Last post I noted that I was disappointed by the Natural History Museum in London. Now, I want to expound on this a bit, and shows you a bunch of nice photos. As I said, it is a great museum! … Continue reading
Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 5.1: SMA
Today, let’s check out the Sauriermuseum Aathal! Previously, I already posted pics of their wonderful Camarasaurus specimen “E.T.”, but the SMA has much more to offer. In the words of Martin Sander, head of the Research Group on Sauropod Gigantism, … Continue reading
more of Urzeit Park
Back from a blogging hiatus owed to a sinus operation (I’ll live), here’s more on the Urzeit Park. It makes some kind of sense to go through the park era by era, after all that’s how it is structured. But … Continue reading
Theropod Thursday 7: AMNH Allosaurus
Dave Hone has posted a bunch of Allosaurus mounts and skull lately, but now promised that end that spell. I guess it is time for me to add another one that Dave didn’t include.
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Theropoda
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Theropod Thursday 6: the Big Al(losaurus) that maybe wasn’t
Confusing title, I admit. But it makes perfect sense 😉 When I visited the UMNH (previous posts here and here) they had a skeletal mount on visit. I didn’t post any pictures of it before because I was too lazy … Continue reading
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Theropoda, UMNH
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The MFN Berlin 1: Introduction
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, my host institution, is one of the Big Five natural history museums in the world. And whereas the other four on the list, the AMNH, NMNH, NHM and MNHN, are well known to most people … Continue reading
Dinopic of the day 16: SMA beauties 2
Today, some appeasement for the theropod lovers I shafted in the last post by showing only a duck’s butt. The Sauriermusem Aathal has a bunch of great dinosaur skeletons, some of which I mentioned previously. Among them is one of … Continue reading
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinopics, Dinosauria, Sauriermuseum Aathal, Theropoda
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Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 4: The SMA’s dig in Wyoming 1
During my great US trip in 2003 I visited many museums and spent a lot of time camping in the Rockies, Shoshone National Forest, Yellowstone, and many other places. The highlight, however, was volunteering at the dinosaur dig of the … Continue reading
Places I’ve been, dinosaurs I’ve seen 3.2: Denver 2
OK, so aside from Ken Carpenter pulling remains of a brutalized Allosaurus and the perpetrator’s weapon out of a drawer at me, what else is there to say about the Denver Museum of Nature and Science? First of all I … Continue reading
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinosauria, DMNS, Hadrosauridae, Mammalia, Ornithischa, Stegosauria, Theropoda, Travels
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Places I’ve been, dinosaur I’ve seen 2
Previously, I started describing my coolest-ever summer trip, which involved a stay in NY at the AMNH. There’s much more to show and tell about the AMNH exhibitions than I could fit into my two previous posts, but continuing that … Continue reading
Posted in Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Dinosauria, Mammalia, Theropoda, Travels, UMNH
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