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Article: New Jersey firm readies prehistoric giants for new Carnegie display.
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- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
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- August 8, 2006
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Byline: Anita Srikameswaran
Aug. 8--PATERSON, N.J. -- Expert hands are taking the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's dinosaur collection down to bare bones.
Currently, five of the 15 skeletons that had been displayed in the museum's old dinosaur hall, which closed in March 2005, are being restored and remounted in dynamic, scientifically accurate poses at Phil Fraley Productions in Paterson, N.J.
The Carnegie houses one of the best and historically significant dinosaur collections anywhere, but "is actually one of the last major North American natural history museums to give its dinosaurs this type of makeover," said Matt Lamanna, assistant ...