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Steel and Science Bring Dinosaurs into the 21st Century at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
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June 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
For 60 years, a Tyrannosaurus rex stood tall in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, its ancient bones posed awkwardly erect, more like a sharp-toothed kangaroo than a tyrant lizard king.
The display made sense to paleontologists when it was erected. But science has changed and so, in response, has the Carnegie. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania museum this month will complete a massive renovation of its dinosaur exhibit-the third-largest in the United States. Over the last three years, skeletons large and small have been disassembled, cleaned, and rearticulated into poses that reflect current theory. And to pique the imaginations of young dinosaur lovers, the skeletons are ...
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