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Article: Origins: The backbone of evolution
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- Natural History
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Museum of Natural History Jun 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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With the opening this June of the Hall of Vertebrate Origins at the American Museum of Natural History, the world's most comprehensive exhibition of vertebrate fossils is complete. Interconnecting with the two halls of dinosaurs and two of fossil mammals, the newest hall is the final link in a spectacular necklace of bone. Of the six recently renovated galleries, the Hall of Vertebrate Origins may have been the most difficult to plan because of the sheer scope and number of fossils involved. Of the more than 600 vertebrate fossils on the Museum's fourth floor, 250 of them are here. Vertebrates some 400 million years old are represented, as are many animals alive today. In fact, this one ...