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Video: Take a tour of the 'Dinosaurs in Their Time' exhibit
Courtesy of Carnegie Museums
Sunday, November 18, 2007

 

By Tim McNulty
and Annie O'Neill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Want a personal tour of Carnegie Natural History Museum's $36 million new dinosaur hall from a world-reknowned dinosaur expert? You've come to the right place.

 
 
 
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Dr. Matt Lamanna is the museum's assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology and its principal dinosaur researcher -- the Carnegie's first dinosaur expert since the turn of the last century, when legendary Carnegie scientists such as Jacob Wortman, John Bell Hatcher and Earl Douglas were digging up dinosaur bones with Andrew Carnegie's money.

Dr. Lamanna, hired in 2004, was also the lead scientific adviser to to the new "Dinosaurs In Their Time," after the former dinosaur hall was closed for its expansion in early 2005.

In this video, he takes you into the main room of the dinosaur hall, featuring the museum's prized Jurassic period bones, posed in a life-and-death battle 150 million years ago.

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Questions or comments on this presentation may be sent here. This video was produced by Annie O'Neill.

First published on November 18, 2007 at 12:00 am