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The museum was the setting for the 1970 novel "The Great Dinosaur Robbery" by David Forrest, but was not featured in the film adaptation "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing", which was set in the Natural History Museum in London, England. As the "New York Museum of Natural History", the museum is a favorite setting in many Douglas Preston and ...
The Paleozoic Museum was a proposed museum of natural history in Manhattan near Central Park. Planning and initial construction for the museum proceeded in 1868–1870; English sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins planned and began creation of the dioramas, and the foundations for an eventual structure were laid at Central Park West and 63rd ...
Sue (dinosaur) Sue[ a] is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, which is one of the largest, [ b] most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. [ 4] FMNH PR 2081 was discovered on August 12, 1990, [ 5] by American explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, and was named after her.
South Bend Mayor James Mueller, center, and his wife Kellye Mitros, right, take a photo with Janet Holcomb, first lady of Indiana, during a private grand opening event at the Indiana Dinosaur ...
The American Museum of Natural History is now home to the biggest dinosaur ever found. Meet the Titanosaur, New York City's newest resident. Thanks to a farmer in Argentina who stumbled on some of ...
The Age of Reptiles is a 110-foot (34 m) mural depicting the period of ancient history when reptiles were the dominant creatures on the earth, painted by Rudolph Zallinger. The fresco sits in the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut, and was completed in 1947 after five years of work. [1] The Age of Reptiles was at one time the largest ...
The Museum of the Earth is a natural history museum located in Ithaca, New York. The museum was opened in 2003 as part of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), an independent organization pursuing research and education in the history of the Earth and its life. Both PRI and the Museum of the Earth are formally affiliated with Cornell ...
The Edmontosaurus mummy AMNH 5060 is an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a dinosaur in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Discovered in 1908 in the United States near Lusk, Wyoming, it was the first dinosaur specimen found to include a skeleton encased in skin impressions from large parts of the body.