October 15, 2010
SVP Dispatch, Part 4: Night at the Carnegie Museum
The 70th annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting ended on Wednesday, but before returning to more regular coverage of all things dinosaur I wanted to share a few snapshots from the meeting’s welcome reception in Pittsburgh’s famous Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The skull of the Carnegie's Allosaurus skeleton. In the background you can see a small part of the beautiful Jurassic mural by Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger.
A cast of the skull of Diabloceratops, which was formally described just this year.
A baby Apatosaurus among the ferns in the Jurassic dinosaurs exhibit.
A juvenile Camarasaurus.
A Tyrannosaurus rex protects its kill from a rival (off camera) in the museum's Cretaceous exhibit.
A Ceratosaurus runs down a fleeing Dryosaurus in an alcove along the Jurassic exhibit.
For more on SVP, see these posts:
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Dispatch, Part 1
SVP Dispatch, Part 2: Did Sea Level Influence Dinosaur Diversity?
SVP Dispatch, Part 3: Raptorex – To Be or Not to Be?
On Laelaps: Hungry Carnivores Helped Create Keyna’s Primate Fossil Record
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Awesome pictures! I love the way the dinosaurs are made to look like they’re in their natural habitat, as well as the fact that they are mounted so that they’re actually doing something rather than just standing around.
Did you by chance photograph their Edmontosaurus from Alberta? I identified the 1931 quarry this summer using old newspaper found therein.
These are some great photos. I fell in love with dinosaurs as a little kid but was never smart enough to study them as an adult.
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