The dinosaurs we know and love—T. rex, Apatosaurus, Triceratops—are all huge. Does this mean tiny dinosaurs simply didn’t exist?
I’m Roger Benson, [Text appears in the lower left hand
The dinosaurs we know and love—T. rex, Apatosaurus, Triceratops—are all huge. Does this mean tiny dinosaurs simply didn’t exist?
I’m Roger Benson, [Text appears in the lower left hand
Start here: find out how to get to the Museum, reserve timed-entry tickets, and map out your must-see exhibits.
noted, photography for personal use is allowed with hand-held
Paleontologist Mark Norell answers questions about T. rex.
tyrannosaurs also have the typical number of digits on their hand
Authors: Deborah Nichols (Dartmouth College), Christina M. Elson (American Museum of Natural History), Leslie G. Cecil, Michael D. Glascock (Missouri Research Reactor)With support from the Foundati…
between the major elements, such as calcium, on one hand
Join a Museum oceanographer on an expedition to Tobago as the team dives for coral samples.
[A gloved hand pushes a cement plug into the drill
Set off on an adventure to the freezing cold waters of Greenland with Museum scientists John Sparks and David Gruber as they look for biofluorescent fish.
short, researchers were interested in seeing first-hand
Not all dinosaurs were enormous like the 84-foot-long, 30-ton Apatosaurus. TheCompsognathus, for example, approximated an eight-pound chicken. Size up two others.
students write the grid number on the upper left hand
Scientists study a derecho – a rare, fast-moving, tornado-like cousin of the thunderstorm – that occurred in northern Minnesota in 1999.
activity involved pointing the radar upward with a hand
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hundreds of metric tons of rock have been removed by hand
