Raptor Review

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Est. June 3, 1961

Experience Life Three Billion Years In The Making July 2018

Raptor Review

Issue 51

A quarterly publication for your information and enjoyment From the Director saurs. We are already looking ahead at the next major By Dr. Ken Carpenter exhibit on trilobites. It has been a busy few months since my last Specimens have been collected and cleaned, but report to you all. The staff conducted numerous school we still have to plan the exhibit case. Also, we plan to group tours, which always happens in every museum this finish the horn coral reef diorama that was started several time of year. My thanks to the staff involved. years ago but got put on the back burner. Some of you may know that the inside of the If you haven’t been to the museum in the past museum is being painted. This is probably the first time few months, I invite you to visit. It continues to change. since the new wing was built in 1990. We will redo the Thanks as always for your membership and support of changing gallery this fall with the fund Representative the museum. Watkins got for us. Many new exhibits have finally been installed around the central dinosaur pit. It features information on the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, a map showing the layout of the bones as they were found, and a game where visitors get to play detective to figure out why so many Allosaurus are at the quarry. Nearby is an exhibit showing a growth-series for Allosaurus using the thigh bone as a proxy for size. I had a 3-D print made in plastic of what a juvenile Allosaurus skeleton would look like based on the smallest of the thigh bones (7 inches), and another of a slightly larger individual (11 inches). The littlest one is hissing, growling or clucking (whatever these dinosaurs did) at the Stegosaurus. The larger one will be running around the adult Allosaurus we currently have one display as if joining to attack the Camptosaurus. Another display features injuries and disease on a selection of bones, mostly Allosaurus from Cleveland-Lloyd. Although many of these have been on display before, the cause of the injuries is discussed for the first time. These are proof of a hard life! There is also an exhibit on baby dinosaurs and eggs, and another featuring dinosaur brain cavity casts so you can compare the different parts of the dinosaur brain and that of humans. The sense of smell One of the New Allosaurus skeletons harassing the Stegosaurus. was definitely much, much better in dinosaurs. Allosaurus could probably track you down by smell alone! Still in development are exhibits on the Jurassic environment (which will feature a 150 million-year-old ant colony), and a huge mural featuring Jurassic dino


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