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VISIT THE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON-LINE
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), located in
Ithaca, New York, is an independent, non-profit center for
education, collections, publication, and research in
paleontology. PRI is Ithaca's Museum of the Earth but you
can visit us no matter where you live through these pages.
Take a "virtual field trip", browse through the enormous
fossil collections, and use PRI's educational resources in
your classroom which are all on-line at PRI's web site.
Go to http://www.englib.cornell.edu/pri/pri1.html to pay this
Ithaca museum a visit.
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EXPLORE THE PEABODY MUSEUM'S AGE OF
REPTILE MURAL
The vivid scene reproduced from Rudolph Zallinger's famous
dinosaur mural The Age of Reptiles, overlooking the Great
Hall in Yale's Peabody Museum, is far more than a
magnificent work of art. It is also a scientific document
transforming the knowledge, ideas, and thoughts of many
scholars of ancient life into realistic and accurate images. The
mural is one of the largest in the world, measuring 110 feet
long by 16 feet high, and required more than four and a half
years (1943-1947) to complete. It is at once a motion picture
and a time machine, a menagerie and a botanical garden that
portrays an almost unimaginable chapter of earth history
spanning more than 300 million years. This mural can now
be explored on-line at the Peabody Museum's web site.
Go to http://www.peabody.yale.edu/mural/ to explore this
mural.