Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

[Dino Guy Ralph <ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu>]

Good news for anyone in New York, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, or 
Raleigh (North Carolina): "Dinosaurs : Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries," an 
up-to-date traveling exhibition created by the American Museum of Natural 
History, curated by Mark Norell, is coming your way.

A highlight of the exhibition will be a 700 square foot walk-through forest 
representing the Jehol Biota of the Liaoning Province of China from the 
early Cretaceous, famous for its feathered dinosaurs, diversity of early 
birds, complete specimens of tiny metatherian and eutherian mammals, early 
angiosperms, and great variety of invertebrates.  There will be 35 species 
of plants and animals represented in the diorama, and documentary videos and 
interactive computer graphics will also be featured, as well as fossils and 
fossil casts from China.

The exhibition will also include the diminutive dromaeosaur, _Bambiraptor_, 
from Late Cretaceous Montana.

See home page at http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosalive/, with the tour 
schedule on the bottom of the page.  Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New 
Discoveries debuts at the American Museum of Natural History on May 14, 
2005.

See "New Discoveries" at 
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosalive/discoveries.php for background on 
some of the latest paleontology discoveries from China, and see dozens of 
photos of the work going on behind the scenes at 
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosalive/bts.php.

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"Dino Guy" Ralph W. Miller III
Docent at the California Academy of Sciences
proud member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology