Oct 27, 2007 2:39 am US/Eastern
Dinosaurs' Lost World Reborn At Carnegie Museum
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
A lost world is reborn at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The $36 million revamped exhibit "Dinosaurs in their Time" is only a few weeks away from opening day. The carpet is down and the exhibit's mural capturing the dinosaurs' environment won an international award last week.
"This mural is not just a artistic expression it really has the best scientific content," Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo, curator of vertebrate paleontology, said.
The dinosaurs are dynamic and the setting is accurate to the last feathery fern. It's a far cry from the old dinosaur hall.
"As you recall in old dinosaur hall they were just more or less sitting there looking straight ahead - these dinosaurs are caught in moments in time," Jim Senior said.
In one scene, an Apatosaurus mommy defends her child from a charging Allosarous looking for a snack. The baby is one of only two Apatosaurus skeletons known to exist.
"Dinosaurs in their Time" is bound to bring the world to Pittsburgh's door.
"We can be very proud that this will be the world's best dinosaur exhibition ever," Luo said.
The second phase of the exhibit is slated to open in the spring. That's also when the wraps will come off two T-Rexes. The completed exhibit will include 19 mounted dinosaurs and more than 230 other fossil specimens.
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