Troodon Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Opening June 2019 after a long hiatus the Smithsonian is working hard to keep themselves fresh and interesting with a completely new fossil hall. Here is a quick snapshot they released. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/deeptime/ FedEx was used to transport T rex to be refurbished 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Looks great, thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bguild Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Very cool! I travel to D.C. for work a few times a year and have been eagerly awaiting the opening of the new hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 "Come for the dinosaurs, stay for everything else". Glad to hear that. (For me it might be the other way around! If I could ever make it to DC) I met Kirk Johnson once, when he came to one of the Paleo Symposiums here on the Island, as keynote speaker, workshop conductor, and accompanied one of the field trips to a local plant site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 Release from NMNH One fish, two fish… big fish, bigger fish! How did the little fish get inside the big one? This Xiphactinus hadn’t finished digesting its meal of a Thryptodus before it died. 14 feet long Eremotherium was much larger than today’s tree-dwelling sloths. 11 feet tall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I guess it probably died of indigestion - or a ruptured stomach with a meal that size! Apparently I'm not the only one with eyes bigger than stomach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 3 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: I guess it probably died of indigestion - or a ruptured stomach with a meal that size! Apparently I'm not the only one with eyes bigger than stomach. Needed a bottle of Tums antacid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Looks incredible, It has been on Mrs Rico’s and mines list for years and now it has moved some places up. There also plenty of Art there we would like to see too. Thanks Frank and I like the FedEx truck. Cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darktheumbreon Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Amazing Xiphactinus! Thanks for sharing, just wish I was able to see it when I was there a couple years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 Here's the Smithsonian's very first fossil mount from 1871: Megaloceros. The new pose puts those antlers at eye level 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted July 21, 2018 Author Share Posted July 21, 2018 This fossil, collected in 1886, was the first specimen to show what Stegosaurus looked like. In fact, it’s the “type specimen”: scientists identify all other Stegosaurus stenops fossils by comparing them with this one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 15 minutes ago, Troodon said: Here's the Smithsonian's very first fossil mount from 1871: Megaloceros. The new pose puts those antlers at eye level And not to be outdone, Louisiana will soon be opening their own megaloceros exhibit. Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Thanks for the "sneak peak" @Troodon. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 On 22/07/2018 at 12:53 AM, Troodon said: Here's the Smithsonian's very first fossil mount from 1871: Megaloceros. The new pose puts those antlers at eye level Nice specimen! Thank you for the picture. Our MNHN in Lisbon has a specimen of Megaloceros giganteus (Blumembach) from Ireland bougth by Paul Choffat (1849-1919) in London in 1888, when he was there for the International Geological Congress. Unfortunatelly the head was lost in the horrible 1978 MNHN fire. Megaloceros giganteus (Blumembach).pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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