Upcoming Dino in Exhibit in DC

[dgmilner]

The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World
November 25, 2014 - ?
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/last-american-dinosaurs/
http://newsdesk.si.edu/factsheets/last-american-dinosaurs-discovering-lost-world-exhibition

[happy]

The Supersaurus in the 3rd picture has claws on all of its long wiggly toes even though the silhouette behind shows  the more familiar stumpy columnar manus.

[suspsy]

The exhibit has been featured in the news this week. Makes perfect sense for the museum to maintain a dinosaur presence. Also gives that Stan mount a few more years to shine before it gets replaced by the Wankel Rex.

[DinoLord]

I thought the Smithsonian fossil hall was closed for renovations?

[suspsy]

It is indeed closed, all the way until 2019. But the Smithsonian needs at least some dinosaurs on display till then.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I just saw this in the local paper today. A local university is making 'three triceratops' cast in bronze for the exhibit. Two of them are retro-looking, of which one is actually an aguthumas. The other one looks pretty much like the new Carnegie trike.

Here's the article for anyone interested:
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/millersville-bronzes-part-of-smithsonian-dinosaur-exhibit/article_fc8fe1e0-741f-11e4-8411-abf270d6b57a.html