Leonardo and the Indianapolis Childrens Museum

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Leonardo Criss Cross Tendons

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Leonardos tail

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Leonardos tail

Stoneage these are some fascinating pictures you are sharing and I appreciate your doing this. I did wonder, could you perhaps speculate or offer some size perspective for this last picture you shared? How big in feet or perhaps end to end is the piece we are viewing?

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Leonardos tail

Stoneage these are some fascinating pictures you are sharing and I appreciate your doing this. I did wonder, could you perhaps speculate or offer some size perspective for this last picture you shared? How big in feet or perhaps end to end is the piece we are viewing?

I would guess that this section of tail is about 5 1/2 feet long.  As you can see it is not complete the end is missing.  It must be remembered that Leonardo was a juvenile, 3 to 4 years old. He was only about 23 feet long and at 2 tons weighed less then some adult Hippos.  I would guess that in life he had a tail close to 9 feet.

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Here we have a picture Leonardos crop.



And here circled in red are the areas that tell us what Leonardo ate.



Here we have some of the diverse foods Leonardo ate.

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The red area is where Leonardos heart is.



Leonardos hand.

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Gorgosaurus skull



Gorgosaurus brain tumor which would have made it difficult to run or maintain it's balance.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

I've been enjoying seeing these pictures over the last few weeks. Its amazing what we can learn about the anatomy of dinosaurs through these rare mummies.

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I've been enjoying seeing these pictures over the last few weeks. Its amazing what we can learn about the anatomy of dinosaurs through these rare mummies.

I'm glad your enjoying them.  The Childrens Museum has quite a variety of fossils.

Here we have Gorgosaurus and Maiasaurus.  Most of the bones are actual fossils.  At the bottom is Bambiraptor.

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T-rex (Stan) and Triceratops (Kelsey)





Kelsey



Juvenile T-rex (Bucky)



Bucky, Kelsey and Stan

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Hypacrosaurus



Juvenile Hypacrosaurus

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Prenoceratops

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Dracorex

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On the wall in the Paleo Lab that had Xiphactinus andax.

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Edmontosaurus Skull

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Cool pics.
BTW, last time I went there one of the guides started talking to me about one of the dinosaurs and...
Me: I know.
Guide: Oh, you do?
Yeah, I've loved them since I was three.
Hmm. I guess you'd love going in the lab.
You bet!
Well, you coming or not!
Yay!

Long story short it was amazing!

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Cool pics.
BTW, last time I went there one of the guides started talking to me about one of the dinosaurs and...
Me: I know.
Guide: Oh, you do?
Yeah, I've loved them since I was three.
Hmm. I guess you'd love going in the lab.
You bet!
Well, you coming or not!
Yay!

Long story short it was amazing!

Yes it is cool.  When were you last there?  Do you live somewhere near by?

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Above we have a the skull of Draconex hogwartsia.  The Indiana Childrens Museum has the holotype.  It was described by Bob Bakker and Robert Sullivan.  Jack Horner claims it is a juvenile Pachycephalosaur.  Interestingly, when I talked to the paleontologist there, he told me that Jack Horner had never come to see it.  They had offered him a cast but he refused.  The paleontologist didn't seem to think much of Jack Horners theories:  You name it, Torosaurus-Triceratops, Mary Schweitzers T-rex soft tissue DNA which he said has never been replicated.  The Museums internation advisory council includes Dr. Robert Bakker, Dr. Phil Currie, Dr. Paul Sereno, and Perer & Neal Larsen among others.  It would seem we have a modern dinosaur war some what like Cope and Marsh

A fleshed out model.

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I looked into volunteering at the Paleo-Lab, but it seems you have to do it on weekends.  I don't know that I'm ready to give up my weekends.  Potentially in the future I could go on a Dinosaur Dig sponsered by the Museum.