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Knol teaches summer classes for Smithsonian Associates ... but there is currently no institution prepared to display over 5,000 toy dinosaurs. “My son has promised to bury it with me but my ...
Photo by Lucia RM Martino, Fred Cochard, and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution Time runs through ... museum decided to close its much-loved dinosaur hall for a lengthy renovation and ...
How many toys do you have? Twenty? Fifty? A hundred? Whatever you answered, the Smithsonian Institution can top that. Our “nation’s attic,” as the museum is sometimes called, has more than ...
What exists of the official dinosaur of Washington ... It was handed over to the Smithsonian Institution, where it was identified as a vertebrae from a large -- and unknown -- creature.
Billionaire industrialist David Koch has pledged $35-million to the Smithsonian Institution to fund a makeover of the National Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur hall, says The Washington Post. The ...
The dinosaur head rested on a cushion ... for a single fossil,’ ” Brett-Surman said. The Smithsonian was hardly the only institution kicking the tires. In Chicago, Field Museum officials ...
(Courtesy USNM V 4734, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution/Mike Gaudaur ... The Jurassic dinosaur is being recognized as a type specimen for the entire species, meaning it ...