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> May 26, 2000:
Hour Two: Dinosaur News
| Looking for something to do this summer? There are
plenty of things going on this season for anyone interested in dinosaurs
-- from a new animated kids movie from Disney to two impressive
new exhibits of fossils in Chicago and New York. At the Field Museum
of Natural History in Chicago, scientists unveiled the newly cleaned
and prepared skeleton of Sue, the largest, most complete T-Rex fossil
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The bones were the subject of a drawn-out custody battle in 1997, and
were subsequently sold at auction to the Field Museum in Chicago. Now,
they're on display. We'll find out what researchers studying the bones
have learned about Sue -- and what visitors to the museum will be able
to see.
We'll also find out about a dramatic new exhibit of dinosaurs at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York. Displaying many specimens
collected in the past ten years in the Gobi deserts of Mongolia, the
exhibit tries to present current thought on dinosaur evolution.
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Some visitors may be surprised to see several model dinosaurs
in the exhibit that are covered with feathers, representing what
museum researchers say are current theories about the relationship
of dinosaurs and birds. Also on display are two fossilized skeletons
that appear to be locked in battle. Museum researchers theorize
that while the animals, a velociraptor and a protoceratops, were
fighting, a sand dune collapsed, burying and preserving their
remains.
Where to go for dino delights this summer, what to see, and what
it all means -- a dinosaur update, on this hour of Science Friday.
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A fossilized Velociraptor and Protoceratops battle
it out
at the American Museum of Natural History.
(image © AMNH)
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Guests:
Michael Novacek
Senior Vice President and Provost
American Museum of Natural History
New York, New York
John Flynn
Chairman, and MacArthur Curator of Fossil Mammals
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
Don Lessem
Dinosaur Popularizer
Webmaster, DinoDon.com
Newton, Massachusetts
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at The Field Museum
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