Hello Beastie

A reminder to those in the area that Winterlude will be wrapping up over the weekend. And yes, I have been taking pictures and will continue to do so.

The Fossil Gallery is the last gallery inside the Museum of Nature, and the first specimen one sees in here is daspletosaurus, a relative of tyrannosaurus rex. The white cast model in the background is another predator, carnotaurus.

Most of the collection here are real fossils, augmented here and there with casts.

Dinosaurs were big and small, including therapods, some of whom were hunters, the wolves of their era.

This is a coprolite- fossilized dinosaur dung.

This panel gives us information on the carnotaurus above it.

Fossils are found around the world, but some places have more to be found than others.

Here we have a comparison of herbivore and carnivore- the lower jaws of edmontosaurus at left and the daspletosaurus at right.

Edmontosaurus had a wide range.