Given access to an empty American Museum of Natural History would you: A) Ride a dinosaur 2) Have a planetarium dance party iii) Do something really cool I haven't even thought of d) Film an episode of The Dinosaur Show?!?!
Last week I went to #Mexico to check out some Mayan ruins and get approx. 419 mosquito bites. I also met a Therizinosaurus (the Edward Scissorhands of #dinosaurs). These HERBIVORES were basically giant, prehistoric Foghorn Leghorns, with enormous tail plumage and three foot long (≈1m) hand machetes. Which begs the question: how do YOU think this dinosaur—owner of the largest claws of any animal ever known—actually used them?!?! (📷: Zaza Weissgerber; #dinosaur: Vlad Konstantinov) (at Chichen Itza, Mexico)
Why do people call me the Dinosaur Whisperer? In this interview from PBS and SciTechNow I sit down with the great Hari Sreenivasan to talk about the Museum Hack tours I lead at the American Museum of Natural History and how/why I use Instagram to get people excited about science and dinosaurs.
HUGE thanks to Hari Sreenivasan, Diane Masciale, and all the awesome people at PBS, SciTechNow, and WNET NYC!
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So this painting is pretty famous. It's by this French guy named Georges Seurat who pretty much came up with the idea to use paint dots the way screens now use pixels. So basically what I'm saying is that if this dude hadn't invented pointilism, we wouldn't be able to render amazingly realistic looking dinosaurs for #JurassicWorld...even if they're still missing feathers.#SeuraticWorld
I wasn't at all preoccupied with whether I could, nor did I stop to think if I should...get this shirt from YIPPTEE!
DINOSAURS ARE GORGEOUS AND AMAZING.
These Japanese Paradise Flycatchers were captured by photographer Nobby Clarke.
Speculative dinosaur evolution FTW!
FINALLY.
It’s pretty obvious I love dinosaurs. But what you may not know is that I also love rap. However, I am still getting the hang of combining the two.
What do you think is the most ridiculous lyric in me and Coma Niddy’s Dinosaur Rap video?
Thing I learned today: in its lifetime an Arctic turn will fly a distance ≈ equal to three round trips to the Moon.
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Via timemagazine:
Go Back in Time To Visit the Original Jurassic World
The Jurassic Park franchise grossed more than $2 billion at the box office over the span of three movies and eight years, with the original film ranking in the top 20 American box-office performances of all time. On Friday, the franchise roars again with Jurassic World, a fourth installment that imagines how things might turn out if a dinosaur theme park attempted to attract visitors by creating a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur. (By all appearances, the answer is “not well.”)
In 2015, we need genetic mutants and modern technology to amp up the drama. But in 1939, there was plenty of drama in the sheer possibility of seeing dinosaur fossils in a museum. That year, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History debuted the largest fossil exhibit in the world, consisting of 200 specimens covering a time period of 200 million years.
Much of the collection came thanks to the paleontologist Barnum Brown, who had been excavating fossils since the 1890s. Among Brown’s treasures were a 66-ft. brontosaurus discovered in Wyoming and a nodosaurus, “resembling a huge horned toad,” originally found in 10,000 pieces near Billings, Mont.
The dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic World looked great, but how realistic are they? In this Top 10 dinosaur rundown we rank the scientific accuracy of the dinosaurs—and pterosaurs and mosasaurs—depicted in Jurassic World.
FIELD TRIP! Join us as we go to the Museum of Science in Boston for a very noble dinosaur-related cause. But first make sure your mom signs the permission slip.
In Episode 3 of The Dinosaur Show we examine the evidence for a massive extinction event approx. 66 million years ago that led to the demise of 75% of all life on earth, including non-avian dinosaurs.
Little known fact: #dinosaurs have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. At the time, Cryolophosaurus stalked environs that probs looked a lot more like Central Park, but it's pretty bonkers that we've found anything in what is now a frozen tundra. What's even more cray is the cranial ornamentation on these guys—they sported a crest that fanned out side-to-side across the top of its head (perpendicular to the skull) from one eye to the other. You can try this at home by using staples to permanently affix a note card as a visor across your forehead. (DISCLAIMER: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME) #dinosaur: Julius Csotonyi; 📷: Jenny Wilkins