Dinosaur exhibit at Fernbank

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Dinosaur exhibit at Fernbank

Dinosaur exhibit at Fernbank

Matt Smith, a contractor with the American Museum of Natural History, examines the skull of a Pentaceratop Sternbegii. Fernbank Museum of Natural History exhibitors were busy Monday preparing "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries," which will open Saturday.

American Museum of Natural History's Jean-Luc Howell, the registrar for traveling exhibitions, puts the finishing touches on an entry as a cast of a stegosaurus looms in the background. The interactive exhibit will show how scientists are reinterpreting many of the most puzzling mysteries of the dinosaurs, how they looked, how they behaved, how they moved and whether they are really extinct. Fossils, casts and mechanical models include a T. rex,

The cast skull of an adult Triceratops Horridus hangs high with other cast skulls.

John Zvonik (left), an AV installation supervisor with the American Museum of Natural History, works near a steel and fiberglass construction of a Apatosaurus Louisae dated 150 million years from Wyoming.

Fernbank's VP of Operations Jerry Washington (left) and American Museum of Natural History Exhibition Installation Manager David Levy (right) work on putting together a mechanical T-Rex scale mode.

Matt Smith (left) and Wil Grewe-Mullins (right), the Registrar of Fernbank, (right) unpack the skull of a Pentaceratop Sternbegii.

Matt Smith unpacks the skull.

Matt Smith unpacks the skull of a Pentaceratop Sternbegii.

Matt Smith unpacks the skull of a Pentaceratop Sternbegii from New Mexico dated at 70.6 million to 65.5 million years old.

The dinosaurs can't walk to Fernbank by themselves, so they have to be shipped.

Working in the Liaoning Forest, James Hays VP of exhibitions for Fernbank puts on the finishing touches near a 130 million-year-old likeness model of a Dilong Paradoxus from Asia.

A cast of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which lived 99.6 million to 65.5 million years ago in Montana.

The exhibit will also feature marine reptiles and other assorted casts and real specimens.

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Matt Smith, a contractor with the American Museum of Natural History, examines the skull of a Pentaceratop Sternbegii. Fernbank Museum of Natural History exhibitors were busy Monday preparing "Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries," which will open Saturday.

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