Seeing in the new year with dinner in a dinosaur

As New Year's Eve invitations go, the one received by 20 men in December 1853 was unusual. Apart from the fact that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dusting Dinosaurs and Elephants: How Specialists Keep the Museum’s Largest Treasures Spotless

To celebrate International Museum Day, learn how experts protect the museum’s most dramatic displays from dust bunnies and cobwebs Naomi Greenberg Michelle Pinsdorf (left) and Steve Jabo (right) clean ...
BND

100 million-year-old footprints — first of their kind — found in Canada. See them

Researcher Victoria Arbour was part of a team that discovered a new species of dinosaur based on tracks found in the Canadian Rockies. Royal BC Museum More than two decades ago in the small town of ...
Los Angeles Times

You can help name L.A.’s newest dinosaur fossil. Just don’t call it Dino McDinoface

The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is seeking the public’s help in naming a 70-foot-long sauropod skeleton unearthed by the museum’s paleontologists. The dinosaur will be the focal point of ...
Charlotte Observer

100 million-year-old footprints — first of their kind — found in Canada. See them

More than two decades ago in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, nestled in the Canadian Rockies, two young boys found dinosaur tracks. They were discovered in 2000, and Charles Helm, scientific adviser ...