Friday Photos: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

I’ll take any excuse for a fossil road trip. There are so many quarries, museums, and other roadside paleo stops that even after a year of criss-crossing the west, I haven’t yet seen them all. And earlier this week, I realized that I was running out of time to visit the New Mexico Museum of […]
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I'll take any excuse for a fossil road trip. There are so many quarries, museums, and other roadside paleo stops that even after a year of criss-crossing the west, I haven't yet seen them all. And earlier this week, I realized that I was running out of time to visit the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science before my next book - A Date With a Dinosaur - is due. I didn't care that the drive was ten hours both ways. I had to see the museum's unique displays of Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous creatures for a few key points in my book. Here are a few shots from my all-too-brief trip to the museum galleries.

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'Spike' the Pentaceratops out front of the NMMNHS. I had wanted to see this dinosaur ever since I saw a documentary showing the sculpture's installation. Photo by the author.
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A super-sized Allosaurus - labeled 'Saurophaganax' by the museum - threatens an immense Diplodocus. Photo by the author, at the NMMNHS.
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