A Triceratops moves into the MNS

I just finished my first week at the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science and already so much has happened. On Friday, a triceratops skeleton was assembled in the museum lobby over the course of the afternoon and drew quite a few onlookers. The triceratops is made of 75% original fossil bone with plastics casts making up the rest of the skeleton. The new triceratops was mounted and assembled by the Heritage Auction Galleries and will be at the museum through June, when it will be up for auction.

Seeing double in Fort Worth

At an event at the Fort Worth Museum of History and Science, I came face to face with... myself. In the paleontology hall, a picture taken in Dr. Paul Sereno's fossil lab of me preparing an abelisaurid pelvis is part of the display about how fossils are prepared for museum display. I'm taking it as a good sign during my first week living in Texas!