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Extinct Monsters: The Marsh Dinosaurs, Part I | EXTINCT MONSTERS

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Extinct Monsters: Ice Age Mammals. Extinct Monsters: The Marsh Dinosaurs, Part II →. August 23, 2012 · 5:42 am. Extinct Monsters: The Marsh Dinosaurs, Part I. To start the Extinct Monsters series from the beginning. Remains the definitive account), so I won’t get into that here. Discovery and excavation are only the first steps in a fossil’s journey, so this post concerns what happened next to the 80-some tons of material Marsh and his colleagues collected for the USGS. But it had recently been re-popula...

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Museums and the Triceratops Posture Problem – Part 1 | EXTINCT MONSTERS

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Framing Fossil Exhibits, Part 1. Exhibit Review: Dinosaur Mysteries at the Maryland Science Center →. July 16, 2014 · 12:16 pm. Museums and the Triceratops Posture Problem – Part 1. The world’s first. Mount at the United States National Museum, built in 1905. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. We know more about dinosaurs today than previous generations of researchers would have ever thought possible. Who would have guessed that in the 21. Are quite perplexing. The head of the hu...

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Key Posts | EXTINCT MONSTERS

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It may be fairly claimed that vertebrate paleontology has been the most important single factor in the rise and popularization of natural history museums. This is perhaps its greatest contribution to the social, as opposed to the scientific, history of America (Simpson 1942, 157). 8211; The True Story of How “Brontosaurus” Lost its Head. Displaying the Tyrant King – Part 1. Installation Art in the Service of Science. History of the AMNH Fossil Halls – Part 1. The Carnegie Quarry Diaspora. History of the ...

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The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections | Reports

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The Society For The Preservation of Natural History Collections. Current and Upcoming Meetings. EPG Blog: Cracking The Collections. Many professional groups and govenment organizations hold conferences and workshops and produce useful reports following their completion. Reports of interest and relevance to the SPNHC community are posted here. Report on the 2014 Food in Museums Survey produced by the SPNHC Conservation Committee. Strategic Planning produced by the SPNHC Long Range Planning Committee.

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The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections | What SPNHC Does

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The Society For The Preservation of Natural History Collections. Current and Upcoming Meetings. EPG Blog: Cracking The Collections. The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections [SPNHC] is an international organization devoted to the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections. Identify, Catalog, and Document. Prepare, Preserve, and Conserve. The Society hosts annual meetings and maintains an active roster of publications, including. A journal that accepts s...

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The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections | SPNHC Connection

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The Society For The Preservation of Natural History Collections. Current and Upcoming Meetings. EPG Blog: Cracking The Collections. The SPNHC Connection newsletter is published twice a year. It contains reports from the Society’s officers and committees, news items, and other articles of general interest to the membership. If you are interested in submitting an article for publication in the Newsletter, Contact the Editor. View Current Issues (Members Only). Current Issues of the SPNHC Connection.

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Denver’s Fighting Dinosaurs | EXTINCT MONSTERS

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The Pan-American Expo Triceratops Lives On UPDATE: Or does it? See the Elephant →. August 14, 2015 · 1:27 pm. Denver’s Fighting Dinosaurs. Mounts at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Source. Just a quick post today to keep the blog moving. The. Plainly represent swift and active animals. Unlike many similar scenes, however, the action here is tempered with careful attention to anatomical detail: no limbs are hyperextended, and no bones are out of place. This postcard shows the original. Fossils in...

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The Osborn problem | EXTINCT MONSTERS

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The Gilmore Models: Where are they now? July 17, 2013 · 7:07 pm. In recent decades, however, historical interest in Osborn has been mostly focused on his disreputable personal and political beliefs: Osborn was a flagrant racist and anti-Semite, an admirer of Adolf Hitler and a strong supporter of research in eugenics. Osborn regularly used his clout to bring material harm to the American working class, lobbying for legislation including the Emergency Quota Act. And the Immigration Act of 1924. After all,...

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Trichopterology: July 2012

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Publication, Availability, and Nomina Nuda. In the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature. Hereafter referred to as The Code), there are a number of levels a new name must pass before the validity of a name can even be considered. The second level is called availability. Think of availability like certain privileges that are only available. To names that pass the criteria. Or, another way to think about it, only names that pass the criteria are available. The main requirem...

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Curatorial Assistant – Mollusks | The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

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The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Enhance your understanding of the natural world and our place in it. Curatorial Assistant – Mollusks. January 6, 2017. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Qualifications Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in biology or related field – Curatorial experience in natural history collections – Databasing experience, preferably with Microsoft Access – Ef...By January 31, 2017.