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In 2016, Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reached out to Phipps, starting negotiations to purchase the fossil, with funds being raised through the private nonprofit Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. However, legal issues over rightful ownership of the fossils slowed these negotiations: the ...
The NC Museum of Natural Sciences’ new Dueling Dinosaur exhibit is expected to bring 300,000 more visitors to the area. Find out when you can see a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex in Raleigh ...
The facility was later renamed the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History. [7] In the 1950s and again in the 1990s, shifts in education further expanded the museum's holdings as universities donated their collections to the state. [1] In 1986, the museum was renamed to The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. [4]
Lindsay E. Zanno (born c. 1980) is an American vertebrate paleontologist and a leading expert on theropod dinosaurs and Cretaceous paleoecosystems. She is the Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.
Sometime during the Cretaceous Period, 125 million years ago, a feisty mammal the size of a domestic cat attacked a dinosaur three times its size. ‘Once in a lifetime’ fossil reveals a ...
Three North Dakota schoolboys made a larger-than-life discovery when they stumbled across a T rex skeleton during a hike.. Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich ...
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Raleigh: North Carolina: USA: Skeleton, mounted (copy) Acrocanthosaurus atokensis: NCSM 14345 (copy) Houston Museum of Natural Science: Houston: Texas: USA: Skull Albertosaurus sarcophagus: TMP 1985 098 0001 Royal Tyrrell Museum: Drumheller: Alberta: Canada: Skeleton, mounted Allosaurus fragilis: AMNH 5753
Paleontology in North Carolina refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of North Carolina. Fossils are common in North Carolina. According to author Rufus Johnson, "almost every major river and creek east of Interstate 95 has exposures where fossils can be found". [ 1 ]