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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

New Dinosaur Exhibit Set to Open

A new dinosaur exhibit is set to open at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum on July 16. It will feature some 300 fossils and 20 skeletons, and try to explain things like what dinosaurs ate, how they reproduced and why they disappeared.

'The emphasis is on how do we know what we know,' says chief curator Luis Chiappe. “It's the nature of science. We know a lot about dinosaurs, but we also don't know a lot about them.”

 The exhibit, which uses the specimens to illustrate how scientists pose questions and sometimes answer them, is in part aimed at instilling wonder in visitors who have grown up watching dinosaurs on television and in movies.

“When you turn on the television and you watch some of the dinosaur documentaries, they make you feel as if we know everything about that, and that's not the case. There is so much that we need to discover,' says Mr Chiappe.

The new exhibit is seen as an important step in upgrading the museum ahead of its 100th anniversary in 2013.

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