Its an incredible idea. But most experts now believe that todays birds are the direct descendants of ancient dinosaurs. So does that mean birds actually are dinosaurs? Yes. Absolutely. How can you be sure about that? You have evidence from the skel...
The pose in which the dinosaur is hung while being true to science will also involve a degree of artistic interpretation to really bring the exhibit to life. A little bit more of a side way within it. (Ok.) Because its a little too flat. Its not movi...
Fossilized bones are essentially solid lumps of rock, which means that mounting them into a skeleton is an enormous challenge. Most of the bones are real, which makes them extremely heavy. Were estimating at the total weight of the bones. Its a littl...
You know, they are fairly kind of flat pieces of bones, so I would think maybe this is part of the skull of a jaw. Am I anywhere near? Yes, yes, you are absolutely right. So what you have here are two lower jaws of a dug-out dinosaur. Oh, brilliant,...
Back in Los Angeles, Luiss team are working on the bones that were dug up in Utah. The next step in turning them into an exhibition is to work out exactly what they are. And this is where the fossil bones end up, and here the preparateurs continue th...
Darren, I do love these museum collections when you come behind the scenes and you suddenly feel that you are surrounded by treasures. And it's amazing to think that there are new discoveries to be made in here as well. That's right in a way. There a...
Working out what species this is wont be possible until the bones are back in L.A., but fossils are fragile and moving them is a risky business. Ready? One, two, three, move. It has to be 400 pounds at least, right, if no more. Go slowly. The team be...
Amazingly less than 100 meters away, there are more clues to the past. Luis colleague has found the remains of a sauropod. Theres a piece of rib here thats going into the ground about this angle. And then theres a piece of the pubis, the hip bone rig...
I think when most of us go into an exhibition like this, we don't think about all of the work thats gone into it, and an exhibition of this scale requires hundreds of people whore working together, from scientists to engineers to artists and designer...
So beyond the fact that the exhibition is obviously about dinosaurs, what's the idea behind it? It's really how do we know what we know about dinosaurs. So you are not just presenting facts to people, you are actually showing how you've got to that k...