The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime Experience
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The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime Experience
Ian Herbst
Dr. Anthony McCormack
HUM111
Date: 13 June 2013
The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime Experience
On 30 May, 2013 I did visit a stunning and interesting exhibit on dinosaurs called the Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Museum offered me one of the amazing experiences of my life. At about 11am I reached the Natural History Museum and found that like me there were many more students who were attending the exhibit not only for witnessing the wonder of science and evolution but also to learn a lot from the exhibit. The exhibit was populated not only by students but young men and women along with elderly persons too were present to see the exhibit. When I stepped into the Dinosaur Hall a mesmerizing thrill engulfed by mind and at once I felt that I had entered the pre-historic world of monstrous dinosaurs roaring and ruling the earth.
I got the information from a museum employee present in the Hall that several objects within the exhibition were recent discoveries made by the museum’s research unit the ‘Dinosaur Institute’ which is directed by the hall’s main curator. The dinosaur exhibit of the Dinosaur Hall contained approximately hundreds of real fossils along with myriads of dinosaurs and pre-historic sea creatures. Among some astonishing displays I was amazed to see the projection of three Tyrannosauruses surrounding the remnants of a duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus. I was told that the Tyrannosauruses usually preyed on those duck-billed dinosaurs which were their favorite food item. What was most noteworthy in the depiction was the presence of Tyrannosauruses of different ages. I was informed that among the Tyrannosauruses one was a baby that was about two years old at the time of death. The other one was a juvenile which approximately died at the age of thirteen and the last one was a sub-adult. Tyrannosaurus was one of the largest predators of the pre-historic era. This species of dinosaur was characterized by thick and heavy skull and jaw which helped the Tyrannosaur to crush
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