[BCMA] Fwd: CMA Clip Serv: Tour RBCM's latest dinosaur exhibit

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*Tour Victoria's Royal B.C. Museum's latest*
*dinosaur exhibit*
Richard Watts, Victoria Times Colonist, Monday, May 14, 2012


New ideas about ancient dinosaurs are on display at the Royal B.C. 
Museum, breathing life into our imaginings of how these extinct 
creatures moved and lived.

Opening Thursday, the exhibit from the prestigious American Museum of 
Natural History in New York offers more than just peeks at re-assembled 
skeletons.

It also has footprints, various fossils and computer-generated visions 
of moving dinosaurs.

Of notable importance is a steel and aluminum reconstruction of a 
long-necked dinosaur's skeleton. It's a good demonstration of how 
paleontologists, using biomechanics, have inferred some dramatic new 
ideas about dinosaur posture and movement.

But for U.S. paleontologist Matt Smith, travelling with the exhibit, the 
real eye-pleaser is the reconstructed, prehistoric forest. Complete with 
plants and creatures, many with fur and feathers, it's a wrap- around 
window into prehistory.

"It's really beautiful, the model, the lighting," said Smith. "And with 
the soundtrack it is a really immersive experience."
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/To view a gallery of photos of the exhibit, visit:/
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