That’s right, he’s figuring out how fast creatures that lived millions of years ago actually moved. Persons’ own research, which is on display, involves “creating computer models of dinosaur muscles… and then giving a mass estimation for those different muscles,” which he’s used to understand the speed of certain dinosaurs. Our exhibit I hope gives you a more intimate dinosaur experience,” he explained.

“One of the big things I wanted to try to do with the exhibit was to get away from the classic museum parade of monsters. I’ll admit that my experience with Discovering Dinosaurs included the bonus of having a conversation with PhD student Scott Persons, whose work was crucial in the creation of the displays and story lines, so he let me know that sharing top notch research was a major goal of the exhibit. For instance “Robo Rex” has been used to support the thesis that tyrannosaurus bites were the strongest relative to size in animal history, which is pretty impressive to learn. The cool thing about Discovering Dinosaurs, is that after the “wow” factor has worn off, the exhibit does an excellent job of teaching you what you’re actually looking at. Until January 31st we have a unique opportunity to remember that dinosaurs are fascinating no matter what your age, at a state of the art exhibit hosted by University of Alberta Museums.Įxhibits such as “Robo Rex,” a mechanical recreation of a tyrannosaurus skull by graduate student Darrin Molinaro, can’t help but catch your attention.

That is why Discovering Dinosaurs is so exciting. Outside of the occasional Jurassic Park movie (a series I love despite all the factual inaccuracies) or a road trip down to Drumheller, dinosaurs don’t really cross most people’s minds that often. Personally, I think that that dinosaurs’ lack of respect is the result of us not really having many opportunities to learn about them as we get older. For some reason a lot of people have the perception that dinosaurs are for children which is a little strange considering that we live in a world where adults flock to theatres to watch the latest superhero movies and most university campuses have Pokemon clubs.

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