Carnegie Museum of Natural History
One of the Four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Dolichorhynchops bonneri, one of the swiftest predators in the Cretaceous seas. It used its four powerful flippers to chase down fast-moving prey. Once it caught its prey, its slender jaws and needle-like teeth did the rest. #dinosintheirtime (at Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
#FossilFriday: Caridosuctor, a Mississippian coelacanth
In 1905 the name “Tyrannosaurus rex” was given to this highly-recognized dinosaur.
Discovered by a team of Carnegie scientists in 1899, “Dippy” is renowned for being the first major dinosaur fossil in our collection and one of the most recognized dinosaurs in the entire world.
Did you know that the pigment of Blue Jays is actually brown but they appear blue because the barbules which feathers are composed of scatter blue wavelengths; much like a prism hung in a window. #powdermillnaturereserve #carnegiemuseumofnaturalhistory
Finely crystallized “azurite sun” concretion 12.2 cm in diameter from near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. This is the best specimen of its size that has been mined to date. (at Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
