The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime ExperienceThe Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime ExperienceIan HerbstDr. Anthony McCormackHUM111Date: 13 June 2013The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime ExperienceOn 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.
Dinosaur Hall is considered one of the best scientific and cultural places in the world, for the fact that the exhibit was created exclusively for the museum’s mission is a testament to the incredible amount of work scientists have made this century. It takes an overwhelming amount of effort to have one of the most amazing exhibits that the museum has yet seen. And in some ways it was this incredible achievement that attracted me to Dinosaur Hall.[3]
The Dinosaur Hall: A Lifetime Experience
I will not repeat myself about a second experience at the Dinosaur Hall: a lifetime experience of learning about evolution and the human condition while visiting a beautiful and well-preserved dinosaur hall. The last time I came to Dinosaur Hall, I took an in-person tour of the exhibit’s museum and walked through the rooms. What I did see was a huge collection of fossil structures with a variety of sizes and shapes. To that I would add a little later at a later date.
I’m not going to do a lengthy description of the history and how it took the museum so long to make this journey, however there is one small topic that is worth mentioning to remember and that I want to discuss briefly. The history of the cave paintings. They actually started to appear in the cave caves, in the middle or upper chambers of the caves. This was because of the presence of ancient animals using their human faces. Many of these were thought to have been used by dinosaurs. This includes some paintings by many men or some dogs. In addition, there were also several paintings depicting people having sex with animals to increase numbers in size.[4] I remember one painting, the male body of one person with a large face. I would think that was an example of an ancient cave painting. As I walked out I was impressed that the human face was depicted in all of the paintings I walked on the way to see the exhibit.[5]
I am reminded of another one I did in the Museum of Natural History in 1991, where I was asked to find some fossilized bones of dinosaurs. After collecting the bones I found something that would provide me with some really interesting knowledge about the dinosaurs. This is the picture used:
At this time the National Center of Museum Anthropology is in the midst of a new project: excavating one of the deepest ever seen cave paintings located at the National Museum of Natural History in Cincinnati. (NCHN site map). It was taken when I was at NCHN to look at some fossilized bones taken from a cave (included herein in its title). (NOTE: you might have had a different subject for that one as well, though this is not the only time I attended NCHN.)
Now, this information in the National Center was not available prior to 1994 when the National Center was taking over the place where I was teaching biology at a little college in the Midwest. This is where I discovered the following article about the subject: “Why is the National Museum of Natural History not doing well at an anthropology conference?”[6]
But before I get to this blog post, I’d like to say something about my personal and professional life after seeing a fossilized dinosaur. It may surprise you to learn I do not live alone today. I live with two other families in the area but I have been living with the family for over 25 years and I have been through quite a ride, but it was when I got to NCHN in 2001 when I was asked to dig up the bones from NCHN. I believe this was to show that they were all living in this place. I’ve been to the World Heritage sites in Oklahoma, Arkansas, California, Texas and Tennessee but not one of them is found there. One of the fossils
I got the information from a museum employee present in the Hall that several objects within the exhibition were recent discoveries made by the museumās research unit the āDinosaur Instituteā which is directed by the hallās 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