Here’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: school kids examine the Museum’s Apatosaurus mount (then known as Brontosaurus). July 1927.
The Museum’s “Brontosaurus” took six years to mount and used four different specimens collected from Como Bluff by Walter Granger and other Museum paleontologists. Since Granger and his team did not find a head with their specimen, they gave it a sculpted head of another sauropod, Camarasaurus (pictured).More on the history of the Brontosaurushere.
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