Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas

Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas is a thrilling, family-friendly exhibit that takes you beyond the bones to uncover what dinosaurs were really like. Featuring life-sized models, fossil casts, and jaw-dropping animations, this interactive experience brings the latest scientific discoveries to life.

See Dinosaurs Move! Watch a T. rex in action with biomechanical studies and a high-tech animation that builds a dinosaur from skeleton to skin.
Step Into a Lost World! Explore a stunning recreation of the Liaoning Forest, a 130-million-year-old habitat where dinosaurs thrived.
Unlock Dinosaur Secrets! Investigate how dinosaurs behaved - did their horns, frills, and crests help them fight, flirt, or fend off predators?
The Extinction Mystery! Explore the explosive theories on what ended the Age of Dinosaurs—asteroids, volcanoes, climate change—and meet the dinosaurs' modern-day relatives.

A man wearing a broad brimmed hat holding a fossil.

Dinosaur Expert Tim Jeffries returns to Grey Roots on Saturday June 28th! Tim will bring samples from his personal collection including genuine fossils and replicas to display and discuss, and will share his knowledge of all things prehistoric in two presentations!

Are you an educator looking to book an AWESOME field trip? Check out The Fossil Frontier - inspired by this exhibit!

Can't get enough dinosaurs? Check out these videos by the American Museum of Natural History, organizers of this fantastic exhibition!

Twin models of Protoceratops, one showing a skeleton, the other a fleshed out model, demonstrate this dinosaur’s unique frills. Scientists have developed new theories about why they sported these unique features. © AMNH

This cast shows the full-size leg of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Visitors are asked to picture the huge predator who walked on this giant leg. The famous T. rex would have weighed between 5,000 and 7,000 kilograms (11,000-15,500 pounds) with skin and flesh on its huge bones. © AMNH

This touchable model is a simplified version of a neck bone belonging to a sauropod dinosaur called Apatosaurus. Discover how highly accurate computer simulations of dinosaur motion are starting to teach scientists a different story about posture. © AMNH

Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (amnh.org), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; The Field Museum, Chicago; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh.

The exhibition is presented in part through the generous support of Bruce Power.