(June 13, 2013 at 11:05 am)Rahul Wrote: Did the Smithsonian also mention where the real fossils that were used to make those replicas were located?There are several examples of whole intact peices (80 to 85% of the skeletal structure accounted for) in various museums around the world, but everything there at the Smithsonian in DC at the time of my visit was contructed from a compliation of different examples or different dig sites. Most of that stuff are in underground vaults. They rotated different examples in their display cases. Outside of private collections real dino remains are never displayed like that.
Quote:Say you have a dozen full fossilized Stegasaurus skeletons found. Three thousand museums want one for their permanent display. What do you do?I did not say that I said there were only a few Complete examples of dinosaurs period. Nothing like the stegasaurus in the picture.
