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  • Museum Reviews
    • Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
    • American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
    • Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    • Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL
    • BYU Museum of Paleontology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
    • Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
    • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH
    • Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO
    • Dinosaur Journey Museum of Western Colorado, Fruita, CO
    • The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
    • Fryxell Geology Museum, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
    • Ghost Ranch Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Abiquiu, NM
    • Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
    • KU Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    • La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    • McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL
    • Moab Giants, Moab, UT
    • Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
    • Natural History Museum, London, England
    • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
    • Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    • New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
    • Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Woodland Park, CO
    • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
    • Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta
    • Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
    • Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
    • Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
    • University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, MI
    • University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE
    • University of Wyoming Geological Museum, Laramie, WY
    • Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis, WY
    • Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT
  • Track sites & bone beds
    • Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, Orchard, NE
    • Clayton Lake State Park Dinosaur Tracksite, Clayton, NM
    • Jurassic National Monument/Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, near Cleveland, UT
    • Dinosaur Footprints Reservation, Holyoke, MA
    • Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, UT
    • Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
    • Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison, CO
    • Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, CT
    • Dinosaur Valley State Park, Glen Rose, TX
    • Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Hot Springs, SD
    • Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite, near Shell, WY
  • Fossil Rankings
    • AR’s Top Allosaurus Displays
    • AR’s Top Dimetrodon Displays
    • AR’s Top Pteranodon Displays
    • AR’s Top Stegosaurus Displays
    • AR’s Top Triceratops Displays
    • AR’s Top Tyrannosaurus rex Displays
    • AR’s Top Xiphactinus Displays
    • AR’s Favorite Dinosaur Displays
  • Fossil Focus
    • Acrocanthosaurus
    • Archaeopteryx
    • Brachiosaurus
    • Cryolophosaurus
    • Daeodon
    • Deinonychus
    • Didelphodon
    • Dunkleosteus
    • Gastonia
    • Pachycephalosaurus
    • Parasaurolophus
    • Smilodon
  • Dinosaur Links
    • Creative Beast Dinosaur Models
    • Prehistoric Times Magazine

Tag: The Field Museum

The "Dinosphere" at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN.

A New Golden Age of Dinosaur Museums

May 2, 2017 johngnida

When the movie Jurassic Park hit theaters in the summer of 1993, there was no question that the dinosaur renaissance–that had been coursing through the

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Parasaurolophus skull on display at the Natural History Museum, London, England.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Month: Parasaurolophus

April 11, 2017 johngnida

One of the more unusual dinosaurs is the tube-crested hadrosaur Parasaurolophus.   This large herbivore from the Late Cretaceous period has been beloved in our

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Daspletosaurus display, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.

Allosaurus Roar’s Top 25 Prehistoric Fossil Museums in North America

March 14, 2017 johngnida

One year ago today, I started this blog with a list ranking the Top 25 Dinosaur Museums in North America, and now I provide a

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Allosaurus Roar’s Top Dozen Dimetrodon Displays

February 24, 2017 johngnida

Dimetrodon is one of the most recognizable and fascinating prehistoric animals, and a favorite of many dinosaur fans who learned early on that despite its frequent

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Close-up of Cryolophosaurus' head crest. Fryxell Geology Museum, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL.

Allosaurus Roar’s Fossil of the Week, 2/20/17

February 20, 2017 johngnida

In typical circumstances, excavating a fossil dinosaur is extremely difficult.  In 1991, paleontologist Dr. William Hammer and his team from Augustana College excavated a large

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Stately entrance to The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.

Allosaurus Roar Review: The Field Museum, Chicago, IL

September 30, 2016 johngnida

The Field Museum in Chicago is one of a handful of truly world-class museums of natural history in North America.  When you think of dinosaurs

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