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Exclusive interview: Fossil preparation
Every serious collector of fossils will at some point have found herself either trying to remove a fossil from its matrix, repair a broken fossil, stabilize, restore, or polish a specimen to improve its appearance. When getting help from one of the very … Continue reading
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Tagged fossil prep, Oreodont, restoration, tyrannosaurus rex, White River
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Rocking it at the United World College
United World College (UWC) was embarking on a new Grade 4 academic unit about the Earth and changes to its geology. After spending weeks investigating the structure of the earth and types of rocks and visiting the Science Centre’s Earth: Our … Continue reading
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Tagged Allosaurus, Arthropleura, Cambrian explosion, Carcharodontosaurus, Claudiosaurus germaini, coelacanth, Coelophysis, Eoraptor, Eurypterid, fossilization, Geography, Giant Kangaroo, Giant Sloth, gigantism, ginko, Glossopteris, Gondwana, Keichousaurus, Kimberella Anomalocaris, KT extinction, Laurasia, megafauna, Meganeura, Mesosaurus, Naraoia, oldest life, paleogeography, Pangeo, Paradoxide, plesiosaur, pliosaur, rocks, Sabretooth, Science Centre, spinosaurus, stromatolite, Tethys Sea, trace fossils, triceratops, trilobite, tyrannosaurid, tyrannosaurus rex, United World College, Wooly Mammoth
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Exhibition Review: Titans of the Past
After a few wonderful months, the Titans of the Past exhibition is finally approaching its final two weeks. We made a third visit today, this time with our nieces, and were pleasantly surprised to see that the Science Centre was … Continue reading
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Tagged carcharodontosaurid, corpolite, Giganotosaurus Carolini, Glossotherium, Glyptodont, hadrosaur, Hippidion, Ice Age, Machairodus giganteus, Macrauchenia, mammals, mammoth, megafauna, Megatherium, Pachycephalosaurus, Pararctotherium, Segnosaur, Singapore Science Centre, Smilodon, Stan, stegodon, Sue, T-Rex, Toxodon, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex
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Jack Horner in Singapore
This was a very special week for many of us, as the most famous paleontologist, Professor John “Jack” Horner, visited Singapore to open the Science Centre’s latest exhibition Titans of the Past. Titans of the Past tells a story through … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentinosaurus, birds, Cassowary, crest, Dracorex hogwartsia, dyslexia, egg, Field Museum, frill, Giganotosaurus, horn, Jack Horner, John Horner, Jurassic Park, MacArthur Fellowship, Maiasaura, mammoth, Mastodon, Michael Crichton, Montana State University, Museum of the Rockies, Pachycephalosaurus, Paleontology, saber-tooth, sexual dimorphism, Singapore Science Centre, spike, Steven Spielberg, Stygimoloch, Sue, Titans of the Past, Torosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex
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Recreating dinosaurs, really
Ever since the Jurassic Park movies, the world has been entralled with the possibility of recreating dinosaurs. Unlike the movies however, studies in the early 1990s that successfully extracted DNA from insects trapped in 40 million-year old fossilised amber, as … Continue reading
Alchemy
You can turn rocks into gold … with fossil finance! The global market for fossil investments has been growing rapidly in recent years. The Wall Street Journal reports that the price of some fossils have increased tenfold in the past … Continue reading
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Tagged Allosaurus, ammonite, cave bear, Mastodon, mosasaur, Plesiosaurus, prehistoric crab, Siberian Mammoth, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, Wooly Rhinosaurus
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Top 5 Natural History Museums in the World
I’ve been fortunate to have visited several natural history museums, where the world’s best fossil treasures are stored safely for all to enjoy. Natural history museums should be a first stop for all new fossil collectors, before embarking on that … Continue reading
Just how old are these things?
Here’s a handy geological timeline for the different eras that mark prehistory: Palaeontologists are frequently called upon to date fossil specimens according to this timeline, and may do so with a convincing degree of accuracy. There in fact exists great … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dating, pterosaur, stegosaurus, trilobite, tyrannosaurus rex
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