Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's New Dinosaur Hall Opens
Posted on July 17, 2011
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has opened its new, 14,000-square-foot Dinosaur Hall. The exhibit features the debut of Thomas the T. rex along with more than 300 fossils, 20 dinosaur skeletons and multi-media interactives. The new exhibit is twice as big as the Museum's old dinosaur galleries.
The T. rex growth series features a fossil trio of the youngest known baby, a rare juvenile, and a recently-discovered young adult (Thomas) - one of the ten most complete T. rex specimens in the world. Some of the Dinosaur Hall's other top exhibits include a Triceratops, an armor-backed Stegosaurus, the predator Allosaurus, a 68-foot, long-necked Mamenchisaurus and giant marine reptiles that swam in the oceans covering what is today California.