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Project Exploration - Paleontology Education and Dinosaur Exhibits
Using the wonders of science to inspire city kids
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Dinosaurs and Exhibits
<i>Carcharodontosaurus</i>, pictured here at Project Exploration’s Giants: African Dinosaurs exhibit, had 6-inch serrated teeth. While enough bones of <i>Carcharodontosaurus</i>’ have not been found to mount a skeleton, scientists estimate the creature’s full length to be 45 feet. Pictured is a flesh head of <i>Carcharodontosaurus</i>, created by Garfield Minott. <i>Jobaria</i> was discovered on a 1997 expedition to Niger, led by Dr. Paul Sereno. This flesh neck, is part of Project Exploration’s Giants: African Dinosaurs exhibit. The African pterosaur dined on the abundant fish in ancient rivers, as evidenced by its long and slender teeth. This flesh model was created by Gary Staab.
<i>Afrovenator</i>, <i>Jobaria</i>, and the African pterosaur bring an ancient world to life in Project Exploration’s exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs. Thousands of schoolchildren visited the Project Exploration exhibit Giants: African Dinosaurs at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. With over 95% of its skeleton preserved, <i>Jobaria</i> is the most complete long-necked dinosaur ever discovered from the Cretaceous period. <i>Eoraptor lunensis</i>, meaning “dawn thief,” is one of the smallest (3’) and oldest (228 million years old) dinosaurs ever discovered. These flesh models were created by David Krentz.
<i>Jobaria</i> was a primitive, long-necked dinosaur originally discovered in a mass-death site in the Sahara. <i>Suchomimus</i> had powerful forelimbs and foot-long thumb claws. The skeleton pictured here is part of Project Exploration’s Giants: African Dinosaurs exhibit. With its lush, botanical setting, Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago was the perfect host for <i>Suchomimus</i> and his cohorts during the Project Exploration exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs. The 135-million-year-old <i>Jobaria</i> was 70 feet long, 15 feet high at the hip, and weighed 40,000 pounds.
The Project Exploration exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs, gives visitors opportunities to get up-close-and-personal with dinosaurs, including this skull of a <i>Jobaria</i> juvenile. This skeleton of <i>Suchomimus</i> was given to the people of Niger, in gratitude for being gracious hosts to the expedition teams that discovered the dinosaur. <i>Afrovenator</i>—pictured here at the Project Exploration exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs—has rows of long, blade-shaped teeth for slicing into prey. The Project Exploration exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs, asks visitors to compare human and dinosaur anatomy by mounting a <i>Deltadromeus</i> skeleton and human skeleton in similar positions.
The five-inch skull of <i>Anatosuchus</i>, a.k.a. “DuckCroc,” was discovered in Niger, Africa in 2000 on an expedition led by Dr. Paul Sereno. <i>Eoraptor</i> was found by Ricardo Martinez in 1991 in the Ischigualasto valley of Argentina, an area that was a river valley during the late Triassic period but is now a desert. This flesh model was created by David Krentz. An adult <i>Jobaria</i> rears 30 feet in the air to greet visitors to Giants: African Dinosaurs, a Project Exploration exhibit presented at Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. While most fossil skulls are fragile and unlikely to be found intact, the skull of <i>Sarcosuchus</i> was made from stout bones. Therefore, the team that discovered SuperCroc found skulls nearly perfect, with lower jaws attached and many teeth still in th
Discovered in Niger in 1993, <i>Afrovenator abakensis</i> (“African hunter”) is the most complete predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period ever discovered in Africa. The “shark-toothed reptile” <i>Carcharodontosaurus</i> had skull over five feet in length. <i>Deltadromeus agilis</i> (“agile river runner”) was discovered in 1995 in Morocco by Project Exploration cofounder Gabrielle Lyon. <i>Deltadromeus</i> has long and delicate limbs, making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. <i>Suchomimus</i> belongs to the Spinosaur family of dinosaurs. Its closest relative is Baryonx, a spinosaur discovered in England.
<i>Suchomimus tenerensis</i> was named for is bizarre, narrow, four-foot long skull, which ends in a cage of long, curved teeth, suggesting that, like crocodiles, this dinosaur ate fish. The six-foot-long skull of <i>Carcharodontosaurus</i> was part of the Project Exploration exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs, on display in Săo Paulo, Brazil. Schoolchildren contemplate the large teeth of <i>Carcharodontosaurus</i> while exploring Giants: African Dinosaurs, the Project Exploration exhibit, on display at the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, Illinois. <i>Jobaria tiguidensis </i> is the centerpiece of Project Exploration’s exhibit, Giants: African Dinosaurs.
The flesh model of SuperCroc takes center stage in the Project Exploration exhibit The Science of SuperCroc, pictured here in Leiden, The Netherlands. <i>Sarchosuchus imperator</i> (“flesh crocodile emperor”) grew to 40 feet long and weighed eight tons. “SuperCroc,” as it is known, is the largest crocodile ever discovered. The African pterosaur was a close cousin of the dinosaurs but had a very different look, with bodies covered by hair-like structures. <i>Rajasaurus</i> was the stockiest abelisaurid of them all and had flattened toe nails. It probably ambushed prey and pounced on them, rather than running them down.
<i>Rugops primus,</i> a 24-foot long abeliasaur, was a meat-eater with a small, short-snouted skulls armed with small pointed teeth. <i>Rajasaurus narmadensis</i> means “regal reptile from the Narmada.” <i>Rajasaurus</i>, at 30 feet long and 8 feet high at the hip, was the largest predator of its day on India.   

 

 
 
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