Every
day, Carnegie Museum of Natural Historys scientists are
shaping our views of Earth and its inhabitants. Just as science
is constantly changing, so is the dynamic work being done in PaleoLab.
Meet
SAMSON, A New Specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex!
The preparators in PaleoLab were honored to work on
a spectacular skull of
Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant king of the dinosaurs. It
was nicknamed “Samson” in recognition of the beast’s
reputation as the strongest dinosaur of the late Cretaceous.
Although
there are nearly 30 known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens,
their skulls are either incomplete or distorted. This 65-million-year-old
skull appears to be the finest ever collected! Click to follow
along on the two years of work involved in Reconstructing
Samson!
Watch
a Fossil Emerge from Its Matrix
PaleoLab
is an authentic preparation lab where fossils are cleaned and
prepared by museum scientists, called preparators. Visit
the Preparators
Journals to find out what the preparators have
been working on!
From
Quarry To Carnegie
Paleontologists
rely on the steady hand and keen eye of preparators to ready their
magnificent fossils for study and display in the museum. Check
out What
is Preparation? to learn more about this delicate
profession!