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Dinosaur Hall is the highlight of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It also is where the Teen Docents get the most visitors. In a hall full of fragile exhibits, the Dinosaur cart is a great way for visitors to get an up-close look at fossils. On the cart visitors can find dinosaur teeth, dinosaur bones, and even a dinosaur brain! The Dinosaur cart is usually set up near T. rex.
Dinosaur Touchables
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Utah Raptor Finger - Below is a cast of a Utah Raptor finger. At the Dinosuar cart visitors can compare the size of their finger to the size of a Utah Raptor's finger. If the Utah Raptor's finger is that large, imagine the size of the rest of the Utah Raptor's body!
T. rex Tooth - Below is a cast of the largest T. rex tooth ever found. Imagine something with a tooth like that taking a bite out of you!
Sauropod egg - Below is a Sauropod egg, but this is only half the egg. The whole egg would have been the size of a basketball. Imagine the dinosaur that laid that egg.
A Protoceratops hatching from an egg - Below is an artist's rendition of a Protoceratops hatching from an egg. Since we don't know what color dinosaurs were, we look to living animals for ideas about coloration. Just think, a dinosaur could have been pink with purple stripes!
Replica of a Stegosaurus back plate - Stegosaurus back plates were hard and bony, but covered with blood vessel markings. They may have helped regulate body temperature.
