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SVP Dispatch, Part 4: Night at the Carnegie Museum

Riley Black

Science Correspondent

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The 70th annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting ended on Wednesday, but before returning to more regular coverage of all things dinosaur I wanted to share a few snapshots from the meeting's welcome reception in Pittsburgh's famous Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The skull of the Carnegie's Allosaurus skeleton. In the background you can see a small part of the beautiful Jurassic mural by Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger for the exhibit.

A cast of the skull of Diabloceratops, which was formally described just this year.

A baby Apatosaurus among the ferns in the Jurassic dinosaurs exhibit.

A juvenile Camarasaurus.

A Tyrannosaurus rex protects its kill from a rival (off camera) in the museum's Cretaceous exhibit.

A Ceratosaurus runs down a fleeing Dryosaurus in an alcove along the Jurassic exhibit.

For more on SVP, see these posts:

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Dispatch, Part 1

SVP Dispatch, Part 2: Did Sea Level Influence Dinosaur Diversity?

SVP Dispatch, Part 3: Raptorex - To Be or Not to Be?

On Laelaps: Hungry Carnivores Helped Create Keyna’s Primate Fossil Record

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Riley Black

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.