1. The American Museum of Natural History has the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. So where do we keep all those dinosaur bones? Research Associate Lowell Dingus explains.

    The American Museum of Natural History has the largest collection of dinosaur fossils in the world. So where do we keep all those dinosaur bones?

    Research Associate Lowell Dingus explains.

  2. Here’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: school kids examine the Museum’s Apatosaurus mount (then known as Brontosaurus). July 1927.The Museum’s “Brontosaurus” took six years to mount and used four different specimens collected from Como Bluff by Walter Granger and other Museum paleontologists. Since Granger and his team did not find a head with their specimen, they gave it a sculpted head of another sauropod, Camarasaurus (pictured). More on the history of the Brontosaurus here.  © AMNH Library/#312166

    Here’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: school kids examine the Museum’s Apatosaurus mount (then known as Brontosaurus). July 1927.

    The Museum’s “Brontosaurus” took six years to mount and used four different specimens collected from Como Bluff by Walter Granger and other Museum paleontologists. Since Granger and his team did not find a head with their specimen, they gave it a sculpted head of another sauropod, Camarasaurus (pictured).

    More on the history of the Brontosaurus here. 


    © AMNH Library/#312166

  3. Here’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives: In 1910, Barnum Brown uncovers a dinosaur fossil 45 miles south of Glasgow, Montana.  Explore more photos from our archives here.  (c) AMNH Library/18405

    Here’s Tuesday’s peek into the archives:

    In 1910, Barnum Brown uncovers a dinosaur fossil 45 miles south of Glasgow, Montana. 

    Explore more photos from our archives here. 

    (c) AMNH Library/18405

  4. Today’s look into the archives: Museum staff mounting an Apatosaurus (then known as Brontosaurus) skeleton, 1904© AMNH Library/#326379

    Today’s look into the archives: Museum staff mounting an Apatosaurus (then known as Brontosaurus) skeleton, 1904


    © AMNH Library/#326379

  5. We’re getting in the holiday spirit over here! Is there anything better than a festive dinosaur? (c) AMNH/R. Mickens

    We’re getting in the holiday spirit over here! Is there anything better than a festive dinosaur?

    (c) AMNH/R. Mickens

  6. Another amazing shot from the archives: Museum staff work on mounting a duck-billed dinosaur, 1916Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp© AMNH Library/Image #34799

    Another amazing shot from the archives: Museum staff work on mounting a duck-billed dinosaur, 1916

    Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp

    © AMNH Library/Image #34799

  7. From the archives: Preparator Adam Hermann with fore and hind limbs of carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs from Wyoming, 1899.Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp© AMNH Library/Image #35044

    From the archives: Preparator Adam Hermann with fore and hind limbs of carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs from Wyoming, 1899.

    Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp

    © AMNH Library/Image #35044

  8. From the archives: A discovery is made in Utah, 1895Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp© AMNH Library/Image #17727

    From the archives: A discovery is made in Utah, 1895

    Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp

    © AMNH Library/Image #17727

  9. From the archives: Museum staff moving an Apatosaurus (previously known as Brontosaurus) skeleton, June 1938 Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp © AMNH Library/Image #289651

    From the archives: Museum staff moving an Apatosaurus (previously known as Brontosaurus) skeleton, June 1938

    Explore all the photos from the Picturing the Museum collection here: http://bit.ly/l8nOsp

    © AMNH Library/Image #289651

  10. It’s one of the most recognizable dinosaur species, yet most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus. Read on to find out how Brontosaurus came to be known as Apatosaurus: http://bit.ly/RdlQ1t  Pictured: Museum preparators work on a mount of a dinosaur, then known as Brontosaurus, in 1904.  © AMNH Library/Image no. 17506

    It’s one of the most recognizable dinosaur species, yet most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus.

    Read on to find out how Brontosaurus came to be known as Apatosaurus: http://bit.ly/RdlQ1t 

    Pictured: Museum preparators work on a mount of a dinosaur, then known as Brontosaurus, in 1904. 

    © AMNH Library/Image no. 17506