1. Long before Roy Chapman Andrews’ famed fossil hunts in the Gobi Desert (where his team discovered many new mammal and dinosaur fossils, including the first nests of dinosaur eggs), he traveled the world studying whales. Pictured: Roy Chapman Andrews on the schooner Adventuress in Alaska in October 1913 © AMNH Library/219165 (via Roy Chapman Andrews, Whales Researcher)

    Long before Roy Chapman Andrews’ famed fossil hunts in the Gobi Desert (where his team discovered many new mammal and dinosaur fossils, including the first nests of dinosaur eggs), he traveled the world studying whales.

    Pictured: Roy Chapman Andrews on the schooner Adventuress in Alaska in October 1913

    © AMNH Library/219165

    (via Roy Chapman Andrews, Whales Researcher)

    (Source: amnh.org)

  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. 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

  4. A preparator works on a specimen in the Museum’s Paleontology Prep Lab Photo by Denis

    A preparator works on a specimen in the Museum’s Paleontology Prep Lab

    Photo by Denis

  5. Inside the Museum’s Paleontology Collection Photo by Rod

    Inside the Museum’s Paleontology Collection

    Photo by Rod