Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. – See history in the making: The Museum of the Earth, an affiliate of Cornell University, officially opens its new Fossil Preparation Laboratory on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Watch the discoveries right before your eyes, as paleontologists carefully chip away and search for dinosaur bones on a fossil-filled block on loan from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. The general public, visiting the Museum of the Earth, can now see how Cornell students and others conduct their research.
The sandstone rock was originally excavated around 1910 from the Carnegie Quarry in northeastern Utah. Now known as Dinosaur National Monument, the site has produced tons of 150-million-year-old bones from many “classic” dinosaurs in the late Jurassic period, including Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Allosaurus.
In addition to the Fossil Preparation Lab, known as PrepLab, the museum will be opening its BioLab, for microscopic and chemical procedures; WetLab, to conduct research on living aquatic invertebrates and plants; and PaleoLab, for processing field collections and rough specimen preparation. All the labs were partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Admission fees for the Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, New York, are $8 for adults and $3 for children (free for kids 3 and under).
Web: www.museumoftheearth.org.
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