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Tampa, FL (January 22, 2025) – Get your prehistoric questions ready. Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas opens January 25 at MOSI, Tampa’s Museum of Science & Industry. The limited-time exhibition explores what living, breathing dinosaurs were really like—based on research from one of the world's leading dinosaur research institutions, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History.
Included with MOSI admission, Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas runs from January 25 through April 27, 2025
Dinosaur Discoveries offers captivating insights into the world of dinosaurs, appealing to guests of all ages. Visitors will explore how scientists use advanced tools, such as computer simulations and specialized X-rays, to reveal fascinating details about dinosaurs—their appearance, behavior, and even their movement. The exhibition also invites guests to engage with a compelling question: why did dinosaurs vanish—or did they?
This limited-time exhibition at MOSI showcases an extraordinary blend of significant fossil discoveries, cutting-edge technology, and detailed models, providing a unique connection to these magnificent creatures of the past.
“It’s a fantastic blending of artifacts from millions of years ago and brand new, cutting-edge science. In Dinosaur Discoveries, history and science are working together, and that combination gives you new ways to explore this world of dinosaurs that we all find so fascinating,” said MOSI CEO John Graydon Smith.
Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas marks MOSI’s inaugural collaboration with one of the world’s leading dinosaur research institutions, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Guests will discover some of the most exciting and recent insights into how dinosaurs walked, ran, and lived their daily lives.
“This exhibition illustrates how scientists are using different ideas, discoveries, and technologies to revolutionize our understanding of dinosaurs,” said Mark A. Norell, curator of Dinosaur Discoveries and Curator Emeritus in the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
While studying dinosaurs still involves plenty of digging and work in the wilderness, Dr. Norell explains that understanding new fossils also depends on people with a passion for the career fields of STEAM—science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
“Our work reaches across many disciplines involving paleontologists, biomechanical engineers, paleobotanists, and others to showcase how we go about reconstructing the mysterious life of dinosaurs,” he said.
Included with MOSI admission, Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas runs from January 25 through April 27, 2025. The exhibition is located on the third floor of MOSI’s iconic blue dome building; MOSI recently announced its dome building will also become the home of America’s second-largest planetarium and a new, eight-story-tall Digital Dome Theatre later this year. MOSI Members can experience an exclusive preview of this exhibit at 9:00 AM on January 25.
Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (amnh.org), in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; The Field Museum, Chicago; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh.
About MOSI, Tampa’s Museum of Science & Industry
MOSI is Tampa Bay’s center of science and innovation, located in North Tampa at 4801 E. Fowler Ave.
Welcome to the Museum of Science and Industry, where the wonders of science come to life. We are a hands-on science center dedicated to interactive learning and playful exploration. With engaging permanent and rotating exhibits and out of this world programming, MOSI makes science and technology accessible to all. Come join us on a journey of discovery and unlock the mysteries of the world around us.
About the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
The American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869 with a dual mission of scientific research and science education, is one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum encompasses more than 40 permanent exhibition halls, galleries for temporary exhibitions, the Rose Center for Earth and Space including the Hayden Planetarium, and the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The Museum’s scientists draw on a world-class permanent collection of more than 30 million objects and specimens, some of which are billions of years old, and on one of the largest natural history libraries in the world. Through its Richard Gilder Graduate School, the Museum offers two of the only free-standing, degree-granting programs of their kind at any museum in the U.S.: the Ph.D. program in Comparative Biology and the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Earth Science residency program. Visit amnh.org for more information.
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