From Monday, May 1 to Friday, May 5, our experts will lay out one entire Triceratops, with all its bones, on the ground. We are doing this to build a frame to display this giant dino later on. The skeleton consists of real fossil bones and bones that come from the 3D printer. Come see how our experts handles this and ask all your questions in our temporary Dinolab XL.
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Ten years ago, Naturalis researchers made a startling discovery. In Wyoming, U.S., we found fossils of the world-famous dinosaur species Triceratops. Three expeditions followed and more than a thousand bones of as many as five individuals were unearthed. In the Dinolab in LiveScience, a team of preparators is working every day to beautifully prepare those triceratops bones. They are made clean and neat, reinforced and where necessary the missing pieces, holes and cracks are filled in. A precise and time-consuming job. By the end of 2024, we hope to have the triceratops bones on display at Naturalis.
Dinosaursin Naturalis
Wondering how big a Triceratops is when it's fully assembled? A specimen that Naturalis excavated and prepared is on display in the gallery Dinosaur Era, so be sure to take a look there. In the Dinolab at LiveScience, you can watch up close how our experts extract fossil triceratops bones from chunks of rock.
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