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Taking a tour of the Academy of Natural Sciences with Ted Daeschler |
We were lucky enough to get a backstage
tour of the Academy of Natural Science's
Hadrosaurus foulkii exhibit, led by its
curator Ted Daeschler.
As Ted tells it, its the story of three men: William Parker Foulke, a Philadelphia lawyer and amateur fossil hunter; Joseph Leidy, the renowned polymath with a list of "Father ofs" that would boggle your mind; and Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, an English sculptor who worked with scientists to create the concrete dinosaurs of the Crystal Palace's gardens.
It was Waterhouse who came up with the bright idea to reconstruct a dinosaur using available fossils (or casts thereof). Leidy provided the expertise and Foulke provided the bones.
After checking out the exhibit, Ted took us to his lab to show off Tiktaalik rosae, and let us have a peek at some of the mammoth and giant sloth bones collected by Thomas Jefferson.
As Ted tells it, its the story of three men: William Parker Foulke, a Philadelphia lawyer and amateur fossil hunter; Joseph Leidy, the renowned polymath with a list of "Father ofs" that would boggle your mind; and Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, an English sculptor who worked with scientists to create the concrete dinosaurs of the Crystal Palace's gardens.
It was Waterhouse who came up with the bright idea to reconstruct a dinosaur using available fossils (or casts thereof). Leidy provided the expertise and Foulke provided the bones.
After checking out the exhibit, Ted took us to his lab to show off Tiktaalik rosae, and let us have a peek at some of the mammoth and giant sloth bones collected by Thomas Jefferson.
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