Originally Posted by
klevin99
Please, this is a quasi-governmental organization.
The interesting thing is that the curators insist they want to re-do all the bones. No more smooth, all one color/texture bones. Each bone will be broken down into its parts, and reassembled with color coded filler.
I'm sure we were all hungry for a "real" dino skeleton, with all the patches showing? After all, who ever knew that the bones have blotches, stripes and such? (who cares?).
At any rate, this re-imaging (re-assembly?) of all the bones is what will take so long. Of course, they couldn't do it one skeleton at a time, could they?
You can always go to the National Zoo to try to find the few animals they have left! Just don't expect any hippos, rhinos giraffes or polar bears, for example. All gone. Do expect, though, to have a nice challenge finding those animals that are there, since their "natural" environments mean they have lots of hiding places.
This is progress?
Yeah - it would definitely be better if all the animals were in concrete bowls so we wouldn't have to strain our eyes to try to find them.
And I agree - who wants lots of information available about the exhibits. I'd much rather just make up facts about what I'm seeing, regardless of whether they have any basis in reality.