Category Archives: Dinosaurs

Christmas Dinosaurs

Posted on December 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Don’t say I didn’t give you any gifts! This year’s theme for the U.S. Botanic Garden’s holiday trains is DINOSAURS! Enjoy: (something kind of meta about using dead plants to simulate extinct plants) Triceratops: Parasaurolophus: MOAR BELOW

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Dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History

Posted on June 24, 2019 by mikethemadbiologist

I had a chance to visit the newly refurbished Hall of Fossils at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History. It’s pretty good. Lots of interesting information, the fossils are posed well, and it’s not just about big things with teeth … Continue reading →

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T. Rex

Posted on September 16, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

While the dinosaur exhibit is being renovated at the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum, there’s a smaller exhibit about fossils, featuring a T. rex. RAWR! MOAR RAWR!

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Note to Scientists: Sounding Like James Watt Isn’t a Good Communications Strategy

Posted on August 12, 2015 by mikethemadbiologist

For those youngsters who don’t know who James Watt is, he was Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior. One minor Watt scandal (there were worse ones*) was when he defended the diversity of his Department by claiming he had “a black, … Continue reading →

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