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The Dinosaur Institute lab team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County prepares for an unprecedented new dinosaur display_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:13 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Scientists Have Discovered the First Dinosaur Brain Fossil](/video/NgWf7jx2/) ### Scientists Have Discovered the First Dinosaur Brain Fossil [Fire at New Delhi's Natural History Museum](/video/qgrZKcNo/) ### Fire at New Delhi's Natural History Museum [Go Inside the Empty American Museum of Natural History with Top Instagrammers](/video/RaRPQBpn/) ### Go Inside the Empty American Museum of Natural History with Top Instagrammers --- ## Transcript Right now, we're doing a little bit of metalwork. We're gonna heat some some of this pipe and rod up. And just, just bend it ever so slightly. You might think you're in an auto body shop or maybe even an artist's studio. Is that your expertise, Carl? Is that your, one of your favorite things to do? [ NOISE ] But this is actually the workshop of the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles county. You want to show it right now and see if it will, yeah, right there. These are the bone casts of a Carnotaurus, a meat eating cousin of the Terranasaurus Rex. And the aluminium armature of it's tail is giving Carl [ UNKNOWN ] and Doug Goodreau a little bit of a headache this morning. It's slightly off to the side but I think you did it, I think you did it pretty much. [ NOISE ] The Dinosaur Institute is at the tail end of a six year long project to create a new 15, 000 square foot dinosaur hall, at the museum. The arrangement in individual poses of these dinosaurs have been carefully planned. [ SOUND ] For the Carnotaurus. Doug and Carl are working to get the tail to drop exactly 25 inches off the seal. Well, now we have to get that secured and then let it drop and stand on its own and then we'll know [ SOUND ] how much it drapes. It's just about right. With only three months to go, it's getting down to the wire. These exhibits are certainly a once in a, in a lifetime. And I doubt I will do another one on this magnitude in my life. Dr. Luis Chiappe is the director at the Dinosaur Institute. At the moment, we have already some major mounts in place. We are fabricating a portion of the exhibit. We're filming. We're writing labels. We're doing all sorts of things. I think we're creating probably the best dinosaur exhibit ever. I mean, this is an exhibit that will be visited by tens of millions of people. I cannot imagine anything else that would have a more lasting impact in our field and in our community. The museum started collecting fossils over a hundred years ago. And this collection will be the majority of specimens on display at the new dinosaur hall. But the Dinosaur Institute team excavates and adds many fossils to it's collection every year. Doug Goodreau is the institute's lab supervisor and leads many of the excavations. Biggest bone in your body? Femur. Femur. You got it. So this is, this is gonna attach to your hip. And that's your need. Our job encompasses everything from digging up the things that you see on display all the way to doing the mounting, moulding, casting of various specimens. And just building the collection of dinosaur material. He originally came to L. A. for makeup and effects work in the film industry. And started volunteering at the museum. He has a very unique skill set. I was working full time as a a licensed embalmer as well. So I have a mortuary background and I do a lot of restorative art and that includes facial reconstruction, and repairing of accident victims so they're. So there viewable. so, and then, in Los Angeles you have a lot of volumes, they had a lot of, practice with that. So, if you include, some sort of more trade background, in, in [ INAUDIBLE ] it's helped. But you just don't have the smelly flesh part to deal with, just the bones. After digging up, casting, transporting, unwrapping, cleaning and mounting it can take some serious time to just get one fossil ready for display. In the case of Thomas the T Rex it took a total of eight years to excavate, and prepare him for the dinosaur hall. I guess it's kind of a nail biting ride coming back cuz you're usually overloading a UHaul with all this material that you got. One time we had the brakes go out, because a big Tricertops pelvis Just that element alone. Loaded up with all the plaster and extra dirt around it cuz it's not cleaned up. All the plaster and water weight, over, over did it. And then the breaks went out on the truck, as we were coming off the freeway. so, just getting, one field season worth of work could get trashed if you're not careful. So, once you, have all those elements back and they actually get cleaned up. And nobody destroys anything or loses anything. And then you finally see it mounted and on display and that's, that's really exciting and rewarding. It's a very good feeling. << So now this tail should drape just about 25 inches below the ceiling, which would be out of harm's way, humans. We're in each. We're ready. Should be right on the money. You all hold a kid up there and he can hang from it and we'll bring it down. With the Carnotaurus in good shape, the team can move on to other work. By the time this exhibit opens, there will be over 300 fossils on display in the new dinosaur hall. For Time Video, this is Vanessa Kaneshiro in Los Angeles. 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