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The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
Triceratops: HMNS 2006.1743.00 Lane Houston Museum of Natural Science: Houston: Texas: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops: MOR 3027 Yoshi's Trike Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman: Montana: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops horridus: AMNH 5116 American Museum of Natural History: New York: New York: USA. Skeleton, mounted (copy) Triceratops ...
Houston Museum of Natural Science: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) Lane the Triceratops: Larry BDM Badlands Dinosaur Museum: Triceratops: Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 68-66 million years ago) Hell Creek Formation, ND Has a pathological tail Laurel's Trike ROM 2938 Royal Ontario Museum Triceratops
Triceratops (/ t r aɪ ˈ s ɛr ə t ɒ p s / try-SERR-ə-tops; [1] lit. ' three-horned face ') is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t ɒ p s i ə / or / ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t oʊ p i ə /; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Asia and Europe, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Late Jurassic of Asia.
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Upon its arrival in Tampa, Big John was reconstructed in less than a week by technicians from Zoic workshop and displayed at the museum's annual gala on 3 February. [29] [30] The museum's Big John exhibition opened on 26 May, and the museum waived its usual rule prohibiting adults from attending the museum without accompanying children. [29] [30]
In 2012, Naturalis Biodiversity Center at Leiden, the largest natural history museum of the Netherlands, planned to open a new exhibition hall in 2017.In order to increase the structural number of visitors from 300,000 to 400,000 per annum, the management decided to try and procure an authentic Tyrannosaurus skeleton, preferably one excavated by the museum itself.