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The museum was created by an act of the New Mexico Legislature signed into law by Governor Bruce King in March, 1980. [2] Part of the motivation for the project was to provide a home for some of the numerous dinosaur fossils discovered in New Mexico rather than sending them to out-of-state institutions. [3]
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
The Museu da Lourinhã organizes the annual International Dinosaur Illustration Contest [106] for promoting the art of dinosaur and other fossils. In fall of 2018, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science of Albuquerque, New Mexico, displayed a juried show of paleoart called "Picturing the Past". [107]
The fossils were given to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in 1980, and it was designated the state fossil in 1981 under former-Gov. Bill Richardson.
According to the American Museum of Natural History, T. rex was 12 feet tall and 40 feet long — the height of an African elephant and double its length. T. rex weighed as much as 15,500 pounds ...
Spencer G. Lucas. Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest.
The New Mexico Museum of Art is an art museum in Santa Fe governed by the state of New Mexico, United States. It is one of four state-run museums in Santa Fe that are part of the Museum of New Mexico. It is located one block off the historic Santa Fe Plaza. It was given its current name in 2007, having previously been referred to as The Museum ...
2011 Lockley, M. G., Colorado's Dinosaur Artist. Friends of Dinosaur Ridge and Dinosaur Designs 60 pp. 2014 Lockley, M. G. and Lucas, S.G. Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62. 2014 Lockley, M. G. and Marshall, C. A Field Guide to the Dinosaur Ridge. (4th edition).