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View the Collections: The Precambrian Era | The Paleozoic Era | The Mesozoic Era | The Cenozoic Era PALEOMANIA Drawn from the world's foremost fossil collections, the unprecedented treasury of fossil casts known as PALEOMANIA brings together into one exhibition some of the most exciting finds in the history of paleontology from over a century of worldwide excavations, exhibited as sculptural works of art. Spanning 4.6 billion years in scope, from the earliest invertebrate marine life, through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous dinosaurs to saber-toothed cats, this comprehensive collection from the Origins Museum Institutes’ internationally acclaimed PALEOMANIA dramatically illustrates the awesome story of prehistoric life on Earth. Displaying casts of rare fossils from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, this prestigious collection includes skeletons, skulls, claws, and eggs gathered from such revered museums as the Smithsonian Institution, The American Museum of Natural History, The Royal Ontario Museum, and the Carnegie Museum, as well as many others. This famed traveling exhibition is now available direct from its celebrated showings at the World Trade Centers in Boston, San Juan, and Taichung, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, the Dinosaur Discovery Center at Colorado National Monument, and the Natural History Museum of El Paso, where it was admired by millions of people. These compelling natural artifacts, rarely seen outside of their respective museums, are on view together exclusively in PALEOMANIA and its touring collections. “Whenever I look at a bone, I always see
the fingerprints of the god who As art sometimes reflects nature, so, in turn, does nature occasionally reflect art. These bones, and teeth, and talons tell a story. A story of living molecules beginning to reproduce themselves in an ancient sea and gradually crawling out onto dry land. A story of dynasties of giant, complex creatures dominating land and sea and sky, descended from the tiniest and simplest of ancestors in an incredible chain of reproduction and diversification. A story of strength and ferocity and gentleness in titanic proportions. In other words, the story of the ingenious adaptability of life in the face of death. For in this struggle we see dramatic evidence of nature’s unrelentingly exploratory forces at work. Viewed as a progression of sculptures, one could say that a distinct style emerges early and gradually refines itself over millions of years, sometimes simple, sometimes quite baroque, and usually astonishingly practical. A story without words, cleft by humankind from stone. PRAISE FOR PALEOMANIA “After 65 million years, they're back. In a
BIG way.” BOSTON HERALD PALEOMANIA UNITED STATES CANADA Royal Ontario Museum EUROPE AND GREAT BRlTAIN Musee deL'Homme ASIA, AUSTRALlA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST Beijing Institute of Vertebrate
Paleontology and Paleoanthropology AFRICA Kenya National Museum View the Collections: The Precambrian Era | The Paleozoic Era | The Mesozoic Era | The Cenozoic Era
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