32708: Houston Plans Dinosaur Exhibit

Mark your calendars for Sept. 19, 2008, the opening of Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation, a new exhibit planned by the Houston Museum of Natural Science in association with the Judith River Foundation. The museum will develop and tour a world premiere exhibition featuring Leonardo. Just who is Leondardo? The most perfectly fossilized plant-eating dinosaur ever discovered—with almost all of his skin still intact.

After the premier in Houston, the exhibit will tour the country with a replica of Leonardo…but to see the real thing, you’ll have to come to Houston!

Leonardo was discovered in 2000 on a cattle ranch north of Malta, Montana. The 77-million-year-old dinosar was named after graffiti found on a nearby rock that read: “Leonard Webb loves Geneva Jordan 1916.”

Along with Leonardo, the exhibition will feature several other real specimens including another duckbill named Peanut—a teenager that will illustrate their species’ body structure; an Ichthyosaur mummy, which has contents of her intestines and four babies preserved inside her body; and the only mummified Triceratops skin ever found, which will also be on display for the first time.

Exhibit Dates: The world premiere of Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation is scheduled for Sept. 19, 2008 through Sept. 7, 2009 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

For more information (and a video):
• visit www.hmns.org/generic/dinosaur_mummy_press_room.asp

Tickets: Tickets for the special exhibition are now on sale; $15 for adults; $12 for children (3 – 11), $10 for seniors (62+), and college students with a valid ID; $8 Museum members; $5 school groups; and $9 for groups of 20 or more.

For tickets:
• visit www.hmns.org
• call (713) 639-4629

Leonardo mural photo courtesy Houston Museum of Natural Science