Review Roundup: The World’s Largest Dinosaurs

Friday, April 22 1:12 pm

The reviews are in for the Museum’s new exhibition and its 65-million-year-old star, a Mamenchisaurus tweeting as @Giant_Dino:

The Daily News wrote that “small children can ooooh at the massive, 60-foot Mamenchisaurus and play at excavating fossils” while “their elders…can aaaah at the wonders of dinosaur biology.”

The New York Times said the exhibit reveals “how a field that might have once been vulnerable to fossilization is redefining itself.”

The New York Post headline read, simply, “Dino-might!”

Blog Mommy Poppins declared that the show is “sure to be a big hit with amateur paleontologists young and old.”

Gizmodo featured a time-lapse video of the exhibition being put together.

The Star-Ledger marveled at the relatively puny brains sauropods had despite the massive size of their bodies.

Newsday spoke with artist Hall Train, who designed and built the Mamenchisaurus model for the Museum.

And Scientific American featured a video highlighting the exhibition’s science.

For more information about The World’s Largest Dinosaurs or to buy tickets, visit amnh.org. You can also follow the exhibition’s Mamenchisaurus via @Giant_Dino on Twitter.