For Immediate Release Contact: Nancy O'Shea (312) 665-7103 (For Media Use Only) The Exhibition at a Glance Exhibition Title: Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries Exhibition Dates: March 30 to September 3, 2007 Media Preview: March 27, 2007 Overview: Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries brings new life to old bones. It’s an eye-opening look at dinosaurs as living creatures who breathed, battled, and bred in complex environments they shared with countless other species. If you’re ready to catch up with the latest, ground-breaking dinosaur discoveries and evolutionary theories – where did birds come from, anyway? – this is the place to be! Using real fossils and casts, high-tech moving models, vivid computer animations, and a recreated Mesozoic forest, the exhibit highlights cutting-edge research by Field Museum staff and scientists around the world. You can watch a robotic T. rex run, touch a real Triceratops horn, and use new computer software to see how an Apatosaurus moved its neck and tail. You’ll learn about the latest fossil finds, see what mysteries are being revealed by new technologies, and discover how scientists are changing their ideas about how dinosaurs lived...and how they died. It’s all here, at the hottest place to see dinosaurs – The Field Museum! Location: The Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 Phone Numbers: 312.922-9410 General Field Museum Information Organizers: Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with The Field Museum, Chicago; the Housten Museum of Natural Science; the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; and the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh Admission: Tickets to Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries include Museum admission and are priced at $19 for adults, $14 for seniors and students with ID, $9 for children 4-11. Discounts are available for Chicago residents. Visit www.fieldmuseum.org or call (312) 922-9410 <<Return to the Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries Press Kit