Stegosaurus ungulatus: A new grant will help preserve this and other dinosaur treasures housed at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.Courtesy Mark RyanJust so Mr. JGordon doesn't think he has a monopoly on Yale and treasure, here's another story coming out of the New Haven university. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has just announced that it is a recipient of a prestigious Save America'sTreasures Grant to re-house and preserve the collection of dinosaurs collected by Yale paleontologist O. C. Marsh. Back in the late 1800s, professor Marsh acquired one of the greatest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world. Most of the material was collected by his field workers in the American West, mainly in Colorado and Wyoming. The dinosaurs in the collection include such familiar specimens as Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), and the three-horned Triceratops, all described and named by the pioneer paleontologist. The $450,000 grant was announced by First Lady Michelle Obama during a recent award ceremony in Washington, D.C. and will be used for storage upgrade, environmental controls, and other types of improvements that will stop the degradation of the historic and scientifically rich collection and preserve if for future generations.
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I have the monopoly on whatever I want to have a monopoly on! And I'm a Cope man, so you can take it.
Yes, sometimes you are very hard to cope with.
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