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Show Sunday. April 6. 2008 DAILY HERALD C4 "x 3 'ft I .. Photos by ANNIE WEUSUs Angelas Times rex looms left behind Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los some of Thomas Angeles County. Chiappe above displays ' . the T. rex's bones. si A T. For this dinosaur, a bare-bon- , mystery es gage in a simulated discovery process, assembling a synthetic T. rex bone and cataloging it : for collection. because that Chiappe says Thomas died at about 13 years fills a of age, this gap in the museum's T. rex life cycle, which includes the T. rex (it died youngest-know- n at about age 2) as well as a juvenile and adults. One thing Thomas can't tell paleontologists, Chiappe says, is whether the dinosaur was male or female. Same with Sue, who could be a boy named Sue. It's complicated, but the only way so far to determine whether a T. rex is female is to discover One of Thomas's teeth is displayed. Seventy percent of the T. rex's skeleton has been unearthed. one that died during the period, which produces it's a crime the real thing." how to do it," Hodgetts says, temporary changes in the medHe adds: "Most people think "there were two courses we scene," Chiappe added, "and ullary bone, Chiappe says. it's the way they see it on teleBut with dinosaurs, knowlyou have your forensic team might have taken: either the vision there's a skeleton lywe edge is a numbers game, and Indiana Jones approach going into the field and figuring on the ground, and you just all know that kind of character Thomas might lend clues to ing out what happened." It was the growing public in- remove the sand with a brush and explorer, with the hat and other sexual determinants, terest in such matters that led and pick up the pieces and put all that or a fresh, kind of such as body size maybe ' the museum to decide to put them together. That's very far avant-gard- e the males were bigger than approach. the process on view. However, from the truth." "The museum is full of Infemales, maybe the other way The job of constructing the around. Also, the structure of diana Jones-typ- e Chiappe says, visitors should experiences. lab fell to Hodgetts Fung, a . In the design of this thing, all Thomas's skull indicates he expect not a dramatization of the process but the chance Los Angeles architecture comof our models were like the might have had a tumor that to peek inside a working lab. pany that has been involved in movie '2001.' I think it's going could have caused his death or, "This is a lab within an exhibit. even if not, it might offer clues the design of fine art galleries to break ranks with the kind We didn't want the lab itself to for museums but is new to the of presentation that is more to pathology in the species. dinon be an exhibit," he says. "This is world of natural history, ac"T. rex is a traditional in natural history saur. It's not that you're going cording to Craig Hodgetts, its museums." to find something new in the The lab, which opened to principal architect. Instead of trying to the public Sunday, features shape of the skull and things the dusty chaos of the musetwo airtight lacquered "pods" like that, but it's a new piece um's existing labs, Hodgetts with windows, through which of the puzzle," Chiappe says. "By having so many specimens says, the company opted for a viewers can observe the scientific clean room that renow, we are learning about gloved hands of researchers sembles something one might when they reached sexual ma-- i stripping away the earth and find at NASA. stones surrounding the bones, turity, their rates of survival, ( In a sense, the architects some of which might yet await their longevity; many interesttook their cues from Hollydiscovery. On the side of each ing questions you wouldn't be The Utah County NAMI Affiliate will be having a guest speaker the first wood. pod is a Visitor interface" area able to answer with one specican en men." "When we thought about where museum-goer- s , hour of their April 8th support group meeting. The support group meetings Diane Haithman ing the bones of Thomas, who, with 70 percent of his skeleton unearthed, ranks among the LOS ANGELES most complete T. rexes in the TV viewers are drawn to popular world. The most complete is Sue, housed 90 percent forensic dramas "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY" and "CSI: Crime at Chicago's Field Museum. Scene Investigatioa" But those At the Natural History Mushows are nothing like the new seum, the team will go through the complex and painstaking procedural that is unfolding for visitors to the Natural Histask of readying the fossilized bones for assembly and tory Museum of Los Angeles County, where the case dates mounting as centerpiece in the 66 million years. renovated dinosaur galleries, Call this show "CSI: Carter scheduled to reopen in 2011. The renovation is part of an County," after the Montana badlands where the "victim" ongoing $84 million restoration a teenage was discovered of the 1913 museum building, which will begin reopening its Tyrannosaurus rex called Thomas, stumbled upon by galleries in 2010. teacher and amateur fossil In the past, Chiappe says, enthusiast Robert Curry, who dinosaur fans were content to be impressed by "superlanamed it after his brother, a fellow fossil fan. tives," such as age or size. For the next 18 months, Thomas, for example, would visitors will be able to watch have measured about 30 feet the experts trying to solve the long and 10 feet high at the mysteries of the dinosaur's life hip (Sue is about 42 feet long) and death in the museum's new and would have weighed about Thomas the T. rex Lab, a 8,000 pounds. But now, in part because of the "CSI" phenomSince 2003, a team of reenon, Chiappe says, "people searchers led by Luis Chiappe, care more about the process director of the museum's Dinohow do you know that? Of saur Institute, has been excacourse, a big dinosaur is govating the government-owne- d ing to sell, but the interest has . site in Montana and bringing shifted. back chunks of earth contain "This is a crime scene, and ; 'tOS ANGELES TIMES "sub-adul- t" egg-layi- . , . well-know- COMING SOON! i on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. The meetings run from are located at the State Hospital Administration Building, (1300 East Cen- ter Street in Provo.) 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