Since the theropods are doing well this week, it’s time to wheel out another image kindly sent in by Steve Cohen. I suspect there’s a nice mount of Deinonychus in a great many museums in North America, but for all my traveling, I’ve only ever seen two of them (part shown here) and didn’t have time to study either in any detail. Here though is an excellent and indeed famous mount in the AMNH of this dinosaur and it would probably be even more impressive if Steve hadn’t sent this to Heinrich Mallison as well and he’d not put it up a couple of weeks back….
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Ha! For once I was faster 😉
Well I wasn’t in any rush because i assumed I was the only one with a copy…
well, it was I who introduced Steve to hugin, so he sent me quite a few pics 🙂 Maybe we can coordinate posts on the sauropod? 😉
No love for the little Archie that’s right next to the Deinonychus eh?
Not if I a) don’t know it’s there and b) haven’t got a photo of it.
Well that might make a difference! It’s a great display, with a running Archie, and the Deinonychus suspended in the air, really designed to make that dinos-leapt-into-birds connection. Infact if I remember that above all this are some stuffed seagulls in flight, it made quite an impression on me when I first saw it after they renovated the halls.
It sounds a lot like the sequence shown in Tokyo. I wonder if they copied the AMNH exhibit for that bit?
You are correct about the Archie at the bottom of the display case and the seagulls above; that section of the museum was revised in the mid-90s to demonstrate bird evolution.
The renovation was a lot more controversial when it opened than it is today.
Gorgeous! Thanks for posting this even if your contributor didn’t get the little running Archaeopteryx too. It’s beautiful and I always enjoy seeing raptors.
Nice active pose but unusual to not show the “slashing” claw hyper-extended (which I assume is the resting orientation). If I hadn’t been aware of its existence, I wouldn’t have noticed it at all. Perhaps it’s leaping on to one of those Tenontosaurus‘?