Oklahoma: Baby dinosaur arrives in rare exhibit at Sam Noble Museum

(The Apatosaurus is more popularly known as the Brontosaurus!!!!)

From OuDaily.com: Baby dinosaur arrives in rare exhibit at Sam Noble Museum

Bigger isn’t always better at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

The museum is welcoming the smallest Apatosaurus in the world to the exhibit “The Clash of the Titans,” which also already features the largest Apatosaurus in the world, according to a press release.

Museum director Michael Mares said in a press release that the exhibit is one-of-a-kind because the museum will be one of two museums in the world with a baby Apatosaurus on display.

The fossils of the young Apatosaurus, formerly known as a Brontosaurus, were found in Oklahoma, Mares said.

The fossils were collected by a Works Progress Administration team, led in 1930s by J. Willis Stovall, the Sam Noble Museum’s first director. The bones remained untouched in museum drawers for nearly 50 years, museum spokeswoman Jen Tregarthen said.

A donation from the Whitten-Newman Foundation allowed the museum to finally piece together the baby dinosaur, according to the press release.

“It’s going to bring a whole new dynamic to ‘The Clash of the Titans,’” Tregarthen said. “Director Mares always wanted a baby Apatosaurus on display.”

And Tregarthen said the addition does more than just provide further history.

“I think it adds a whole new emotional element to the exhibit,” Tregarthen said.

Members and invited guests may attend the unveiling at 5:30 p.m. Friday by Richard Cifelli, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology.

The free exhibit will be open to the public with free admission from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

“The Clash of the Titans” is a permanent exhibit in the museum, so visitors can expect to see the dinosaur duo for many years to come.