スミソニアン博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン博物館Instagram)「It took preparators—the folks who extract fossils from rocks—12 years to put our Camarasaurus into the old fossil exhibit, way back in 1947. When we removed it from the old hall in 2014 (shown in the first photos), we discovered half the skeleton was still buried in rock, and had been hidden underfoot beneath the floor. The original preparators had only done HALF the job and hid away the rest. So our team from Research Casting International took a full year to carefully carve out the other half for the first time in more than 150 million years! This amazing plant-eating dinosaur now shines in the spotlight, reaching upright in a feeding pose that was a feat of engineering to create. It’s one of the many transformations you’ll see in the new fossil hall, open now! — Siobhan Starrs, @SmithsonianNMNH #DeepTime project manager」6月11日 20時48分