dino destruction

[jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jere H. Lipps)]

An interesting item below.  Something that museum curators might keep in
mind.  Here at Berkeley we worry a lot about seismicity (ha, ha--a neat
disguise for THE BIG ONE) and engineer our mounts accordingly.  Does anyone
have formal policies about specimen protection in catastrophic situations?

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>I heard a report on NPR this morning about a 70 million year old dinosaur
>skeleton being destroyed by fire in a museum in China.  It was not the
>central idea in the report, and they didn't elaborate.  Anyone know what
>it was?
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Jere H. Lipps
Department of Integrative Biology &
Museum of Paleontology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-9006 fax 642-1822
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