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Dinosaurs Among Us Opens March 21 Member Magazine Winter 2016 Vol. 41 No. 1 dinosaurs among us opens march 21 The titanosaur arrives this month 2 News at the Museum 3 From the Last November, I was pleased to announce that growing audience. We are building the new the Museum’s Trustees had approved an exciting Gilder Center because our times demand it and Conceptual Design for President conceptual architectural design for our new Gilder technology makes possible new ways of seeing Center for Science, Education, and Innovation by and exploring the Museum, both onsite and Gilder Center Announced Ellen V. Futter MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang. The new facility online. At a time when science literacy and In November, the Museum’s Board of Trustees endorsed will open in 2020 and be located on the Columbus science education are critical to our nation’s the conceptual design for the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Avenue side of the Museum campus. future, the new Gilder Center will allow us Education, and Innovation, a new building that will invite visitors Many of you who visit the Museum frequently to create new kinds of learning spaces and to to experience the Museum not only as a place of public exhibitions or volunteer here know that we are bursting employ new exhibition techniques to present but as an active scientific and educational institution. at the seams—last year, we welcomed a record science’s 21st-century frontiers—on the “The Gilder Center embraces the Museum’s integrated five million visitors, and we are on pace to match microscopic level, at the ocean’s depths, or inside mission and growing role in scientific research and education or exceed that number this year. The new Gilder the human body. And it will highlight and make and its enhanced capacity to make its extensive resources Center will help us accommodate and serve accessible the Museum’s research and collections— even more fully accessible to the public,” said Museum that growing audience, and its location will allow all to improve students’ and the public’s President Ellen V. Futter. us to create new linkages with existing halls understanding of the world in which we live. The conceptual design for the Gilder Center links 10 Museum that currently terminate in dead ends. This will We are extremely excited to be moving forward buildings through 30 connections, linking galleries and other create more satisfying, effective, and intellectually with development of the innovative and important spaces to vastly improve visitor circulation. cogent journeys of discovery through the Museum. Gilder Center, and I look forward to keeping you But it is not just about accommodating a updated in the months and years ahead. For additional information about the Gilder Center, visit amnh.org/GilderCenter. The proposed façade of the Gilder Center from 79th Street and Columbus Avenue . Table of Contents Coming Soon: The Titanosaur News 3 Researchers have inferred that this dinosaur, a giant Close-Up 4 herbivore that belongs to a group known as titanosaurs, 4 6 weighed in at around 70 tons. The gigantic animal lived Big Brains 6 in Patagonia between 100 and 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, when the region was mostly forest. Teaching from the Heart 10 “Titanosaur fossils have been unearthed on every continent, and an abundance of discoveries in recent years has helped Next 14 us appreciate the deep diversity of this group,” says Michael Novacek, the Museum’s provost for science and curator in MicroRangers to the Rescue 20 the Division of Paleontology. The January unveiling of the Museum’s new dinosaur is Members 22 part of a special year of events, exhibitions, and digital offerings that highlight the dramatic developments in paleontology 10 20 over the past few decades. “Paleontology has become less geological and more biological A team member is dwarfed by a bone of the gigantic dinosaur excavated in Patagonia. in the last 20 years or so,” says Mark Norell, Macaulay Curator and Chair of the Division of Paleontology, as well as the curator Something really, really big is coming to the Museum this month. of the upcoming exhibition Dinosaurs Among Us. “Our access Starting January 15, a cast of a 122-foot-long dinosaur—one to advanced and extremely precise scientific tools like CT of the largest ever discovered—will become the new centerpiece scanners and other x-ray imaging techniques lets us ask questions of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center on the fourth beyond ‘what species is this, and when did it die?’ Now we can floor. The new addition will graze the gallery’s approximately look at complex topics like the evolution of dinosaur brains and American Museum of Natural History ISSN 0194-6110 Chairman Lewis W. Bernard USPS Permit #472-650 19-foot-high ceilings and will be just a bit too long to fit completely the presence and color of dinosaur feathers.” President Ellen V. Futter Volume 41, No. 1, Winter 2016 into the space. Instead, its neck and head will extend out toward In preparation for adding this colossal new exhibit, in Vice President of Development and Membership Laura Lacchia Rose Rotunda is published quarterly by the Membership Office of the American the elevator banks, welcoming visitors to the “fossil floor.” September the Museum removed a life-sized—but, by comparison, Director of Membership Louise Adler Museum of Natural History, 15 West 77th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192. The cast is based on a species of dinosaur so new that it has not diminutive—model of a juvenile Barosaurus that had been on Phone: 212-769-5606. Website: amnh.org. Museum membership of $75 yet been formally named by the paleontologists who discovered display since June 1996. Magazine per year and higher includes a subscription to Rotunda. © 2016 American it in Argentina’s Patagonia region in 2014. The remains were Editor Eugenia V. Levenson Museum of Natural History. Periodical postage paid at New York, NY and excavated in the desert near La Flecha—135 miles west of Trelew, Contributors Joan Kelly Bernard, Ian Chant, Jill Hamilton, at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: please send address changes to The Titanosaur exhibit is free for Members or with Museum admission. Eliza McCarthy, Karen Miller, Elena Sansalone Rotunda, Membership Office, AMNH, at the above address. Patagonia—by a team from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Design Hinterland, www.hinterlandstudio.com Feruglio led by José Luis Carballido and Diego Pol, who received Generous support for the Titanosaur exhibit has been provided by Please send questions, ideas, and feedback to [email protected]. his Ph.D. degree here at the Museum. the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation. 4 © AMNH/H. Davies, 6 © Z.Chuang/Peking Natural Science Organization, 10 © AMNH/R. Mickens, 20 © AMNH Photo: Dr. Alejandro Otero; Gilder Center rendering courtesy of Studio Gang Architects Rotunda / Winter 2016 / AMNH.org 4 Close-Up at the Museum 5 Attractive Qualities The paper kite has characteristics that make A Perennial Favorite Cast of AMNH FARB 7224 it an especially popular choice for live butterfly exhibits. Its slow, lumbering flight makes it easy In The Butterfly Conservatory, it’s easy to pick out the paper kites (Idea leuconoe) to study up close and to photograph. It’s also with their striking—dare we say sophisticated?—color pattern of black and white. “friendly”—tending to land on visitors and return The species, also known as the large tree nymph and the rice paper butterfly, to them again and again. is a perennial at the popular seasonal live-animal exhibition, which is overseen by David Grimaldi, curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology. Rare Photo Op Denizens of dense forests and coastal mangrove swamps, paper kites range When Carol Butler first began volunteering from Thailand to Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Borneo. Their large in The Butterfly Conservatory, she took a stunning wings—spanning up to 4.5 inches—allow them to glide, even sail through their photo of two paper kites in the vivarium. habitat. While the wings are somewhat yellowish toward the body, the highly “Because they’re toxic, those particular butterflies recognizable black and white markings may serve a protective purpose: warning are apparently fearless,” she says. “They will climb off predators familiar with the species’ unpleasant taste, caused by a toxin called onto your finger like a pet parakeet.” The photo, danaidone that is passed by the male to the female during mating. unusual because it shows the pair mating, ran “It is very likely that they do advertise themselves,” says Dr. Grimaldi, noting, on the cover of the Journal of the Lepidopterists’ however, that more typically animals that are warningly colored (aposematic) Society in December 2005. tend to have red, yellow, and black in a banded pattern, as seen in various insects, frogs, snakes, and butterflies. Hot Job Listing The paper kite was first described in 1834 by German entomologist Wilhelm Butler is a co-author with Hazel Davies, Ferdinand Erichson (1809–1848) from a specimen found on what was then State Pride director of living exhibits, of Do Butterflies Bite? the Philippine island of Luçon, today known as Luzon. Erichson was a physician The discovery of Coelophysis bauri was one She has worked for more than 10 years as who became enthralled with entomology during his university years, publishing of the most notable in the history of New Mexico, a butterfly volunteer. Hers is the only volunteer his first entomological papers while still studying medicine. Although he died Subway Coelophysis and so far, examples of the species have only opportunity at the Museum that mentions just short of turning 40, his career in entomology was exceptional, especially been found within the state.
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