The museum center's Dinosaurs of the Antarctic exhibit is on display through Jan. 22.
exhibit, which presents recent discoveries of huge predators and other creatures who lived on the now-frigid continent 200 million years ago when it was lush and warm.
The fierce, 25-foot-long beast, thought to have resembled a gigantic carnivorous cassowary, even has a tie to the Buckeye State. The first Cryolophosaurus fossils were discovered in 1990 by geologist David Elliot of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University and recovered by paleontologist Bill Hammer, who named the creature in honor of Elliot.
Guided lobby tours are offered most days with information about the history of the building and features such as its glorious mosaic wall murals. The museum’s Ice Age Gallery - also renovated - reopened in 2021. The gallery takes visitors on a re-creation of Pleistocene landscapes when glaciers loomed like ice mountains just north of present-day Cincinnati, and mastodons, giant ground sloths and dire wolves roamed the land.Neil Armstrong Space Exploration Gallery
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