This very special exhibition of rare fossil specimens of 120-million-year-old “feathered” animals discovered in Liaoning Province, China, was held at the Yale Peabody Museum from February 13 through May 9, 1999, in their only appearance in the northeastern U.S. These finds constitute, in the words of Peabody Curator Emeritus John H. Ostrom, “the biggest event in evolutionary science since Darwin put forth his theory,” and provide compelling evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Curator-in-Charge
Jacques A. Gauthier
Research Assistant
Alan Gishlick
Exhibition Design
John A. Maisano
Fabrication
Walter Brenckle, Robert Charlesworth,
Maishe Dickman, Eric Hoag, Tony Kobylanski
Graphics
Sally H. Pallatto
Graphics Assistants
Brianna Babani, Ryan Karels, Diane Lonardelli
Banner Production
SelectFX
Coordinator
Ken Yellis
Editors
Rosemary Volpe, Ken Yellis
Preparation
Marilyn Fox, Mark Gostnell
Additional Illustration
Armand Morgan, Robin Parkinson
Photography
Jacques A. Gauthier, O. Louis Mazzatenta, William K. Sacco
Video Editing
John Schilke
Sound Editing
Gene Kimball
“The Flight Stroke of Birds” (film)
Courtesy of Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, and the Flight Laboratory, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana
“Dinosaurs in Your Garden”
Courtesy of BBC Worldwide Sales
The Peabody Museum is grateful to the National Geographic Society,
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum of Natural History and The National Geological Museum of China
All text and images copyright © 1999 by the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. All rights reserved.
China’s Feathered Dinosaurs has been made possible
thanks to the generous support of
|
|
