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This hour, we take a trip to the Yale Peabody Museum, where a renovation is giving the museum a chance to update its famous dinosaur skeletons to reflect 21st century scientific knowledge.

The museum has disassembled all of its large fossil skeletons, which have been shipped to a facility in Canada to be remounted. When they return to the Peabody in 2023, dinosaurs like the museum's Brontosaurus will be standing in jauntier--and more scientifically accurate--poses.

Later, we talk with a science writer about the events that lead to the mass extinction of almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

GUESTS:
Vanessa Rhue - Collections manager for Vertebrate Paleontology at the Yale Peabody Museum
Peter May – Founder and president of Research Casting International, the company the Yale Peabody Museum is contracting with to re-mount their large fossil skeletons
Chris Norris - Director of Public Programs at the Yale Peabody Museum
Riley Black - Science writer and author of My Beloved Brontosaurus (@Laelaps)

Catie Talarski contributed to this show.

This hour, we take a trip to the Yale Peabody Museum, where <a href="https://www.wnpr.org/post/peabody-museums-great-hall-closing-major-renovation">a renovation</a> is giving the museum a chance to update its famous dinosaur skeletons to reflect 21st century scientific knowledge.
The museum has disassembled all of its large fossil skeletons, which have been shipped to a facility in Canada to be remounted. When they return to the Peabody in 2023, dinosaurs like the museum's Brontosaurus will be standing in jauntier--and more scientifically accurate--poses.
Later, we talk with a science writer about the events that lead to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/dinosaurs-extinction-meteorite-volcano.html">mass extinction </a>of almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
GUESTS:
<ul>
<li>Vanessa Rhue - Collections manager for Vertebrate Paleontology at the <a href="https://peabody.yale.edu/">Yale Peabody Museum</a></li>
<li>Peter May &ndash; Founder and president of <a href="https://www.rescast.com/">Research Casting International</a>, the company the Yale Peabody Museum is contracting with to re-mount their large fossil skeletons</li>
<li>Chris Norris - Director of Public Programs at the <a href="https://peabody.yale.edu/">Yale Peabody Museum</a></li>
<li>Riley Black - Science writer and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Beloved-Brontosaurus-Favorite-Dinosaurs/dp/0374534268">My Beloved Brontosaurus </a>(<a href="https://twitter.com/Laelaps">@Laelaps</a>)</li>
</ul>
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.

Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

Where We Live is a call-in talk show about who we are in Connecticut and our place in the world.

Where We Live

Produced by Connecticut Public, '<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/about">Where We Live'</a> puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.

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