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Mammoth on Tour:
Fluffy giant delights in the Altmühltal
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
A ray named Jochen:
New cartilaginous fish species discovered
“Dinoween” at the Dinosaur Museum:
Pumpkin fun and dark experience
Fossil collector and paleontologist Raimund Albersdörfer:
“Better a dinosaur skeleton in private hands than a destroyed one”
The Riddle of the Octopuses:
Unique exhibition “Ammonite Masterpieces” opens in the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Kristin Erdmann, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
From left to right:
Museum founder Michael Völker, Prof. (em.) Dr. Helmut Keupp (Free University of Berlin), the mouse from the “Sendung mit der Maus”, Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide (Director of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology), Prof. D. Christian Klug (University of Zurich) and exhibition maker and museum co-founder Raimund Albersdörfer open the new exhibition AMMONITE MASTERPIECES
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Now comes “Die Maus”:
Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal starts cooperation with star of the children's program
From left to right:
Museum founder Michael Völker, Prof. (em.) Dr. Helmut Keupp (Free University of Berlin), the mouse from the “Sendung mit der Maus”, Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide (Director of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology), Prof. D. Christian Klug (University of Zurich) and exhibition maker and museum co-founder Raimund Albersdörfer open the new exhibition AMMONITE MASTERPIECES
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© I. Schmitt-Menzel, WDR mediagroup, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Giant Dinosaur Project:
Diplodocus preparation starts in the prehistoric workshop
Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal starts preparation of dinosaurs in prehistoric workshop
Keyhole into prehistoric times
At the media presentation for the opening of the prehistoric workshop of the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal, preparators open a “jacket” with Diplodocus bones. This plaster enclosure, which was attached for transport, probably contains two to three vertebrae and rib fragments – and possibly other skeletal components of the 150 million year old herbivore.
The Diplodocus is one of the largest land creatures that ever existed on Earth. Adult specimens reached a length of up to 27 meters and a weight of 15 tons. The neck of the quadruped alone measured up to six meters in length. In comparison, the skull was almost tiny. In addition to their size, the animals’ appearance in large herds also served to protect them from predators. Dinosaur researchers also suspect that the Diplodocus, which lived mainly in North America, used its long tail like a gigantic whip for self-defense.
The bones of the “Denkendorf Diplodocus” were discovered 15 years ago by a private collector in the US state of Wyoming. Now they are to be assembled into a skeleton.
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
The photo “Festive opening of the prehistoric workshop” shows (from left to right): Katrin Nickel (preparator), Michael Völker (museum founder), Ronja Sonnenschein (preparator), Dr. Heinrich Mallison (paleontologist)
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
It's getting cold! Ice Age knowledge and Stone Age activities in the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
150 million year old turtle fossil delights experts
Perfectly preserved turtle fossil of Solnhofia parsonsi, which will be on display at the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal from August 5th.
© Felix Augustin, University of Tübingen
Reconstruction of the habitat of Solnhofia parsonsi in the lagoon world of the Upper Jurassic 150 million years ago in what is now Lower Bavaria.
© Peter Nickolaus
Alliance of knowledge disseminators:
Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal starts cooperation with magazine “GEOLINO”
© Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Perfect start: Exhibition “Dinosaur Eggs – Offspring of the Giant Lizards” opens
The special exhibition was officially opened together with Germany’s best-known weather presenter and climate expert Sven Plöger, who spoke about the end of the dinosaurs and global climate change. The picture shows Sven Plöger and the two museum founders Michael Völker and Raimund Albersdörfer (from left to right).
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Were among the first to be able to examine the dinosaur eggs up close: students from Denkendorf
© Oliver Strisch, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
“Dinosaur Eggs – Offspring of the Giant Lizards” starts on April 1st
© Manuel Ringlstetter, Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Archaeopteryx home is one of the 100 most important geotopes in the world
Oldest specimen in the Dinosaurier Museum Altmühltal
Summer sensation in Denkendorf:
Allosaurus “Little Al” is here!
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