Dinosaurs in the Attic by Douglas Preston

Author:Douglas Preston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Natural History
ISBN: 9780312104566
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-02-01T08:00:00+00:00

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A Library of Bones

To get to the dinosaur bone storage room at the American Museum of Natural History, we must first descend to the main basement. Here, the labyrinthine route follows dim passageways lined with rumbling steam pipes. Off one of these corridors is a padlocked door, with a grubby sign taped to it that reads DINOSAUR STORAGE ROOM. The door opens into a large, starkly illuminated chamber. Stacks of metal shelves reach up into the gloom. Everywhere, we see bones. Huge dark bones shrouded in plastic lie on the shelves, while larger bones sit stacked on the floor or leaning against the wall. Slabs of rock containing twisted skeletons hang on the walls, and along the back of the room runs a workbench covered with dinosaur models, bones under study, and other odd-looking things. At the far end of the room and to the left, we see another door. Beyond this door is the basement to the Frick Building, a nine-story structure hidden in the center of the Museum's complex of buildings.

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