Dinosaur Hall is a gallery in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
To understand the ancient past, the world of millions of years ago, paleontologists study fossils. According to a display at the Museum:
“Very few plants and animals leave fossils when they die. But under the right conditions, bones, teeth, eggs, skin impressions, and footprints become fossils. These rocky remains give us the only direct evidence of dinosaurs and other ancient life. They tell us what dinosaurs ate, how they lived, and what the world they lived in was like.”
Paleontology 101
Paleontology 101 explores the ancient world of fossils. More from this series:
Paleontology 101: Brontotheres (Photo Diary)
Paleontology 101: The Precambrian--Life Begins (Photo Diary)
Paleontology 101: The Paleozoic (Photo Diary)
Paleontology 101: The Cenozoic--The Age of Mammals (Photo Diary)
Paleontology 101: Dinosaur Hall (Photo Diary)
Paleontology 101: The California Pleistocene (Photo Diary)