Apart from the vast majority of five to 10-year-olds - and there’s no offence meant here whatsoever - you’d struggle to find someone as excited about dinosaurs as David Gelsthorpe, Manchester Museum’s curator of Earth Sciences.
One morning last week, he was overseeing PhD student Matthew and conservation intern Emily painstakingly tying dinosaur bones to a beautifully made black steel frame using a reel of translucent fishing line.
The bespoke frame has been made to new and exacting specifications, at a cost of £15,000. It means that this particular dinosaur, a plant-eating tenontosaurus, originally unearthed in Montana in the early 90s, will finally be fixed into a position that is more physiologically accurate to how it might have been spotted wandering around the woods in the Cretaceous period.
