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The Torosaurus Project
at the Yale Peabody Museum

What Is Torosaurus latus? | The Making of a Dinosaur | Building Torosaurus

The mighty TorosaurusNew Haven has a new addition to its landscape — a life-sized bronze statue of the dinosaur Torosaurus latus. Perched on its granite base on Whitney Avenue next to the Yale Peabody Museum, the statue towers 2 stories over visitors.

The Peabody brought together paleontologists, zoologists and an army of artists and volunteers to create a 21-foot life-size bronze sculpture of Torosaurus. The 7,350-pound sculpture sits on a 13-foot, 70-ton base of Stony Creek granite, the same granite used for the base of the Statue of Liberty.

DVD Creating the Peabody’s Torosaurus

Now available on DVD
from The Museum Store

Creating the Peabody’s Torosaurus:
Dinosaur Science, Dinosaur Art

Winner of the 2007 Emmy® for Education/Schools Program from the Boston/New England Chapter
of the National Television Academy

The Torosaurus Project is made possible through the generosity of Elizabeth R. and Stanford N. Phelps (Yale ’56) and their grandchildren Max, Garrett and Ford.


Artist's rendering of the Cretaceous garden
At left: Artist’s rendering of how the statue will look in its new environment. The surrounding area will be landscaped to create a Cretaceous garden with granite benches. The plantings will include magnolias, ferns and other species that existed about 66 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period. Painting by Laura Friedman.

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Melanie Brigockas
Public Relations Office
203.432.5099
Fax 203.432.9816
peabody.pr@yale.edu


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