Albertosaurus from the Carnegie Safari Museum Collection

For twenty years, palaeontologists and researchers at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, USA have been advising on replica models of prehistoric animals.

This Albertosaurus model is hand-painted and in 1:40 scale detail.  An accurate depiction of this north American Tyrannosaur.  In 1898 Andrew Carnegie, a philanthropist and successful businessman, read an article about huge fossil bones being unearthed in the western United States.  With the financial backing of Mr Carnegie, the Carnegie museum sent a team of scientists to Wyoming with the objective of bringing back their own dinosaur specimen for the Pittsburgh museum.

So began the natural history collection that is now housed at the Carnegie Museum, a collection that today, is rated as one of the largest in the world with over 16 million palaeontological, geological, anthropological and biological specimens.  Over ten thousand specimens are on display at the museum.