Coelophysis bauri - 81st Street NY Subway

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Coelophysis is also among the bronze fossil casts that can be seen and touched in the 81st Street subway station. That very cast helped Museum researchers debunk a longstanding hypothesis about the species many years after its initial discovery. For a long time, Coelophysis was believed to be a cannibal. This was due to the presence of bones in the belly of one of the Coelophysis specimens interpreted by Colbert and his team. But while waiting for a train that night, Nesbitt, then a doctoral student at the Museum, noticed something strange about the cast when he glanced at some of the remains in the stomach. "I just went over to take a closer look, and that's when I could see the head of the thigh bone," says Nesbitt, now a Museum research associate and professor at Virginia Tech. "And it looked like it wasn't a dinosaur."