Five-Piece Dinosaur Exhibit Unveiled at Stony Brook University Hospital

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 14:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A life-sized reconstruction of the "devil frog," the largest frog known to ever exist; a cast of the complete skeleton of a small meat-eating dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler, the lead singer from the rock band Dire Straits; a skeleton and life-sized reconstruction of a rare, 2.5 foot long pug-nosed vegetarian crocodile; and a pristinely preserved skull of a large dinosaur predator still partially entombed in sandstone are among the 65 million year old fossils from Madagascar that were publicly unveiled for the first time at Stony Brook University on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

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