May 19, 2001... A new temporary exhibition opened at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County entitled Tiniest Giants. It features a set of remarkable new fossils, including the first known sauropod embryos and the first known specimens of embryonic dinosaur skin, which were discovered in the desolate badlands of Patagonia. These finds were made by scientists from the InfoQuest Foundation, the natural history museum in Los Angeles, the Carmen Funes Museum in Argentina, and several other institutions.

The exhibition invites visitors of all ages to join the expedition team in solving many of the scientific mysteries posed by these discoveries. Visitors are provided with an expedition "passport," which they can use to meet the various crew members as they walk through the exhibit. As they meet new team members, they learn about all the different scientific specialties that these scientists bring to the expedition, along with the questions for which they have to find answers. For example, the paleontologists must figure out what kind of dinosaur laid the thousands of eggs preserved at the site and whether they had been laid in individual nests that had been excavated by the dinosaurs. Geologists on the team had to find out how many millions of years ago the dinosaurs had laid the eggs and what event had caused the eggs to become buried and embryos killed. Additional displays feature a large carnivorous dinosaur discovered in 1999 that was previously unknown to science, along with dioramas that depict what the nesting site looked like at the time the dinosaurs used it.

The exhibition will stay at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County through October 14, before traveling on to museums in Chicago, Atlanta, Berkeley, Portland, and Arizona.