B Movies and Bad Science

On select Sunday afternoons, NHM attendees will watch an old creature film from the height of the Cold War and then listen as real life scientists debunk the plot plausibility and walk you through the museum’s collection of “real-life counterparts.” Think “MythBusters” without the “MacGyver” and plus doctorate degrees in random “ologies.” This Sunday’s movie, Reptilicus, however, fuels the third grade boy in all of us by having Dr. Luis Chiappe from the NHM’s own Dinosaur Institute discuss why a defrosted 90-foot reptile tail could not be regenerated into a “full grown beast and terrorize humankind.” -Sarah Bennett