The "Sistine Chapel of Evolution" Is in New Haven, Connecticut
Charles Darwin never visited the Yale museum, but you can, and see for
yourself the specimens that he praised as the best evidence for his theory

When visitors go to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, they are
not exactly wrong to think that dinosaurs are the stars of the show.
This is, after all, the museum that discovered Stegosaurus,
Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and
Atlantosaurus, among others.

There’s even a 7,350-pound bronze Torosaurus on the sidewalk in front of
this red brick Gothic Revival building on the outskirts of downtown New
Haven. It was the Peabody that led the great age of paleontological
discovery in the 19th century. It also went on to launch the modern
dinosaur renaissance in the late 1960s, setting off a global wave of
dinomania and incidentally inspiring the Jurassic Park franchise. And
Peabody researchers continue to make groundbreaking discoveries. In
2010, they determined, for the first time, the exact coloration of an
entire dinosaur, feather by feather. Anchiornis huxleyi is unfortunately
still in China, where it was discovered: It looked like a Las Vegas
showgirl crossed with a spangled Hamburg chicken. Plus, the Peabody
houses one of the most revered images in all of paleontology: The Age of
Reptiles, by Rudolph Zallinger, is a 110-foot-long mural depicting
dinosaurs and other life-forms in a 362-million-year panorama of Earth’s
history, moving one writer to call the museum “a Sistine Chapel of
evolution.”

So why on earth go to the Peabody for any reason other than dinosaurs?
One answer: for the fossil, mammal and bird discoveries that most
visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin himself considered the best
evidence for the theory of evolution in his lifetime.


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