The Virginian-Pilot
                            THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, May 26, 1995                   TAG: 9505260723
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

DOWN, DINO, DOWN!

ILLUSTRATION: Color photo

BILL TIERNAN/Staff

A tyrannosaurus rex is lowered into position at the Virginia Living

Museum in Newport News Thursday, as the museum prepares for a

summerlong outdoors Dinamation exhibition. The museum's deer pasture

will become a Mesozoic jungle when the exhibit opens June 10, and

will feature more than 20 life-like mechanical dinosaurs. To bring

the dinos to ``life,'' Dinamation International, a California

company, combines robotics and the newest research to bring the past

roaring back to life.

by CNB