Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Seeks Help Naming Dinosaur Fossil

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is seeking the public’s help June 14 in naming a green dinosaur fossil that will serve as a focal point in the museum’s new wing. Known as the Green Dinosaur, the fossil will be renamed via an online poll, asking voters to select from five names that were chosen by staff members, museum officials said in a statement. After being excavated from what was a riverbed 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period, the green bones were recently packed in multiple crates and trucked to Ontario, Canada, according to the museum. The fossil had affectionately been known as Gnatalie for the gnats that pestered the scientists and volunteers while excavating it....