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A triumphal Roman entrance on [[Central Park West]], (''see illustration'') completed by [[John Russell Pope]] in [[1936]], is an overscaled [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] monument to [[Teddy Roosevelt]]. It leads to a vast Roman [[basilica]], where the [[skeleton]] of a rearing [[Barosaurus]] defending her young from an [[Allosaurus]], is not lost in the general monumentality. The Museum is famous for its [[diorama|habitat groups]] of African, Asian and North American [[mammals]], for the full-size model of a [[Blue Whale]] suspended in the hall of oceans (reopened in [[2003]]), for the 62-foot [[Haida]] carved and painted war [[canoe]] from the [[Pacific Northwest]], and for the "[[Star of India (gem)|Star of India]]", the largest blue [[sapphire]] in the world. The circuit of a complete floor is devoted to [[vertebrate]] [[evolution]], including the world-famous [[dinosaur]]s.