On a recent weekday near the end of January, Jeff Bruce, curator at Macon’s Tubman African American Museum and Matt Harper ..

But, as scientists at the Field Museum explain, don’t believe the hype. “I hate to be overly critical but I think it’s a little overhyped,” admits Ken Angielczyk, fossil mammals curator ...

The curator ... down for interviews with the newspaper. The picture she paints is one, if not of innocence, at least of scapegoating by her bosses and by the museum industry as a whole.