On Saturday, February 19 and Sunday February 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. you and your family can spend the day learning about dinos and participating in dinosaur festivities.
There are endless activities at the Paleopalooza. At 1 p.m. on both days, you can meet some of today’s birds and reptiles that are related to the dinosaur. You can also watch an episode of the popular show Dinosaur Train on a big screen, search for your own fossils, examine a tyrannosaur skeleton found in New Jersey and so much more.
Real life paleontologist Dr. Scott Sampson will hold a presentation on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. He'll talk about the latest dinosaur discoveries.
The Paleopalooza is inside the Academy at 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Adult tickets cost $12 and children can get in for $10.
Simulations give clues into what soil conditions were like millions of years ago. Millions of years ago, long before the first human evolved and walked the Earth, our planet's rulers were a set of scaly reptiles that the public knows today as dinosaurs. No topic in paleontology (even early hominids) is quite as glamorous as the dinosaur. And while museums worldwide are replete with magnificent specimens, many mysteries remain about these beasts. One key question is what the environment the dinosaurs lived in was like. Researchers at the University of Manchester and University of Liverpool in England have taken an important step forward to answering that question with a new study that makes use of digital imaging of dinosaur tracks to analyze the soil conditions.
New Zealand Herald: Dinosaurs roar into Auckland
Fifteen life-size dinosaurs are to stomp and roar their way around Vector Arena when the $26 million production Walking with Dinosaurs arrives in June.
ABC4News: Volunteers needed at Dinosaur National Park
VERNAL, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The National Park Service is looking for help at Dinosaur National Monument. The service is now looking for volunteers for its new visitor’s center, which is still being built, and to lead interpretive walks and talks. The volunteers need to have RV's and the minimum term is two months, but can last up to six months. To find out more or apply log on to: http://www.volunteer.gov/gov/results.cfm?ID=11189.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
CBS News New York: Snow Buries Dinosaurs At Long Island Museum
The weight of heavy snow and ice collapsed the roof of the Vanderbilt Museum‘s dinosaur exhibit in Centerport, Long Island. Museum director Carol Hart says, “Some of the dinosaurs that had been once standing tall are now buried.”
CSG Television.com, St. George, Utah: New Dino Arrives at St. George Dinosaur Discovery Museum
St. George, UT) - The 2011 Dino Days celebration of the discovery of the dinosaur tracks at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, 2180 East Riverside Drive, February 7 - 12 will showcase a new permanent replica display of the dinosaur "Scelidosaurus" model at Charmouth Heritage Coast Center near where the dinosaur was discovered in 1859. The village of Charmouth is located on the West Dorset coast near Lyme Regis in southern England. The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large lake in the early Jurassic age between 195-198 million years ago.
Monday, February 7, 2011
ArbiterOnline: Rawrrr, Boise State researcher gets dinosaur named after her
Boise State postdoctoral researcher Celina Suarez is one of only a handful of people in history to have her name attached to a dinosaur. Geminiraptor suarezarum, a raptor-like species that walked the Earth about 125 million years ago, was discovered by Suarez and her identical twin Marina. The dinosaur’s fossilized upper jawbone was found near Green River, Utah, in 2004, when the Suarez sisters were Temple University master’s students working on a summer excavation project for the Utah Geological Survey. While investigating the sediment profile above the dig site, they spotted a gully where dinosaur bones were sticking out of the rock.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
JournalStar.com: Tempted by dinosaurs, children learn science at UNL event
Aubrey Letts, 5, was in her element examining plesiosaur bones found off a Nebraska highway in 2003. The dinosaur-loving kindergartner even got to meet a paleontologist. Aubrey and more than 2,350 other children and parents gathered for "Dinosaurs and Disasters" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Morrill Hall on Saturday. The seventh annual event featured 36 booths with topics such as the formation of hail and one of Aubrey's favorites, fossil excavation.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Salt Lake Tibune: Dinosaur replica donated to St. George museum
St. George • A St. George lawyer says his nine grandchildren, who love dinosaurs, compelled him to pay for a replica of a 195-million-year-old scelidosaurus to go on permanent display at the Discovery Track Site Museum in this southwestern Utah city. “We were in the right place at the right time to get this little sucker,” said Virginius Dabney, who contributed most of the $7,000 it cost to bring the replicated skeleton of the plant-munching beast to St. George. “Now the grandchildren can see grandpa’s dinosaur.” The public will get an opportunity to see the skeleton Wednesday.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Montreal Gazette: Dinosaur bone discovery suggests some lived long after meteorite
A fossilized sauropod bone, dated by a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists to 64.8 million years ago, appears likely to force a serious rethinking of the demise of dinosaurs, which were supposed to have been wiped out in a catastrophic meteorite strike no later than 65.5 million years ago -700,000 years before the death of the giant, vegetarian beast that left its femur behind in present-day New Mexico.
A study of the bone in the latest issue of the journal Geology, co-authored by University of Alberta paleontologist Larry Heaman and two U.S. colleagues, "confounds the long established paradigm that the age of the dinosaurs ended between 65.5 mil-lion and 66 million years ago," states a summary of the findings.
