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The Dinosaur Resource Center culminated Earth Science Week with a special paleontology program by Steven Veatch. His three hour class provided a practical introduction to Paleontology of the Pikes Peak Region. Steve will be having another private class, Basic Paleontology, An Introduction to the Fossil Record, on Jan 28th 9:30-12:30. This course is the study of ancient life forms preserved as fossils and will focus on use of fossils as indicators of ancient environments. Class requires a preregistration by calling 719-686-1820X104. Future class details will be available on our website soon.
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Our Halloween program with Cool Science was fun, spooky and entertaining and culminated with a costume contest. Our tour guide Stephen Woolf, dressed as our mascot Rolling Thunder, led the visitors in a parade around the museum. Following the costume parade, $10.00 gift cards were awarded for best dinosaur, funniest, prettiest and scariest costumes. This year’s winners are posted below.
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Our weather has really been wonderful lately…very fall like. We are so lucky to live in this beautiful state of Colorado! Families have been visiting us during their fall break from school and we hope to see more of everyone as the month goes on. Much is planned for the month ahead.
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FYI:
One of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever to be discovered has been found in the Gobi Desert, an arid region that spans northern China and southern Mongolia. The print is believed to belong to a titanosaur,a long necked plant eating dinosaur. These were some of the heaviest animals ever to walk the earth, weighing up to 70 tons. It was found by a Mongolian-Japanese expedition and is 30 inches across and 42 inches in length. The team feels it can gain new information about titanosaurs from this discovery. This was the last group of sauropods who roamed the earth 90-66 million years ago and the same group as the Brachiosaurus. The desert where the print was found is now covered in sand, but when dinosaurs were here, it was probably soft and muddy and that is why the print was preserved so well.
“This is a very rare discovery with imprints of its claws,”said the researchers in a statement from Okayama University of Science.
Several massive prints have been found around the world. In 2015, large footprints were found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, which are believed to have also been made by sauropods. They measure 27 inches in diameter and were the first sauropod tracks to be found in Scotland. In August 2016, the largest ever carnivorous prints were found in Bolivia. They were 45 inches wide and believed to be tracks from an Abelisaurus….a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex. These dinosaurs are thought to have lived around 70 million years ago. Prints were also uncovered in France in 2009 which ranged from 4.6ft-4.9ft. in diameter and are thought to belong to sauropods.
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I wish you a Smiling, Peaceful and Fun filled Thanksgiving Day.
Geri Lebold
Education Director
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Spend some time shopping at Prehistoric Paradise, the largest dinosaur store in the region for hundreds of unique gifts including real fossils, jewelry, games, books, stuffed dinosaurs, t-shirts and much more! A family membership makes a great gift that can be enjoyed for the entire year. If you have someone who’s difficult to buy for, a gift card is the perfect solution. Save yourself time and money by letting our staff gift wrap your purchases free of charge.
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Saturday, November 5th
11:00am-3:00pm
Join Nature’s Educators as they discuss what raptors, reptiles and dinosaurs all have in common and what differences they have. Get up close and meet live birds of prey and reptiles and learn their personal stories. Be sure to come with questions and your camera! Shows at 11:30am & 1:30pm.
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The Dinosaur Resource Center salutes our country’s active and retired armed forces this Veteran’s Day, Friday, November 11th with half priced admission for military families with appropriate ID.
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Cathy Kelsey will return on Saturday, November 19th at 1:30pm. A gobble good time is in store for everyone at the DRC for our Thanksgiving puppet workshop. Everyone gets to make their own paper sack turkey puppet to take home. So strut on down for this very special Thanksgiving program.
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Thanksgiving break for Woodland Park is November 21st-25th. It’s a great time to bring friends and family to visit the Dinosaur Resource Center. The RMDRC will be closed on Thanksgiving Day but will be open Friday after Thanksgiving as usual. Dads bring your kids to the RMDRC while mom goes shopping. You can do a little holiday shopping yourself at the Prehistoric Paradise gift store here at the museum. We’ll even gift wrap your purchases for free!
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December will be a busy month for holiday activities in Woodland Park. The Kiwanis Club’s “Breakfast with Santa” and the DRC’s “Christmas Program” with Mrs. Claus and Santa are just a couple of events. Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive at our museum at 12:30 for our “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” show which starts at 1:00 on Dec. 17th. Santa will be back at the museum to visit the kids on Dec. 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22 from 11:00-2:00. We will end the year with our very fun “Kid’s Free Day” on Tuesday Dec. 27th with several guest educators. Look for details of December events on our website, www.rmdrc.com.
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From all of us at the Dinosaur Resource Center, have a safe and abundant Thanksgiving holiday. We look forward to seeing you soon!
JJ Triebold
President
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