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We start our month with our traditional offer on July 4th with Military Appreciation Day. In recognition of their service to our country, all active and retired military and their immediate families receive ½ off regular price admission with proper ID on our nation’s birthday. |
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Come to Woodland Park and enjoy an “Old Fashion 4th of July celebration” that takes place at the Ute Pass Cultural Center. The day includes live music, activities for kids, a Fire Cracker 5K Fun Run, a kid’s fishing pole casting contest, basketball and volley ball tournaments, fire engines rides, horse and buggy rides, a Bierwerks beer garden and much more. Admission is free but some activities have a small fee. There will be a fireworks show at the Woodland Park High School at dusk.
Bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets and plan to attend the 35th Annual “Symphony Above the Clouds” July 5th with the COLORADO SPRINGS PHILHARMONIC presented by Ute Pass Symphony Guild. Location is the Woodland Park Middle School. Gates Open at 5:00 p.m. and music begins at 5:30 p.m. A pre-show will feature Ceol Ceili, a local Irish band. |
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| The RMDRC will host our outdoor craft fair on July 11th from 9:00-4:00 on the plaza in front of the museum. At this time, we have 30 craft vendors showing and selling pottery, jewelry, art, textiles, leather, silver, wine tasting, chocolate, wood carving, flutes, flags, cosmetics, baskets and more! My Sweet Escapes Bakery, Wally’s Tamales and Wild Wings of Woodland Park will be offering food for sale. Meet the Chicken Man from 11:00-1:00. Please bring the family out for this free outdoor event and support these local vendors. There is a charge for admission to the museum on this day. |
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VENDORS...Outdoor Art/Craft Fair…Young Living Essential Oils-watches, lotion, perfume, beauty products, John Patterson-dinosaur and landscape artwork, Rawson Photography-framed and matted scenic photography, Top Banana-Balloon artwork, Wineshop at Home/Dove Chocolate Discoveries-wine tasting and chocolate, Simply Stones and More-Jewelry, Teresa Johnson-Notecards, jewelry, dreamcatchers, tote bags, Moonshine Industry-bath and body products, jewelry, home accessories, gift items, Mountain Monkeys Leather-handmade leather and wooden goods, High View Photos-Outdoor photography, Bella Spirit Design-handcrafted jewelry, Bayou Salado Trading Post-local rocks and fossils, Rocky Mountain Flutes-flutes and other goods, Maid of Paint-face painting, Portraits of Nature-original photos, greeting cards, plaques, Usborne Books and More, Merlin’s Realm-handmade magic wands, leather books, and amulets, A Flicker of Hope-candles, Wayne’s Novelty Cues-crooked pool cues, coat racks, walking sticks, Native Rains-Native American crafts, The Restless Native-Pine needle baskets, wood signs, Shelly’s Salsa-salsa, L2J Works-Illustrative Dinosaur Art, The Pampered Chef-high quality kitchen tools, Leather and Feathers-original southwestern art, Handcrafted Canes-canes and decorative hatchets made from aspen, Bowers Splinter Works-state flags made of aged Colorado w0od
Food-Wally’s Tamales, My Sweet Escape Bakery-Pastries, Wild Wings (meet the chicken man from 11:00am-1:00pm) |
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| June was such a fun and exciting month at our museum and July is looking just as exciting. |
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FYI: A relative of Triceratops
A newly described horned dinosaur with peculiar ornamentation has been found by paleontologists to be a close relative of Triceratops. It had a longer nose horn than Triceratops and two small horns above its eyes. Its most distinctive feature was a radiating frill and a set of large plates like a crown on top of the head. Researchers at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Canada named their find Regaliceratops peterhewsi. It probably evolved during the late Cretaceous period and was found with a nearly complete skull and is described in the journal Current Biology. |
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Raptors are characterized by particularly nasty feet says Persons. Their big toes each had an enlarged hooked talon, called the “killing claw”. The research team has documented a fossil footprint site in central China, which contains the tracks of several kinds of dinosaurs, including raptors. With this site the team has gained new insights into raptor locomotion. These findings have been published this month in the scientific journal PaleoWorld. The killing claw was normally held in a raised position to keep it sharp, although we have discovered in this study that there are exceptions. In a small percentage of the raptor tracks, an impression of the usually raised big toe claw was found. One reason the raptors occasionally lowered their killing claws into the ground could have been because the tracks were left in the soft mud of a lake shore and the raptors needed extra traction. So, although the killing claw was primarily a weapon, it may also have been used to help them out of situations where they were stuck in the mud.
Reprinted from materials provided by the University of Alberta.
Geri Lebold
Eduacation 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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Scaled Brachiosaurus statue
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Triceratops scaled wall trophy
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JULY 4TH...Military Appreciation Day…Military personnel receive 1/2 off of regular admission with active or retired military I.D
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July 1st Penrose Library 9:30 & 10:30
July 9th East Library at 10:30. Come see and touch dinosaur teeth and claws.
July 23rd at the NFED Conference’s Kid’s Camp located at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort from 2:00 - 3:30.
July 25th we’ll be at the Buell Children’s Museum from 12:00 - 2:00.
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August 1st and 2nd are big dates for Woodland Park. There are 3 annual events planned for that week-end including DRC’s Critter Rescue Round-up. The hours on Saturday will be from 9:00-4:00 and on Sunday from 10:00-3:00. This event offers rescue organizations the opportunity to show off their wonderful animals for adoption and perhaps answer your questions about what kind of a pet is best for your family. If you adopt a pet you will receive 4 free admissions to the museum, (to be used at a later date). There will also be booths offering animal related products and delicious food for you and your family to enjoy. Don’t miss this one! The Vino and Notes Festival and the Mountain Arts Festival will also be going on during this time so Woodland Park will really be hopping with fun things to do that weekend.
Aug. 15-16 we will be hosting the Pikes Peak “N” Gineers traveling model railroad exhibition. The club members are more than willing to share with you the history of the layout. They will have a switching puzzle table for a “hands on” experience for the entire family. Come learn about trains, find out about Colorado history and PLAY!
Aug. 22 “Science Matters” will present a program called “Chemistry Magic”. This event includes, Mushroom Man, water that changes into Kool-Aid, a wind tunnel and much more. A project for all children of making SLIME will end the show. Please join us as we end Aug. with a “STEM ROCKS” outreach program at Peterson AFB from 10:00-2:00. All in all July and August are super months at DRC. and we look forward to seeing all of you.
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Triebold Paleontolgy - In the Lab
The Dinosaur Resource Center’s “Dinosaur Nerds,” led by uber-nerd paleo twerp Jacob Jett, have launched a YouTube channel. Watch for a behind-the-scenes look at what’s going on in the museum and our lab, including fossil reconstruction projects and our visitor experience guides’ hidden gems. Check out all the videos online at dinosaurnerds.com; subscribe to the channel to stay on top of what we’re up to.
Check out lab updates on our blog. Click here! |
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Help support your local businesses this summer by experiencing the many natural wonders that make up our beautiful state. Encourage your friends and family to come visit Colorado. While they are here bring them to the Dinosaur Resource Center to see the REAL Cretaceous World for a “Dinosauric” adventure. We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you soon at the RMDRC!
JJ Triebold
President
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