Sunday, January 27, 2013

Dinosaur Discoveries: The Symposium




We have another AWESOME event at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science!! As always, it's cheap for the entire family to attend, and now through July 18th you can experience a wide range of exhibits and new information being featured at the museum. 

As per the NMMNHS website:

This January, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science will launch the first ever Dinosaur Discoverers Symposium!

In conjunction with the exhibit Dinosaur Century: 100 Years of Discovery in New Mexico , the Museum will offer a symposium series by the scientists who made many of New Mexico’s most important dinosaur discoveries. The symposium will cover the entire range of dinosaur science, from the origin of dinosaurs to their extinction. The symposium will be once a month through July 2013. Each symposium will be followed by a tour of the Dinosaur Century exhibit, guided by Dr. Lucas. 

Event Schedule:

January 17th: Dinosaur Century: 100 years of dinosaur discoveries in NM.

February 21st: New Mexico’s Triassic Dinosaurs.

March 21st: Cretaceous Age Dinosaur Remains from Southwestern New Mexico.

April 18th: New Mexico Tyrannosaurs: New Mexico’s top predators at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

May 16th: The First Dinosaurs and the Triassic World-A New Mexican perspective on Pangea.

June 20th: 100 years of Collecting Dinosaurs in the San Juan Basin: New Mexico Pentaceratops, Parasaurolophus, Tyrannosaurus-Rex.

July 18th: The latest dinosaur discoveries in the Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin.


Event Information: 

Dates: January 17, 2013 - July 18, 2013 

Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
 
Admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 kids, under 3 free
 

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