Dinosaur Museums News
- Oh where, oh where did all of the RVs go? Sunday, July 6, 2008 @ 2:49AMAt night, the Highmeadow Campground in Hershey, Pa., looked a little like a pumpkin festival. Tents, lit from within, like jack-o-lanterns, spotted the grounds.
- Spending summer in the city Sunday, July 6, 2008 @ 12:11AMMany people are discovering -- or rediscovering -- places to visit in or immediately around their own hometowns.
- Go there & back on a tank of gas Saturday, July 5, 2008 @ 5:45AMBummed by the high price of gas? Four-dollar-a-gallon gas may put a crimp in driving to Alaska this summer, but plenty of places are within one tank of gas from Billings and back. These trips are based on a roundtrip of less than 350 miles using a ...
- More News Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 9:16PM‘‘We just want to give them an appreciation of archaeology,” said Bowie’s Museums Curator Jason Illari of the city’s free program. ‘‘It is a science and people don’t just dig holes.”
- Museum Round-up: Outdoor exhibits offer fresh air and fun in July Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 5:32AMThis month several of the museums will introduce outdoor exhibits to visitors. From art to golf to BBQ, there are plenty of fun activities available for families to learn and play.
- National Museum launches new art galleries Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 2:38AMCONTROVERSIAL changes to one of the nation’s flagship museums will begin this week, with the opening of four new art galleries.
- Lego master model builder at piece with his job Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 11:24AMDan Steininger spends his days creating Lego projects and getting paid for it. As a master model builder for the company, he has spent 15 years traveling around the United States, Canada and Mexico building models in museums, malls and toy stores.
- Work starts on outback dinosaur museum Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 8:25PMWork is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland.
- Okinawas rich culture intrigues Prefecture Museum visitors Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 9:31PMOn the one hand, the Okinawa Prefecture Museum and Art Museum do exactly what museums are designed to do: expose a country or region’s customers, culture and history to visits.
- Make way for Siegfried the dinosaur Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 4:36AMSiegfried the dinosaur first popped up on the lawn of the Worcester Science Museum. The year was 1964 and the museum was located at Elm and Linden streets.
- La Junta chamber requests funds for new sign Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 12:12PM Urban Renewal considers request.
- Jurassic Spark Jolts MOSI Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 12:19AMThe towering Tyrannosaurus rex bent his head toward the boy, flashed teeth the size of daggers, and roared.
- Cash for Jurassic Coast museums Sunday, June 8, 2008 @ 11:59AMMuseums in Dorset and Devon are awarded £200,000 of lottery cash to spend on Jurassic Coast projects.
- “We see ourselves as vampires when it comes to the work of other artists” Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 2:02PMOne of the most talked about works at the last Venice Biennale was a slick digitalised three-screen video in the basement of the Russian Pavilion in which a host of beautiful youths worthy of any Gap ad engaged in stylised slow motion battles in a fantasy landscape to the strains of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung”.
- Race and distrust - Miriam Coronel Ferrer Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 12:35PMDISTRUST, so I learned in my three-week travel around the Unites States last month, is one thing the lower-class black and American Indian minorities strongly feel toward the society they live in.
- Texas dinosaurs find temporary home for summertime exhibit Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 8:44AMFORT WORTH -- An armored dinosaur about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle walked on all fours in search of tasty plants along the Interstate 30 of its prehistoric day: a mudflat beach between a forest of conifers and the Paw Paw Sea.
- Dinosaurs invade Oregon Zoo Thursday, June 5, 2008 @ 3:01AMPORTLAND — You normally expect to see live animals at a zoo, not ones that have been extinct for 150 million years.
- Maderan awarded for media reports Tuesday, June 3, 2008 @ 4:49AMA Madera resident will be honored today for outstanding coverage of issues related to California schools.
- Dig team finding ‘level on level’ of dino bones Saturday, May 31, 2008 @ 11:38PM They’re going to need a bigger building. Burpee Museum of Natural History has hit the motherload at a dinosaur dig in southeastern Utah.
- Are your kids going stir-crazy indoors? Wednesday, May 28, 2008 @ 5:13PMAre your kids climbing the walls yet?
- Creepiest crime fighters Wednesday, May 28, 2008 @ 5:04AMWed, May 28, 2008 (2 a.m.) His business card reads “Know Maggots, Will Travel.” Bugs are his game, solving crimes is his aim. Like the main character in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” he’s a forensic entomologist.
- Travel briefs Sunday, May 25, 2008 @ 3:39AMNEWPORT, R.I. -- Trey Anastasio, the former Phish lead singer, was added to the Newport Folk Festival, joining Jimmy Buffett, the Black Crowes and Levon Helm. Some other new additions are alt-country band Son Volt and 1960s folkster Richie Havens, who performed at Woodstock.
- Scientists announce top 10 new species described in 2007 Saturday, May 24, 2008 @ 6:35AMWashington, May 24 : Scientists have announced the top ten new species described in 2007, which include an extinct animal as well.
- Necklaces, bracelets and dinosaur eggs in Vail Friday, May 23, 2008 @ 6:49PMVAIL, Colorado — Customers often duck into the shop marked “Lionshead Jewelers” expecting to find, well, jewelry.
- Gas Prices Putting Vacations Closer To Home Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 11:57PMWith gas prices climbing higher and higher a lot of families may be planning summer vacations a little closer to home this year.
- Down and dirty with dinosaurs Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 3:40PMConversation & IMAX... By J. Winter, Mayor of Ponce.Shaken or stirred, dirty or dry, mango or cosmo — no matter how you throw it in a glass, a martini is a classy way to get loaded. Add a jazz band playing underneath a 100-by-40-foot dinosaur and you have the recipe for a sophisticated Friday night date. Or so you would think. Martinis & IMAX is a weekly soiree held at the beautiful Fernbank ...
- Replica of T. rex Sue goes home Monday, May 19, 2008 @ 5:10AMSmall S.D. town had big fight over skeleton
- Calgary fossil hunters unearth massive find Thursday, May 8, 2008 @ 7:16PMIt’s a fossil fuelling visions of scientific grandeur and gold. A crew of Calgary dinosaur hunters say they’ve unearthed and are busy restoring what they say is the most complete skull and skeleton of the giant, 150 million-year-old meat-eating allosaurus.
- Get lost Sunday, April 27, 2008 @ 5:17PMHigh gas prices and troubled airlines have many Utah residents seeking closer-to-home vacations this summer.
- A Steel City blast Sunday, April 27, 2008 @ 3:31AMWhen I went to college in Minnesota, a classmate used to kid me: "Oh, yeah, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the Twin Cities."
- Spare Times Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 10:06PMAROUND TOWN.
- Embrace the light Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 9:59AM• If Alaska is a land of extremes, then Fairbanks is the extreme of the extremes.
- N.D. paleontologist says rare fossil on auction block in Paris Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 5:15AMA triceratops fossil unearthed in North Dakota four years ago is on the auction block in Paris, state paleontologist John Hoganson says.
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- Going Once, Twice, a 3-Horned Triceratops Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 12:55AMPARIS, April 16 -- Imagine you had dough to blow -- say, about $800,000 -- and a big empty space to fill. And suppose you never kicked that grade school dinosaur passion, which is ready to explode quicker than you can say "Cretaceous."
- Three-horned triceratops fails to make minimum bid at auction Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:30PMPARIS | Imagine you had dough to blow — say, about $800,000 — and a big empty space to fill. And suppose you never kicked that grade school dinosaur passion.
- Archaeology: Bones, isles and videotape Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 1:20PMOld human remains found on the Pacific islands of Palau are caught in the crossfire between entertainment and science. Rex Dalton reports.
- Triceratops set for roaring success at Paris auction Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 11:42AMCurators, collectors and dinosaur enthusiasts have their eye on a rare skeleton of a triceratops up for auction in Paris on Wednesday, only the second fossil of this size ever to go under the hammer.
- Putting the pieces together Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 6:05AM LOS ANGELES – TV viewers are drawn to popular forensic dramas “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: NY” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” But those shows are nothing like the new procedural that is unfolding for visitors to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where the case dates 66 million years.
- Weekend Guide Thursday, April 10, 2008 @ 12:27AMA list of things to do this weekend.
- Science Generation: A National Imperative Summit at the American Museum of Natural History Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 1:47PM Science Generation: A National Imperative, a critical summit to address the urgent need to improve science education in the United States, will convene Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 and 9, 2008, at the American Museum of Natural History .
- The glory of Athens Saturday, April 5, 2008 @ 12:46PMThe land of the ancient gods of Greece is particularly inviting in winter, especially in January. Tourists are...
- Wisconsin events Friday, April 4, 2008 @ 2:34PM art Anderson Arts Center: 121 66th St., Kenosha. (262) 653-0481. Kenosha Unified School District-Wide Student Art Exhibit, "A Visual Journey" will be on display to April 27.
- Get Out Guide Friday, April 4, 2008 @ 3:20AMBite of the Gorge: More than 20 gorge restaurants, wineries and breweries offer their best samples.
- Spare Times Thursday, April 3, 2008 @ 10:15PMAROUND TOWN.
- Entertainment calendar Thursday, April 3, 2008 @ 4:46AMSOUTH BAY "The Moses Code." 2 and 7 p.m. April 5. Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Ave.
- The Wait is Finally Over and the Pigeon Gets Exactly What He Asks For ... or Does He? Tuesday, April 1, 2008 @ 4:00PM NEW YORK----Disney Book Group today announced the title of the latest book in the bestselling "Pigeon" series by award-winning author Mo Willems is The Pigeon Wants A Puppy. The full title of the book was revealed this afternoon at a free outdoor reading event in Bryant Park in New York City after months of speculation from fans, educators, and booksellers across the country.
- Diversions for March 27, 2008 Thursday, March 27, 2008 @ 1:14AMCLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY CONCERT, featuring Ernesto Tamayo, 8 p.m., Wheeler Concert Hall, University of Evansville (adults, $15; students, $5; UE students, free).
- Are your kids going stir-crazy indoors? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 @ 1:24PMAre your kids climbing the walls yet?
- UWSP museum offers educational experiences Sunday, March 23, 2008 @ 4:58AMSince the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Museum of Natural History began operations in 1968, thousands and thousands of visitors have explored its exhibits, ranging from a vast bird egg collection to dinosaur, fossil and African animal displays. With the museums future in question, residents and supporters are hoping for the best.
