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Today Kate and I attended the sneak preview of the new Dinosaur Trail at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. You might recall that I recently blogged about the last remaining dinosaur (R) on the late 1960s-era trail — a "brontosaurus" – was vandalized, its head decapitated and stolen. It was later recovered and there is a campaign to restore it up on Facebook, "Save Durham's Brontosaurus."
A couple of weeks ago, Beck Tench, who handles the Twitter account (lifeandscience, #dinotour and #dinotrail) at the Museum of Life and Science, sent out invitations to members, area bloggers and Twitter folks to visit the exhibit to get a peek at this work in progress. We were encouraged to take photos and video and contribute to the Museum's Flickr pool. Today's festivities for the new trail were a delight. The place was packed despite classic NC hot, very humid weather. Some of the absent dinos had cute cardboard cutouts where the real deal will be set in place by opening day on July 25.
I made a little video that includes a slideshow of the dinosaur exhibit. Let the kid inside out to play…
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This is so cool!And, I really liked reading about the PR campaign using blogs, Twitter and Flickr. Someone is making good use of the new media!
When my brother’s kids were little, I really apreeciated these kinds of attractions. They are a great way to entertain them and give them memories of time spent together.
my lover loved your videoHe was a big dinosaur fan as a kid, and he has science channel on all night as white noise. He admired they had updated the dinosaurs, now that they found some had feathers.
wait just a minuteWhy exactly is Jesus NOT riding any of these dinos???
Seriously though, great story!
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Those aren’t dinosaurs!Those are Jesus lizards!
What is that from? I can’t remember.
Very cool!My son would love this.
gald they gave some color.there’s no reason to believe that dinos were just gray or brown. nice to see they made some colorful.
great portrait of you w/the new bronto!
YippeeI can’t think of a better spokesperson for life and science.
FritzI think it’s close to a Tina Fey Jimmy Fallon SNL New’s bit:
And I’ve always loved this entry at TMW:
Blasphemy!I am shocked–shocked!– at your support for this unChristian attack on people of faith. All godly people know–and believe in their hearts–that the earth is only 6000 years old, and that the dinosaurs all perished in Noah’s flood. Promoting a crypto-Communist theme park that fails to educate people on that subject is just one more part of the homosexual agenda. Get with Jesus!
Lagarto “Jesus Cristo”The more literal-minded sorts like me think of lizards of the genus Basiiscus found in Latin America. The origin of the slang name is obvious, as shown in this video.
So, neat. Thanks, Pam.Had friends that took 6 (going on 12) y/o son to Disneyland this weekend. It was all I could do not to stow away!Hey… so How about a DINO Car for 2012 instead of a clown car. I really recogonize some of those guys!