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Marty the Magician Brings Dinosaur Magic to Nevada Public Li. ..
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (143+ words) Nevada Daily Mail Marty the Magician Brings Dinosaur Magic to Nevada Public Library Summer Reading Program Marty the Magician brings dinosaur-themed magic to Nevada Public Library's "Unearth a Story" program, part of his "70 Libraries in 7 Weeks" Missouri tour. Local group…...
Local kids get glimpse of the wild during Creature Teacher program for Breckenridge Library, Fine Arts Center - Breckenridge Texan
4+ hour ago (550+ words) For the Breckenridge Library's "Unearth a Story" summer reading program theme, the library and the Breckenridge Fine Arts Center hosted the Creature Teacher's "Unearth the Past" program last week, featuring a variety of animals, along with an informative talk about…...
These 567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Rewriting the Story of Life on Earth
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (330+ words) Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought. Every animal alive today, from jellyfish to humans, traces its ancestry back to a pivotal moment when complex life first emerged from a world…...
Early Flowering Plants May Have Relied on Dinosaurs to Eat Their Fleshy Fruits and Spread Their Seeds
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (428+ words) Sarah Kuta | Daily Correspondent Flowering plants may have started producing relatively large, fleshy fruits millions of years earlier than previously thought'and they probably relied on hungry, herbivorous dinosaurs to help spread their seeds, scientists report in a study published June…...
Valley libraries use dinosaurs, prizes to fight a national reading slump - Paradise Valley Independent
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (676+ words) I just like them getting exposed to reading," said Astra Pfeiffer, a regular at Mesa Public Library. It enhances their minds and furthers their educational potential." For years, Pfeiffer's kids have been enrolled in the Summer Reading Game, hosted by…...
Birthday event at Ashfall Fossil Beds set for Saturday
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (105+ words) The Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal is celebrating their 35th'anniversary this year. Ashfall Fossil Beds opened to the public for the first time in 1991, allowing people to watch paleontologists excavating Nebraska's fossil resources one scrape of the…...
Prehistoric Carboniferous Monsters exhibition comes to The Beacon Museum this summer
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (301+ words) Visitors to The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven are invited to step back in time this summer as a major national touring exhibition, Carboniferous Monsters, arrives from 18 July to 11 October. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey to the Carboniferous period,…...
Oklahoma State University's Storybook Trail marries literature and nature | KGOU - Oklahoma's NPR Source
15+ hour, 39+ min ago (195+ words) The Evelyn De Benning Storybook Trail's namesake was a longtime Stillwater teacher. Her daughter, Annawyn De Benning Shamas, and family donated the funds to create the attraction. De Benning Shamas is an OSU Distinguished Alumnus. After its debut in late…...
Fossil in drawer turns out to be touchstone dinosaur artifact - AOL
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (405+ words) (News Nation) " A fossilized bone that sat in a collection drawer for four decades is now considered to be the first dinosaur artifact found in Antarctica. Researchers discovered the vertebra during a 1985 expedition to James Ross Island and assumed it…...
Dinosaurs to appear in West Cumbrian museum next week
8+ hour, 9+ min ago (172+ words) A major national exhibition is bringing prehistoric creatures to life in West Cumbria. The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven is hosting Carboniferous Monsters, a touring display exploring a forgotten era of giant insects, swampy forests, and sprawling millipedes. Running from July…...