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RMDRC News
We have had a great year at the museum, in the lab and out in the field.
The museum is keeping visitors up to date with the latest discoveries in
paleontology with a newly structured tour. Schools will be happy to see
changes that reflect interactive learning in science. October hosts a
Scouting Recruitment Day and a fun filled Halloween with the return of Mad
Science.
In the lab we are building numerous cast skeletons for institutes around the
world and have a backlog of new skeleton fossils that have to be prepared.
Space is getting tight and we are surrounded with skeletons!
Our work in the field this year has produced an amazing theropod discovery
thought to be a 30+ foot Daspletosaur, some possible Triceratops remains,
and recently, an amazing diversity of discoveries out in the Kansas chalk.
Thanks for your continued support and stay tuned as we report the latest
news from our recent discoveries!
Sincerely,
Dave Ehlert
RMDRC Director
dave@rmdrc.com
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RMDRC Upcoming Events
October 7
Scouting Out
the Dinos
Are you
interested in the Boy Scouts? Come to RMDRC as we host a Boy Scout Recruitment
day with hedgehog & bat talks, live hedgehogs, the Discovery Cart and more!
The event is open to current Boy Scouts and anyone interested in learning
about the organization. Admission will be $4 for boys 13 and under.
October 28
Halloween Event
Mad Science returns for a special Halloween edition of “Fire and Ice.” Shows
will start at 11am, 1pm and 3pm and other spooky activities will be set-up in
the museum. Feel free to wear your costume.
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RMDRC
Owners JJ & Mike Triebold
Honored
Mayor pro tem Phil Mella gives Mike and JJ
Triebold, owners of Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, the monthly
"Keep Woodland Park Beautiful" Business Beautification Award.
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RMDRC Memberships
Just a heads-up...We want to hear from
you! In an effort to improve our membership benefits, look for an online
member survey with next month's newsletter.
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Lab & Field News
Winter is near as we had our first snow just over a week ago here in the
Colorado mountains! With that said, we are approaching the close of another
successful field season.
We are currently scouting out in Kansas and expect to bring a few more specimens
to the museum. There have been new discoveries of fish, mosasaurs, and even a
few pteranodons coming out of the chalk. The team is heading back mid-October to
continue digging.
Work in the lab is continuing at a furious pace to complete a number of cast
skeletons that are heading overseas.
The preparation of "Pete", the Daspletosaur will commence later in the year.
This is a huge theropod (meat eater) estimated to be 30+ feet!
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From the Education Desk
Our new school and adult tour programs are
well underway. The new tour programs give students and adults of all ages
more hands-on activities and opportunities for learning about the wonderful
world of the dinosaurs. The museum website has been updated with a “Photo of
the Month,” featuring school group participants, and additional downloadable
learning resources. In addition to expanding our school and adult tour
programs, I have re-designed the RMDRC Paleo Patch Scout program curriculum
to give Boy and Girl Scouts the best, most detailed and enjoyable experience
possible. The curriculum now meets all of the requirements for the Brownie
Girl Scout “Dinosaurs – Try It” badge and the Jr. Girl Scout “Dinosaur”
badge. Completion of the Paleo Patch program entitles scouts to a RMDRC
Paleo patch to display on the scout uniform and a certificate of completion.
I recently finished reading another wonderful book, “A
Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming” Edited by M. Kohl, L. Martin, and P.
Brinkman. The book is a publication of the journals of Barnum Brown and J.P.
Sams, two bone-hunters that embarked upon a Triceratops expedition in 1895.
Page by page, I enjoyed the colorful events of the Wild West expedition and
felt the excitement of being a bone-hunter. I hope you have an opportunity
to read the book.
Regards,
Pat White
Education Director
pat@rmdrc.com
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Inside
the RMDRC...
Visitors learn about the 45' long
Tylosaur in the Marine Room
A large
group enjoys our new "Science for Life" programs for adults
There is plenty of hands-on learning at
the RMDRC
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Dinosaur News
Amazing discoveries are produced every day in paleontology. Here are some
of the latest finds...
Researchers in
Pennsylvania find evidence that many
more dinosaur are yet to be discovered.
Cannibalistic behavior in
Coelophysis is being challenged
through a new study.
Warn blooded or cold blooded? This debate on dinosaurs continues with a
new report focusing on some of the
large species.
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