When life came out of the water and conquered land, our witnesses are the armor-headed amphibians like “boomerang-headed” Diplocaulus. You’ll meet the root of our own human family tree in the fabulous fin-backed reptile, Dimetrodon, apex predator of the Texas Permian, 300 million years ago. Catastrophic die-offs at the end of the Permian Period […]
Although the first dinosaurs appeared in the Triassic Period, they were by no means a dominant part of the ecology until the very end. We will first examine the time when croc-oids ruled the dinosaurs. An extinction event marks the beginning of the Jurassic Period ushered in the “Golden Age of Giants,” the time of […]
Jurassic James will be conducting a lecture for HMNS members in the Giant Screen Theater! Edvidence of dinosaurs fighting has been known to paleontologist for quite some time, but we will look at the stats of who might actually win. Tonight's duelers are Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Link: https://store.hmns.org/DateSelection.aspx?item=5701
There are more dinosaur species known from the Cretaceous Period than the Triassic and Jurassic combined. This time has brought us the most dangerous herbivore of all time, the mighty Triceratops and Ankylosaurus. Join James Edward Washington III on this pre-recorded tour and learn how our Triceratops specimen with mummified skin has helped science prove […]
July 21 – 30, 2022 Spend six full days with HMNS and the Black Hills Institute at Waugh Quarry, a private site in Hulett, Wyoming near Devils Tower National Monument. Everyone will be able to dig for and expose dinosaur bones. As bookends to your spectacular trip, you will also visit the Black Hills Caverns, […]