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Lions
and tigers
and bears,
Oh My!!! 
 Actually,
it’s alligators, wolves and hedgehogs, oh my! It’s that time of
year again for our
6th
Annual Critterfest
event. This year we
will
have more organizations
represented than ever before. Along with the
alligators, wolves and hedgehogs, we’ll have reptiles, dogs and
cats of every size, shape and color. There will be more than
20 groups represented and they want and need your support.
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
will be on hand with the
Zoomobile.
This is your chance to get up close and personal with some fun
and unusual animals.
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New this year, KRDO radio
will be broadcasting from the
Rocky Mountain
Dinosaur Resource Center
on Saturday from 11:00 to 12:00.
Dan Cochell
along with
Bob Warren of
the Mutt Masters Canine Academy will present
“All about Dogs”
live from their booth here at the museum. You can call into the
program with your questions while they are on air, so be sure to listen in and visit their booth.
 For
the pet owner who is into holistic healing for their pet,
Lead with Your
Heart
will give you insight on how to do it Saturday at 1:00 with
their lecture
“Natural Pet Care
with Flower Essences and Acupressure”.
 This
year,
Serenity Springs Wildlife Center,
the fabulous big cat rescue located just east of Colorado
Springs, will have a booth and present a very special lecture
“Mountain
Lions”, on
Saturday at 2:00.
 The
Rocky
Mountain Wildlife Foundation
will be bringing their wolves and presenting their lecture
“The Wolf: brilliant,
needed, yet misunderstood”
on Saturday at 3:00.
See and pet these amazing creatures with their trainer,
Mark “Wolf” Johnson.
 Bring
your pets to be micro chipped by
Dreampower Animal
Rescue.
They will implant the tracking chips and do the registration at
their booth. There is a $25.00 charge for the service
which is lower than most places.
Sunday lectures include the
Colorado Pug
Rescue
with
“Can’t
Adopt?....Ways you can help rescued animals” at
1:00. All
Breed Rescue and Training
will present “Dog Bite
Prevention”
at 2:00.
 The
ever popular
Flash and Thelma
Memorial Hedgehog Rescue
will be on hand with
Standing Bear
giving a presentation,
“World’s Oldest
Living Mammals: Hedgehogs”,
at 3:00 on Sunday.
We will have
12 animal
rescue groups
and if you adopt a rescue animal, you’ll receive
free admission to the
Rocky Mountain
Dinosaur Resource Center for a
family of four for a future return visit.
Add your name to our
email newsletter
database and enter a drawing
for
2 tickets
to
Cave of the Winds
and 2 tickets to the
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
Remember all groups will have booths outside and are free to see
and share. Lectures are inside the museum and included in
your paid admission. For the complete list of participants for
both days and the schedule of lecture times see the homepage of
our website,
www.rmdrc.com
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It’s
a huge week-end for
Woodland Park
with “Vino
and Notes”, a
special wine tasting, music and shopping event, on August 7th
and the 25th
Annual Mountain Arts Festival
also happening on Aug. 7th and 8th so it’s
the perfect time to spend a week-end in Woodland Park.
Both of these events are within walking distance from
the RMDRC.
Check out the Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce
website
calendar for all events for the month of August.
August 14th,
Cathy Kelsey
presents
“Fantasy Forest”
the story of Eli Elk looking for new friends and finding
adventure. Join Cathy for puppetry, songs and interaction for
the kids.
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NOTICE-
Deadline August 31st!!!
This is your last chance to get your entries in for this
year’s
photo contest. It is a great time of year to take photos of the
wild flowers (they are in full boom) and wildlife of our area.
This year’s categories are
“Wildlife and Nature” and new this
year is the “Open” category.
Deadline for entries is August 31st. The 1st
place prize in all divisions is a $100.00 gift card from
our Prehistoric Paradise gift store here at the museum. Students
enter free! See the details of the contest on our website,
www.rmdrc.com
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Love is in the air
at the RMDRC.
Two of our Visitor Experience Guides have been bitten by the
love bug.
Stephen Woolf proposed to Crystal Polite while she was
conducting a tour of the museum. Her tour group was as surprised
as Crystal when she asked for questions from the audience and
Stephen came forward and on bended knee asked her to marry him.
The two are college students and have set a
wedding date
of March 20th. Join us in wishing them
congratulations and best wishes.
Coming up on September 4th,
Woodland Park will be hosting its
2nd
annual Native American Powwow
at Memorial
Park. As part
of the festivities, the
Rocky Mountain
Dinosaur Resource Center
will present 2 performances by the
Native American
Seven Falls Dancers.
Indian frybread and drinks will be available for purchase on the
plaza in front of the museum from 11-3.
Elevate your
attitude in
Woodland Park, the City above the Clouds,
and come by to see us soon at the
Rocky Mountain
Dinosaur Resource Center.
Sincerely,
JJ Triebold
President, RMDRC
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:From the Education Desk:
Happy middle of
summer…it is going so fast! We have had a wonderful first part of
the year and are looking forward to many more events in the second
half of 2010.
Our photo
contest will end August 31st so if you have not entered
yet, please do get some of your exciting photos from summer, spring
or last winter into the contest. The rules and entry forms can be
downloaded from our website.
Rules.pdf &
Entry
Form.pdf
If you have any questions, please
call me at 719-686-1820 X 110.
Our craft
fair in July was a roaring success! We had 35 booths with creative
and unique crafts, yummy food and a jazz trio which played for our
enjoyment since it was music week in Woodland Park. It was bustling
from one end of town to the other with activities.
This month I
thought I would write about a few of the people that have been so
important in the field of fossil collecting.
 Roy
Chapman Andrews was a naturalist, explorer, and author who led a
number of pioneering expeditions to central and eastern Asia. He
acquired an outstanding collection of fossils for the American
Museum of Natural History and was their director from 1934 to 1941.
In 1906, his first expeditions took him to Japan and Alaska, where
he studied aquatic mammals. Between 1919 and 1930 he traveled to
the Gobi Desert. Andrews and his teams discovered the first known
fossilized dinosaur nests and hatchlings. They also discovered
prehistoric mammals and many new dinosaurs, including
Protoceratops, Oviraptor, and Velociraptor.
Luis and Walter Alvarez, an American father and son team who, in
1980, published the discovery of a worldwide layer of clay, rich in
the rare element iridium, which was present in rocks from the K-T
boundary. They speculated that about 66 million years ago the
iridium was deposited by the impact of a meteorite, and that the
impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Luis
Alvarez was an experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1968 for his work on radioactive decay.
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector. In 1811, she
discovered the fossil skeleton of a Jurassic ichthyosaur. This
skeleton can be seen in London’s Natural History Museum. She went on
to discover the first plesiosaur in 1821 and the first pterodactyl
in 1828.
Robert Bakker is an American paleontologist credited with bringing
about the so-called dinosaur renaissance. He has promoted a number
of ideas, including the theory that dinosaurs are warm-blooded
relatives of birds, rather than cold-blooded giant lizards. Bakker
views dinosaurs as intelligent, well adapted creatures, whose
extinction is problematic and intriguing. He acted as a consultant
on the 1993 film Jurassic Park.
Barnum Brown, who some feel is the greatest dinosaur hunter of the
20th century, represented the American Museum of Natural
History and acquired fossils from all over the world. His most
famous discovery was the first specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex
ever found. From 1910 to 1915, Brown recovered a spectacular
variety of complete dinosaur skeletons from the Red Deer River in
Alberta, Canada. These included several large skeletons,
representing 36 species of dinosaur and 84 species of other
vertebrates. In the 1930’s Brown excavated a wealth of Jurassic
fossils at Howe Ranch, Wyoming.
Edward Drinker Cope was a prolific American paleontologist who
discovered more than 1,000 species of extinct vertebrates in the
U.S. From 1864 to 1867, Cope was a professor of comparative zoology
and botany at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He devoted the next
22 years to exploration and research, concentrating on the area
between Texas and Wyoming, where he discovered several extinct
species of fish, reptiles, and mammals. He published more than
1,200 books and papers.
Richard Owen was an English
anatomist and paleontologist who coined the word “dinosaur” in
1842. He was responsible for the first full-scale dinosaur
reconstructions, which were displayed in Crystal Palace Gardens,
London.
Paul Sereno, an American paleontologist is known for his fieldwork
and research on early dinosaurs. He is with the University of
Chicago and has worked extensively in South America, Asia, and
Africa. He named the oldest known dinosaur, Eoraptor, and
discovered the first complete skull of Herrerasaurus. In
1994, Sereno found and named the predatory African dinosaur
Afrovenator.
The Sternberg Family made many spectacular discoveries in North
America. In the 1860’s Charles H. discovered thousands of fossils,
and developed techniques for “jacketing” fossil bones in a
protective cast. George discovered the duck-billed Edmontosaurus.
Levi developed a latex casting technique that was used to duplicate
fossils and Charles M. was famous for his ability to “read” the
ground for dinosaur bones.
This is only
a very small portion of the many scientists who have contributed to
our world of fossils Check out the books in our gift store for more
in depth information on fossil hunters past and present.
See you at
Critterfest Saturday Aug. 7th & Sunday Aug. 8th!
Regards,
Geri LeBold
Education Director
geri@rmdrc.com
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:From the Business Development Desk:
Cathy Kelsay's Story Time
Summer is almost gone but we still have lots of events planned and we have
had so many happy visitors!!! I have been posting some of their comments on
facebook so be sure to check them out.
Speaking of facebook… last month I mentioned that we had a few “glitches”
and that we were working to get back on track. I believe we have done this
and then some. I am currently working on a couple of fun projects as well.
I hope to get them implemented by next month. Wish me luck.
And as always…we have our guided school tours available which are generally
2 hours long. We offer over 30 exciting dinosaur exhibits. You can
discover how fossils are formed and preserved, learn where they are found
and watch our paleo-techs prepare our newest specimens. Anyone who is
interested in booking a Tour, Birthday Party or Scout program please contact
me at 719-686-1820 x104.
Love to hear from you all!
Deb Robillard
Business Development
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:From Triebold Paleontology, Inc:
Summer is in
full swing and so are the TPI Paleo guys, suffering in the heat of
Montana looking for new fossils for the Lab.
It’s been pretty
slim pickings so far, but Jacob and Kraig signed up some new ranches and
Mike just arrived. He emailed this morning that they’re working on
hadrosaur leg with nice articulated foot. It looks to be a large
lambeosaurid. There may be more! They also found a small ornithiscian
meta across the ravine that they have not investigated yet. Cross your
fingers for some great finds this coming week!
We had a special
guest visit the museum on his tour of the west. Thomas Holtz,
Vertebrate Paleontologist from the University of Maryland, did a
whirlwind run thru Colorado and Wyoming, taking the time out for a quick
stop to look over fossils with Anthony in the bone room. Thanks for
stopping by Tom!!
I was pleasantly
surprised when reviewing an exhibit company website to find photos of
our specimens in the Carnegie Natural History Museum. You can see them
at
http://www.maltbie.com/our-work/projects/showcases/carnegie-museum-showcases/
Some of you may
recall the Elasmosaurus that we built a few years ago and set up in the
Science Building at Kutztown University. I just came across an
interesting paper written by one of the professors there regarding
digging dinosaurs. Here’s a brief synopsis of the paper in the August
issue of GEOLOGY.
Predatory digging behavior by
dinosaurs
Edward L. Simpson et al.,
Department of Physical Sciences, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania,
424 Boehm, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530, USA. Pages 699-702.
This paper by Edward
Simpson of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and colleagues provides
evidence for a dinosaur hunting strategy for securing fossorial mammals.
The predatory behavior of dinosaurs has commonly been identified through
specific adaptations, jaws, teeth and post-cranial elements, taphonomic
associations, and trace fossil evidence, including bite marks, gut
contents, coprolites, and trackways. Minimal direct evidence exists in
the rock record of dinosaurs and mammals behaving as predators and prey,
respectively. However, a newly discovered Late Cretaceous trace fossil
association of digging traces of maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs and
mammalian den complexes indicates a predator-prey relationship. Three
distinct associated trace fossils occur within a floodplain
siltstone-mudstone bed of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation in
southern Utah, United States. Simpson et al. show that one trace records
digging by a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur, possibly a dromeosaurid or
troodontid. The other two are interpreted as mammalian den complexes.
The fact that these traces are so close together suggests that dinosaurs
used excavation techniques to prey on mammals.
http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/40670483/august-2010-geology-and-gsa-today-highlights.html
Be watching for more dinosaurs to
go into construction in the lab in the near future as some of our museum
projects begin moving forward!!
Have a safe
August!
Tracie Bennitt
Sales
and Marketing
Triebold Paleontology, Inc.
tracie@trieboldpaleontology.com
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As many of you know, there's a lot more going on in the lab
than I can fit in a monthly update. With that in mind,
check out the Paleo Lab News with updates at least once
weekly. Stop on by for stories & photographs!
Anthony Maltese
Curator, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center
719.686.1820 x106
anthony@rmdrc.com
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Links for August 2010
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate
change
New Scientist
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years before the onset of
agriculture - albeit unwittingly. At least, that is if we played a part in
the ...
Fossil Find: Big Bird Roamed NW 50 Million
Years Ago
KPLU
BELLINGHAM, WA (N3) - Scientists from Western Washington University have
found fossil evidence
New marine species found at 1400m
Sydney Morning Herald
Prehistoric six-gilled sharks, giant oil fish, swarms of crustaceans and
many new species have been found in deep water off the far north Queensland
coast. ...
Sex and the secrets of old fossils
The Australian
This fascination with the mating of small creatures makes the prehistoric
reptile research Tomkins and colleagues have just published in the journal
The ...
Fossils Rewrite History for Multicellular
Organisms
The Epoch Times
By Stephanie Lam Over 250 fossils of multicellular organisms from 2.1
billion years ago have been discovered in the Paleoproterozoic Francevillian
B ...
Elephant tooth fossil found in Brazil: report
AFP
SAO PAULO — Scientists in Brazil say a fossil of an elephant's tooth found
in the Amazon jungle proves the presence of pachyderms in South America some
...
Wooden "Stonehenge" Emerges From Prehistoric
Ohio
National Geographic
Just northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, a sort of wooden Stonehenge is slowly
emerging as archaeologists unearth increasing evidence of a 2000-year-old
...
Cave of Marsupial Fossils Discovered in Outback
Sci-Tech Today
By Kristen Gelineau Scientists have unearthed a treasure trove of
beautifully preserved fossils from a cave in the Outback, including 26
skulls from an ...
The Register-Guard
The Register-Guard
But by scanning the ancient creature's fossil skull and putting it on a
website, scientists around the world can now study an online 3D model
created from ...
Fossilized tracks in Valley oldest known on
Earth
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Spencer G. Lucas, curator of paleontology and geology at the New Mexico
Museum of Natural History and Science, made a return visit to Blue Beach
last week. ...
Comic-Con in San Diego unveils Discovery's
"Reign of the Dinosaur," shot in ...
Examiner.com
On Friday, July 23, 2010, the Discovery Channel and Creative Solutions
presented a behind-the-scenes look at "Reign of the Dinosaurs" to attendees
of ...
Soft-headed intellectuals
Boston Globe
Mather and her colleague Roland Anderson, a biologist formerly at the
Seattle Aquarium, decided to surprise octopuses by wiring shut clams that
are usually ...
Clawed dino caught in act of digging for prey
msnbc.com
Scientists didn't have bones of the dinosaur, but from fossilized claw marks
found, here's what they think the raptor relative may have looked like when
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Dinos Dug Hidden Mammals
Discovery News
... fossil" discovery -- that is, fossilized evidence of animal behaviors
rather than the animals themselves -- in the August issue of the journal
Geology. ...
Oldest known mammalian tooth marks found on
dinosaur bones
Execte News
Paleontologists have recently discovered the oldest known tooth marks made
by mammals on the bones of some ancient animals, including dinosaurs. ...
"Prehistoric" Shark Seen Attacking Deep Bait
National Geographic
A sixgill shark—a species often referred to as prehistoric because of its
resemblance to sharks living hundreds of millions of years ago—is seen
biting on ...
Prehistoric Toothless Fish May Get Protection
LiveScience.com
By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Tennesse Tech University Graduate
Student Michelle Casto-Yerty releases a pallid sturgeon removed from a ...
Report: New Fish Species Found "Walking" in
Gulf
DailyTech
According to the American Museum of Natural History and the Journal of Fish
Biology, a team of scientists have discovered fish in the Gulf of Mexico who
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BC Anthropologist Identifies Extraordinary
Fossil in the Caribbean
BC Hot News
Rosenberger identified the fossil and reported the findings last week in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, under the title, "First skull of ...
Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs
deceived us
New Scientist
DINOSAURS were shape-shifters. Their skulls underwent extreme changes
throughout their lives, growing larger, sprouting horns then reabsorbing
them, ...
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