Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center - Newsletter July 2007

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	RMDRC News Merry Christmas from the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family. The RMDRC kicked off the Christmas season with a busy Friday after Thanksgiving. Thank you to our many members and first time visitors who brought their out of town guests to see us and kick off their holiday shopping at Prehistoric Paradise. Our buyer’s have ordered in many exciting and unique items for your gift giving this year. Don’t forget members get 10% discount on all of their shopping plus we will gift wrap your purchases free! A yearly membership to RMDRC is a great idea for the family. Our Visitor Experience Guides have been as busy as Santa’s elves getting us ready for our Dinosauric Holiday event on Saturday, Dec.1^st. They have our Christmas tree up and waiting for all the little dino-lovers to help us decorate by making make ornaments for it. Face painting, special story times and, of course, tours will be on the schedule for Saturday. Woodland Park will be lighting up with the “I’m Dreaming of a Pink Christmas” parade at 6PM. See Tracie’s column below for details. We are excited to be having our own special tree lighting this year. It has been in our plans since we opened to have our palm trees out in front of the RMDRC lighted. This year we have accomplished the task! The palm trees will light up at 4:30 on December 1^st to give a warm winter welcome to the parade. The palm trees will remain lighted permanently. On December 28^th we will be hosting our 3^rd Annual Colorado Kid’s Free Day. This event is our opportunity to give families a chance to visit the RMDRC at a much reduced cost. Two children under 18 receive free admission with each paid adult admission. This has become a must do for all family’s during winter break. This year RMDRC will feature shows by “Cool Science” of Colorado Springs. Check our calendar of events for show times and details. This month brings 2007 to a close. It has been a great year for us with new exhibits, new faces and new finds for Triebold Paleontology and the staff of RMDRC. We are looking forward to even more fun in 2008. Check the website for details and changing news on paleontology and from all of us at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, have a safe and warm holiday season. Sincerely, JJ Triebold President, RMDRC
	From the Education Desk This month paleontologist Paul Sereno, from the University of Chicago, unveiled his latest discovery, the fossilized skeleton of a toothy plant-eating dinosaur. It has a body as big as an elephant with a small cow-size head and is called Nigersaurus taqueti. Sereno and his teams recovered the fossilized bones on expeditions in 1997 and 1999 to a remote region of the Sahara Desert in the African nation of Niger. It has taken 8 years for scientists to piece together bones of the many specimens to get a nearly complete skeleton. This skeleton finally puts a face and body on an animal that science has known only from a few scattered bones found elsewhere in Africa in the 1950s. Nigersaurus had a nearly perfectly squared-off jaw lined with 128 uniform front teeth. The rows would have joined perfectly to snip plants that the dinosaur ate. Sereno refers to this dinosaur as a Mesozoic cow. Nigersaurus will be featured in a cover story on “Extreme Dinosaurs” in the December issue of National Geographic. Can you believe we are at the end of 2007? This year went by very fast and so many memorable events took place at RMDRC. We hope you were able to join us in many of them. Starting off December will be *Dinosauric* *Holiday* on December 1^st. We will have the lighting of the Palm Trees at 4:30 and Crafts and Holiday Themed Photos all day. Please join us for this festive occasion. On December 28^th we will be hosting Colorado’s Kid’s Free Day along with two shows done by *Cool Science.* This should be a really fun day! Since the next newsletter is in 2008, I want to wish each and everyone of you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year. 2007 Highlights Tons of Tours went on, Critterfest was fantastic, Birthdays were a hit and Halloween was frightfully fun.
	RMDRC Upcoming Events Woodland Park Paint the Town PINK Days RMDRC and Prehistoric Paradise are participating in the Woodland Park holiday celebration kicking off December 1 with Breakfast with Santa, Yule Log Hunt, Lighter Side of Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony. Pick up your punch card at the front entrance at RMDRC. Visit a minimum of 15 businesses listed on the card and you’re qualified to enter the drawing for a fabulous gift basket valued at over $1000! You’ll have from now until December 23 to visit the participating businesses. The drawing will be held on December 24 and the winner notified by phone. You can start off your first punch on the card with a visit to Prehistoric Paradise and get some holiday shopping accomplished. PAINT THE TOWN PINK *December 1* *in Woodland Park* Pink Shopping/Dining Day - Woodland Park Participating businesses with PINK flyers Contact Jamie Caperton 686-7775 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. Kiwanis Breakfast with Santa UPCC Photos with Santa 331-1322 8 a.m. - 2:30 pm USFS Christmas Tree Cutting Permit required 636-1602 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dinosauric Holiday at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center Crafts, holiday themed photos and more! For info call 686-1820 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sounds of the Season Holiday Home Tour Contact David Sapp 686-0109 10 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Gingerbread House Exhibition Voting at Prudential Colorado Real Estate 687-1700 Gates Open 11:30 am Yule Log Hunt starts at 12:30 Yule Log Hunt - Gordon Jackson Foundation Professional family photos with Santa in his sleigh in front of Pikes Peak - $20 CD Food, crafts and family fun! Take 24 west and turn left at the light at Trout Creek Road. Pass South Forty Road and watch for signs. Entrance fee by donation. Contact Deb Idleman - 640-3745 4:30 p.m. Palm Tree Lighting Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center For info call 686-1820 6:00 p.m. Lighter Side of Christmas Parade - “I’m Dreaming of a PINK Christmas” Downtown Hwy 24 Proceeds to benefit Breast Cancer Awareness "Warm Your Bum Fires” will be along the parade route for keeping warm. Contact Tracie Bennitt 686-1820 X112 7:00 p.m. Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony UPCC Music, Parade Trophies, Refreshments, Photos with Santa Contact UPCC 687-5284
	December 28, 2007 Colorado Kid’s FREE Day Don’t miss out on the 3^rd annual “Colorado Kid’s FREE Day” at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park. Two (2) children, under 18 years of age, will receive FREE admission to RMDRC with every adult admission paid (Please note this change for 2007) from 9 am to 6 pm. RMDRC believes “Colorado Kids FREE Day” is a great educational opportunity for kids who might not otherwise have the chance to see the #1 dinosaur attraction in Colorado!
	Prehistoric Paradise Store - NEW Arrivals Visit the web site to send great gifts to all your family and friends. Click here to start your shopping experience! Here are some great items for this coming season. Design-a-saur, mix and match heads, legs and frills. Tiny beanings, and baby-soft plushs.
	Happenings at TPI It’s been a busy month for Triebold Paleontology and the lab. A lot of progress has been made on the Apatosaurus molding and casting, as well as working on numerous other projects for clients. With the Tucson Fossil Show only two months away, we’re already planning our exhibit pieces, which will include a 6 foot tall standing Pteranodon male and the new Protostega turtle, with a flipper span over 15 feet! It should be an impressive display. With the success of the 3-D IMAX film “Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure,” there have been a number of inquiries for the traveling exhibit “Savage Ancient Seas” to compliment the film. A visit to RMDRC will allow you to see a number of these specimens up close and personal. If you’re on the East Coast, the exhibit is going to the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk in January. Send your friends and relatives to see it.! We’ll keep you posted on our lab finds and show appearances throughout the new year. Have a happy and safe holiday season. Tracie Bennitt Sales and Marketing TPI Lab News Our lab crew is coming up with some exciting new displays! We are designing an exhibit on dinosaur tracks for a Colorado museum, and part of the display will feature a life reconstruction of our Juvenile Edmontosaurus leg. Brandon has created it as half cast bone and half fleshed out, showing skin, toe hooves, and even musculature. Look for a copy to be placed in our museum in December! We have also been busy preparing specimens that we collected during our "Mosasaur Summer". Ray discovered a Platecarpus ictericus skull and partial skeleton in May, and he has just finished preparing the main block. His exsquisite work has uncovered preserved ear bones, and even eardrums. I am currently preparing another mosasaur, a Platecarpus planifrons that was discovered by author Angus Carrol. This specimen is about 2 million years older than Ray's, and the skull is shaped a bit differently. Keep checking in for future updates, it is going to be a busy and exciting winter! Captions: Platecarpus ear area, Life restoration of leg. Anthony Maltese Curator anthony@rmdrc.com
	Dino Art 2007 - Prehistoric Poster Contest Dino Art posters will be on exhibit at the Colorado Springs Airport October thru December!
	From the Business Development Department: There are still discount tickets available for the extraordinary theatrical production Walking With Dinosaurs – LIVE! January 23-27, 2008. Discount tickets are available for the Wednesday January 23^rd and Thursday January 24^th performances at 7:00 pm. Go to www.worldarena. Under events and tickets there is a “Group Sales” link, move the mouse over the group sales and click on purchase tickets. From there the log-in page will open and that’s where you will enter the user name and password: User Name: RMDRC Password: dinosaur (case sensitive) The next page you open will have all the events that offer group discounts. When you find the event(s) you would like to purchase simply click the box next to the event, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the purchase tickets. Enter the number of tickets and what price level, and then you will enter your payment information. If you have any questions please contact Kimberly at the World Arena 719-477-2116. We will look forward to seeing you there! Book your School Tour* today! We offer Educational Tours to all ages. Come and learn the latest news in science. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to bring your classroom to life! Our Science for Life program is a group tour experience for adults of all ages…Our Birthday Parties are like no other! For a small price children and adults get to enjoy a party in the company of dinosaurs. RMDRC Paleo Patch Program meets all the requirements for the Girl Scouts Dinosaur badge, the Jr. Girl Scout Try-It badge, and some requirements for Boy Scouts badges. Call and book your School or Group Tour, Birthday Party or Paleo Patch today! Contact me at 719-686-1820 x 111. Hope to see your during the holiday season! See You Soon, Carla Deemer Business Development carla@rmdrc.com
	Paleo News from Dec 07: Fossil Record Reveals Elusive Jellyfish More Than 500 Million ... Dino Conspiracy Theory Talking Dinos with a Digger ARTISTS CREATE WORLD'S LARGEST DINOSAUR U. of C. scientist unveils skeleton of plant-eating dinosaur Prehistoric birds didn't live in trees Scientists Find Fossil of Sea Scorpion

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