Every first Friday of the month, there is something fun going on at the NC Museum of Natural Science. This week, Friday December 7th, the theme is Dinosaurs!!!
6 PM Parenthood and Life's Hazards for Dinosaurs - presentation by Dr. Dale Russell, Senior Curator of Paleontology
I took a class on Dinosaur Osteology with Dale Russell and went to the Carnegie Museum on a December trip as a part of the course some years ago. He took us down to the vaults at dawn before the museum opened and started pulling stuff out of drawers testing our knowledge on the spot. He pulled a little oval-shaped bone from a drawer with no processes or much other distinguishable about it except a hole in the middle of it and asked me what it was - I immediately excitedly shouted "occipital bone of the Diplodocus!" and he was very pleased - he said he knew I would know it because of the pineal opening....
7 PM Natural Horror Picture Show, First Feature - The Lost World (1925)
Now, that's a classic! Have you not seen it yet?
7:30 PM Thelonius Monk tribute by the University of North Carolina-Greensboro jazz ensemble
Jazz? Enjoy!
8:30 PM Natural Horror Picture Show, Second Feature - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
I guess this can be somehow construed as having to do with Dinosaurs LOL!
But if you want to skip Mad Max, you can always go downstairs to see the permanent dino exhibit and see Acrocanthosaurus and Willo, the dinosaur with a heart (all permanent exhibits are free). Or you can pay (only $5 after 5pm) and see the traveling exhibit Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries.
Anyone want to go as a group and liveblog the event?
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