5K Male
<12 Elias Blunk – 64.43
13-19 James Mauch – 18.17 Overall male winner
20-29 Ben Hauschulz – 24.17
30-39 Duane Hoff Jr. – 29.17
40-49 Ray Shirley – 32.34
50-59 Dan Tonello – 26.45
5K Female
<12 Laura Prinster – 32.42
13-19 Stephanie Lenhart – 48.56
20-29 Elizabeth Lenhart – 45.12
30-39 Jayme Piegat – 26.15 Overall female winner
40-49 [...]
Don’t forget that Dino DAZE are this weekend! The fun starts with a VIP reception at Dinosaur Journey Museum Friday, July 24 at 6:30 pm.
After the reception there will be a street dance with Ralph Dinosaur and the Fabulous Volcanoes! And it’s FREE! The Fruita Rotary Club will be selling libations.
Then, Saturday morning, the PTROT! [...]
Finding fossils is just scratching the surface… Bring in your fossil finds to dig deeper!!
Saturday, July 25 during Dinosaur Days, 11 AM to 2 PM at Dinosaur Journey Museum
The community is invited to bring their plant or animal fossil finds to be identified by the Museum of Western Colorado’s expert team of paleontologists from Dinosaur Journey [...]
Day one: During our first day we traveled through Colorado National Monument and became acquainted with some of the local geology, similar to what we would see once we arrived in Moab. We also took a trip out to Cactus Park to see a Jurassic dinosaur track site, where dinosaurs walked on a wet, sandy [...]
Thanks to Amanda Dumenigo of examiner.com, we are listed with other dinosaur adventures in the Rockies. Check out the article here.
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Thus far we have not collected anything large that requires preparation (or removing the fossil from its surrounding rock and stabilizing the remains). Most of the remains we have collected have been relatively small (that will change this summer), consisting of small isolated bone pieces and a few hundred trilobites. We thought we would show a few of the trilobite [...]
Amecephalus
MWC 6259
This trilobite was found last fall by Museum of Western Colorado volunteer Ray Bley. It is Middle Cambrian in age and was cataloged last week. Trilobites are extinct arthropods and thus distant relatives of modern insects, crabs, scorpions and others.
A call to help with Spring Cleaning at Dinosaur Journey on Friday, February 27 brought in 18 people. Painting, dusting, washing, vacuuming, and more dusting . . . 18 hard-working and, by the end of the day, very tired people.
Next up, a complete redo of the popular Utahraptor. The 10 year-old computer for the robotic dinosaur has been replaced bringing [...]