The 10th Annual Dino Shindig By Sabre Moore
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his year, the Carter County Museum is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Annual Dino Shindig on July 23-24, 2022. Started in 2013, as a celebration of the paleontological discoveries of southeastern Montana, this event went on to win the Montana Office of Tourism’s Event of the Year award in 2017. Each year at the end of July, paleontologists from all over the world journey to Ekalaka, Montana to share cutting-edge research in a public forum, augmented by dinosaur-based kids activities, new exhibits at the Carter County Museum, a robotic t. rex jaw demonstration, a street dance and more.
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July 23 & 24
Named Montana’s Event of the Year by the Office of Tourism and Business Development
EKALAKA, MT
Featuring lectures from leading paleontologists, fun kids activities, a street dance, and bat walk!
July 23rd 9am-5pm $5 Children $7 Adults
• ZooMontana booth with live animals • Paleo art demonstrations • Robotic T. rex! • Fossil prep and digitization
July 24th 10am-2pm
There will be a total of 12 speakers at the event on July 23, including Dr. Jingmai O’Connor (Chicago Field Museum), Dr. John Scannella (Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman Mont.), Dr. Lydia Tackett (North Dakota State University), and Dr. Greg Wilson-Mantilla (Burke Museum, Seattle Wash.). ZooMontana will have a booth with live animals on the museum lawn, and there will be demonstrations of taxidermy, paleoart, fossil preparation, and 3-D scanning. Kids activities include crafts, face painting, dinosaur golf, and more! Admission to the July 23 events is $7 for adults and $5 for kids. After sunset, participants can join in a street dance in front of the Dawghouse Pub and a Bat Walk around town, put on by Montana Fish & Game. On July 24, the Carter County Museum and Montana State Parks will co host picnic presentations at Medicine Rocks State Park. Pack a lunch and join us as we learn from Dr. Tim Urbaniak (Billings, Mont.) about the historic inscriptions in the park, and discover Pleistocene mammals with a team from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (Seattle, Wash.). Festivities will close with a nature hike through the park. Events at Medicine Rocks State Park are free and open to the public. A full speaker list will be released in July on cartercountymuseum.org. Please follow our Facebook and Instagram pages for further information.
Free Event
• Talks & nature hike at Medicine Rocks State Park cartercountymuseum.org
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