The 10th Annual Dino Shindig

By Sabre Moore

This 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 .

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 .

Ca r te C o un t M u se u at the Ca r te C o un t M u se u at the r y m r y m July 23 & 24

EKALAKA, MT

Named Montana’s Event of the Year

by the Office of Tourism and Business Development

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

Free Event • Talks & nature hike at

Medicine Rocks State Park

cartercountymuseum.org Featuring lectures from leading paleontologists, fun kids activities, a street dance, and bat walk!

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