For more than 100 years, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has been at the heart of cultural experience in Denver. Explore the cosmos, uncover dazzling gems and minerals, see an IMAX film and a planetarium show, and get as close to a T-Rex as you dare. Visit dmns.org for current offerings, including temporary exhibitions, IMAX showtimes.
Entrance to the museum.Hundreds of Jurassic era dinosaurs are currently being excavated from the Dinosaur National Monument in Western Colorado.A complete fossilized skeleton of a T-Rex greets visitors at the entrance to the museum.
Oldest rock on earth, hardened from magma 4 Billion Years ago.First life on earth 3 1/2 billion years ago.Life will find a way!A huge ocean once covered the mid-western portion of North America.
The sea life and plants created layers and layers of ocean floor as they died and settled on the bottom.Trilobites, like brachiopods, crinoids, and corals, are found in all modern oceans and occupied earth’s earliest oceans, also. (modern example: horseshoe crabs)
Many living things were super-sized during the age of the dinosaurs.
Survival of the fittest. The food chain was all about protection. Every species was lunch for larger, stronger, or faster animals.
Coelophysis was one of the earliest dinosaurs in North America.
Triceratops skull.
This complete fossilized skeleton of a diplodocus, a plant eater, was the largest animal that has ever lived, the skeleton twists around the room in order to fit into the space. It was capable of grazing from the tops of very tall trees.
Teeth, and claws and power! Life was one constant battle – eat, defend or be eaten.
Dinosaur paleontologist slowly dig each bone out of the earth surrounding it.
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Except December 25
Receiving 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
LOCATION:
2001 Colorado Blvd.Denver, CO 80205
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(Source: ArtsandFood Staff visit to the museum, photos taken with permission, and some images from the museum website.)
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