Dinosaurs and Their Living Relatives

• Saturday, October 15
• 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
• Code: EC101505A  
• 1:00-2:00 p.m.
• Code: EC101505B CANCELLED
• Linder Theater, first floor
• $8 children; $10 adults
  This program will be interpreted in ASL.

Dinosaurs may be extinct, but their relatives can be found living all around us. Explore this subject with Carl Mehling, Division of Paleontology, and live animals from the Theodore Roosevelt Audubon Center and Sanctuary, including a bearded dragon, a red-tailed hawk, and other birds and reptiles.

DINOSAUR SUNDAYS

• $25 each; $65 for all three
• Enrollment limited
• Calder Lab, 2nd Floor

These special Sunday workshops for families and kids present the latest discoveries in paleontology. Take all three courses and earn a certificate. To receive the discounted series price, all sessions must be for the same time and age group

Dinosaur Trackways

• Sunday, October 9
• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Code: EC100905A  
  (Ages 4-6, each child with one adult)
• 1:30-3:00 p.m.
• EC100905B  CANCELLED
  (Ages 7-10)

Trackways and footprints are excellent evidence of dinosaur behavior, as they record the actions of living animals. Participants in this workshop led by Museum educators will learn what trackways can and can't reveal about the way dinosaurs lived.

Digging for Dinos

• Sunday, October 16
• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  
• Code: EC101605A
  (Ages 4-6, each child with one adult)
• 1:30-3:00 p.m.  
• EC101605B
  (Ages 7-10)

Is there evidence of dinosaurs in Central Park? Did dinosaurs play on the Palisades? Children will become junior paleontologists and learn how scientists conduct fieldwork in their quest for fossils in the New York area and around the world.

Build Your Own Dinosaur

• Sunday, October 23
• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.  
• Code: EC102305A
  (Ages 4-6, each child with one adult)
• 1:30-3:00 p.m.  
• Code: EC102305B
  (Ages 7-10)

The anatomical similarities between dinosaurs and birds are brought to life by constructing dinosaur reproductions with creative modeling! Museum educators guide this fun and fascinating hands-on introduction to real-life paleontological lab work.

Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries and its accompanying education and public programs are made possible by Bank of America.

Major funding has also been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund.

Casting Dino Tracks  CANCELLED

• Sunday, May 22
• 1:00-2:00 p.m.
• Code: EK052205
• Calder Lab, second floor
• $30
  (adults 16 yrs and older)

Make your own cast of a dinosaur footprint with Pamela Popeson, artist and former Director of the Museum's Fossil Reproduction Department and learn why fossil footprints are the only evidence scientists have for understanding the behavior of dinosaurs.