Comments on: "My Favorite Museum Exhibit": An Archaeopteryx in Wyoming http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 23:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: TheMudshark http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html#comment-1334413 TheMudshark Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141580#comment-1334413 Dinosaurs: Enabling kids to flawlessly pronounce complicated names in Latin and Ancient Greek since 235.000.000 BC. Dinosaurs: Enabling kids to flawlessly pronounce complicated names in Latin and Ancient Greek since 235.000.000 BC.

]]> By: Bonnie Ash http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html#comment-1333937 Bonnie Ash Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141580#comment-1333937 For our nerdy two year old, it was a thrill to hear him say Thecodontosaurus when reading Byron Barton's Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones.  Still love him nerdy at thirteen and looking forward to joining him at a Jack Horner speech coming up during Darwin Days. Nerd + Nerd= Baby nerd->Teen nerd.   For our nerdy two year old, it was a thrill to hear him say Thecodontosaurus when reading Byron Barton’s Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones.  Still love him nerdy at thirteen and looking forward to joining him at a Jack Horner speech coming up during Darwin Days. Nerd + Nerd= Baby nerd->Teen nerd.  

]]> By: mamayama http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html#comment-1333395 mamayama Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141580#comment-1333395 Thermopolis also has impressive natural hot springs ("WORLD'S LARGEST HOT SPRINGS!" trumpet the signs on the way in), and recently restored the swinging bridge that let you walk above the massive formations.  Many of Wyoming's most impressive exhibits are in the open air...on the "Dino Dance Floor" at Red Gulch Dinosaur Track Site you can put your hand in clear dinosaur tracks, and find fossils just lying around: devil's toenails and little star crinoid fossils that the local ants collect on their hills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxw-pGvLDPQ . Medicine Lodge Archelogical Site, a gorgeous wooded gulch with a trout creek, campground, and a huge red rock wall covered with petroglyphs http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Medicine-Lodge-State-Archaeological-Site/3666 , and Devil's Kitchen, a huge valley of wildly colored and shaped geo formations—it'd make a great movie location for an alien planet—no fences, few signs, just walk right out on the rock spurs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBiTR6tKfg . Thermopolis also has impressive natural hot springs (“WORLD’S LARGEST HOT SPRINGS!” trumpet the signs on the way in), and recently restored the swinging bridge that let you walk above the massive formations. 

Many of Wyoming’s most impressive exhibits are in the open air…on the “Dino Dance Floor” at Red Gulch Dinosaur Track Site you can put your hand in clear dinosaur tracks, and find fossils just lying around: devil’s toenails and little star crinoid fossils that the local ants collect on their hills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxw-pGvLDPQ . Medicine Lodge Archelogical Site, a gorgeous wooded gulch with a trout creek, campground, and a huge red rock wall covered with petroglyphs http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Medicine-Lodge-State-Archaeological-Site/3666 , and Devil’s Kitchen, a huge valley of wildly colored and shaped geo formations—it’d make a great movie location for an alien planet—no fences, few signs, just walk right out on the rock spurs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBiTR6tKfg .

]]> By: Ito Kagehisa http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html#comment-1333392 Ito Kagehisa Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141580#comment-1333392 Maggie, I'm really enjoying this series.  Certainly a "Directory of Wonderful Things".... thank you! Maggie, I’m really enjoying this series.  Certainly a “Directory of Wonderful Things”…. thank you!

]]> By: Paul Renault http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/my-favorite-museum-exhibit-9.html#comment-1333376 Paul Renault Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=141580#comment-1333376 Typo alert! "For children of a certain nerdy persuasion, "archaeopteryx" is liable to be the first five-syllable word they ever<b>(y)</b> pronounce." I wonder if they're related to BC comic's apteryx.  They <i>are</i> related to the velicoraptor.  But they weren't much of a threat, being about the size of a crow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archiesizeall1.svg Typo alert!
“For children of a certain nerdy persuasion, “archaeopteryx” is liable to be the first five-syllable word they ever(y) pronounce.”

I wonder if they’re related to BC comic’s apteryx.  They are related to the velicoraptor.  But they weren’t much of a threat, being about the size of a crow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archiesizeall1.svg

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