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Discovery Days: Fossil Fest!
From colossal landmasses to ancient creatures—some still around today—dig and uncover the secrets of life long ago.
Get hands-on and channel your inner paleontologist with activities like:
🌎 Pangea Puzzle: Piece together a giant supercontinent and see how today’s continents once fit together as a single landmass.
🪳 Cockroach Conservation: Meet live cockroaches that are facing extinction, discover their million-year survival story, and learn how scientists are working to protect them.
🦎 Food-Web Engineer: Build a Permian-style food web and see how it would hold up during the world’s largest extinction event, the ‘Great Dying.’
🦴 Fossil Forensics: Use a single Permian fossil to reconstruct an entire creature—just like real paleontologists do!
🐉 Creature Creations: Invent a creature tough enough to survive the extreme conditions and climate at the end of the Permian Period.
⚒️ And much more!
While you’re here, don’t miss out on even more fun! Stop by our newest traveling exhibit, Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs, check out our newest Acheson Planetarium show, Taylor Swift: Dimensions, or plan a trip to the exploreLAB to get up close with dino bones and critters available for an additional fee.
Discovery Days: Fossil Fest! activities are included with the purchase of general museum admission.
Dig into your adventure today!
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3317408-0
