November 24, 2014

Dinosaurs inhabit North Carolina museum

Nicholas Chupka
News Editor

Feel like exploring this weekend? Take a trip to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ World’s Largest Dinosaurs exhibit in downtown Raleigh. The exhibit will be on display until April 12, 2015.   
The World’s Largest Dinosaurs focuses on what factors allowed for these massive dinosaurs to exist for over 140 million years. Spread around the museum are a variety of hands-on, interactive workstations where visitors can explore even further into the prehistoric world. In addition a life-sized Mamenchisaurus model serves as the center piece for the exhibit.  
Exhibit curator and chairman of the American Museum of Natural History’s Division of Paleontology Mark Norell said in a press release, “This exhibition represents a new era of dinosaur research that leverages recent advances in technology and the expertise of multiple scientific disciplines to understand how the largest animals to ever roam the earth actually lived,” adding, “It demonstrates how our understanding of these enormous creatures continually evolves and changes in response to new science.”


Admission Rates
Members: Free
Adults: $14
Students, Military, Seniors: $12
Children (3 – 12): $8