Dino Days: Western Science Center’s Dr. Andrew McDonald
At the Museum
During the Late Cretaceous Epoch, around 80 million years ago, New Mexico was very different from the desert and scrubland we know today. It was hot, humid, lush, and crisscrossed by sluggish rivers and streams. In the forests of conifers and ferns roamed a variety of dinosaurs, large and small, plant-eaters and carnivores. Dr. Andrew McDonald, Curator at the Western Science Center in Hemet, will share replicas of the fossils of some of these dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from this bygone world. These include two newly-discovered dinosaurs named by Dr. McDonald and his colleagues in 2018: the armored herbivore Invictarx and the tyrannosaur Dynamoterror.
Included with Museum admission. Stay tuned for other Dino Days with special programming on select days through the summer.
Information: Contact Community Education Manager Stefanie Coleman at 805-682-4711 ext. 170 or scoleman@sbnature2.org.
Illustration by Brian Engh