Dino Fest

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Dino Fest is BACK! 🦖🎉 Join us on March 15, 2025 from 12–4 p.m. at Grand Prairie's EpicCentral for an extROARdinary adventure! Join us for animatronic dinosaurs and fun dino-activities. Tell a friend!

Updated February 19, 2025
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Barnum's bones : how Barnum Brown discovered the most famous dinosaur in the world
Fern, Tracey E.
Paper Book
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleontologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the...
A history of dinosaurs in 50 fossils
Barrett, Paul M. (Paleontologist)
Paper Book
A beautifully illustrated and definitive crash course on dinosaur fossils, from the Allosaurus that use their teeth and jaws to dismember prey to the Sinosauropteryx specimen that confirmed the existence of feathered dinosaurs For natural history buffs and...
How tall was a T. Rex?
Limentani, Alison
Paper Book
Explore everyone's favorite dinosaur in this graphically striking and innovative picture book from an extraordinary new talent.   Everyone's fascinated by T.rex and wants to know what this big, fearsome creature was really like. ...
The last days of the dinosaurs : an asteroid, extinction, and the beginning of our world
Black, Riley
Paper Book
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writing." --Publishers Weekly, starred review In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the...
The monster's bones : the discovery of T. rex and how it shook our world
Randall, David K.
Paper Book
From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils,...

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