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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

A Gastonia-themed Fossil Fest comes to the Prehistoric Museum November 15!

FREE admission all day (9 am - 7 pm)
Museum collections tours (10 am & 1 pm)
Activities/crafts for all ages (11 am - 2 pm)
Up-close looks at the stars of Walking With Dinosaurs: Gastonia and Utahraptor (11 am - 2 pm)

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 16d

Join us on Nov 11 at 7:30 PM for a FREE screening of Walking with Dinosaurs at the King Koal Theatre in Price, UT!

Follow the Prehistoric Museum & our excavation of Gastonia & raptor fossils. Hang out afterwards for a Q&A w/ our curator, Dr. Joshua Lively, and see fossils excavated during filming.

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 20d

We are excited to partner with the Price City Youth Council as part of the 3rd Annual Main Street Mash! There will be fun activities across downtown Price, including free admission to the Museum. #Prehistoric #Utah

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Oct 3

Great article about former museum preparator Carrie Herbel on her work at the University of Nebraska. If you enjoyed our temporary exhibit, Dippy: The Worlds Oldest Celebrity, you can thank her for her hard work she put in restoring the casts.

news.unl.edu/article/herb...

Herbel helps preserve Nebraska’s legacy, one bone at a time | Nebraska Today

A full-circle moment brought Carrie Herbel back to Nebraska to take a position once held by a mentor. The chief preparator at the University of Nebraska State Museum is being honored today for 10…

news.unl.edu

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Oct 1

Check out this nice article from the current issue of Utah State Magazine!

utahstatemagazine.usu.edu/culture/bone...

Bones, Tools, and Treasures Tell Utah’s Ancient Story - Utah State Magazine

By Timothy R. Olsen ’09, ’18 M.B.A. The project had bogged down, quite literally, as a patch of thick muck […]

utahstatemagazine.usu.edu

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 29

Don't miss this great event happening on campus next week! Larry Martin has done a great job growing the Castle Valley Orchestra from students and community members. Come join them and the Concert and Chamber Choirs for a night of movie soundtrack favorites and more! #USUEastern

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Danny Anduza 🦴🦖🦕 is headed to #SVP2025 ✈ @paleontologizing.bsky.social · Sep 22

MORE CRETACEOUS FIELDWORK! I'm back out in the Cedar Mountain Formation with @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social, digging up dozens of ankylosaurs and streaming each day at 1pm Pacific

Tune in @ twitch.tv/paleontologizing to see what we're finding and ask some questions!

Selfie photo of me, in field garb, in front of our newly-erected shade tarps at the "Lorrie's Site" Gastonia quarry out in the eastern Utah desert

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 11

Check out this cool event happening outside the museum tomorrow evening! We will also be offering free admission to the museum during the event.

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 1

Stories like this don’t always have a happy ending; resources that are much more fragile have been vandalized beyond repair. When enjoying the landscapes of Utah, please remember to show respect for these resources - paleo & archaeology are irreplaceable parts of our region’s natural heritage!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to a generous donation from Mike Leschin and the expertise of Go Wash Utah, the surface has been restored to its former glory! #FossilFriday

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 1

A story of vandalism with a happy ending for #FossilFriday

A couple of years ago, a sandstone boulder preserving dinosaur tracks in Price Canyon was graffitied. This boulder had fallen out of a nearby cliff and was placed at a popular pullout in the canyon by Utah DOT prior to the vandalism.

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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · Jun 18

Have you seen the Band of Brothers episode of Walking With Dinosaurs yet? Last year it was an absolute pleasure to dig at the site with our University of Birmingham undergraduates - thanks so much to @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social & @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social for an amazing experience!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 18

If you missed us on @pbs.org, you can stream the Band of Brothers episode of #WalkingWithDinosaurs online!
#WWD2025 #FossilFriday

www.pbs.org/video/band-o...

Walking with Dinosaurs | Band of Brothers | Episode 3

Follow a gang of armored dinosaurs battle to reach adulthood, pursued by ferocious raptors

www.pbs.org

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 17

We’re less than 24 hours away from the premiere of our episode of #WalkingWithDinosaurs!

Our excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor will air Tuesday night at 7 pm on PBS Utah. Check your local listings for show times on your PBS station.

#WWD25

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Utah State University College of Science @ustatescience.bsky.social · Jun 6

Premiering Sunday, June 8 on BBC One and Tuesday, June 17 on PBS: Utah State University Eastern's Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social is featured in the "Walking with Dinosaurs" series. Tune in to learn more about Gastonia and Utahraptor, & hear from Prehistoric Museum paleontologists!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 3

Join us this coming weekend for this great event! Learn more about the role of the Buffalo Soldiers here in Utah! Registration is required. Register at the link below.

tinyurl.com/bshtregistra...

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 1

Because this track was made in the boundary between the Yellow Cat & Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, likely candidates include “iguanadontians” like Iguanacolossus, Hippodraco, and Planicoxa.

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Ornithopod tracks in place in the Cedar Mountain Formation

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 1

For International #DinosaurDay, here is a large ornithopod track we collected during filming of Walking With Dinosaurs!

Though we can’t tell the species of dinosaur that made a given footprint, we know it was an ornithopod because of its three rounded toes.

#WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025

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Ornithopod track weathered out of place in the Cedar Mountain Formation

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 1

Worth a repost for #DinosaurDay!

Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

Our #dinosaurs and our #paleontologists from the Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern will take center stage for episode 3 of Walking With Dinosaurs, premiering on PBS June 16-18.

Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 31

We are excited to partner with the State Historic Preservation Office, Sema Hadithi, and Price City to kick off the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail. Register at the link below.

tinyurl.com/bshtregistra...

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 25

Our #dinosaurs and our #paleontologists from the Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern will take center stage for episode 3 of Walking With Dinosaurs, premiering on PBS June 16-18.

Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 24

We’ll be back #LiveFromTheField again starting in August!

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 24

We followed up that trip with an expedition to the Cretaceous Neslen Formation in the Book Cliffs outside of Green River. The main focus was geology, giving a number of our @ustatescience.bsky.social #geology students the opportunity to practice the skill of measuring geologic section.

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 24

We were especially successful finding microsites, which sample a broader portion of the ecosystem than the typical #fossil locality.

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Prehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · May 24

Here’s a late #FossilFriday thread of our paleo fieldwork over the last month!

In April we prospected the Cretaceous Kaiparowits & Wahweap formations of Grand Staircase Escalante Natl Mon. We found fossils big and small, including #dinosaurs, crocs, turtles, and even a couple of bird bones!

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