How do scientists categorize dinosaurs? Long necked sauropods, frilled ceratopsians, and duck-billed hadrosaurs are only three of the five groups of dinosaurs that we will explore in this program. Join a museum educator to learn more about the lives of these incredible dinosaurs!

Rocks, rock! While rocks aren’t living things (or even squishy, for that matter!), they still go through cycles – changing and morphing from one type to another over time. Learn about the three basic rock types with paleontologist Ashley Hall, and how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks form and change through Earth’s dynamic forces.

The Hell Creek Formation in Montana and surrounding areas contains the fossils of some of the last non-avian dinosaurs to walk the Earth. Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and more all roamed the area about 66 million years ago. Join MOR's John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology, Dr. John Scannella, to travel back to the end of the Cretaceous Period and meet the dinosaurs of the Hell Creek Formation!

How much of Jurassic Park is grounded in real science, and how much is pure Hollywood magic? Can we actually recreate dinosaurs from ancient amber? Do the famous words “life finds a way” hold up under scientific scrutiny? Join a paleontologist for a fascinating journey through the science and storytelling of the Jurassic Park franchise. Discover which dinosaurs were real, which ones were made for the movies, and how paleontologists actually uncover the history of life on Earth. We will dig into the process of paleontology, explore the paleobiology of the movie’s most iconic prehistoric creatures, and separate cinematic fiction from ancient fact. Bring your curiosity and your questions!