Visitors can witness the Dino Lab technician at work or simply sit and watch the story of the dinosaur, Coelophysis’ discovery.

Our Dino Lab, featuring the small, meat-eating dinosaur, Coelophysis (pronounced see-lo-FISE-iss), allows students to discover what digging up a dinosaur fossil is really like!

The Dino Lab is an interactive exhibit that enables visitors to see what goes on behind the scenes in a fossil preparation laboratory. After fossils (including dinosaur skeletons) are found in the field, many steps, not normally seen by the public, are taken to prepare the fossils for exhibition. Visitors can witness this process of uncovering the fossilized bones from the rock that surrounds them.

Click on the thumbnails below to view the
Dino Lab and Coelophysis dioramas.

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