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Cub Scouts Visit Ancient Eras in Geologic Time Machine
The biggest hit was the Mesozoic Room, where hadrosaur fossils borrowed from USGS paleontologists were buried beneath popcorn in a simulated dig set up on a large table. Colored yarn delineated a grid that the kids used to plot the location of fossils they dug out of the popcorn. An enlarged illustration of a dinosaur skeleton helped the kids figure out what body parts each fossil represented, and additional fossils helped them determine what foods their dinosaur may have eaten. In the Cenozoic Room, the kids excavated a saber-toothed cat skull and crawled through a cardboard cave to see mammoth drawings on the walls. The time tour, which lasted just less than an hour, was very popular.
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