You can dust off dinosaur fossils at Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Fossil Lab

DENVER – Who says you must be a paleontologist to mud off dinosaur prints?

Denver7 took a tour of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Earth Sciences assortment, which really accepts volunteers from the general public in its fossil lab.

Along with having that laboratory the place volunteers and interns might help mud off 65-million-year-old dinosaur bones, the museum additionally retains an underground library, storing 1000’s of fossils generally and uncommonly present in our space.

The Annex:

What occurs when fossils are despatched to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

The museum receives shipments of dinosaurs from everywhere in the West, however, like, how precisely to you ship anyone a dinosaur?

The Fossil Lab:

Volunteers can mud of dinosaur bones at Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Head behind the glass to see how preparators, volunteers and interns all work to dust-off the 1000’s of fossils that the museum receives.

The Basement of Bones:

Library of Bones at Denver Museum of Nature and Science homes historical past

Take a freight elevator a couple of tales beneath the floor to discover a library of fossils, spanning hundreds of thousands of years.