Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tracking the Past - The Dinosaurs Are Coming

The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center in Maysville, Kentucky will be hosting the part of the dinosaur collection owned by John Hankla.  The exhibition is called "Tracking the Past - The Dinosaurs Are Coming" and opens June 7, 2011 and ends October 31, 2011.

Twelve dinosaur casts will be shown including: Tyrannosaurus rex, Deinosuchus sp., Potamomis sp., Struthiomimus sedens, Edmontosaurus annectens, Thescelosaurus neglectus, and Didelphodon vorax.  In addition the casts of 20 trackways will be shown made by eight different animals.

Learn more by reading the article entitled "The dinosaurs are here" by Marla Toncray in The Ledger Independent.

Visit the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center at their web site: www.kygmc.org or call 606-564-5865.  As a point of reference, Maysville is about 136 miles driving distance east of Louisville, Kentucky.