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Last Weekend of Dinos Live! at the Virginia Living Museum!

Ends September 1

August 29, 2014
Last Weekend of Dinos Live at the Virginia Living Museum! 
Roaring robotic prehistoric creatures have been a popular attraction every time they’ve been featured at the Newport News museum. This year, for the first time, the VLM will feature the lifelike creations of Billings Productions, North America's leading producer of animatronic dinosaurs. 

The summer exhibit, ends Sept. 1, takes visitors back more than 65 million years to the Cretaceous Period when Tyrannosaurus rex ruled North America. 

Tremble at a growling T-rex, always a favorite with museum visitors and see new dinosaurs making their museum debut. Watch an Edmontosaurus mother tend her brood. There’s even a nestful of eggs ready to hatch. See Euoplocephalus, built like a military tank and weighing in at 3 tons, and Styracosaurus, one of the most spectacular of the horned reptiles. The dinosaur that highlights the link between non-avian dinosaurs and birds is the Citipati, whose spectacular head crest is similar to that of a modern cassowary.


Also new this summer is Fossil Find, a tented outdoor excavation area. Amateur paleontologists can search through a mound of fossil-filled sediment and then take home real fossils. And they can help uncover real fossil bones of ancient whales. Four to five million years ago whales swam in an ocean that covered the Peninsula. 

The Virginia Living Museum’s living exhibits explore the nature of Virginia from the mountains to the sea. Visitors immerse themselves in two-level walk-through habitats of an Appalachian cove and cypress swamp, explore the underwater world of the Chesapeake Bay and the underground world of a limestone cave and enjoy four hands-on discovery centers. Travel the universe in the planetarium theater or see spectacular views of the sun from the observatory. Outdoors, animals native to Virginia live in naturalized habitats along a 3/4-mile elevated boardwalk. Also outdoors are native plant gardens, green living exhibit and children's nature playground.

Summer hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. The museum is located at 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Newport News, I-64, exit 258A. 

For more information visit thevlm.org or call 757-
595-1900.
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