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CBS News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Outside Festival returns to Denver's Civic Center Park, includes concerts and activities
Thousands of people will be at Civic Center Park this weekend for the Outside Festival. It's in its second year in downtown Denver. An image from the Outside Festival at Civic Center Park in Denver on June 2, 2024. Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images The festival includes concerts and other activities. Tickets are still available at
CBS News
23-05-2025
- CBS News
Heavy traffic expected on Colorado's I-70 over Memorial Day weekend
Nearly 40 million people are expected to drive to their destinations for Memorial Day weekend, including travelers in Colorado. A total of 87% are taking a road trip, and the travel rush is already underway. A traffic jam I-70 in Colorado's mountains. Brian Brainerd/The Denver Post via Getty Images The Colorado Department of Transportation said heavy traffic is anticipated along the Front Range and mountain highways, especially on westbound I-70 on Friday and Saturday, and eastbound I-70 from Eagle County to the Denver metro area on Memorial Day. Other mountain roadways, including US 24, US 34, US 36, US 50, and US 160, should also expect increased traffic. To help improve traffic flow, CDOT is suspending all construction and maintenance projects from noon Friday, May 23, until Tuesday morning, May 27. The only exception is for emergency operations. Although it is not the busiest of the summer travel weekends, Memorial Day experiences significant amounts of traffic. In 2024, approximately 154,000 vehicles traveled through the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels over Memorial Day weekend. The most heavily traveled days were going westbound on Friday and eastbound on Memorial Day. The breakdown of last year's travel numbers is below: Friday, May 24 - 24,473 vehicles traveled westbound and 16,457 vehicles traveled eastbound for a total of 40,930 Saturday, May 25 - 20,980 vehicles traveled westbound and 15,262 traveled eastbound for a total of 36,242 Sunday, May 26 - 16,606 vehicles traveled westbound and 20,751 traveled eastbound for a total of 37,557 Monday, May 27 - 14,650 vehicles traveled westbound and 24,763 traveled eastbound for a total of 39,413 CDOT says it is up to drivers to drive cautiously, never distracted and impaired. Also, leave plenty of space between you and the car in front of you. "Traffic can come to a stop in an instant," said Sam Cole, Traffic Safety Manager for CDOT. "That's why it's so important to always have your eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. Prepare for the unexpected." Remember, if you are caught driving with your phone in hand, you will be hit with a $75 fee and two points added to your license. It only takes 12 points to get your license suspended. If you are planning on taking any of the express lanes to avoid backups, make sure you know the rules. Remember, tolls can change in price depending on how busy it is. More traffic means it will cost you more. Drivers will be charged the amount on the overhead signs when they enter the express lanes.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
26 Dinosaur Facts That Are So Absolutely Bonkers I'm Questioning My Entire Education Right Now
We've seen them in Dinosaur, Jurassic Park, and The Land Before Time, but how much do you really know about dinosaurs? After speaking with paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, I can honestly say — I didn't know as much as I thought! I mean, did you know dinosaurs likely didn't roar or that they still have living descendants today? What about the actual size of a velociraptor? There's more, too. From the speed of a T-Rex to a pterosaur's extensive wingspan, here are more fascinating dinosaur facts you probably didn't know. For context, Dr. Lacovara has discovered some of Earth's largest dinosaurs, including the massive Dreadnoughtus from Jurassic World — he even consulted on early Jurassic films. This interview was conducted during a press trip to Mantua, New Jersey, to tour Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, which Dr. Lacovara founded and opened on March 29. It has been edited for length and clarity. weren't as big and threatening as you think. Universal Pictures / Via Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Gr / Denver Post via Getty Images Dr. Lacovara says, "Velociraptors are nowhere near the size they were in Jurassic Park. A velociraptor skull is about six inches — they're roughly turkey-sized. So think about velociraptor as a pissed-off turkey. The size of the velociraptor in Jurassic Park is more like the size of a dinosaur named Deinonychus, which would be a terrible thing to encounter. You would be dead quickly. They were human-sized, fast, bipedal predators, equipped with deadly sickle-shaped claws, and thanks to their specialized wrists, they could swing those claws sideways in a motion able to impale and gaff hook their prey in a single, deadly strike." were EXTREMELY dangerous. Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs, are often portrayed as friendly, approachable creatures. According to Dr. Lacovara, that's far from the truth. "Too often, they are portrayed as dopey, friendly, gentle giants. In Jurassic Park, you can walk up and pet them. In reality, they will kill you." He adds, "There are no safe dinosaurs. Stay away from dinosaurs." 3.T-Rex had exceptionally good eyesight, despite what movies may have made you think. T-Rex are as dangerous as they've been portrayed. "They're the largest land predators ever. They had excellent vision. They could see you if you were standing still — they could smell you, too. Scientists estimate that those grapefruit-sized eyes could spot details with up to five times the sharpness of a falcon and 13 times better than a human. And, like birds and crocs today, T-Rex could see more colors than us, with vision extending into the ultraviolet range." "They were also fast — they could outrun the best Olympic sprinter." while you might not be able to outrun a T-Rex, you probably could out-maneuver one. "They can't turn well. Their head and their tail are so far apart, there's a lot of angular momentum, making it hard to turn around quickly. So if you were to be confronted by a T-Rex, don't try to outrun it, try to out-maneuver it." dinosaurs were precocial — meaning they were self-sufficient almost immediately after birth. "Some, like titanosaurs, got up and walked away just like an antelope does today. Others gave birth to altricial babies — think a little baby robin that's totally helpless when it's born. Some dinosaurs were born like that." oldest known dinosaur is the Nyasasaurus, which lived roughly 237 million years ago. "It lived in the Triassic period in Tanzania. It was small — maybe the size of a golden retriever. Other early dinosaurs are even smaller, more like the size of a house cat. They lived in a world dominated by crocodiles and other nasty reptilian beasts. Dinosaurs didn't become dominant until the Jurassic period, about 36 million years later." but pterosaurs are not dinosaurs. "They're flying reptiles." Related: 18 Adorable Celeb Pets That'll Make You Say "Awwww!" were the first creatures to fly that were bigger than a bug. The largest had a wingspan of 36 feet — roughly the size of a small plane. likely that dinosaurs didn't roar — they probably grumbled or whistled. "Dinosaurs don't roar like lions. They don't have a larynx. They have an analogous or a syrinx like birds and crocodiles. They probably made low gargles and grumbles and could have even made low whistles and pops like birds do." are descended from dinosaurs. "Your children's books lied to you about pterosaurs. The only dinosaurs that have ever flown are birds." Birds evolved from dinosaurs 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Park period. were among the most intelligent dinosaurs. Paleontologists measure dinosaur intelligence using a method called the encephalization quotient, in which their brain size is compared to their body size. "Troodon, a medium-sized feathered predator that lived in modern-day North America during the Cretaceous Period, is often considered one of the brainier dinosaurs because of its high EQ. However, Dr. Lacovara notes, "It's a crude measure. What is for sure is that dinosaurs were smart enough to be dinosaurs. Organisms tend to have the brains they need." would use its massive body weight to crush prey. Dr. Lacovara estimates Dreadnoughtus was about 65 tons. "That's nine times the weight of the T-Rex and about 10 times heavier than a Boeing 737. So you are not gonna mess with a T-Rex. Dreadnoughtus could lean against a T-Rex and press it into a tree and kill it." Related: 21 Extremely Rare Photos That'll Change Your Perception Of The Entire World of course, not all dinosaurs existed at the same time. For example, Dreadnoughtus didn't live at the same time as T-Rex, and T-Rex didn't exist with Stegosaurus. "Dinosaurs spanned 165 million years. Most of them never saw each other. T-Rex lived 66 million years ago and walked among the fossil bones of dinosaurs that are older than our fossils of T-Rex." animals, including frogs, turtles, sharks, clams, and fish lived millions of years before dinosaurs. contrary to what you may have heard, oil does NOT come from them. "Sorry, Elon Musk," Dr. Lacovara says, claiming he once got into a "Twitter fight" with Elon over whether dinosaurs produced oil. "It comes from the smallest creatures, marine plankton. There would never be enough dinosaurs in the world to make all the petroleum that we have." shows velociraptors had feathers — not scales like you've seen in the movies. Deinonychus is another dinosaur believed to have had feathers. dinosaur poop is called coprolite. dinosaur species could swim. "To clarify, Mosasaurs and Plesiosaurs were not dinosaurs — they were reptiles, but dinosaurs could do some swimming, just like any vertebrae animal. There are places where paleontologists have seen a dinosaur trackway that appears to be going into a lake, then the tracks become lighter and lighter until you see a few scrapes on the ground where their claws were swishing against the mud as they swam out into the lake." colors we've seen attributed to dinosaurs are completely fabricated. "The way we assess colors is by looking at modern analogs today. So for example, what color are really giant animals today? Well, disappointingly, they're gray — from whales to hippos and rhinos. So probably the really big dinosaurs were gray or very drab." dinosaurs, however, were probably very colorful. "They could have used their color for signaling. Today, we see animals use color for threat displays, mating displays, and camouflage, of course, so there are all kinds of uses for color and pattern that dinosaurs could have used, too." 2004, paleontologists found the skull of what was believed to be a new dinosaur species. It was named Dracorex hogwartsia, a nod to the Harry Potter books, and is known for its dragon-like head. But according to Dr. Lacovara, "there's convincing research that shows that Dracorex is really just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus." Pachycephalosaurs have high, dome-like skulls and were first discovered around the mid-1800s. "If true, the Dracorex name would go away, and it would just be called Pachycephalosaurus." fossils are among the hardest to find. Paleontologists first discovered them in the early 1900s — sadly, those fossils were later destroyed in a bombing. "The fossils were first found in 1911 in Egypt. The bones were brought to the Bavarian Museum of Natural History and were on display for decades until those bones and the bones of three other species were destroyed in April of 1944 in an Allied bombing raid. They became known as the Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt — until paleontologists found more spinosaurus fossils in Morocco in 2014." Some scientists believe they were a swimming dinosaur. didn't roar at their food. "Just think – you don't walk up to your salad and yell at it before you eat it. It would have scared off prey." can't de-extinct a dinosaur. "The de-extinction portrayed in the Jurassic movies is probably not realistic. DNA is a water-soluble molecule and doesn't seem to persist that long. The oldest DNA that's been recovered from an organism so far is about 800,000 years, and the oldest environmental DNA is less than two million years. That's a long way from 66 million years and beyond. But scientists are, through genetic engineering, bringing back species that went extinct in the very recent past, such as the dodo, the marsupial wolf, and the mammoth." In April, scientists claimed to have resurrected the dire wolf over 12,000 years after it became extinct. asteroid event that caused dinosaurs to become extinct made global surface temperatures rise as hot as a toaster or pizza oven. "Geophysicists estimate that within an hour of impact, global surface temperatures soared to somewhere between toaster oven and pizza oven. If you were on Earth that day, exposed on the surface with nowhere to hide, you were toast." Most surviving creatures were able to burrow beneath the surface. the largest creature on Earth after the asteroid event was likely badger-sized. Were you surprised by any of these facts? Have any others to share? Write them in the comments below. And be sure to check out Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, which features dinosaur reconstructions, live animal exhibits, a dig experience at the backyard quarry (where thousands of fossils have already been unearthed), and more! Also in Animals: 21 Animals Mother Nature Encoded With A Secret Message
NBC Sports
18-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Alex Singleton: You'll see where I am in ACL rehab at practice in a few weeks
Broncos linebacker Alex Singleton said earlier this offseason that he believes he's on track to return from a torn ACL in time to play in the first week of the regular season and he sound and he now sounds like he expects to be on the field well ahead of that point. Singleton tore his ACL in Week Three last season and he said he 'can't give specific numbers' on where he is in terms of his recovery, but said that an opportunity for others to make that evaluation will be coming up soon. 'We have practices in a few weeks and you guys can see for yourselves where I'm at . . . I think I'm getting my helmet fitted next week,' Singleton said, via Parker Gabriel of the Denver Post. 'I think that'll be a little happy moment. Then the first OTAs. All these happy moments. And then training camp, it'll be like, 'Oh, we're back.' I think it'll be really cool to get to do those things and get to do that.' Singleton joined the Broncos in 2022 and is heading into the final year of the three-year extension he signed in 2023. He has 371 tackles, two sacks, an interception, a forced fumble, and three fumble recoveries in 37 games with Denver.
CBS News
15-05-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Denver civil rights leader James Peters, friend of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 92
A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement passed away this week. DENVER,CO--DECEMBER 17TH 2006- Left: the Rev. Richard Battles, Martin Luther King Jr., Gayle Stockham (in glasses) and James D. Peters, in a 1964 photo. THE DENVER POST/ ANDY CROSS (Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images) Andy Cross Peters was born on Jan. 16, 1933, and began preaching at the age of 19. He said his mother, Edna J. Belton, instilled a love of poetry and speechmaking in him. He was one of the founding members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1950s and 1960s and a friend of King's. At the age of 30, Peters helped organize three train cars to travel from Bridgeport to Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington. It's there that King delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream Speech." UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1963: Crowds of people on The Mall, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, going around the Reflecting Pool, and continuing to the Washington Monument / Getty Images On the 60th anniversary of the march, he shared his memories of the event with CBS Colorado. "We were up by the Lincoln Memorial, thousands and thousands, you've never seen so many people," Peters said. "A lot of people had to bring their children because they said, 'This is history,' it was. A lot of tears were shed. Mine and the others because we had fought for this for so long." Before moving to Colorado, Peters served as a pastor at a church in Bridgeport, Connecticut. There, King presented him with a plaque in front of his congregation. Peters went on to chair the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and served as the pastor of New Hope Baptist Church for 28 years before his retirement in 2007. OCT 11 1987, JUN 30 1989, JUL 2 1989, JUL 24 1989, OCT 19 1990, JUN 23 1991 Rev James Peters new chairman of the State Civil rights Commission. Credit: The Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images) Denver Post In an Instagram post, Peters's son Jasper announced his father passed away on May 10 "surrounded by love and prayer, in the presence of his family." Peters was 92 years old. Former state senator Rhonda Fields shared a tribute to Peters on X, stating, "I'm deeply saddened by the passing of Rev. Dr. James D. Peters, Jr., a pillar of faith and wisdom at New Hope Baptist Church & beyond. His legacy leaves a lasting impression on the hearts of many. Rest in eternal peace, Dr. Peters." Friends and family will gather for a funeral service at New Hope Baptist Church this weekend to celebrate his life.
