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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Aurora holds annual Fossil Festival this weekend
AURORA, N.C. (WNCT) — The Fossil Museum in Aurora kicked off the two-day Fossil Festival. Although Aurora is a small, quiet little town, when this festival comes around, the streets are filled with thousands of people. 'This type of event is a large-scale event, and it brings economy. It brings money into the economy. So the local businesses that are open this weekend are going to have a surge in their revenue, which helps keep them open all year,' said Cynthia Crane, the Executive Director of the Aurora Fossil Museum. The event includes music, food, dinosaur shows, and a fossil dig for people to search for things like shark teeth. 'We're showing them that we can have a good time here. It's a nice little town. It's very busy today. It's very quiet many other days. But, you know, we have a good, positive outlook on the whole festival and the rest of the year, the other festivals that we have throughout the year also,' said Beverly Horvath, the owner of the Blue Crab Boutique. They say this is the 32nd year hosting this festival, and it's the fourth year this has been the primary fundraiser for the museum. 'So we're a publicly funded, independent nonprofit. That means we stand alone, and we have to raise that money to be able to stay open and to provide the fossil dig and all the different things that we do. We have paid staff on one hand, and we do a lot of outreach, a lot of programming, summer camps, and different things too. So that helps with our education and even the upkeep of the facility,' Crane said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Gizmodo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Pokémon Fossil Exhibition is Coming to the U.S. in 2026
Everybody loves Pokémon, whether that's playing with (and as) them, watching them, and collecting 'em all. Nintendo's never not ready to trot them out, and for those in the U.S., you'll be able to visit them at a museum next year. On May 22, 2026, Nintendo will bring its Pokémon Fossil Museum to the Chicago's Field Museum. The exhibit will feature fabricated 'fossils' of the monsters compared with 'ancient lifeforms found in real-world fossils. […] Trainers of all ages are invited to visit and discover the incredible world of fossils both in the Pokémon world and in our own real world,' reads the announcement. Two noted highlights are scientific casts of Field Museum dinos Sue the and the Chicago Archaeopteryx next to Tyrantrum and Archeops, respectively. The Pokémon Fossil exhibit started in Japan this past March and will wrap up its current run in Fukui before traveling to the Benex Dinosaur Museum in Nagasaki (June 7-September 11) and Tokushima's Prefectural Museum (October 4-December 28). Chicago will be its first venue in the U.S., and at time of writing, future cities and countries to follow haven't been revealed. The Field Museum also isn't selling tickets right now, but you can sign up to be alerted for when they do here. Meanwhile, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the next big entry in the series, is due for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in late 2025.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Pokémon: What's the dinosaur inspiration behind your favourite?
If you are a Pokémon fan you can play the video games, watch them on TV, or trade them as cards - and now you can see them in a museum too. There are more than 1,000 different Pokémon, all in different shapes, sizes and styles. But do you know what sparked their incredible designs?For many of them, it is dinosaurs and an famous exhibition teaching people all about some of the ancient inspiration for the Pokémon is on the move. The Pokémon Fossil Museum is a learning experience that puts models of some of your favourite characters side-by-side with real extinct casts of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex are alongside the Pokémon they inspired - in this case Archeops next to the archaeopteryx - the oldest known people the chance to learn about the history of the real world too. The exhibition started in the home of Pokémon - Japan - and has been travelling around the it's taking a trip outside the country for the first time, to Chicago's Field Museum in the those that don't have their own Lapras (like a plesiosaur, btw) to surf them there - there is the option of an online virtual tour of the exhibition too!What Pokémon would you like to see at the exhibition? Which one do in you think has the best design? Let us know in the comments.
