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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Science
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This traveling museum brings the past to life for kids this weekend
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Have you ever wanted to learn more about the amazing history of ancient giants and archaic fossils? If so, you won't want to miss Dinosaur George Traveling Museum. 'The Traveling Museum is comprised of pieces literally from all over the world. I bring a lot of things that were Texas related because people want to know what's living here, but I have pieces from before the age of dinosaurs, during the age of dinosaurs, and after. I have pieces from Russia and China and Australia and obviously Texas. But yeah, it's sea life, it's birds, it's prehistoric mammals like the saber-toothed cats, and of course it's dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex,' said museum curator and educator, George Blasing. The past truly comes to life in exciting ways with this exhibit and families can see some of the beings that lived right here in the Basin. 'I think the oldest piece in my exhibit is a starfish that's 450 million years old, and that's hard to get your mind around that much time, right? So, 450 million years old, all the way up to about…the ice age. So, my exhibit spans a tremendous amount of time. One of the things you'll see here is some of the very animals that were dug up in your community. I have pieces here from animals that lived here…those animals were crawling around on the ground before this building was built, and they were probably crawling right here where we are. So, if you want to come in and see some of the very first members of society, I have them,' Blasing said. Dinosaur George's Traveling Museum will be at the Bush Convention Center tomorrow Saturday, May 31st from 9AM – 7PM. Admission is free and there will be plenty of fossils and shark teeth for your little future archaeologists and paleontologists to purchase. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Glastonbury Festival: How it has changed through the years
Glastonbury Festival has evolved significantly from its humble beginnings in then, tickets cost £1 and included camping and a free pint of milk from the than 50 years later, Glastonbury Festival has become a global phenomenon, showcasing some of the biggest names in how has the festival changed over the years? 1970 - £1 tickets and free milk Attendance: 1,500. Tickets: £1The first Glastonbury Festival, which was known then as the Pilton Pop, Folk and Blues Festival, took place in September 1970, coincidentally a day after Jimi Hendrix organisers Michael and Jean Eavis were inspired by the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music and by the success of the Isle of Wight Festival and Woodstock in the just £1 a ticket included camping and a pint of milk from the farm and approximately 1,500 people attended the year, recent chart-toppers The Kinks and Wayne Fontana were advertised on the tickets as the headline acts, although both pulled out. They were replaced by a band called Tyrannosaurus Rex, who were one of the biggest groups in the UK in the early 1970s. 1971 - The birth of the Pyramid stage Attendance: estimated at 12,000. Price: FreeThe following year, the festival was held in June to coincide with the summer solstice. Re-named Glastonbury Fair, entry was free and the number of visitors increased to 12,000. The festival's famous Pyramid stage also made its first from metal and plastic sheeting, the stage was deliberately placed on the Glastonbury-Stonehenge ley line (a network of lines which are said to connect sites with spiritual and cultural significance). 1979 - 'Year of the Child' Attendance: 12,000. Tickets: £5In 1979, the festival was held over three days and officially known as 'Glastonbury Fayre'. The theme for 1979 was the 'Year of the Child'.Special provision and entertainment was provided for children and it was at this event that the concept of the Children's World charity was born, which still exists today and works in special schools throughout Somerset and the numbers attending, organisers suffered a financial loss and no one wanted to risk another festival in was also this summer that Michael Eavis' youngest daughter, Emily was born. 1981 - Glastonbury Festival Attendance: 18,000. Tickets: £8The festival returned after a year's break, now officially named 'Glastonbury Festival'.Organisers partnered with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). CND was involved with promotion, ticket sales, and received a donation of £20,000 from the was in this year that it was decided to build a new sturdier version of the Pyramid stage - one that could be used all year round. When famous acts weren't performing on it, it could be used as a cowshed and a store for animal food. Using telegraph poles and Ministry of Defence metal sheeting as core materials, the new stage took two months to build. 1994 - Pyramid stage burns down Attendance: 80,000. Tickets: £59On 13 June 1994 the famous Pyramid stage burnt down in the early hours of the morning - just two days before the festival. Fortunately, a replacement was provided by the local company who also provided the stages for the NME and Jazz was also the first year that Glastonbury was televised. Channel 4 covered the event over the weekend. In 1997, the BBC took over broadcasting the festival. 1997 - 'Year of the mud' Attendance: 90,000. Tickets: £75 including official rain just before the festival weekend resulted in 1997 being dubbed the "year of the mud".The festival covered 800 acres by this point and many revellers were photographed dancing to the acts in their wellington boots rather than the latest fancy footwear. 2000 - Return of the Pyramid Stage Attendance: Official estimate, 100,000. Unofficial estimate, 200,000. Tickets: £87 including programmeThis year saw the return of the Pyramid stage (the third to be built) – it was 100 ft (30.4 metres) high and clad in dazzling silver. There was also more camping space with the introduction of a special family campsite. However, this year saw a huge influx of gate crashers. People climbed fences and crawled through ditches to join the Bowie headlined the festival with a two hour show which was shown in full for the first time on television. 2002 - 'Super fence' installed Attendees: 140,000. Tickets £97, including programmeDuring the 1990s, when the festival's popularity was rapidly increasing, break-ins were particularly rife at the festival site and after a high influx of gatecrashers in 2000, Michael Eavis was fined for breaching licensing a result his team built a £1m "super fence" when the festival returned in 2002, putting an end to mass break-ins. The ring of steel repelled all non ticket holders and 140,000 legitimate festival goers attended that year. 2005 - Extreme flooding Attendance: 153,000. Tickets: £125 including programmeIn 2005, a storm caused chaos at Glastonbury. Almost a month's worth of water fell in a few hours on the festival's opening day, washing tents down the hills and flooding campsites. More than 400 tents were submerged in floodwater. There were reports of people having to swim to their tents to retrieve their belongings - and some people were spotted canoeing around the services pumped three million litres of water from the area, leaving it strewn with litter, sleeping bags, tent poles and mud-covered the years that followed it was reported that Mr Eavis spent £750,000 on flood prevention measures. 2007 - New stage introduced Attendance: 135,000. Tickets: £145 including programmeThis year saw the introduction of Emily Eavis' Park Stage, bringing a whole new section of the Festival site to life, whilst the Dance Village cemented its reputation in its second Unsigned Bands competition became the Emerging Talent Competition, which generated thousands of entries and a host of worthy winners playing on many of the Festival stages. 2008 - First hip-hop headliner Attendance: 134,000. Tickets: £155 including programmeThere was quite a stir in the lead-up to 2008's Glastonbury after rap megastar Jay-Z was announced as Saturday night's headline headlining slot was controversial due to the festival's traditional focus on guitar-based rock and pop Jay-Z defied the doubters and became the first major hip-hop artist to headline Glastonbury, marking a turning point for the festival's line-up. 2019 - Last before Covid Capacity: 203,000. Ticket price: £248Jay-Z's performance in 2008 carved out a path for more hip-hop and rap dominated Glastonbury's Pyramid stage in 2019. While wearing a stab-proof Union Jack vest, he used his set to highlight inequality in the justice system and the year's Glastonbury Festival would be the last for the next two years due to Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 - Glasto returns Ticket price: £280 Capacity: 210,000Thousands of music lovers welcomed the return of the Glastonbury Festival in 2022, after a forced hiatus due to year's festival also featured its youngest-ever solo headliner in Billie Eilish and Sir Paul McCartney as the oldest. As well as the music, climate activist Greta Thunberg also made a surprise appearance, telling festival goers the earth's biosphere is "not just changing, it is breaking down". 2025 - Last before fallow year Capacity: 210,000. Tickets: £373.50 + £5 booking feeGlastonbury Festival will return on 25 June this year. Festival organisers have announced British band The 1975, rock legend Neil Young and US pop star Olivia Rodrigo will be Stewart will also perform on Sunday afternoon in the "legend slot" - 23 years after his last appearance at the year will be last festival before the 2026 fallow year to let the field you were unable to get yourself a ticket for the world's biggest music festival - don't worry - the BBC will have extensive coverage throughout Glastonbury 2025.
CNA
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNA
First look at Jurassic World: The Experience at Gardens by the Bay's Cloud Forest
The warning signs, flashing lights and snapped cables can only mean one thing. Something big, prehistoric and full of teeth has escaped. And right on cue, the rockstar of the Jurassic World movie franchise, the Tyrannosaurus rex, roars to life as you round the corner. If you've always wondered what it's like to visit Isla Nublar, the fictional island home to de-extinct engineered dinosaurs, you can finally get a glimpse of it at the immersive exhibition Jurassic World: The Experience, which opens on Thursday (May 29). "Nublar" means "to cloud" in Spanish and no other location in Singapore is more fitting than Gardens by the Bay's misty Cloud Forest to stage the life-sized sculptures and animatronics equipped with motion sensors by Neon, the same team behind 2022's Avatar: The Experience. The pair of Brachiosauruses greeting you at the entrance, one of them with a towering three-storey-tall neck, is reminiscent of the first Jurassic Park movie in 1993. T-Rex and those slender-necked giants aren't the only bigwigs around. A pair of Velociraptors pose mid-action in their raid of the Pteranodons' nests hidden in the conservatory's Cloud Mountain. It's the perfect backdrop to imagine Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali in the upcoming new Jurassic World Rebirth movie that opens on Jul 3. A crashed container in the foliage reveals a confused bone-headed Stygimoloch trying to bust its container. Further down the path, you'll spot the long, swaying neck of another Brachiosaurus, this time, much closer than the pair at the entrance. If you spot a crowd gathering, chances are, the keepers have brought out the weeks-old baby dinosaurs, Stiggy and Bumpy, for a little show-and-tell and interaction. But not all of the smaller creatures are harmless like the Compsognathuses or Compys perched on rocks throughout Cloud Forest. They may be little, until you remember the little girl who wandered a little too far in the movies... You start to wonder, too, how good is your impression of Chris Pratt's Owen Grady, as you descend the escalator to meet Blue and the rest of the volatile velociraptors rattling their cages. But hold that thought as you come face to face with the fringed Dilophosaurus. These animatronics don't spit venom but they do spit – don't say we didn't warn you. The exhibition is also a chance to learn about the ferns, conifers and cycads that the dinosaurs fed on. At Evolution Walk, you'll even see the ancestors of plants, imagined in 3D reconstructions, that existed millions of years ago. There's no time limit to explore the exhibits but do allocate about an hour for the experience. And if you linger till past sunset, you'll be treated to a whole new different perspective.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Giant Dinosaurs Take Over Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The Peoria Riverfront Museum has officially gone prehistoric. Thursday, it roared to life with the opening of a brand-new exhibition: 'The World's Largest Dinosaur.' This immersive display brings visitors face-to-face with some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth, sauropods. Some of them grew up to 150 feet or the length of four city buses. The museum's exhibit will feature a life-sized 60-foot-long Mamenchisaurus, with one of the longest necks of any dinosaur. Those long-necked giants are childhood favorites. They were featured in cartoons and the groups features one of the most famous dinos of all time: the Brontosaurus, the 'Thunder Lizard.' The gentle giants — they were plant-eaters unlike their cousins, Tyrannosaurus Rex — are the focus of the new exhibit, which started Thursday and lasts through Sept. 1. 'The World's Largest Dinosaurs,' presented by the Gilmore Foundation, made its Midwest debut from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Along with life-size models, the experience digs deep into the science behind sauropods, exploring everything from how they grew to such enormous sizes to the biology required to keep their massive bodies functioning. Renae Kerrigan, the museum's curator of science, hopes the exhibit does more than just impress with its scale. 'Maybe it makes somebody think about, 'I want to learn more about the other types of dinosaurs that lived on the planet,'' she said. 'Or maybe, 'Well, why aren't there dinosaurs here today? What happened to dinosaurs?' You might start to learn about how birds are actually the descendants of dinosaurs. 'I just hope it inspires people to continue learning more about something that piques their curiosity here at the museum,' Kerrigan said. In addition to the jaw-dropping scale of the displays, the exhibition also delves into the fascinating world of dinosaur eggs, growth patterns, and the biomechanics of how these giants might have pumped blood through their enormous bodies. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Geek Tyrant
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
How the New T. Rex in JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Is Different From the Orignal — GeekTyrant
For over 30 years, the T. Rex we've known in the Jurassic Park franchise has been Rexy, the towering, thunderous icon of Isla Nublar who walked straight out of our dinosaur dreams and into movie history. But with Jurassic World Rebirth , the filmmakers are rewriting the rulebook on what a Tyrannosaurus Rex can be, and it introduces us to a whole new T. Rex. This new take on the king (or queen) of the dinosaurs is a fresh breed. According to Rebirth director Gareth Edwards ( Godzilla, Rogue One ), 'The original Jurassic Park T. Rex is one actor. Now here's another one.' Edwards wants fans to see this new Rex like a different performer in the same franchise, Robert De Niro to Rexy's Al Pacino. So what sets her apart? The new T. Rex is described as 'bigger, beefier, and even surlier' a meaner, more monstrous take on the Tyrannosaur than any version we've seen before. While its bulk and posture echo the 1997 Lost World Bull T. Rex toy from Kenner. Edwards had another major influence in mind, the stop-motion beasts of The Valley of Gwangi , brought to life by animation legend Ray Harryhausen. Unlike Rexy, whose design in Jurassic Park was rooted in paleo-accuracy thanks to artist Mark McCreery and paleontological input, this new Rex ditches the museum and heads straight into monster movie mythology. Edwards explained: 'We looked at some of the designs in Ray Harryhausen's films, like The Valley of Gwangi. This new T. rex is kind of how, as a kid, I always thought a T. rex would look. I'm super happy with it.' There's even a nod to Jurassic Park 's literary roots. Writer David Koepp, who penned the original films and returned for Rebirth , revealed that the new film finally includes the infamous river-rafting T. Rex attack, which was lifted directly from Michael Crichton's novel and scrapped from the 1993 film. 'Both Steven [Spielberg] and I said, 'Hey, now we can do it,'' Koepp said. 'When I was re-reading the novel, I told him, 'Yeah, it's as good as we remember. We have to have this.'' In the film, 'The planet's ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. 'The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.' The movie stars Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis, and Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid. The film is set five years after the events of Dominion , 'in which dinosaurs mingled with humans all over the globe, these creatures are now dying out. 'The present-day planet proved to be inhospitable to the prehistoric ilk, except for a small region in the tropics around the equator, where many of them now congregate. 'The three most colossal dinosaurs of land, sea, and air within this biosphere hold genetic material precious to a pharmaceutical company that hopes to use the dino DNA to create a life-saving drug for humanity.' Universal Pictures will release the Steven Spielberg-produced film in theaters on July 2, 2025. Via: Empire Magazine
