Homer’s Odyssey Exhibit: From the Badlands to Burpee is opening this
weekend, June 29th to the general public at the Burpee Natural Museum in Rockford, IL. 10:00am-5:00pm
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The exhibit will cover a lot about Ceratopsid phylogeny (9 mounted ceratopsid skulls), Triceratops biology and ontogeny (growth series of Trike skulls), the mounted skeleton of Homer (sub-adult specimen), a beautiful new mural from Mike Skrepnick, mounted Champsosaurus and Hell Creek Crocodile, Pachycephalosaurus material and lots of microverts and Hell Creek Plant material.
The exhibit opens at 10AM on Saturday to the general public and is part of general admission (no additional charge). Also there will be a Burpee Member’s only night scheduled for Sunday (June 30th) from 6-9PM. We will have a guest Speaker, Dr. Andy Farke, Raymond Alf Museum, will be giving a talk on recent research into the ceratopsids called “Growing and Pruning Homer’s Family Tree” His talk will be approx 30-40 minutes in length. In addition to his talk there will be paleo stations throughout the museum and the lab will be open to see us working on new finds.
