Summary
A building filled with dinosaur skeletons-not the usual gray variety, but with slightly golden, sparkly bones-has to be one of the most child-friendly places imaginable. If green handprints near some of those skeletons signal that it's OK to touch them, that's even better. Such a place exists: Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum in Tucumcari.
Most of the museum's dinosaurs are made of bronze, cast from original bones found on ranches around Tucumcari. Scientists from around the world have come to Quay County to dig, and their finds ended up in museums and universities far from New Mexico, according to D'Jean Jawrunner, the sole art teacher at Mesalands. So the school's geology and paleontology departments and local volunteers began offering to make bronze castings of important bones found in the vicinity.See the full content of this document
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Where the Mesozoic Meets the Bronze Age
The casts produced in the school's bronze foundry are accurate and detailed...
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