Two Medicine Dinosaur Center | Montana Dinosaur Trail
Education through research is our motto! In addition to our museum – which features local discoveries like the first baby dinosaurs found in North America – we also offer public, hands-on dinosaur dig programs throughout the summer. These programs run from a half-day site tour to our two-week long Paleo Training Course. Advanced registration is required. We believe that the best way to learn something is to experience it for yourself.
Stacia Martineau, now the Assistant Director of the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center started at the facility in Bynum as an intern in 2013 and now manages the day-to-day operations.
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Montana is rich in paleontological history and has produced some of the most important dinosaur finds. The Montana Dinosaur Trail is a consortium of 14 museums across the state of Montana. Each facility features dinosaur related displays and many of the museums and their staff are actively adding to paleontology research.
Two Medicine Dinosaur Center: I Know Dino Epic Dinosaur Road Trip Part 3
Two Medicine Dinosaur Center: I Know Dino Epic Dinosaur Road Trip Part 3
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Our third stop on our epic dinosaur road trip was to the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Montana. Two Medicine is in between Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park, so we made a pit stop at Glacier.
A thick cloud covered a lot of the park, and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. But it was still beautiful.
After, we made our way to Bynum, Montana, to the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center. Bynum is a small town, with, we were told, a population of 37 in the summer and 31 in the winter. Though there may not be many people around, Montana is full of dinosaur fossils. We were told that about 18-20% of dinosaurs have been discovered in Montana.
The head paleontologist at Two Medicine is David Trexler, who also opened the institute in 1995. Two Medicine has the first baby dinosaur bones collected in North America, of Maiasaura, as well as a styrofoam skeletal model of the world’s largest dinosaur (at least in length). The model is of a Seismosaurus, and it’s 137.5 feet long, or 42 meters.
But the best part about Two Medicine is the dinosaur dig. Two Medicine’s mission is to educate people who are interested in dinosaurs, and they do that through a combination of exhibits, research, and letting visitors get hands-on and actually help them dig for dinosaurs.
Garret and I participated in a full day dig, and we learned a lot from the two scientists who facilitated—Cory Coverdell, director of Two Medicine, and Kara, our instructor.
Kara taught us how to find a fossil. Fossils can be all different kinds of colors: red, orange, and even blue. They also tend to have interesting shapes. And when in doubt on whether or not you’ve found a fossil, you can try the lick test. Lick your thumb, press the rock or fossil on your thumb for 10 seconds, and see if it sticks. If it does, that probably means you have a fossil. This is because the fossil is porous in nature.
We also learned that plants like to grow in fossils, again because of the porous nature. Some fossils we saw had lichen on them. Lichen grow about one inch per year, which shows scientists the minimum number of years a fossil has been exposed.
Hadrosaur fossils are abundant in the area, and actually are abundant in general. There are also a lot of nests around. You can tell by the fossilized eggshell whether it belonged to a hadrosaur or another type of dinosaur. Hadrosaur eggshells have a wavy texture, and another unknown dinosaur in the area has eggshells with a bumpy, braille-like texture.
In general, when looking for eggshells, it’s best to look for them in your shadow. This is because eggshells are darker in color than fossils, so your shadow makes them easier to spot. If you’re searching for fossils, you’ll want to look for them in bright light.
We spent the afternoon helping to dig at a nest, and found at least one fragment of eggshell. Cory and Kara set up a Total Station to measure where everything at the nest is. Basically the Total Station allows you to recreate a quarry and know exactly where each fossil was found.
After our successful dig, we spent the night recovering. Turns out, the life of a paleontologist is hard. You have to battle with bugs, sun, dirt, sudden changes in the weather, and occasionally, mice poop. Yes, that’s right. Our nesting site was also the nesting site for some mice, so Kara had to brush out the poop for us before we started digging.
Still, it was worth it. Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and we can learn so much from them. Plus, we got our first stamp in our Montana Dinosaur Trail Prehistoric passport. If you make it to all 14 dinosaur stops on the trail within 5 years, you get a t-shirt. (Our second stamp came from the nearby Old Trail Museum, in Choteau, Montana, where we stayed.)
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Birthday Celebration at the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center
Candles lit, Laurie and Dave Trexler blow out candles to the singing of happy birthday to the Maiasaurus dinosaur celebration of the 40th year since her discovery.
Fossil Fish, Great Plains Dinosaur Museum, Malta, Montana, USA
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A short video of the skeleton of the Seismosaurus found at Two Medicine Dinosaur Museum in Bynum, MT
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Paleontologist Dave Trexler talks Maiasaura
A little excerpt from our booth at the Old Trail Museum's 30th Anniversary celebration. Dave is our paleontologist here at the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center and has been involved with Maiasaura almost his whole life. His mother, Marion Trexler Branvold, was the woman that actually discovered the first nestling baby dinosaurs in 1978!
Thescelosaurus neglectus Fossil, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana, USA
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Episode 221: Dinosaur eggs and Two new dinosaurs
Episode 221: Two new dinosaurs! A sauropod with heart shaped vertebrae and another that could lie in your hand
Two new dinosaurs! A sauropod with heart shaped vertebrae and another that could lie in your hand
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In dinosaur news this week: A new enantiornithine from China, Shangyang, the “rain bird” was described with a fused premaxilla; Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia, found in Tanzania is one of the most complete early titanosaurs found to date ; New legislation may define fossils as part of a property’s surface rights to prevent future lawsuits; The National Museum in Brazil has recovered about 2,000 items following the massive fire last year; The Sternberg Museum of Natural History has opened its new Oceans of Kansas Fossil Prep Lab; Boonshoft Museum of Discovery has a Dinosaur Discovery exhibit up from now through April in Ohio; BBC has a new film called My Pet Dinosaur including dinosaur science and science fiction
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We also talk to Eric Przybyszewski, a student at Montana State University’s Depart of Earth Sciences and researcher at Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Bynum, Montana. He is the lead author of the team working on a newly found dinosaur nesting site in Montana..
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This week's dinosaur of the day is Dromiceiomimus
Ornithomimid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada
Type species is Dromiceiomimus brevitertius
Looked like an ostrich (though not as many feathers--may have had some feathers)
About 11.5 ft (3.5 m) long and weighed about 220 lb (100 kg)
Had large eyes
Had long forelimbs
Had a beak, and weak, toothless jaws
Omnivore, may have eaten plants, insects, possibly some small animals like lizards or mammals
Could move fast
One study found that Dromiceiomimus may have been faster than its relatives Ornithomimus and Struthiomimus
May have been able to run up to 45 to 50 mph (72 to 80 kph)
Found in 1926 by William Parks and originally described as Struthiomimus (found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation)
Named Dromiceiomimus in 1972 by Dale Russell
Name means Emu mimic (scientific name for emu is Dromiceius)
Russell also synonymized Struthiomimus ingens with Dromiceiomimus brevitertius
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Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and Kid Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy artist', Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M. Russell Museum Complex located in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts.
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