Dino Daze at Mesa museum

The Arizona Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with “Walking with Dinosaurs-The Live Experience,” is hosting Dino Daze Saturday, September 6 from noon to 3 p.m. at the museum, 53 N. Macdonald in downtown Mesa.

Join us for hands-on fun for the whole family!  Activities will include a coloring contest, dinosaur mask making, fossil touch carts and chances to win free museum tickets as well as tickets to see “Walking with Dinosaurs” in Phoenix from September 10-14 at U.S. Airways Center.

During Dino Daze, check out “Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight” on display at the museum through September 28.  The traveling exhibition includes 35 fossils that are national treasures on loan from the People’s Republic of China.  These fossils are bringing new answers to the on-going debate about the relationship between dinosaurs and birds, as well as how they evolved the ability to fly.  
While you’re there, don’t miss the museum’s most popular permanent exhibitions:  Dinosaur Hall, filled with examples of these amazing creatures throughout their history, and Dinosaur Mountain, experience roaring replicas of dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era and see an indoor flash flood with volumes of water cascading down a three story mountain.

For more information on Dino Daze, contact Arizona Museum of Natural History Curator of Education Kathy Eastman at 480-644-5662.