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Community invited to showing of "Dinosaurs" at Fort Lewis College
On Wednesday, January 18, Fort Lewis College is partnering with Rocky Mountain PBS to host a free showing of the documentary Dinosaurs in the Student Union Ballroom. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the film starts at 7 p.m. Dinosaurs is part of the Colorado Experience program shown locally on Rocky Mountain PBS.
Colorado has become known as the Dinosaur Highway. Competition to uncover fossils became so intense in the mid-1800s that it sparked the “Bone Wars” between rival paleontologists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope. Dinosaurs takes a look at the search for fossils in Colorado and the finds that have been unearthed through the years.
The film will be followed by a discussion with Dinosaurs filmmaker Mariel Rodriguez-McGill; Donald Zuckerman, Colorado film commissioner; and Fort Lewis College Geosciences professors Dr. Gary Gianniny and Dr. Jon Powell.
For more information about Dinosaurs, visit www.rmpbs.org/coloradoexperience or contact Bliss Bruen at bliss.bruen@gmail.com.
As a companion to the film, FLC students created a dinosaur exhibit at the College’s Center of Southwest Studies. The exhibit can be viewed now in the Delaney Library, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.