Dino secrets

Published: March 8, 2013 

People attending Dino Day Sunday at the Burke Museum will have the chance to crack open their own fossils from the Stonerose Interpretive Center. This fossilized leaf came from the center’s quarry in Republic.

JEFFREY P. MAYOR/STAFF FILE, 2010

Visitors can learn about the life of dinosaurs at Dino Day at the Burke Museum. Find out how paleontologists know what dinosaurs looked like, how they lived and what they ate.

Sunday’s activities include watching scientists prepare a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, cracking open your own fossils with the Stonerose Interpretive Center, talking with Burke paleontologists about their expeditions around the world and uncovering a fossil ichthyosaur in the Dino Dig Pit.

Dino Day activities are included with museum admission and are free for Burke members.

The event runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on the University of Washington campus, at the corner of Northeast 45th Street and 17th Avenue Northeast.

Admission is $10; $8 for seniors, $7.50 students and youth; free for ages 4 and younger, Burke members, UW students, faculty and staff.

For more details, call 206-543-5590 or go to burkemuseum.org.

Staff report

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