It became a heated battle as a dozen children quickly started bidding on the fossilized fish. The bids started at a mere token and almost instantly climbed up to 20 tokens and went far beyond, but how was that possible?…
Read More New York Paleontological Society’s Annual Holidays Party
I could see the focus and determination on my daughter's face as she and my husband alternated pulling the 2-person saw back and forth. Shrush! Shrush! Shrush! Success! They cut through their log in just under 44 seconds to win…
Read More The Long Island Fair at Old Bethpage Restoration Village
After a long search through the vast field, my daughter's search was over. She found just what she was looking for - an unusual looking green gourd with a long graceful neck, the appropriately named swan gourd! One of our…
The 5 children made a few wrong turns as they interpreted the map and raced across the college campus in pursuit of the statues. Finally, they spotted something hiding among the shrubs - 2 smiling lions were staring at them!…
Read More Sculpture Exploration Backpack at the Hofstra University Museum
There were more than 40 kids between the ages of 7 and 17 assembled. All of them had a hungry, gleam in their eyes as they got ready to shoot with bows and arrows. This has become a regular sight…
One moment my 7 and 10-year-old daughters were zoologists searching an African baobab tree for birds, snakes, and bats; then they were paleontologists excavating dinosaur eggs and assembling a Prestosuchos skeleton; and the next thing I knew they were anthropologists…
Read More The Discovery Room at the American Museum of Natural History
My 8-year-old-daughter put the marshmallows in the bell jar and turned on the pump to suck out all of the air and create a vacuum. The marshmallows began to expand. Then when she turned off the pump, the marshmallows appeared…
String beans?!? Really? Okay, my daughter took a string bean out of the bowl and eagerly held it up for the 2-toed sloth to eat. The sloth inquisitively looked at her and the string bean before nibbling the vegetable. We…
As we stood in the middle of Big Brook's shallow, gentle freshwater stream in the center of New Jersey, I had a hard time believing that 72 million years ago we would've been standing at the bottom of a sea…
Yay! We found one! We were watching a seal leisurely swimming along, occasionally stretching out of the water and bobbing his head up and down. Then we caught a glimpse of another one, and another, and even more. When we…
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