Trippin Again: A walk through Panhandle history
Skylerr Patterson
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum has reflected the region s history for 88 years.
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CANYON - In the center of this small Texas town lies more than 14,000 years of history. From cars to dinosaurs, the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum covers it all.
PPHM opened its doors in April of 1933. History Professor Hattie Anderson of West Texas Normal College, now West Texas A&M University, was the source of this vision.
Scuba Divers Find Rare Ice Age Mammoth Bone at Bottom of Florida River
On 5/3/21 at 3:29 PM EDT When you uncover this fossil and realize there were these giant, elephant-like creatures roaming around what was probably once a grassland in Florida, it gives you a sense of wonder for what it was like back in ancient times, Demeter, the director of Seminole State College s Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium, said. It s kind of like our way of time traveling. It makes your imagination go wild.
Henry Sadler and Derek Demeter dredged this mammoth bone up from the bottom of the Peace River in Arcadia, FL.
VIDEO: PPHM to open new large-scale dinosaur exhibit By Penny Kmitt | April 27, 2021 at 6:06 AM CDT - Updated April 27 at 10:10 AM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum will open their summer exhibit,
Dinosaur Discoveries: Ancient Fossils, New Ideas, next week on May 4.
Museum staff says this is not your typical dinosaur exhibit, as it came all the way from New York and includes the most up-to-date scientific information about the animals.
“I don’t care how old you are, who doesn’t love the story of dinosaurs and learning all about them?” said Stephanie Price, marketing director for PPHM. “This is really fascinating because it’s everything they’ve learned in the past couple decades that have changed how scientists view and see dinosaurs.and I think its really neat how science is constantly evolving and we’re always learning new things and dinosaurs are no different. The exhibition is going to wow you.”
Saving Mongolia s dinosaurs and inspiring the next generation of paleontologists
by Thea Boodhoo Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Articulated dinosaur fossils can still be found at the Flaming Cliffs, and frequently are by tourists, guides, locals and poachers. Mongolian law instructs those who find such specimens to notify the area s single ranger, but no signage or leaflets exist to convey this. Even when a fossil is reported, Bayanzag Park has no resident paleontologist to excavate it, no prep lab to clean it, no collections facility to store it and no museum to display it. Credit: Thea Boodhoo.
The bones were too yellow, too translucent, and the skeleton had no hands. I could tell the skeleton wasn’t a dinosaur, but the illusion was enough to bring my brain to a momentary halt.
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