Megalodon: Largest Shark That Ever Lived 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays,1-5 p.m. Sundays through Jan 6. Sam Noble Museum 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman samnoblemuseum.ou.edu 405-325-4712 Free-$8 Though his net worth and killer business instincts help celebrity businessman Mark Cuban figuratively eat fledgling entrepreneurs alive on Shark Tank, the outspoken billionaire would be a literal snack to […]
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Norman’s Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum celebrates 30 years as ‘the dinosaur museum’
Current museum director Michael Mares has held the position since 1983.
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Edwin Eldridge’s unique works find a home at Paseo Art Works
Eldridge uses reclaimed parts from outdated televisions and computers to build sculptures.
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Afterschool program helps kids dig into science and archaeology
Spike’s Club is a five-week fall program and a weekly spring program and is in its seventh year.
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Aquilops skull on display at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
A small dinosaur fossil with big implications.
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Area 407
As far as I know, Area 407 is the first one to merge the medium with Jurassic Park. It begins on a suspiciously near-empty New Year’s Eve flight from New York to L.A., and told from the perspective of two sisters who look nothing alike (newcomer Abigail Schrader and unknown Samantha Lester). They take turns […]
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‘Conspiracy theory’
Steve Kern (Letters, “The Rev. Steve Kern disputes dino diets,” Aug. 17, Gazette) is a case in point. The “scientists” Kern listens to start with a conclusion — their dogma — and force the evidence to “fit” it. That some dinosaurs are obvious meat eaters makes some creationists go through mental gymnastics. They think of […]
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Inexplicable nonsense
It was an unguarded moment, and I bluntly replied that no one in their right mind thought that. He continued by telling me that this was, in fact, true and that the entire student body would soon be crossing the street to the Baptist church to be presented with the proof. “No, we won’t,” I […]
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‘Dino’ might
The Rev. Steve Kern says, “I challenge (James) Nimmo to refute the observable evidence that has convinced me that dinosaurs and man lived at the same time.” The so-called evidence of dinosaurs (excluding birds) coexisting with humans is so horrid that it is widely held in disrepute even in creationist circles. The most common claim, […]