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"Unearth a Story"™--Dueling Dinos

Join us to "Unearth a Story"™ this summer with the Dueling Dinos at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, one of three live streaming nature videos we'll be featuring on a monitor in the first floor lounge area of the Columbia Public Library this summer. Follow along as museum staff prepare two dinosaur fossils found buried together in what is now Montana. The two dinos, a smaller Tyranosaurus (Nanotyrannus lancensis) and a Triceratops have already led to some new discoveries! If this has you excited to dig a little deeper into dinosaurs and paleontology, check out some of the resources below.

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  • Pick from one of four cameras in the North Carolina Museum of Natural History paleontology lab where paleontologist are preparing and studying fossils of a Tyranosaurus and Triceratops that were found preserved together in Montana.
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  • Join paleontologists (and sing along) as they go digging for dino bones in this children's board book.
    Board Book, 2023Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge Publishing, [2023]. — SE LEN
  • Baby Triceratops explores the prehistoric world with others in his herd in this sturdy board book. On an adventure to find food, they meet a big scary dinosaur. It'll take speed and strength to escape to safety.
    Board Book, 2024Mankato, Minnesota : Amicus Ink, 2024. — SE ABE
  • A lively assortment of dancing dinosaurs enjoy the "shimmy shimmy shake," the "quivery quake," the "cha-cha-cha," and other foot-stomping moves, in this children's board book.
    Board Book, 2016New York, NY : Little Simon Books, [2016] — SE BOY
  • Big Words for Little Paleontologists

    the Dino Dictionary Every Little Explorer Needs

    Gerry, Lisa M.
    This stunningly illustrated picture book will inspire every budding paleontologist with the impressive words that dino-crazy little kids love to learn—and show off! Featuring more than 50 wow-worthy words, with definitions and phonetic…
    Book, 2023Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2023] — E560 GER
  • After waiting millions of years, a T Rex thinks a curious girl might just find the clues he left behind, making his story part of hers. This lyrical picture book captures the vastness of geologic time while also showing how close the traces of the…
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — E PIL
  • Young readers learn what it takes to be a paleontologist.
    Book, 2019Junction, VT : Nomad Press, [2019] — J560.92 GIB
  • In this graphic novel for teens, Dinosaurs are alive! In 1946, a remote island was discovered where dinosaurs never went extinct. Through breeding and genetic manipulation, dinosaur populations increased and dino-mania reached a fever pitch…
    Paperback, 2022Santa Barbara : Seven Seas, 2022. — TEEN GN DIN VOL. 1
  • Dinosaurs aren't just for kids! This novella is set in a near future in a fractured and volatile western America. Tif has always dreamed of being a dinosaur buckaroo, riding dinos in the rodeo, but it's a hard industry to break into. But when he…
    Paperback, 2026New York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2026. — F MCD
  • This historical fiction novel is based on the life of Mary Anning, a girl of humble origins who had a knack for finding fossils in early 19th century England. Anning finds a much-needed ally in the genteel spinster, Elizabeth Philpot. Philpot…
    Book, 2010New York : Dutton, 2010. — F CHE
  • The Monster's Bones

    the Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    Randall, David K.
    David Randall's nonfiction book travels from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. This riveting narrative follows Barnum Brown, a fearless paleontologist…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] — B BRO
  • In this thriller, curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy unexpectedly finds himself back in his hometown curating the run-down Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum…
    Paperback, 2023New York : Atria Paperback, 2023. — F DUM