PHOTOS: Dino Dig with Dads
AMY QUINLIVAN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 1 month AGO
The Mineral County Parents as Teachers program put on their annual summer Dino Dig event on Saturday, July 19. This year's sandy fun was focused on Dads bringing their little ones to Repke Beach in Superior to excavate buried "dinosaur bones". First, the mini paleontologists had to do some dino-sized stretching to warm up for their digging and searching(Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
MJ Allard, in orange, thought his rib bone looked more like a mustache bone. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
After each digger discovered a bone, they were tasked with bringing it back to the beach blanket and working to identify what they found. Though leaders and participants couldn't agree on how long the digs have been going on, it's anyone's guess how many years, or even how many bones were dug up that day. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
Zoey Pecora worked quietly in a stretch of sand searching for bones and dinosaur eggs. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
The Mineral County Parents as Teachers program put on their annual summer Dino Dig event on Saturday, July 19.
MJ Allard, in orange, thought his rib bone looked more like a mustache bone. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
After each digger discovered a bone, they were tasked with bringing it back to the beach blanket and working to identify what they found. Though leaders and participants couldn't agree on how long the digs have been going on, it's anyone's guess how many years, or even how many bones were dug up that day. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
Zoey Pecora worked quietly in a stretch of sand searching for bones and dinosaur eggs. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)ARTICLES BY AMY QUINLIVAN
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