Date/Time
July 19, 2025 to July 19, 2025
10:00 AM until 02:00 PM
Description
Celebrate the newest paleo-celebrity Aquilops americanus with a day full of discovery and fun. Enjoy live music by Mike Hosty, a presentation by vertebrate paleontology researchers, games, craft stations, story time with fossils, free snow cones by Kona Ice for the first 100 attendees and hands-on learning tables featuring Aquilops skull models and fossil specimens of its closest relatives.
Don’t forget to bring your Jurassic World movie ticket stub or digital receipt for 20% off museum general admission. (Limit one museum admission ticket per movie ticket stub).
Known from movie trailers as “The Backpack Dinosaur,” Jurassic World: Rebirth introduces audiences to Aquilops americanus, a small, early relative of Triceratops that makes for the perfect pet-sized companion in this summer’s latest blockbuster. In honor of the museum’s newest paleo-celebrity, The City of Norman has officially recognized June 29 through July 5 as Natural History Week in Norman, in honor of Aquilops and its importance to the scientific community.