Everything Dinosaur Helps Out at Baltic Science Festival

Back in the spring we were contacted by scientists from the Department of Marine Geology at the University of Gdańsk (Poland) to supply some prehistoric animal models that would help them describe and illustrate some of the ancient marine creatures of the Mesozoic.  The University team were presenting at the eighth annual Baltic Science Festival which ran from the 27th to the 29th of May.  This event involves a number of scientific organisations and academic organisations presenting on a varied number of scientific topics to the public.

Topics covered included the invasion of alien species in the Baltic sea, wave dynamics, conservation projects and studies of the region’s fauna and flora.

Baltic Science Festival

We supplied models of ichthyosaurs, ammonites, belemnites, elasmosaurs and other prehistoric animals, all of them received favourable comments from mums, dads and young dinosaur fans alike.

Everything Dinosaur Models helping the University of Gdańsk

Picture credit: Małgorzata Leśniewska

The University Team Hard at Work at the Science Festival

Scientists hard at work.  The prehistoric animal models were displayed next to fossils to help visitors to appreciate the significance of the region’s ancient history.

Picture credit: Małgorzata Leśniewska

Commenting on the event a spokesperson for the University of Gdansk said:

“Everything went well, kids just loved the models and we had many questions from the adults about the source of the models.  I hope they will use the information someday.”

Delighted to hear that the festival was a success, well done to everyone involved.

Prehistoric Animal Models and Replicas

A spokesperson for the UK-based dinosaur company Everything Dinosaur added:

“We were happy to help the University team as they made preparations for the Baltic Science Festival.  With our knowledge of prehistoric animal figures and replicas our team members were able to provide the researchers with all the models they needed.”

To see the range of prehistoric animal models and replicas in stock at Everything Dinosaur: Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Replicas.

Start of Everything Dinosaur’s Summer Fossil Casting Activities

Today, Monday 26th July, is the start of the school holidays for most children in the United Kingdom.  For us at Everything Dinosaur, we are about to go into one of our busiest periods of the year.  As well as being involved with lots of different dinosaur tours and events over the Summer vacation period, we are also running a series of special fossil handling and fossil casting seminars for children over the course of the school holidays.

Fossil Casting

We have been putting together a number of our fossils and dinosaur casts and they are packed into one of our vehicles ready for the drive to a council run leisure centre where the first of our sold out sessions is being run.  We are all looking forward to meeting the keen and enthusiastic dinosaur fans.  Using specially prepared latex moulds we are intending to give each participant the chance to cast their own museum quality replica of various dinosaur and prehistoric animal replicas, items such as teeth, claws, ammonite shells, brachiopods and such like.  No doubt our experts will be put on the spot and asked lots of challenging and difficult questions, we don’t get stumped very often but it does happen.

A Successful Fossil Casting Activity

The completed fossil casts produced by visitors to The Beacon Museum (Whitehaven) who participated in Everything Dinosaur’s workshops. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

We have created a special dinosaur themed activity to help burn up some of the energy of these young dinosaur fans, we can run this activity whilst we are waiting for the casts to set.  It is always an exciting moment and a little nerve racking when it comes to turning out, hopefully everything will go well.  Due to our policy on photographs we don’t normally take pictures which is such a shame, but we know the mums and dads who remember to bring their cameras or phones are glad they did, especially when the children see some of the huge fossils that we bring along to show them.

All in all, an exciting and interesting day ahead for us.

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Everything Dinosaur Team Formerly Launches the “My First Dinosaur” Range

Following research amongst our customers, Everything Dinosaur, the UK based dinosaur company run by parents, teachers, real dinosaur enthusiasts and experts has formerly launched a dinosaur themed product range especially for very young dinosaur fans.

Children as young as two years of age can develop a fascination with prehistoric animals, particularly dinosaurs and as they grow; getting to grips with all the long scientific names is second nature to them.  In response to requests from parents, the team members at Everything Dinosaur have grouped together a range of dinosaur themed merchandise and clothing that has been specially designed with little ones in mind.

My First Dinosaur Range

The My First Dinosaur range includes clothing, eating utensils, reading materials, educational games designed to stimulate and encourage literacy and numeracy through creative play, as well as a hand selected range of soft, pliable rubber dinosaur toys.  With a target audience of knowledgeable two to three year olds, the dinosaurs featured in this range include Triceratops, T. rex, Stegosaurus and Parasaurolophus.  These are animals that these young children are becoming familiar with as they become aware of dinosaurs.

Examples of the My First Dinosaur Range from Everything Dinosaur

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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The product range is aimed at linking in with National Curriculum objectives to help pre-schoolers learn about the world around them and develop communication skills.  For parents keen to encourage their own budding young palaeontologist, the products are available on one specific site on the Everything Dinosaur website.  These dinosaur toys and games have been specially designed to appeal to very young children in terms of their creative play potential.  The range consists of dinosaur toys for very young children.

To view the extensive range of dinosaur toys and gifts: Visit Everything Dinosaur.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“We are amazed how quickly young children learn about dinosaurs and pick up on their characteristics and behaviours.  At this young age, their minds are like sponges and we get asked all sorts of amazing and imaginative questions when we visit nursery schools and pre-school teaching schemes.  It makes sense to listen to the requests of parents and put a range of specially selected dinosaur themed items in one place on our website to cater for the needs of this age range”.

A Range of Top Quality Dinosaur Themed Merchandise

Everything Dinosaur logo – a symbol of choice and quality.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Who knows, perhaps the launch of the “My First Dinosaur range” from Everything Dinosaur, will help encourage the next generation of young palaeontologists.

The Little Dinosaur Sticker Activity Book from Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are very popular with young children (even older children and adults), sticker books are also popular and with this new addition to the Everything Dinosaur product range, you get the best of both.

Introducing the little dinosaur sticker activity book, an inexpensive gift for young dinosaur fans, a stocking filler or a great little gift for a party goody bag.

The Little Dinosaur Sticker Activity Book

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This colourful little book contains 21 reuse-able dinosaur and prehistoric animal stickers.  There are stickers of T. rex, pterosaurs, Stegosaurus, Triceratops and even one of Archaeopteryx the first bird.  Simply take out the staples to reveal a scene from the age of dinosaurs on the inside covers.  Then you can position the stickers to create your own dinosaur scene.  The stickers can be peeled off and repositioned so young palaeontologists can make pictures time and time again.

The Symbol of Quality Products

Everything Dinosaur logo – a symbol of quality products and top customer service.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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A great little gift and a good idea for a school project or a party favour.

To view the extensive range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed toys and gifts available from Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Visit Everything Dinosaur.

The 1,000th Web Log Article on the Everything Dinosaur Blog

On Sunday May 27th 2007, the first blog article was published on the Everything Dinosaur web log.  Today, April 17th is the date when we publish our 1,000th article.  We have tried to write a piece or post a photograph every single day since that day at the end of May nearly three years ago.  Each team member at Everything Dinosaur can submit articles and we post up information on a range of topics, everything from updates on the latest research, developments in the world of palaeontology and geology to information on what we are doing and what our plans are for Everything Dinosaur.

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We have covered new discoveries, followed the progress of research teams working in the field, provided information to young dinosaur fans, answered questions that have been submitted and posted up what we hope are informative articles.

Celebrating the 1,000th Everything Dinosaur Blog Post

Committed to helping our customers through the production of helpful articles and features.  Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

1,000 Blog Posts

Our thanks to all those team members who have contributed, and to all those readers who have submitted comments.

Here’s to blog article 2,000 which we estimate will be written sometime in the middle of January 2013.

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Countdown to Article 1,000 on the Everything Dinosaur Blog

Since the start of this web log back in May 2007, we at Everything Dinosaur have tried to post an article everyday.  This has not always been easy, what with our workload and our busy jobs, however, we are approaching the landmark of 1,000 on line articles, which we think for a company made up of parents, teachers and dinosaur enthusiasts is quite an achievement.

Countdown to our 1,000th Article

There are many millions of web logs, and we do appreciate the hard work that goes into writing them.  For our part, the Everything Dinosaur blog provides a free resource for dinosaur fans to learn more about palaeontology and to catch up with some of the latest news and discoveries.  Recently, we are asked by a research team at a UK based university to participate in a survey on the use of web logs.  The survey consisted of a number of closed-ended and open-ended questions covering our objectives, our aims for putting the web log together.   As we approach our 1,000th article, by our calculations; the 1,000 article landmark will be reached this weekend, perhaps we ought to reflect on the reasons for starting this blog.

Everything Dinosaur – Preparing for Blog Post Number 1,000

Presenting an image to the world. Preparing for our 1,000th blog post.  Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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The simple truth is that our team members enjoy reading about and writing about palaeontology.  These last few years have been described as a “Golden Age” for the science, what with new fossil finds, new theories and new techniques being employed to find out more about prehistory.  The blog has provided a forum permitting two-way communication and helped teachers with school projects as well as fired the imaginations of dinosaur fans.  We have let school children ask questions and have their answers published, we have put up drawings and comments from young dinosaur fans as well as feedback  from eminent academics.  With a new dinosaur species being named and described every few weeks on average, it seems that our web log will have plenty of material to keep us going.

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