{"id":120408,"date":"2026-04-20T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=120408"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:30:30","slug":"celebrate-national-dueling-dinosaurs-day","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/celebrate-national-dueling-dinosaurs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Dueling Dinosaurs Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Saturday of April is now <em>officially<\/em> National Dueling Dinosaurs Day!<\/p>\n<p>Help us celebrate our famous fossilized friends Murphy the <em>Triceratops<\/em> and Manteo the <em>Nanotyrannus\u00a0<\/em>with a visit to the SECU Dino Lab! In honor of this special day, we will be hosting the following themed programs:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:00am &#8211; 12:00pm<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/family-painting-class-dinosaur\/\">Family Painting Class: Dinosaur!\u00a0<\/a> &#8211; Create your own 11&#8243; x 14&#8243; painted dino masterpiece to take home! (Tickets are required for this event.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00pm &#8211; 1:30pm: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-today-april-2026-2026-04-03-2-2026-04-25\/\">Science TODAY: National Dueling Dinosaurs Day<\/a> &#8211; Join NCMNS paleontologist Dr. Jennifer Ann\u00e9 and host Chris Smith in the SECU Daily Planet Theater hear what it&#8217;s like to work in the lab that\u2019s home to the Dueling Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To take the party home with you, you can purchase a <em>Nanotyrannus<\/em> t-shirt in the Museum Store at a 20% discount &#8212; for Dueling Dinos Day only!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Saturday of April is now officially National Dueling Dinosaurs Day! Help us celebrate our famous fossilized friends Murphy the Triceratops and Manteo the Nanotyrannus\u00a0with a visit to the SECU Dino Lab! In honor of this special day, we will be hosting the following themed programs: &nbsp; 10:00am &#8211; 12:00pm: Family Painting Class: Dinosaur!\u00a0&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/celebrate-national-dueling-dinosaurs-day\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":120419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,247],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/120408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120408"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/120408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120523,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/120408\/revisions\/120523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120408"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=120408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}