Event: Dippy on Tour - Talk on Rochdale's Ancient Past

Wednesday 26 February 2020
2pm - 2.45pm

Touchstones Rochdale
The Esplanade
Rochdale
OL16 1AQ

DETAILS:

From giant trees and deserts, to feathered dinosaurs…

Join Dr David Gelsthorpe, Curator of Earth Sciences at Manchester Museum, on a journey through Rochdale’s ancient past. He will reveal the evidence for incredible 300 million year old fossils from scorpions to giant trees, how deserts covered the land and dinosaurs ruled the earth.

There will also be glimpses into the latest research on what dinosaurs looked like and what caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago.

The talk is 45 minutes long with additional time for questions.

This event is free, but you must book a place using the link below.

Various dinosaur themed events are being held in Rochdale to celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Dippy the Dinosaur.

Dippy - a 21m-long plaster-of-Paris cast of a Diplodocus carnegii skeleton - will be at Number One Riverside in Rochdale town centre between 10 February and 28 June 2020, as part of Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure.

Known to millions from its usual home in the Natural History Museum in London, the 292-bone skeleton will be used in Rochdale as the centrepiece of a display that will highlight local natural history and nature collections.

It is free to see Dippy and visit the Dippy exhibition.

Entry fee: Free, but booking is required

https://link4life.org/book-tickets/events/AncientPastTS022020/details