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  • December 2025 – Annual Auction

    Clements Community Center 1580 Yarrow Street, Lakewood, United States

    Everyone is invited to our annual holiday auction and potluck! Bid on numerous items of paleontological– and geological– interest, including books, fossils, fossil replicas, minerals, art, and much more. Enjoy potluck refreshments. (Bring a dish to share if you’d like!) The verbal auction later in the afternoon will feature bigger ticket items. Proceeds benefit WIPS […]

    Free

  • Comanche National Grassland: Upper Carlile and Lower Niobrara

    Timpas, CO Rt. 350, Timpas, CO, United States
    Attendance: 18 / 20

    Saturday, December 27, 2025 WIPS member Steve Miller (Principal Investigator) has obtained a Paleontological Resources Research Permit through the US Forest Service (USFS) to conduct a survey of the Blue Hill Shale Member of the Carlile Formation in the Comanche National Grassland. The survey enabled by this permit provides WIPS members with an opportunity to […]

  • January 5, 2026 – Jim Kirkland – Keeping Up With The “Raptors”: The Evolution Of Armor In Polacanthine Ankylosaurs Across The J/K Boundary

    Clements Community Center 1580 Yarrow Street, Lakewood, United States

    Dr. Jim Kirkland earned a BS in Geology from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, an MS in Geology from Northern Arizona University, and a PhD in Geoscience from the University of Colorado. For the past 27 years, he has been the Utah State Paleontologist, permitting and promoting Utah’s paleontological resourcesfor the public good. […]

    Free

  • Denver Museum of Nature & Science

    DMNS 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO, United States
    Attendance: 34 / 40

    The Museum has offered WIPS members a behind the scenes tour. Group(s) of 10 to 15 members will be guided by an Earth Sciences curator. Tours will last about 60 to 90 minutes. After the tour members are encouraged to view the rest of the Museum on their own. Accompanied children, age 10-17 are allowed. […]

  • February 2026 – Paul Sereno – Paleontolgist & Professor, Univ. of Chicago | Spinosaur Adventure in the Sahara & Amazon

    Front Range Community College 3645 West 112th Avenue, Westminster, CO, United States

    Paul Sereno, Professor and National Geographic Explorer, works in his Fossil Lab at the University of Chicago, resurrecting creatures long extinct. His field exploits began in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina, where Sereno discovered the earliest dinosaurs. Other expeditions have explored the Sahara and Gobi Deserts, India’s Thar Desert and remote valleys in […]

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