Coleman from the NC Fossil Club took his fossil display to the Perry Memorial Library in Henderson for a generalized lesson on paleontology and fossils, along with a fossil display, for their youth Summer Reading...
Members of the NC Fossil Club displayed their Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Fossils) related fossils (dinosaur bones and teeth, and diverse plant fossil ) at the Museum of Life and Science Dino Academy...
Members from the NC Fossil Club displayed at the Club’s 2023 Fossil Fair in Hickory, NC. It was a fabulous success! The Catawba Science Center was so welcoming and kind to us, providing lots...
The Museum of Life and Science held it’s annual Dino Academy on August 19th, and 3195 excited visitors came to see our exhibits. Fossils from the Mesozoic Era were displayed by: Trish Kohler, Jim...
The NC Fossil Club held it’s spring picnic/silent auction to raise money for the Club’s scholarship fund. Over $488 was raised.
Terry and Victor Denny represented the NC Fossil Club at the Garner 2023 Groundhog Days. Click on a picture to enlarge or view a slideshow.
Members of the NC Fossil Club participated in the National Fossil Day Festivities at the Aurora Fossil Musuem. It was a beautiful day with a lot of very engaged people of all ages hunting...
The Museum of Life and Science held a Dino Academy event on Aug. 24 and invited our club to participate. Several members exhibited wonderful displays of Mesozoic Era fossils: Charlie & Pam Causey, Trish...
Did you know our state bird is the cardinal? Or that the state drink is milk? How about the state insect – did you know it’s the western honey bee? And did you know...
NC Fossil Club members Diane Willis, Joe Magura, Trish Kohler, Julie Niederkorn and Jonathan Fain set up educational displays at the Creekside Elementary School science night.
NC Fossil Club members setup educational displays at the 2019 Schiele Fossil Fair in Gastonia. Members participating were Joy Herrington, Mary Boulton, Richard Chandler, Darryl Grater, Gary Lewis, Alex Lewis, Julie Niederkorn and Dr....
Diane Willis, Trish Kohler, Louis Kohler, Joy Herrington and Julie Niederkorn participated in the Creekside Elementary School science night on February 15, 2018.
Dino Day was a 2 day nod to the life and various times of the dinosaur giants. It opened at 3 pm to 8 pm on Friday, July 21 and from 9am to 3 pm on Saturday, July...
World Oceans Day was held on June 10, 2017 at Discovery Place in downtown Charlotte, NC. The NC Fossil Club was in attendance with Joy Herrington’s whale material collection. Ruffin Tucker (aided by his...
NCFC members helped out at the Fossil Dig pile at the 2017 Museum of Life and Science Dino Egg Hunt. Thanks to the following for helping out and to Trish for organizing and all...
Members off the NC Fossil Club displayed at the 2017 Creekside Science night
Members of the NCFC, Ruffin Tucker and grandson, Joseph Zufall attended and presented a mixed collection with emphasis on my Edisto Island Ice Age animals from sloth, camel, glyptodont, horse and deer and manatee and others. They had a...
The NCFC Fall picnic was held in conjunction with National Fossil Day.
The Norwood Fossil Fair was held on a cool and rainy Saturday, April 23, 2015. This was the 6th year for the NC Fossil Club outreach to this Piedmont community. Jonathan, Kathy and Arianna...
Members of the NC Fossil Club coordinated the Fossil Frenzy activity for the 2015 Science Olympiad.
The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, VA celebrated celebrated Dino Days from 9 am to 3 pm on January 24, 2015 with an animatronic Tyranasaurus rex, life-sized dinosaur skeleton casts and a...
NC Fossil Club annual picnic, November 1st, 2014. The Aurora Fossil Museum kindly hosted our annual picnic, attended by 19 NCFC members plus two AFM staff. AFMs Museum Educator, George Oliver, Jr., M.D., and...
Discovery Place 2014 Fossil Day was held at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC from 9am to 5 pm on Saturday October 11, 2014. The day included the opening of the Dinosaurs in Motion Exhibit...
On June 20, the Sikh Temple in Durham had it’s summer camp program. I was invited to give a fossil program along with Prithijit Chatrath, the former curator of the Duke Lemur Center, Division...
The June 15th Aurora Cook-Out (and Auction) was a big success. The new load of dirt delivered for the Aurora Fossil Festival a few weeks earlier had been mauled nicely and only needed...
Discovery Place in Charlotte celebrated World Ocean Day Saturday, June 7, 2014. The North Carolina Fossil Club was invited and were prominently mentioned as part of the day’s program. Dr. Alton Dooley, Virginia State...
The NCSO Fossil Frenzy competition lived up to its name; it was truly a frenzy, as first-time events tend to be. Not only was this the first year that the test was being given,...
The second Aurora Cook-Out of the year was again a big hit. What turned out to be a very pleasant November day saw 25 club members turning out for another round of fossils, food...
The Aurora Cook-Out was a great success. 20+ club members turned out for a day of fun, food and fossils! With the recent rains, the piles were freshly washed, and while some folks collected,...
On Wednesday June 12, 2013, Charlie and Pam Causey gave a fossil presentation for the Archdale Public Library near High Point. It was at the Archdale Recreation Center and was part of their summer...
The Museum of Life & Science invited members of the NCFC to help out with their Shark Tooth Hunt for 3 weekends in April and early May. Twelve club members volunteered many hours of...
Norwood is in Stanly County, NC. The town advertises itself as a quiet community at least an hour away from any metropolitan area but on April 27,2013, it was not so quiet. Music, food,...
Ruffin Tucker took his collection of fossils to the Catawba Science Center in Hickory, NC on August 18, 2012 as a guest collection for their Dinosaur Days special presentation for the public and had...
Trish Kohler organized the NCFC participation in the Dinosaur Rocks event held at the NC Museum of Life and Science in Durham. The NC Fossilc Club had 10 exhibitors, 13 tables, and 9 floaters....
