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Sign up for 'Amazing Dinosaurs with Paul Sereno'

World-famous University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno will talk about his team's amazing "Dinosaur Giants" discoveries Wednesday, July 26, at Gail Borden Public Library, 260 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin.

It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Meadows Community Rooms A-B-C.

Learn about new scientific techniques being used by the team at the Sereno Fossil Lab to uncover the secrets of the past.

Registration ends at noon Tuesday, July 25. To register, visit www.gailborden.info.

In addition, on Thursday, July 27, join in a Jurassic Lego Build Challenge from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Meadows Community Rooms. The program is for first- to fifth-graders with a caregiver. Have you ever wanted to design your own amusement park? What about a park for dinosaurs? Use Lego blocks to create your own adventure.

While you're at the library, check out the two-story-tall giant Jobaria - you will have to go to the first and second floor to see all of him. You also will find a flying pterosaur with a 16-foot wingspan and a fierce Suchomimus, who looked like a crocodile with enormous claws. The bones of the "Dinosaur Giants" were discovered in Africa by Sereno and his University of Chicago team.

The exhibit features: life-size skulls and skeletons; real fossil material; an adult Jobaria skeleton; skeletons of an Afrovenator, Suchomimus and Nigersaurus; a Pterosaur flesh model; Carcharodontosaurus skull; Jobaria touch femur; and fossil wood.

Guided Dinosaur Tours are offered at 3 and 7 p.m. Mondays, 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; 3 p.m. in English and 7 p.m. in Spanish on Wednesdays; 3 p.m. Fridays and Sundays; 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturdays. Meet at Basecamp in the library lobby.

To learn more about Sereno and the lab, visit paulsereno.uchicago.edu.

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