The Virginia Museum of Natural History is located near uptown Martinsville, Virginia. It is a place where scientific research about the Commonwealth of Virginia's natural history and public understanding merge.
The cache is hidden in a regular, ammo-style, translucent, lock-box. There's a gift certificate for the first to find, and several goodies for the pre-school- aged geocachers.
This cache is part of a series of other geocaches. The Jim Henson Company has hidden Dinosaur Train themed geocaches nationwide with the help of local PBS stations. To find the location of other Dinosaur Train themed geocaches, simply search for "Dinosaur Train" in the "http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx">keyword search option. Each geocache celebrates a dinosaur featured in the "http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/games/fieldguide.html">Dinosaur Train Field Guide.For more information on this educational outreach initiative please visit the "http://www.geocaching.com/dinosaurtrain">Dinosaur Train Geocaching.com Page
For more information on this educational outreach initiative please visit the Dinosaur Train Geocaching.com Page
This is the Therizinosaurus geocache. Therizinosaurus had gigantic claws. It probably used its claws to defend itself - since it was too slow and heavy to run away from danger.
What is your favorite dinosaur? Be sure to tell us when signing the logbook!
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