The Institute-produced DVD, The Geology of Michigan: An Expedition Through Deep Time, takes viewers through billions of years of geological history at 28 locations throughout Michigan to discover the events that created and continue to impact the Great Lakes and surrounding area. Pick up at copy in the Science Shop the next time you are at the Museum or order it online here.

The Institute's blockbuster World of Dinosaurs exhibition continues with new exhibits and skeletons when World of Dinosaurs: The Expedition Continues opens to the public on Friday, February 10. The most comprehensive exhibit about the Mesozoic Era ever presented in Michigan, World of Dinosaurs features more than 60 mounted skeleton casts of dinosaurs, related contemporary animals such as pterosaurs, early birds and marine reptiles, as well as real bones and actual fossil eggs of the major dinosaur groups. Highlights of The Expedition Continues include the giant skull of a massive 40-foot-long, 9-ton alligator Deinosuchus, a stunning 10-foot-tall skeleton of Nothronychus, a bizarre pot-bellied plant eating cousin of T. rex and Velociraptor, and a look at the mystery as to why the skeleton of Nothronychus was found in sea deposits with sharks, plesiosaurs and giant turtles 100 km from the paleoshoreline where it lived! Two guest lectures, an expanded play area and more are part of World Of Dinosaurs: The Expedition Continues.

This exhibition is free with every admission.

The Institute presents the last of its Dino Labs on Saturday, February 12 from 1 to 4pm. Visitors will have the opportunity to enter the world of the paleontologist by helping extract actual dinosaur bones from the rock in which they were discovered and cast on-site for conservation. Dino Lab is appropriate for all ages and is free with admission.

Taste the first sign of spring during the Institute's popular Members Only Maple Breakfast and Festival. Following a pancake breakfast featuring Michigan Maple Syrup, enjoy tree tapping demonstrations, nature walks, tree identification and sap boiling at the sugar hut along with re-enactors sharing the history of colonial and Native American sugaring processes. Breakfast seatings are available at 9, 10 or 11am. Tickets are $20 for adults, $16 for children ages 2-12 and free for children under 2. Tickets include admission to the museum, breakfast and related activities. Preregistration is required by March 1 for all breakfast seatings. To register, please call 248.645.3245 or click here.

More than 200,000 visitors flock to Cranbrook Institute of Science each year, making it one of the region's best-known museums of natural history.

Founded in 1904 by Detroit philanthropists George and Ellen Booth, Cranbrook is an internationally renowned center for art, education and science located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook Institute of Science is an integral part of that community, having served area schoolchildren and families since its creation in 1930.