JMZ dinosaur garden bird nest

A Bewick's wren nest has been built in the dawn redwood tree of the JMZ Dinosaur Garden. Birds are the closest living relatives to the dinosaurs. Indeed, most scientists consider birds to be dinosaurs that survived the asteroid strike on the Yucutan Peninsula 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction. This is an actual dinosaur nest in the dinosaur garden! 

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The Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo is a science museum and small zoo with an emphasis on childhood education. The museum includes the California Dinosaur Garden in an outdoor courtyard centered on a large dawn redwood tree, which carries the nesting box. 

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