This year’s North Carolina Science Festival has more than 400 events across every county in the state. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 festival to be canceled, turned the 2021 version into a virtual event and made the 2022 festival much smaller. Dueling Dinosaurs Make Their Debut There were no science festivals 67 million years ago, but in an area that would eventually be called the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, two large dinosaurs squared off.