Traveling Tuesday- Dinosaurs: Colorado, Utah






 






Last summer I dragged Kevin to multiple dinosaur related sites in Colorado and Utah including Dinosaur, Colorado (the town), Dinosaur National Monument, Fruita Dinosaur Journey Museum, Dinosaur Ridge (but we didn't get to actually SEE the exhibit- They were having technical problems with the bus and Zupe was not patient.)  Even the Indianapolis Children's Museum had a banger of a dinosaur exhibit.  I don't have any reasonable fossil photos to share.  Haven't figured out how to capture something of that size- especially when there is so much competing and uninteresting stuff around the skeleton.  
Photos
1.  Crossroad in Dinosaur.  You cannot read the full name of both streets, but I think the silhouette atop the street signs will help you put together the missing letters.  (Unless you were woefully deprived of dinosaur education as a child.)
2.  Welcome to Utah!  Life Elevated.  Not sure I see how that describes the image.... 
3.  Brachiasaurus outside Dinosaur National Monument.  I knew that palentologists believe that some dinosaurs were feathered...but I guess some were also leied.  Love the false eyelashes!
4.  Utahraptor - named for... Utah.  Not sure it that is the creature that welcomes us to the state and this image was designed before the understanding that it should have feathers or if that is a different carnivore.
5.  From the Fruita Dinosaur Journey - THIS is what we want to know about dinosaurs!  150, 069 is the answer - the equivalent of 411 years of lunches!
6. Finally, this is how crazed I look when surrounded by dinosaurs.  I kept the image small lest I frighten young children.


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