Tag: Dinosaurs
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‘Nothing short of magical’: Dinosaur fossil discovered deep below Colorado museum
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The untrained eye might have seen nothing out of the ordinary — a jumbled rock in the shape of a fist, not the vertebra of an ancient beast. Fortunately, this dinosaur fossil in Denver was found at a workplace of well-trained eyes. As Denver Museum…
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‘A connection across time’: Colorado attraction is home to world-famous dinosaur discoveries, hundreds of tracks and fossils
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Dinosaur Ridge, located just west of Denver, is celebrating 50 years as a National Natural Landmark. Long before that designation, the treasures encased by the Dakota and Morrison formations had achieved world-wide acclaim: hundreds of footprints and bones of prehistoric beasts, among them the first stegosaurus known to mankind. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…
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More dinosaur tracks uncovered in renowned Colorado site
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado rock floor known for keeping North America’s longest stretch of dinosaur tracks just got longer. The U.S. Forest Service recently reported crews cleaning 6 inches of mud and debris from flooding in Picket Wire Canyonlands, the rugged expanse along the southeast plains. In…