Utah: Dinosaur National Monument
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Visit the real Jurassic Park at world-famous Dinosaur National Monument, USA. The park's Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry displays a spectacular logjam of fossilized Jurassic dinosaur bones protected by the huge Quarry Exhibit Hall.
- Although most of the monument is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is in Utah near the town of Jenson. Dinosaur National Monument is on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains straddling Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
- The only Apatosaurus skull in the world was found here because the sand-sized sediment preserves bone in great detail without compressing its fragile bones. Later discoveries of so-called "Brontosaurus" bones are a misnomer, as all bones of this sauropod (long necked dinosaur) should now be labeled Apatosaurus.
- More photos by Tom Dempsey include: Camarasaurus skeleton, Apatosaurus louisae leg bones, Allosaurus head, stegasaurus plate, ancient American petroglyphs, and Split Mountain Campground's colorful geologic formations.
- Not all dinosaurs are extinct, since birds are actually the descendants of small nonflying theropods. The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. Therapods (such as Allosaurus) include the largest carnivores ever to have walked the earth.
- Although most of the monument is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is in Utah near the town of Jenson. Dinosaur National Monument is on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains straddling Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
- The only Apatosaurus skull in the world was found here because the sand-sized sediment preserves bone in great detail without compressing its fragile bones. Later discoveries of so-called "Brontosaurus" bones are a misnomer, as all bones of this sauropod (long necked dinosaur) should now be labeled Apatosaurus.
- More photos by Tom Dempsey include: Camarasaurus skeleton, Apatosaurus louisae leg bones, Allosaurus head, stegasaurus plate, ancient American petroglyphs, and Split Mountain Campground's colorful geologic formations.
- Not all dinosaurs are extinct, since birds are actually the descendants of small nonflying theropods. The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs. Therapods (such as Allosaurus) include the largest carnivores ever to have walked the earth.
