Stegosaurus Mania

As if Sago Canyon were not enough we stopped in Fuitas Colorado to view the Dino Journey Museum.

The Dino Journey Museum is an interesting place with lots of different Dino's.

Did you Know?

1. Did you know that Colorado is the 'Stegosaurus State?'
2. The first Stegosaurus ever found was collected from near Morrison, Colorado, just west of Denver.
3. The giant sauropod dinosaur Supersaurus was collected from near Delta, in western Colorado.
4. "Brontosaurus" means "thunder lizard".
5. The oldest dinosaur body fossils in Colorado are from near Glenwood Springs and are approximately the same age as the ancient trees at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
6. Pseudo-dinosaur fact: Of sites producing pterosaurs (flying reptiles, not dinosaurs) in the Late Jurassic of the western U.S., almost half are in western Colorado.
7. Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops have been found near Denver but not in western Colorado. Only older relatives of these two dinosaurs are found in western Colorado.
8. During the Early Jurassic, most of western Colorado was covered in sand dunes, and we find dinosaur footprints in these rocks.
9. A young duck-billed dinosaur was found in marine rocks in western Colorado -- it had been washed out to sea (from what is now Utah) and sank to the bottom.
10. Apatosaurus, a dinosaur found near Fruita and at several places in Rabbit Valley in western Colorado, probably weighed about as much as 150,069 Big Macs.
11. Through most of dinosaur times, dinosaurs shared the world with smaller animals like frogs, salamanders, lizards, mammals, and turtles.
12. The giant Supersaurus probably weighed about 92,400 pounds.
13. Some adult dinosaurs from the Fruita Paleontological Area in western Colorado were smaller than a chicken.

Here are some fine examples:



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