We are nearing the end of our quarry work at Mygatt-Moore for the summer, with our last public dig rapidly approaching on August 30th. We have had a few recent finds that we wanted to share!
Friday in the quarry Zander from Longmont, Colorado, found a very nice Diplodocus tooth!
We also are finally ready to remove the large [...]
A week ago this past Thursday we successfully removed a large sauropod tibia from the quarry! This lower leg bone probably belonged to an Apatosaurus. It was initially discovered by our volunteer Tom S. on July 1st as we worked the quarry with our 5-day Moab dig group. Our 3-day dig group participants worked hard [...]
The 5-day expedition to Moab was a great success this year, with 12 participants traveling from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and California! Below is a short recap of our trip:
Day 1 (June 28, 2010): We met with participants at the hotel to have dinner and discuss the trip’s structure. We went over some of the local [...]
Helen Hankins, State BLM Director, and her Executive Assistant, Jamie Harrison, were accompanied by State BLM paleontologist Harley Armstrong on a western Colorado tour to familiarize the new director with the paleo resources in this region. Their stops included Dinosaur Journey, Dinosaur Hill, Fruita Paleo Area, Riggs Hill, Cactus Park and the Mygatt Moore Quarry.
It is officially dig season at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry! Our first dig was on May 25th and went very well. Dinosaur Journey volunteer and castmaker Dorothy found an Allosaurus tooth tip - our first of the year! On June 4th a beautiful Diplodocus tooth with wear facets on two sides was found in the quarry. This was the first [...]
The Museum of Western Colorado’s 11th Annual Re-Enactors’ Day was held on April 30, 2010 at the Museum of the West. The day was a great success with over 500 students, teachers and chaperons attending. The event featured blacksmiths, Museum volunteers, archaeologists, Dutch oven cooking, military re-enactors, saddlemakers, gold panners and many more historical [...]
Canyonlands by Night… Canadian Rockies… Museums of Utah… Crow Canyon… Telluride… The Alaska Experience… Black Canyon of the Gunnison Hike… Leadville… Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta… Durango Adventure… Grand Canyon and Havasupai…
Trips far away and in our own backyard.
We make the travel arrangements, do the driving, include many meals and admissions - and, last but not least, [...]
Our trilobite collecting trip went very well. We arrived in the Marble Mountains of California on April 5th after fighting rain, wind and snow on our drive through Utah. As we attempted to set camp up we had to fight very strong wind in order to get our tents up.
Two of the tents were blowing [...]
Elmer Riggs’ Discovery at Dinosaur Hill
In 1900 Elmer Riggs, from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, discovered what is now the bones of a 70 foot long, 30 ton Apatosaurus at Dinosaur Hill. He returned in 1901 with a crew and removed what turned out to be a major part of this dinosaur. [...]