Fruitadens, the Smallest Plant Eating Dinosaur in the World!
A small but excited crowd was given the pleasure of being the first to see Fruitadens today at Dinosaur Journey.
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Fruitadens is the latest sensation in the Grand Valley. Discovered in 1976 by George Callison, Fruitadens is the smallest plant [...]
This year ReBecca Hunt, with the help of John Foster, Don Kerven and Gaylon Reynolds, constructed and decorated the Museum’s float for Grand Junction Parade of Lights. Our float consisted of four local dinosaurs (Brachiosaurus, Mymoorapelta, Ceratosaurus and a pterosaur) celebrating Christmas by decorating their palm tree and opening presents. These dinos were constructed from [...]
Safely Secured: After wrestling 800 pounds of dinosaur, rock, and plaster down the mountain for nearly four hours, the team pauses for a photo with the field jacket chained down tight on a flatbed. Wrapped up in the rock and plaster are parts of an as yet unidentified dinosaur from the Morrison Formation in the [...]
NBC news has a short video on the renovations at Dinosaur Journey thanks to a grant from the Lions Club. Watch it here.
Thus far we have not collected anything large that requires preparation (or removing the fossil from its surrounding rock and stabilizing the remains). Most of the remains we have collected have been relatively small (that will change this summer), consisting of small isolated bone pieces and a few hundred trilobites. We thought we would show a few of the trilobite [...]
So, you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to learn more about our trip, haven’t you? Enjoy the photos from ReBecca. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words . . .
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Dr. John Foster, paleontologist for the Museum of Western Colorado, and Katie Stephens, new Manager of the BLM McIinnis Canyons National Conservation Area, met at Rabbit Valley and the Mygatt Moore Dinosaur Quarry to review plans for the upcoming dig season. In their hands is the map of the quarry showing the more than 4,000 [...]