Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Museum of the Rockies Bozeman

Our Super T-Rex, Emerson, was pretty excited to see the life-sized, cast bronze T-Rex at the entrance to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman.


Montana is famous for its dinosaur fossils. Paleontologists have discovered seventy-five different species of dinosaurs in Montana, more than any other state in America. The oldest dinosaur fossils are found in rocks of the Jurassic Period, which are 155 million years old. They include the gigantic Diplodocus, the plated tegosaurus, and the fearsome Allosaurus. http://mathscience.mt.gov/Dinosaurcountry.html


Emerson was in heaven, growling, walking on his "claws" and asking, "How big is Emmy compared to this dinosaur?" Is it a boy prerequisite to love dinosaurs?

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