Dinosaur Quarry NM, UT

Dinosaurs once roamed here and the ‘Wall of Bones’ in the Dinosaur Quarry is an amazing display of around 1500 large dinosaur fossils still imbedded and exposed in the rock wall. The first find was in 1909 and many more have been extracted and are on display in museums across the US. The ranger told us that they think this area was a river which alternately flooded and dried up and the bones were washed up in a dinosaur log jam then buried under mud and silt. There were trails out from the quarry where we saw smaller fossils of clams and the odd bone, oh and also a few descendants of the dinosaurs... lizards. Also drove through the park where the Green and Yampa rivers run. Saw more petroglyphs, green fields irrigated from the rivers, a couple of campgrounds, mule deer, pronghorn antelope and a brilliant blue mountain bluebird.En savoir plus