Apatosaurus suffers from an identity crisis of epic proportions. Even today, many people only know this amazing animal as the Brontosaurus, a name that was discarded 111 years ago. Really, it’s a ...
Two miles east of the Colorado-Utah border in Rabbit Valley, prehistoric bones and fragments litter the area. Known as Mygatt-Moore quarry, it’s home to an unknown amount of fossilized remains — both ...
GRAND JUNCTION — Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry is home to hundreds of fossils left behind by dinosaurs and extinct sea creatures. Its most notable recent find was a 6-foot-7-inch long, ...
The 22-metre (70-foot) long Apatosaurus dinosaur skeleton sold for approximately $6.4 million (6 million euros) at auction yesterday, according to Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa auction houses. The ...
My late father-in-law had a great cuss word: DAGNABIT. And that’s the way I felt last week when I found our very own world-record-sized dinosaur, fresh out of Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry, ...
You may have noticed that Dinosaur Park's Apatosaurus has a new look this evening.
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Brontosaurus, the long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, has always been a classroom favorite. Never mind that it was declassified as a genus all its own in 1903 and lumped under the name Apatosaurus. But ...