Hands on Dinosaur

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Hard to be believe, but you can actually touch a real dinosaur – or at least what has been left of it after 150 million years. The territory around Jensen is so rich of dinosaur bones, that on the small guided tour at the “Dinosaur Quarry”, visitors are actually encouraged to touch the stones and bones. Scientists have recovered enough material, and there is still plenty, that the potential damage tourists create is not worse than the natural erosion to which these pieces are also Read More +

Uncatchable Canyons

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Hard to catch with a camera are the impressive canyons at the “Dinosaur National Monument”, which by the way for the greater part is NOT a place to see the remains of dinosaurs. Those can be observed in a corner of it at the nearby “Dinosaur Quarry”. Those canyons where formed by the two rivers “Green River” and “Yampa River”. Those rivers did carved deep canyons (over 700 meters from top to bottom) into the various layers of the mountains.