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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
I'd rather see raptors and Wooly Mammoths! Grrrrr.  |
Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
The latest stegosaurus -- seems his tail spikes actually stick out port and starboard, and he has little osteoderms mailing his entire throat.
Mammoths? They got mammoths/pachyderms. Columbian Mammoth skull and a complete skeleton of an oddball elephantine critter with short tusks and a long jaw. Hyaenodons and Miocene pigs (giant warthogs, sort of) and a very large carnivorous pig I'd hunt with an elephant gun, a pro hunter backing me up -- and antidiarrheal medication! The gun's for him, the meds for me. He's got teeth big enough to carve quite large chessmen from.
One each mammoth tooth the size and shape of a meatloaf and a mastodon tooth, every bit as big, with its row of eight cusps, telling us the two ate very differently.
And that Prehistoric Journey exhibit isn't just the dinos, but the entire bio-/geological history of the planet. See! Ediacaran seascapes! See! Ordovician nautiloids! See! Potassium-40/Argon-40-bearing gneissy rock 1.2 billion years old, and pass the business end of a Geiger counter over it -- it's 50 counts over background, and was hotter back in the day! See! Giant Carboniferous dragonflies and funny-looking plants! Thrill to the Dimetrodon! See! Cute primates that look like lemurs! Admire the smilodontia of the Smilodon down in the lobby, and check out the newly discovered creodont Malfelis badwaterensis! Looks like a stretched lion with a long nose. Yes, the name really does mean "bad kitty from Badwater."
The place used to be called the Denver Museum of Natural History. They've expanded some from those days.