Page 70 - Dinosaur (DK Eyewitness Books)

Find out more

TȩȦȳȦ ȢȳȦ ȮȰȳȦ ȸȢȺȴ Ȱȧ finding out about dinosaurs than just
reading books about these fascinating creatures. Some people join
organized fossil hunts. Most of us can study dinosaur skeletons in
natural history museums or see exhibitions of lifelike and life-size
model dinosaurs that move and make noises. You can also take
virtual museum tours on the Internet. Then there are dinosaur
films and television documentaries, many of them available
as DVDs. Often, these feature scarily realistic models and
computer-generated images that help you to grasp what life must
have been like in the wonderful and terrible Age of Dinosaurs.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU
The fossil dinosaurs you see
in a museum are made of
HUNTING FOR FOSSILS bones or copies of bones
Good hunting grounds for dinosaur fossils fitted together and supported
include rocks below cliffs that are made of by rods. The resulting
sandstone, mudstone, and clay from the skeletons stand as the
Mesozoic Era. These rocks at Lyme Regis, dinosaurs did when alive.
England, are famous for their fossils of Touring exhibitions of
Mesozoic reptiles. Fossil hunters need skeletons gives you a chance
permission to visit some sites and they to see fossil dinosaurs from
should keep away from cliffs where distant parts of the world.
chunks of rock could break off and fall.

Stegosaurus skeleton at Museum
für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Neck is movable

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Some museums offer visitors
the chance to watch experts
clean a dinosaur fossil still
embedded in rock or a plaster
jacket. Here, at Pittsburgh’s
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, children watch
paleontologist Alan Tabrum
tackle the huge and
well-preserved skull of Samson,
a Tyrannosaurus rex—a
two-year task.

Rocks from the Jurassic Period
containing dinosaur bones
Sled to move
the dinosaur
JOIN A DIG!
You might be able to see paleontologists
working at a fossil site, or even join in. For
years, people have watched experts like this
one carefully ease out bones from rock at
the Dinosaur National Monument in
Utah. Visitors to the Wyoming Dinosaur
Center can also go on tours that join
paleotechnicians on digs in progress.