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  • Billed as the world's oldest house, a fossil shop near Bone Cabin Quarry is constructed of Jurassic dinosaur bones about 145 million years old.
    Fossil Cabin 0001.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4327-032-archaeopteryx 0002.jpg
  • Arthur Lakes school teacher and amateur fossil hunter who touched off the great bone wars by sending fossils he collected near Morrison, Colorado to O.C. Marsh made this drawing at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
    scf4327-180-lakes aurthur como bluff.jpg
  • Arthur Lakes school teacher and amateur fossil hunter who touched off the great bone wars by sending fossils he collected near Morrison, Colorado to O.C. Marsh made this drawing at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
    Lakes Aurthur Como Bluff.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106_Dino Eggs Model 0002.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106-dino eggs model 0002.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo w text.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo bl bkgrou.jpg
  • Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day.
    Dino Egg embryo England.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4399-038_Archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    scf4327-106.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    scf4327-031-archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    Archaeopteryx 0001.jpg
  • The Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossils in the world.  Seemingly half dinosaur and half bird, it has been called a fossil caught in the act of evolution.
    Archaeopteryx 0002.jpg
  • A thereizinosaur embryo how it would have appeared in its egg.  By artist Brian Cooley.  Terry Manning a fossil dealer and paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepared the real fossilized embryos with a diluted acid solution..
    Dino Eggs Model 0002.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    Archaeopteryx 0005 Feather.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    Archaeopteryx 0004 Feather.jpg
  • From 1909-1913 in excess of 250 tons of fossil material, including Brachiosaurus, was transported over four-day marches on the heads + backs of ports from Tendaguru Africa to the port of Lindi 50 miles (80 k) away.
    Brachiosaurus 0007.jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    scf4327-204_Plesiosaur 0002 American...jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    scf4327-204-plesiosaur 0002 american...jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0003.jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    scf4327-033_Archaeopteryx 0005 Feath...jpg
  • The discovery of a fossil feather in Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in 1860 was a prelude to Archaopteryx, found one year later in the same quarry system.
    scf4327-033-archaeopteryx 0005 feath...jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0002 American Mu.jpg
  • A year before The Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx was found this fossil feather was found in the Solnhofen Limestone Quarry in Bavaria.  One year after Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species."
    Archaeopteryx 0003 feather.jpg
  • Prior to the opening of a fossil hall of the American Museum of Natural History a plesiosaur cast is assembled.
    Plesiosaur 0001 American Mu.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    scf4399-050_Carnotaurus Czerkas 0001.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0003.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0001.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-211-sereno paul 0001.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-154_Herrerasaur Skull Sereno...jpg
  • Terry Manning paleontologist from Leicester, England patiently prepares fossilized embryos with a diluted solution of acetic acid which eats away matrix at a few thousandths of an inch per day over a year-long process.
    Dino Eggs Manning Terry.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    scf4327-054-carnotaurus czerkas 0001.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-153_Herrerasaur Skull Sereno...jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-153-herrerasaur skull sereno...jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Ischigualasto.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Expedition Ishigual.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Expd Ischigual 1b.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 4.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 3.jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 2.jpg
  • Karen Chin, the world's expert on fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites), with her collection of suspected droppings while researching for her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
    Chin Karen Coprolites UC.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4373-368_Sereno Expd Ischigual 1b.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    scf4327-154-herrerasaur skull sereno...jpg
  • Paul Sereno holds the skull of a Herrerasaur found in the "Valley of the Moon" an area of Patagonia known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Herrerasaur Skull Serenos 1.jpg
  • Stephen Czerkas sculpted this Carnotaurus, now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  At the Carnotaurus ("meat-eating bull") excavation site in Argentina they discovered huge patches of fossilized skin impressions.
    Carnotaurus Czerkas 0002.jpg
  • The Sereno expedition drives through Ischigualasto, a dinosaur Garden of Eden in the Triassic.  This area, called "Valley of the Moon"  is known to have fossils from a slice of time marking the advent of the earliest dinoaurs.
    Sereno Paul 0001.jpg
  • Baron Cuvier, French Scientis, is considered to be the father  of modern paleontology and comparative anatomy. He popularized the idea of extinction and debunked the myth that  all creatures still existed in unexplored parts of the planet.
    scf4373-147_Cuvier Baron Georges 000...jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Amargasaurus, a "jibbed" sauropod from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.  Discoverer was Guillermo Rougier.
    scf4399-034_Amargasaurus 0003 Jose B...jpg
  • Jose Bonaparte with Carnotaurus the "meat-eating bull," predator from the Argentina at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Buenos Aires.
    scf4327-397_Bonaparte Jose 0003a Car...jpg
  • Working eventually with more Iguanodon remains, Gideon Mantell made the first reconstruction of a dinosaur above.  From the Natural History Museum, London.
    scf4327-162_Iguanodon 0009 Drawing.jpg
  • Fast food restaurant near the Black Hills of South Dakota.
    Pop Culture 0003 Flinstone.jpg
  • Duckbill jaw showing how upper and lower jaw ground plants.
    scf4399-079_Duckbill Teeth 0001.jpg
  • Dinosaur Eggs Discovered by Family in Lamarque, Argentiana
    scf4327-080_Dino Egg 0020 Patagonia.jpg
  • Chinese apothecaries, like this one in Beijing, still sell ground-up dinosaur bone for pharmaceutical purposes.  "Stone dragon bones" are believed to have the power to cure a variety of ailments.<br />
Chinese apothecaries, like this one in Beijing, still sell ground-up dinosaur bone for pharmaceutical purposes.  "Stone dragon bones" are believed to have the power to cure a variety of ailments.
    scf4327-058-chinese apothecary 0001.jpg
  • Night watchman at the American Museum of Natural History in New York shines his light on a T. rex while making rounds.<br />
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T. Rex, "tyrant lizard king," was one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) and small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    scf4327-029-americanmuseumnatural 00...jpg
  • Octogenarian bone hunter Same Welles, researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, with a cast of Dilophosaurus, the "double crested reptile," a Jurassic-aged carnivorous dinosaur he found on a Navajo Reservation.
    Welles Sam 0002 Dilophosaur-3.jpg
  • The T.rex called Sue was excavated and prepared by the Black Hills Institute and by their policy named after the discoveror, Sue Hendrcikson, an amateur paleontologist.
    T rex Sue 4 w bandages.jpg
  • A 129-foot-tall (39 m) T.rex hot-air balloon, owned by Thunder and Colt Balloons, glides over Dinosaur Provincial Park.<br />
A 129-foot-tall (39 m) T.rex hot-air balloon, owned by Thunder and Colt Balloons comes to a rest and the hot air is released by paleontologist Phil Currie (far right in field) who was riding in the gondola.<br />
T. Rex, "tyrant lizard king," was one of the largest-ever meat eating land animals.  The bi-pedal giant grew to some 40 feet (12 meters) and weighed up to 7 US tons (6.5 metric tons) and small two-fingered hands that were actually surprisingly strong.
    T rex Balloon 0001.jpg
  • Louie Psihoyos (left) with Skull of Edward Drinker Cope author of Hunting Dinosaurs and John Knoebber.
    Psihoyos Louie 0001Knoebber.jpg
  • All over the town of Drumheller, Canada dinosaur pop culture abounds, even at the rodeo grounds.
    Pop Culture 0002 RodeoGroun.jpg
  • Founded in 1969 Kokoro Company created the first mechanical dinosaur models which are distributed throughout the world.
    Kokoro Warehouse.jpg
  • At Stan Winston Studios outside L.A. in Van Nuys, CA., the dinosaurs, like this Dilophosaurus for Steven Spielberg's action epic, Jurassic Park are created by a Winston animator.
    Jurassic Park 0008.jpg
  • A caravan of vehicles on a paleontological expedition from the American Museum of Natural History travels near Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert.
    Gobi Desert 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker with Allosaurus Hand.
    Bakker Bob 0008.jpg
  • As Bob Bakker's warm-blooded theory heated up and gathered the support of the scientific community, museums around the world responded by mounting their dinosaurs in more active poses.
    Bakker Bob 0015 T rex-2.jpg
  • Paleontologist, Author Bob Bakker with Allosaurus Hand.
    Bakker Bob0009.jpg
  • As Bob Bakker's warm-blooded theory heated up and gathered the support of the scientific community, museums around the world responded by mounting their dinosaurs in more active poses.
    Bakker Bob 0014 T rex.jpg
  • Paleontologist Paul Sereno's expedition to Niger found this specimen of Afrovenator "African Hunter."
    Afrovenator 0001 Sereno P.jpg
  • Dino Egg Nest China owned by Charlie and Florence Magovern of Boulder, Colorado.
    scf4399-063_Dino Egg Nest China 0004...jpg
  • Paleontologist Dong Zhiming with about 175 dinosaur eggs of varying species confiscated and brought to the Institute of Cultural Relics.  Authorities confiscated some 3000 eggs in 1993.
    scf4399-062_Dino Egg Nest China 0003.jpg
  • Paleontologist Phil Currie investigates xnow-filled dinosaur tracks discovered by miners from the in Smoky River Coal Company mine near Grand Cache, Alberta.
    scf4399-057_Currie Phil 0012 GrandCa...jpg
  • At the Municipal Museum in Plaza Huincul, Rodolfo Coria, the leading paleontologist in the province of Neuquen prepares the vertebrae of an unnamed sauropod, the largest ever found from the Cretaceous.
    scf4399-056_Coria Rodolfo.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered near Tucuman in Argentina.  Model by artist Matt R. Smith.
    scf4399-030_Mussaurus Hatchling 0001.jpg
  • A school boy in a tradional dell (or deel) on a class tour stands proud with a sauropod femur on display at the Ulan Bator State Museum in Mongolia.
    scf4327-208_Sauropod bone UBBOY 0001.jpg
  • The middle Jurassic was pretty much a black hole in dinosaur research until the mid-1970's, when a road crew cutting a swatch for a new hiway outside Zigong discovered a virtual cemetery of them.
    Zigong Dinosaur Museum 0001.jpg
  • Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous near Shandong, China and where the beer Tsintao is from.
    Tsintaosaurus.jpg
  • Dinosaur Tracker, Martin Lockley and brontosaur trackways near the Purgatoire R.  in S.E CO.  The parallel tracks, along an ancient shoreline of the Morrison Formation he sites as evidence sauropods were social animals.
    scf4373-214_Dinosaur Tracks Lockley0...jpg
  • Phil Currie, curator of dinosaurs for the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Canada excavates an egg nest on Green Dragon Mountain in Hubei Province of China.
    scf4373-136_Currie Dino Egg China 00...jpg
  • Dave Thomas excavates Seismosaurus bones which are the same color as the stone surrounding them.  Bones from the Morrison Formation are about 200X more radioactive than the stone so a black light is used in preparation.<br />
Dave Thomas excavates Seismosaurus bones which are the same color as the stone surrounding them.  Bones from the Morrison Formation are about 200X more radioactive than the stone so a black light is used in preparation.
    Seismosaurus Radioactiv0001.jpg
  • Jim Jensen has excavated the shoulder blade of an animal, from Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado, Ultrasaurus, perhaps the largest animal to ever walk the earth.  He stands with the extrapolated cast of its foreleg hung from a crane.
    scf4399-084)Jensen Jim 0001.jpg
  • "Sue," the largest and most complete tyrannosaur ever found, with Pete (left) and brother, Neal Larson.  Sue was named after her discoverer, Sue Hendrickson as per the policy of their company, the Black Hills Institute.
    scf4399-012_T rex Sue 1 Pete Neal.jpg
  • Shed teeth of Jurassic Perpetrators Allosaurus Ceratosaurus and Megalosaurus and the jaws of their lungfish victims.
    scf4373-194_Dinosaur teeth Perps Vic...jpg
  • Mom and baby Allosaur teeth from Mummy Quarry, Como Bluff, Wyoming discovered by Bob Bakker.
    scf4373-190_Dinosaur teeth 0002Allos...jpg
  • Plateosaurus from the late Triassic in Western Europe on Display at the Stuttgart Natural History Museum.  The 26ft (8) long plant eater may have reared up to browse.
    scf4327-203-plateosaurus stuttgart.jpg
  • Jim Jensen has excavated the shoulder blade of an animal, from Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado, Ultrasaurus, perhaps the largest animal to ever walk the earth.  He stands with the extrapolated cast of its foreleg hung from a crane.
    scf4327-163-jensen jim 0001.jpg
  • Paleontologist Dong Zhiming with about 175 dinosaur eggs of varying species confiscated and brought to the Institute of Cultural Relics.  Authorities confiscated some 3000 eggs in 1993.
    scf4327-097-dino egg nest china 0003.jpg
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) was left by Darwin, never one to argue in public for his own controversial ideas, to champion his friend and colleague's evolutionary theory.  He was called "Darwin's bulldog."
    scf4327-160-huxley thomas 0001.tif_.jpg
  • Despite Sir Richard Owen's handicap of only having fragmentary evidence of dinosaurs he envisioned them scaled up as giant lizards and had a dinosaur park at the Crystal Palace constructed.
    scf4327-070-crystal palace dinos 000...jpg
  • Artifacts from the lives of archenemies O.C. Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope.  From Yale University, the Marsh pick became the standard for today's paleontologists.  Marsh's commissioned drawings of a Ceratosaurus, from the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, provide a backdrop for his compass and portrait of him (center row middle) and his 1870 field crew to the West.  Cope artifacts include: his pick and field diary from the American Museum of Natural History; from the Smithsonian archives, headlines of the original New York Herald chronicling their public fued; field specimens discovered in the vaults of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, left as Cope had prepared them for shipment - still wrapped in newspapsers of the day, the Fargo Forum and the Sioux County Herald, both dated 1893.  From the University of Pennsylvania, the bones of the legendary bone hunter himself, Professor Edward Drinker Cope.
    scf4327-064-cope 0002copemarshstilll...jpg
  • Paul Sereno, associate professor of paleontology at the U. of Chicago with reconstructed Carcharodontosaurus skull of this 90 million-year-old meat-eating dinosaur he discovered in the Sahara in Niger, Africa
    scf4327-050-carcharodontosaurus 0003.jpg
  • Reconstruction of 90-million-year-old Carcharodontosaurus skull discovered by University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno on expedition to Niger in the Sahara.
    scf4327-048-carcharodontosaurus 0001.jpg
  • Dale Russell curator of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa.  Russell created the Dinosauroid, a model of what he thinks a smarter dinosaur would look like today if it had survived.
    Russell Dale 0001 Curator.jpg
  • Sculpture of child riding a pterosaur near Zigong, China, an area where many middle Jurassic dinosaurs were discovered.
    Pop Culture 0006 ZigongChin.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered by preparator Martin Vince of the U. of Tucuman in Argentina.
    Mussaurus Argentina 0002.jpg
  • At the Zigong Dinosaur Mseum in the  Sichuan Province, chinese paleontologist Dong Zhiming studies the neck of a twenty-meter-long (65.67 ft) Omeisaurus from a bosun's chair.
    Omeisaurus China.jpg
  • A nest of Mussaurus "mouse lizards" prosauropods of the Late Triassic and some of the smallest dinosaur specimens ever found were discovered in a nest by preparator Martin Vince of the U. of Tucuman in Argentina.
    Mussaurus 0004 Skull.jpg
  • At Stan Winston Studios outside L.A. in Van Nuys, CA., the dinosaurs, like this Brachiosaurus for Steven Spielberg's action epic, Jurassic Park were created.  Stan is one of Hollywoods most innovative character creators.
    Jurassic Park 0016.jpg
  • Jim Jensen has excavated the shoulder blade of an animal, from Dry Mesa Quarry in Colorado, Ultrasaurus, perhaps the largest animal to ever walk the earth.  He stands with the extrapolated cast of its foreleg hung from a crane.
    Jensen Jim 0002.jpg
  • The Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia in the Gobi Desert where the first dinosaur eggs were discovered.
    Flaming Cliffs 0098.jpg
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