I have a friend from Creston visiting, so we’ve been to see some of the local sights I hadn’t yet seen. Yesterday’s was a good one: the dinosaur park about an hour away. It’s a fun site with (according to one informational sign) the largest collection of varieties of dinosaur species for an area of its size. Which presumably means there are larger areas with more varieties. Although this area looked plenty big to me. Another Barbie Grand Canyon. Actually, a lot bigger than the last one, though.
Again, pictures are unimpressive. Looked much grander in real life
According to the information, there were 40 different dinosaur species found in the canyon and over 400 individual fossils (of all kinds).
The information centre showed us the forty kinds with names and drawings. I didn’t recognize any of the names, but they all looked like cousins of dinos I would recognize. In the same families, anyway. Here’s one of them having a rough day. Besides being dead, he’s being attacked by the little pesky siblings.
The coolest feature of the park, however, was the scenic drive. Besides the weirdo sandstone formations created by erosion (like miniature hoodoos)…
…the best part of the scenic drive was the fossil displays. These were fossils that had been partially excavated and then enclosed in glass right where they lay on site for the viewer to see what an actual excavation site looks like.
This, apparently, is a hapless, headless hadrosaur in the duck-billed dino family. And first cousins to a jigsaw puzzle from the looks of his bones.
Anyway, a good time was had by all. Except, maybe the dinos. But a good time was had by the two humans who went to have a look at them.
An Open Door 
Looks very interesting! Hope we can see those too one day!
I hope so, too.