The Fruita, Colorado museum boasts a gorgeous Stegosaurus that completely dispels the myth that these creatures were clunky and plodding. This specimen is extremely long and graceful, with its head and tail both posed upward in a defensive “poised to strike”...
The first thing that struck me about the Stegosaurus at the Burke Museum was its whitish-gray color. It is one of the most brightly colored fossils I have ever seen, and it gave off the impression that I was looking at real bones. Fossils aren’t bones...
When I was growing up, the prevailing belief was that Stegosaurus primarily existed in the areas we know now as Utah and Wyoming. However, recent findings have indicated that early Stegosaurs may have had a much greater world reach than previously thought. Earth was...
I’ve lived in Los Angeles for the past 10 years, and yet until I started this dino-quest, it had never occurred to me to see the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum of LA. I had been to the La Brea Tar Pits a few times, which are...
Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Science Center Of all the Stegosaurus displays I’ve seen so far, the Greensboro Science Center in North Carolina takes the gold medal for “Most Unique.” The curators decided to actually split the skeleton up into two sections. The...
