Full Dinosaur Quest
Fruita, CO – Dinosaur Journey Museum of Western Colorado
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” type of pose. The museum also featured some animatronic...
Seattle, WA – Burke Museum
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 exactly, but essentially minerals that have slowly taken the place of organic bone...
Edinburgh, Scotland - National Museum of Scotland
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 much different back then, and all the lands that we know as modern continents...
Los Angeles, CA – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
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 amazing in their own right, but the fossils that are pulled out of that area are...
Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Science Center
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 main section of the body is in its own room, surrounded by a stone enclosure. It is...