Full Dinosaur Quest

While I was driving on a trip through Utah I was surprised to see an amazing field full of life-sized dinosaur statues along highway 191.  Needless to say I changed my plans, pulled a U-turn and checked it out.  Turns out the place is a huge open-air museum called "Moab Giants," which allows you to take a walk through time and see extremely...

Up on a shelf near the ceiling of a winding path in the London Natural History Museum hides this gorgeous skeleton of Stegosaurus’ cousin from the far east: Tuojiangosaurus.  As I’ve expanded my quest to include more Stegosaurs besides the most famous American species, I’ve grown an appreciation for how rare and precious these fossils are. ...

Belgium’s largest dinosaur museum is mostly famous for its incredible collection of 30(!) Iguanodon skeletons.  They were unearthed together in the 1800s, displayed in a huge glass case, and became one of the lynchpin exhibits that taught both scientists and the public about dinosaurs in the early days.  About 50 yards away, at the far end of the...

The Stegosaurus at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History is a great one, and I was so happy to check it off my list. I’d first seen pictures of it years ago when a cast of it was loaned to an exhibit in Chiba, Japan. I was pretty relieved to find out the real deal was in Albuquerque because I live in LA and that was about 5000 miles closer! ...

2 hours south of Amsterdam lies the beautiful town of Boxtel.  It’s surprising that a municipality of only 30,000 people would have one of the nicest dinosaur displays in Europe, but that’s part of the charm of the wonderful Oertijd museum.  In addition to a huge, walkable park with various dinosaur sculptures through the ages, the museum...