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Rock formations in the western United States are a
good place to find dinosaur fossils. Many fossils
have been found in Colorado and Wyoming. Malcolm
Bedell works at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. His
team is digging up what he believes to be the
remains of a large, plant-eating creature.
MALCOLM BEDELL: We are still in the process of
continuing to prove that this is a Diplodocus
Carnegiei, basically. We havent found any bones that
contradict it yet. Some skeletons with some types of
dinosaurs, some areas come out in three weeks. Some
take three years. Some never come out completely.
This one has been ongoing for twelve years. These
bones have been sitting here for over 1,500,000
centuries. We get one shot at it. If you fail, thats
it!
These rocks were made when dinosaurs ruled the
Earth. Dean Lomax is a student from England. He says
the American West is the place to be for people
interested in fossils.
DEAN LOMAX: Theres so much more fossils to be
discovered and there are so many more actual
dinosaur museums and paleontology museums.
Every year, forty thousand people visit the Wyoming
Dinosaur Center. The center has rare treasures like
this fossil of a flying dinosaur called Archeopteryx.
Scott Hartman is the science director of the center.
SCOTT HARMAN: In terms of real highlights, the
Archeopteryx, which is the only one here in North
America at all, is probably our most famous fossil
worldwide.
The center has high-quality display areas and its
own laboratory. William Wahl is preparing a
Camarasaurus fossil. The Camarasaurus ate plants,
but weighed almost twenty tons.
WILLIAM WAHL: This is the distal condyle of a femur
that we were working for a Camarasaurus, a large
Camarasaurus specimen. What is interesting about
this is that as we were prepping on this, we ended
up noticing there is a series of very parallel marks
across the surfaces. Those are bite marks. From
whatever, maybe not from the predator that killed
this animal, but definitely something that was
feeding on it.
This Camarasaurus bone probably will be shown to the
public after it is cleaned. The Wyoming Dinosaur
Center has more than two hundred displays. Im Bob
Doughty.
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