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The Lost Tracks Dinosaur

Last week we posted on photographer Andre Delgalvis’ recent book “The Lost Tracks” featuring the many dinosaur tracks found around Lake Powell. Give someone the chance the walk in a dinosaurs shoes this year with this breathtaking book.

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smithsonianmag.com

The dinosaur scanned the rocky ground and scrubby trees around for something to eat. Standing about 15 feet tall and 20 feet long from nose to tail, the powerful Jurassic-age was a predator on the prowl. If no meat could be found, the giant beast had other options—a plentiful cafeteria in the form of a valley dotted with trees, shrubs, ferns and mosses.

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Does Cinderella’s fossilized slipper fit the Allosaurus? Read more about one argument as to who made the dino tracks at Copper Ridge near Moab.

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One of my favorite roadside stops is down a dirt track off Utah’s state road 191. Provided you don’t miss the turnoff around mile marker 148.7, and the soil hasn’t turned to a sucking mire by rain, the rough road will lead you through the desert scrub to a little parking lot with a Bureau of Land Management signboard at the start of a short trail. It’s not far from there. Hike up onto the tan stone and you’ll soon find yourself standing among the footsteps left more than 150 million years before.

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Look what the dinosaur tracked in now. Moab Giants, Utah’s new dinosaur museum, takes focus on the footprints these large critters left behind. Take a chance, visit the museum, and walk a mile in a dinosaurs shoes!

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Towering above the sagebrush, the Tyrannosaurus stands with its jaws agape, serrated teeth shining in the desert sunlight. If the dinosaur were alive, it’d be far too close for comfort. Fortunately for visitors, the dinosaur is just a sculpture – part of an entire Mesozoic menagerie created by the Moab Giants museum.

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Bureau of Land Management workers are removing two dinosaur tracks in Moab to prevent them from being damaged.

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The public will soon have a chance to see an extraordinary set of footprints left behind by dinosaurs 125 million years ago.

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A 190-million-year-old dinosaur track was reported stolen from a trail in Moab Wednesday, officials said.

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What a tragedy. A contact number is included in the article for any information you may have.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, San Juan County, Utah
Photographer: Don DeBlieux; © 2011

Dinosaur tracks on a block of fallen Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone. North of the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, San Juan County.

pi-93FOSSIL ENVIRONMENTS IN UTAH
Carole McCalla

Colorful images show Utah’s different environments over the past 500 million years. Selected fossils from each environment are identified and range from ocean trilobites, to fresh-water fish, to plants, to dinosaurs, and Ice Age mammals.

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PI-93……….free

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