Museum of Natural History, New York City

AfarOct 22

I’ve Gone Fossil Hunting Around the World, and This Is the Best Place to See Dinosaur Bones

Millions of years of erosion of clay and sandstone have created the unique landscape of the Alberta badlands, where dinosaur bones can often be found poking right out of the ground. Dinosaur ...

Obsessed with looming dinosaur skeletons as a child

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I’ve Gone Fossil Hunting Around the World, and This Is the Best Place to See Dinosaur Bones