1. Dinosaur Ridge October 5, 2011 Natalie # 23
Since this dinosaur foot print doesn’t have claw marks, that indicates that this dinosaur was a plant eater
This basin is a crocodile basin. The crocodiles dug a shallow hole in the sun and slept in it for hours.
Arthur Lakes and Henry Beckwith were the two men who found a lot of the dinosaur bones that were placed in museums .
If this fossil turns out to be a full skeleton, it could take more than a life time to finish decoding it.
These scratches are called alligator slides. These alligator slides indicate where alligators slide into water.

2. Dinosaur Ridge October 5, 2011 Natalie # 23
Raptors had something called a killing claw that they used to kill their prey.
Colorado used to be a tropical paradise with palm trees.
These dinosaurs had very long necks consisting many bones.
Colorado used to be under water thousands of millions of years ago because archeologists keep finding fossils with water ripples.
Many fossils are deformed because of how they are buried but some, like this t-rex, are in perfect condition