Day 11 Vacation-Museum of the Rockies

We stopped in Bozeman, Montana to visit the Museum of the Rockies. I had heard it had a great dinosaur exhibit and they sure did!! I was quite amazed at this museum and the fact it had dinosaurs bones and fossils from millions and millions of years ago. 

Nathan standing next to some dinosaur leg bones. 

A skull complete with teeth. 

A whole little dinosaur they found all curled up. 

Part of a crocodile. There were crocodiles in Montana millions of years ago!! How cool is that? They said it was kind of a tropical, warm climate back then. 

Pretty much all of these dinosaurs were found in Montana and Wyoming.  Montana and Wyoming had great kinds of dinosaurs! Lots of T-Rexes. 

This was a cache of eggs that was fossilized!! 

Some dinosaur feet! The brown color is the actual bone. The white is some kind of plaster to fill it in to make it whole. 

I was amazed when we turned a corner and walked into a room with a full size T-Rex skeleton! It was a mixture of real bone and some of the plaster, but it was just awesome to see because it was way  more real bone than plaster. 

Here were the triceratops and baby. Most of the baby seemed to be real bone. 

 T Rex again. T-Rex lived somewhere between 65 and 70 million years ago and here it was standing in the museum! It's hard to capture how big it was with the camera. Even the skeleton was kind of terrifying! It's a good thing humans never had to live among these guys. Yikes! 

A whole collection of T-Rex skulls. It makes you wonder how many dinosaurs were actually in the area if they are able to find so many nearly perfectly preserved fossils!! 

T-Rex tail. That tail was huge!!! 

They had a huge collection of triceratops skulls from baby size up to adult that had all been found in Montana and Wyoming. 

Nathan wanted to stand in the mouth of the t-rex skull. 

Elizabeth also wanted to stand in the mouth of the t-rex skull. 

The museum also had a Yellowstone Exhibit, an alligator exhibit (with real alligator), a Native 

American exhibit, and an exhibit about Montana history. We had already seen Yellowstone and Reptile gardens so we didn't spend much time looking at those parts of the museum.