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The Denver Museum - Prehistoric Journey

     Over the years the museum has added many displays and some, regretfully, have been taken away.  If I were to describe the changes, I would have to say that they are more dynamic and interactive.  These are things which keep people coming back.  Some of the photos from old displays have been included.  You will note that in those photos the dinosaurs were depicted as tail draggers.  Current displays picture them with tails held aloft.  Thus, more dynamic and true to current dinosaur philosophy. There are many interactive displays which visitors can touch and learn from.  

     My intent here, with the Denver Museum photos, is not to go into verbal depth on anything.  But, to let the photos and their sub-titles speak for themselves.  We add new items and information, to the site, monthly.  Be sure to look for page links.  Over half the site (and ALL of the really cool non-product information, like this page) is buried in these page links.  So, just like at the museum look for all the little things (links) that might otherwise be overlooked.  Enjoy!!!

 

Mr. Bones putting the munch on grandson.

How old is the earth?

How living things become fossils.

Brachiopod & trilobite display.

Eurypterid plate.

Dunkleosteus - armored fish.

Amphibians become reptiles.

Daybreak in a coal forest

Pterasaur in main fossil room overlook.

Fleshing out dinosaurs.

Apatasaur or Diplodocus

Hadsosaur - current display.

T-Rex old museum display.

Dinosaurs in Denver?

A flowering of plants.

More species of cephalopods.

Green River fish with large mortality plate.

Big, fast, & social.  New kinds of mammals.

Archaeotherium and grandson.

 


T-Rex inside museum entrance.

Explosion of life.

Life in the Paleozoic seas.

Sea lily plate.

Old smaller Eurypterid diorama.

At home in two worlds - amphibians.

Natural selection interactive display.

Part of interactive display at coal forest.

Main fossil room overlook .

Scavenger hunt.

Stegosaur protecting babies from T-Rex.

Hadrosaur old museum display.

Grand kids, skulls, tails, arms, and legs.

A fossil sea turtle.

Cephalopods from N. Am. interior seaway.

Life after dinosaurs.

Large palm frond from Green River Wy.

A mammal bone yard.

More diverse mammals.

 

 

Plesiosaur

Evidence of an ancient sea floor.

Old museum small cephalopod diorama.

Evidence of a sea lily reef.

Current larger Eurypterid diorama.

Evidence for between two worlds.

Evidence of a Kansas coastline.

Evening in a coal forest.

Stygimoloch diorama in progress .

Grand kids measuring up to T-Rex .

Stegosaur protecting babies from T-Rex.

Stegosaurus old museum display.

Small scavenger dinosaurs.

Kansas fossils from the Niobrara Fmn.

Canadian cephalopods.

Evidence of a rainforest treetop.

Diatryma skeleton.

Two small mammals.

Rhino and bone bed.

 

 

Entrance to fossils wing.

Ancient sea floor diorama.

Current larger cephalopod diorama.

Current sea lily diorama.

Fish story.

Victims of the Permian Extinction.

Insects begin to fly.

Lepidodendron - diamond scale tree.

Evidence of Cretaceous creekbed.

Flying reptiles and early birds.

Eryops and Dimetrodon.

Stegosaurus, old museum display.

A Colorado dinosaur egg nest.

A world without flowers.

More cephalopods

Green River Wy. fossil fish beds.

The strange world of the prairie.

Ancestors of modern mammals.

Horse tale.

One of the mastodont species.

Discovering our ancestors.

 

Wooly mammoth skull.

Small diorama - old museum display.

 

La Brea tar pit - old museum display.

 

Museum fossil prep room.