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Reddit mentions of My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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We found 3 Reddit mentions of My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs. Here are the top ones.
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| Height | 8.4401406 Inches |
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| Release date | April 2013 |
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Last month while finishing up a Yellowstone vacation, I stopped at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, MT. (Sorry for the potato quality of some of the photos - I always struggle taking handheld pictures with no flash in low-light conditions.)
I was extremely impressed by the their dinosaur collection - the Triceratops collection was particularly amazing.
I've lived on the East coast all of my life, and between the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, the Smithsonian and Yale's Peabody museum, I've been spoiled by world-class dinosaur collections. Even so, the Museum of the Rockies did not disappoint - it's definitely worth a visit.
EDIT: I should mention that I particularly wanted to see the museum's Triceratops fossil collection after reading about it in Brian Switek's recent book, My Beloved Brontosaurus. Triceratops has been one of my favorite dinos since I was a kid (I'm sure everyone can remember seeing pictures of a T-Rex / Triceratops faceoff from a childhood dinosaur book).
The dramatic shape changes that Triceratops' frill and horns underwent as it aged were fascinating - I'd love to know the reasons for the them, especially how the two top horns changed direction from pointing upward to downward.
I haven't read it yet, but I've heard My Beloved Brontosaurus is pretty good.
If you want novels, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and Lost World are pretty good. Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World is also an interesting read, if you can get past the dated English.
I think that My Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian Swiftek is a really great book as an introduction to dinosaurs. It goes into the history of the bone wars, the dinosaur renaissance and the differences between dinosaurs in pop culture vs the current scientific evidence. I think it should be on the sidebar for sure.