Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The dino tracks are believed to have been made by multiple species about 166 million years ago. They were found at the Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
Admission is $15 for adults and free for kids 15 and under, free). From April to mid-October, visitors can watch thousands of bats leave the cave at dusk to find food.
Derived from the Historic Sites Act of 1935, a number of NHSs were established by United States Secretaries of the Interior, but most have been authorized by acts of Congress. In 1937, the first NHS was created in Salem, Massachusetts, in order to preserve and interpret the maritime history of New England and the United States.
It later was revamped with a dinosaur theme in 1987 (while Bear-y Tales moved to the Peanuts Playhouse after Kingdom of the Dinosaurs opened to be renamed Bear-y Tales Funhouse until 1997) that took riders back in time to the pre-historic times which would be permanently closed on December 23, 2004 due to aging parts and lack of popularity.
The Connecticut River Valley trackways are the fossilised footprints of a number of Early Jurassic dinosaurs or other archosauromorphs from the sandstone beds of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The finding has the distinction of being among the first known discoveries of dinosaur remains in North America.
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center is located in Thermopolis, Wyoming and is one of the few dinosaur museums in the world to have excavation sites within driving distance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum displays the Thermopolis Specimen of Archaeopteryx , which is one of only two real specimens of this genus on display outside of Europe.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site: Otero County: Colorado: Living: Reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the mountain branch of the Santa Fe Trail Fort Uncompahgre Living History Museum: Delta: Colorado: Living: website, 1820s fur trading post Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, Garden of the Gods: Colorado Springs: Colorado: Living
The ultimate goal was to protect all historic and prehistoric sites on U.S. federal lands, [2] and it has resulted in designation of a wide variety of ecological, cultural and historical sites. President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming, on September 24, 1906. [3]