Friday, September 22, 2006

Friday Animal Blogging

The long dead edition.

Last weekend I visited the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which is quite good as such museums go. They have a great display of dino fossils, and I got some good pics. Unfortunately, I don't know what half of them are, so you'll have to guess.

This one is obviously T-rex, mightiest of scavengers:


And here we have a ancient fish with a bony, armored head. I forget the name, but it was huge and vicious. It makes modern sharks look like pussies:


Duckbill dinosaur. There are supposed to be some babies nearby, signifying its roll as good parent, but I apparently missed those:


T-Rex and friends, just hanging out, having a good old time:


And finally, some big sauropod whose name I can't remember: