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DINOS


For 160 million years, terrible lizards You can still catch them in action


A T. rex family preys together in a revamped dinosaur exhibit in Los Angeles.


The peach-and-tan sandstone bluffs of eastern Utah look like a movie set. A place for an Old West shoot-out, maybe, or a scene from some alien desert planet. But it’s what’s inside the rocks at DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT (nps.gov/dino) that makes the place special: bones, and lots of them. The dinosaur quarry here—a bone mine, really—has over the decades churned out a mother lode of skulls and vertebrae. Visitors to the newly renovated Quarry Exhibit Hall can see about 1,500 fossils in their natural envi-


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