Baby Dinosaurs
We're Nicole and Ellen, and you could say we're dino-crazy! We're also lucky, because we live in Montana, an excellent place to study dinosaur fossils. We went to Egg Mountain, an important dig site, to go fossil hunting! Molly, an educator from the Museum of the Rockies, came with us. The Museum of the Rockies has the largest collection of dinosaur fossils from the United States! At Egg Mountain we spied an interesting dinosaur leg bone, which has been found previously by the museum's paleontologists. Our question: Was this dino young or old when it died?
Download Now (361 kb)We're Nicole and Ellen, and you could say we're dino-crazy! We're also lucky, because we live in Montana, an excellent place to study dinosaur fossils. We went to Egg Mountain, an important dig site, to go fossil hunting! Molly, an educator from the Museum of the Rockies, came with us. The Museum of the Rockies has the largest collection of dinosaur fossils from the United States! At Egg Mountain we spied an interesting dinosaur leg bone, which has been found previously by the museum's paleontologists. Our question: Was this dino young or old when it died?
How would you investigate this question?
Visit a museum with dinosaur skeletons. Many have hands-on displays where you can actually handle different kinds of fossils. Design an experiment that involves measuring the fossils. Describe your investigation in your notebook and discuss it with your teacher, or go to Baby Dinosaurs to learn more about what Nicole and Ellen discovered.
