Introduction

Dig dinosaurs? Join us at an excavation site complete with a stegosaurus and we'll show you how it's done.

Dinosaurs. Fossilized remains of past life on earth. Can anyone think of a better reason to dig in the dirt? This is more than just that, it's science in action. Watch the process with us, and learn about the training needed to carefully excavate a stegosaurus.

"All braun and no brain" might best describe a stegosaurus. The head of one of these giant 20-25 foot long armor-plated dinosaurs was very small in comparison to its body. Therefore, the brain was not sufficient in size to control the movements of the stegosaurus. A "second brain" or ganglion, a nerve center, was located in the hips of stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus means "roofed lizard." Its largest plates were over two feet high and wide. It has been recently found that the plates were in alternating rows rather than paired ones as previously thought. Tail spikes rose horizontally, not vertically from the body. Stegosaurus was an imposing sight.

If you are interested in this dino dig page, then you might want to check out NASA Mikes dino dig page from pervious years.
Click here to check it out

Also, check out mikes slide show from his previous dinosaur excavations.
Click here to view the slide show

 
Some of you may want to check out this "e-book"