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The '''Wyoming Dinosaur Center''' is located in [[Thermopolis]], [[Wyoming]] and is one of the few [[dinosaur]] [[museum]]s in the world to have excavation sites within driving distance.<ref name= "kids">{{cite news |last=Sukut |first=Juliana |url= https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/time-names-wyoming-dinosaur-center-1-of-50-coolest-places-for-kids-in-the-world/article_60c5619e-0085-5dc4-aae6-118a871355a0.html |title=TIME names Wyoming Dinosaur Center 1 of 50 coolest places for kids in the world |work=[[Billings Gazette]] |date=December 16, 2019 |access-date=January 11, 2021}}</ref><ref name= "Jurassic">{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Rachel |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/a-real-jurassic-park-lies-underground-at-the-wyoming-dinosaur-center/2016/11/17/a127acc2-85be-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html |title=
Fifteen minutes from the museum are their many dig sites. Located on the Warm Springs Ranch, more than 10,000 bones have been discovered and excavated, most of which are either on display or stored just down the hill at the museum.
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[[File:Going Where the Dinosaurs Roamed In the US.ogv|thumb|[[VOA]] report about the museum]]
== Dig
Other dig sites include "Foot Site" or FS, which contains parts of at least three juvenile [[diplodocid]] with articulated hands and feet, "There You Are" or TYA, which contains the remains of multiple ''Allosaurs'' and has not been worked on over the past few years due to the discovery of a site called "Above There You Are" or ATYA, which contains the remains of what currently appears to be a single very young Diplodocid. One of the oldest sites on the property is called "Beside Sauropod" or BS, which has been active for over 20 years and produced over 1800 bones to date. Included at the site are at least 6 ''Camarasaurs'' and a partial ''Apatosaur'' as well as dozens of shed ''Allosaur'' teeth.
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During the winter, the excavation sites are closed to visitors, but over the summer months (late-May to mid-September) active digging occurs every day (weather permitting).
== Collections and
The museum is open all year round and hosts a gallery with more than 50 mounted skeletons, including a full mount of ''[[Supersaurus|Supersaurus vivianae]]'' excavated from a quarry near Douglas, Wyoming. The replica skeleton on display is 106 feet long and is the first mount based on data from the second and most complete ''Supersaurus'' ever found affectionately named "Jimbo" (WDC DMJ-001) which was donated to the museum in 2003. Other dinosaurs present include a ''T rex, Triceratops, Medusaceratops'' as well as various ''Hadrosaurs, Stegosaurs'' and ''Allosaurs''. One of the newest members to the museum is the almost 90% complete, composite skeleton of a ''Camarasaurus'' found on the property by staff and visitors, excavated over the past 20 years. There is also a collection of real and replica marine reptiles, and flying reptiles. From these times before and after the dinosaurs, the museum hosts an impressive display of pre-Mesozoic fossils, including numerous Devonian fish and invertebrates. The more modern displays include fossil camels, horses, rodents and nimravids (sabretooth cat like animals).
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==Further reading==
{{Citation | surname=Jennings | given=D.| title=Taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur feeding site using geographic information systems (GIS), Morrison Formation, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA | journal=PALAIOS| volume=21 | issue=5 | year=2006 | pages=480–492 | doi=10.2110/palo.2005.P05-062R| s2cid=55369947| url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/13869/files/PAL_E796.pdf}}
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==External links==
* [https://wyomingdinosaurcenter.org Wyoming Dinosaur Center Website]
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