That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and fossils are literally your job. Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, ...

And groups of a dozen or more can go whole hogback by signing up for a guided tour with Friends of Dinosaur Ridge.

Dinosaur Ridge Trail, just outside of Denver, Colorado, is the perfect place to explore the beauty of the Rocky Mountain foothills. This hike would be worth the visit just for the beautiful view.

(The Utah site, called Copper Ridge Dinosaur Trackway, is on Bureau of Land Management land.) But this newly protected site is the only intact example of a turn greater than 180 degrees.

It was a beach along which herds of iguanadon dinosaurs migrated. These tracks are at Denver’s Dinosaur Ridge National Natural Landmark. A number of similar (but less impressive) trackways have been ...