After Glacier National Park we spent a few days in Bozeman, Montana. The primary reason for stopping in Bozeman was to visit the Museum of the Rockies, which houses one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the USA.
In front of the museum is a bronze cast of the bones of the Tyrannosaurus nicknamed "Big Mike" which was discovered in Montana by Kathy Wankel in 1988 and excavated by Museum of the Rockies staff during 1989-1990. This dinosaur is now the centerpiece at the Smithsonian's new paleontology exhibit (and now called "The Nation's T-Rex").
The museum also has a living reptiles hall.
Green Tree Python
Mangrove Snake
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Frilled Leaf-tail Gecko
These guys have super grippy toes.
This one was hanging onto the glass front of the case.
Star Tortoise
Veiled Chameleon
Rhinoceros Iguana
This one was so still we were not sure it was real at first, since we saw no movement, even breathing. Later we saw it had changed its posture very slightly.
Viewable paleontology preparation lab
Allosaurus "Big Al"
Tyrannosaurus rex
Triceratops
Deinonychus foot with "switchblade" claw
Clawed Deinonychus hand
Tyrannosaurus skull growth sequence exhibit
Triceratops skull growth sequence exhibit
Beautiful large Placenticeras ammonite fossil
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