Time Travel to Jurassic Park

Image with heading "Monsters that Once Roamed this Continent" shows fossilized skeletons and models of dinosaurs.

May 15th is National Dinosaur Day! Imagine taking your stegosaurus for a walk. Everything is going well as you try to keep pace, hoping that it does not become sidetracked and decide to chase a squirrel or mailman, slapping you with its spiky tail in the process. Yes, this is what I think about if dinosaurs and humans coexisted. The article, featured in the May 12, 1922 Perth Amboy Evening News, shows fossilized skeletons and models of the prehistoric animals that once heroically walked this Earth. Fossils of plesiosaurs were found in America. These fish-eating reptiles have a body length of 30 feet, a turtle-shaped body, flippers like a whale, and a long neck. According to the article, an 84-foot skeleton of an aquatic-loving diplodocus is displayed in the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. These creatures must have lived in the water, feasting on aquatic plants. And let’s also not forget the triceratops and the tyrannosaurus rex, or “king of the tyrant lizards.”

Image with heading "He Works Among Prehistoric Animals" shows Charles W. Gilmore working with prehistoric skeletons in the National Museum in Washington, D. C.

Fossil reptiles are Charles W Gilmore’s best friends as shown in the image above featured in the September 19, 1919 Perth Amboy Evening News.

Image with the heading "Ten Million Years Old!" shows dinosaur eggs that were discovered in western Mongolia.

Imagine finding dinosaur eggs that are 10,000,000 years old! The eggs in the image above, featured in the November 21, 1923 Perth Amboy Evening News, were laid by dinosaurs in western Mongolia and were shipped to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Imagine with the caption "Footprints Left in the Sands of Time by a Dinosaur Countless Ages Ago" shows well preserved footprints discovered in Colorado.

Image above, featured in the March 31, 1923 Perth Amboy Evening News, shows well preserved dinosaur tracks discovered in Colorado. Similar tracks were found in brown sandstone in Connecticut Valley.

(Contributed by Kristi Chanda)

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