My favourite museum is one most wouldn’t know: the Burpee Museum of Natural Hi story. It’s in Rockford, Illinois, near where grewup and, around the time was becoming interested in dinosaurs, it acquired the best skeleton of a ‘teenage’T. rex ever found. It’s beautiful: as a big as a Jeep, with long, skinny legs, and less scary teeth than the bus-sized adults.
Steve Brusatte’s The Rise and Fall ofthe Dinosaurs is out now in paperback (£9.99, Picador).
The TV stereotype of a digi s some Indiana Jones character brushing sand off bones in the desert, but my most exciting discovery was on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, My colleague and were returning from fieldwork in Duntulm, and noticed a hole in the rock the size of a car tyre. Looking around we saw that these things were everywhere, and it dawned on us that we’d found dinosaur footprints. They were left 170 million years ago by giant long-necked dinosaurs, the Brontosaurus types, as they waded in the shallow water of a lagoon.
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