Dinosaurs

Visitors can see, touch and smell a dinosaur at the St. Louis Science Center beginning Saturday.

The state dinosaur of Missouri was long thought to be a sauropod. Amateur paleontologist Guy Darrough’s recent discovery reveals that Parrosaurus missouriensis is actually a duck-billed dinosaur.

Earlier this summer, Missouri paleontologist David Schmidt and a small team unearthed a rare triceratops skull in the South Dakota Badlands. Schmidt describes what the excavation process was like and what he and his fellow researchers hope to learn from the bones of the dinosaur they named “Shady.”

A team from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, spent nearly two months carefully excavating the fossil, which measures about seven feet long and weighs more than 3,000 pounds.

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