Dinosaur World

Our primary purpose for visiting Glen Rose was to go to Dinosaur World. It is a new park next to the dinosaur state park, and it has over 100 life-size dinosaurs on display. Colin is just enthralled with dinosaurs right now, so much so that I don't even dare try to get into a trivia game with him about them. He can name so many more dinosaurs than I ever heard of, knows whether they are a carnivore or a herbivore, and even knows what period they lived in (Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, etc.). As a matter of fact, he started looking at what I was just typing and reminded me not to forget the Triassic period.... so it's now listed above....


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It was fascinating to watch him see an upcoming dinosaur and say, "Daddy, I think that's a styrocosaurus" and be right on target with his guess.


The picture above is of the styrocosaurus.


At the end of the trail, there is playground and also a "fossil dig" in which they get to sift through sand in an attempt to find fossils, three of which they get to keep. None of these are dinosaur fossils, but there are things like small shark teeth, etc.


The boys thoroughly enjoyed this visit, although it was pretty hot that day (97+) and there was very little breeze. We wish we had switched the two parks around as the day before when we were in the truck with the a/c available, it only got up to 92 degrees and had a good breeze.