Archaeotherium was a pig like animal whose narrow head was covered in numerous knobs. From the shape of its teeth it is thought Archaeotherium could eat nearly anything from tubers (plants like potatoes) to dead animals. This specimen consists of...
The Green River Formation, an area extending through Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, is known throughout the world for its excellent preservation of fossils. This formation developed over 40 million years ago in deposits that are the remains of large...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Pueblo Indians; Implements, utensils, etc.; Anasazi
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
The Camarasaur is a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period over 145 million years ago. It is the most common “long neck” dinosaur of its time. This animal had spoon-shaped teeth which it used to strip plants of their...
Schorl is one of the most common forms of a mineral group known as Tourmaline. The crystal it forms is thin, triangular, and black and is found as part of other rocks. If you cut the crystal in half it will be triangular in shape. Schorl Tourmaline...
This mineral, which can be found in white, blue, green, and violet, can be found in sedimentary and igneous rocks. The United States is the largest producer of fluorite, mostly from Illinois, Kentucky, Colorado, and New Mexico. It is used to smelt...
This is a mineral, which may contain small amounts of arsenic. It can be found in forms of green, yellow, brown, white, and gray, and in locations such as British Columbia, Canada, Colorado and Idaho in the US, and in Mexico. The name Pyromorphite...
This is just one of the bones that made up the spinal column of the long neck dinosaur Apatosaurus. These dinosaurs could grow up to seventy feet long and weigh up to twenty tons. They lived during the Jurassic, about 213 to 144 million years ago,...
This cricket frog is named after Frank Nelson Blanchard, a herpetologist, a person who studies reptiles and amphibians, at the University of Michigan. These frogs can be found in shallow water throughout the Mid-west, feeding on insects. Even...
The actual name of this set is the Transcontinental Limited. The first year Lionel made State sets (people called them that because of the names of the cars: California, Colorado, Illinois, New York) the engine that went with the set wasn't strong...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Pueblo Indians; Bowls (Tableware); Anasazi
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
Cliff-dwellers; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New; Anasazi; Storage jars; Pueblo Indians
The Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) lived in the present-day Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. They lived in this area from AD1 and AD1300 and are thought to be the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians now...
