This Museum is too large to see it all in one day, and if all sections were open, a week might be needed to explore it thoroughly.
There were displays of fossils with models of what the animal or plant would have looked like, and most all were collected in the mountain states. There was a room where the scientist types were using Dremel type tools to chip the stone away from the fossils. At different times there may be up to three folks working on different projects here.
Anne-Marie and a giant Mastodon skull. This is a cast of a fossil find, with real fossils, showing how the dinosaurs became stuck in a wet clay area. The mud primarily only held the younger dinosaurs, and it is believed that the larger ones were strong enough to pull free.
The central part of the US was covered in a shallow sea, and this animal is a air breathing four flippered, meat eater, and the fossils were found in the Mountain States. A display showing toe nails of various dinosaurs.
There is evidence of some dinosaurs nesting like birds, and some others just building a pile of eggs, covering and letting them be on their own. The case of the two dinosaur feet, are showing the differences between a Tyrannosaur, and a Duckbill.
These two cases show skull sizes, and features of plant eaters, and carnivores.
The inland seas and waterways had amazingly large and very ferocious animals. The large Nautilus shell was nearly three feet across.
The big room, called the Hall of Horns and Teeth, had large life size displays. I wore out at the end of the Dinosaurs, and rested by laying down on a bench at the ending of this exhibit area, while Anne-Marie was catching up with me.
We called it a day and walked briskly through the rest of the Museum and out the door. Today we are returning to the Museum to give the Native American Historical Hall, the Montana History Hall, and other exhibits a good study.
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