prehistoric shark

5.3 feet long
16.5 lbs

it's real.
this photo was taken at the Awashima Marine Park
in Japan back in 2007. Some fishermen brought her in the marine park
and, although it only lived for a couple of hours, they got some pictures and a crazy video of it.
this creature dates back 50 million years.

dinosaur, colorado

in 1909, a palaeontologist named earl douglass found dinosaur bone beds in what is now know as dinosaur national monument.

as you can see from this photo, amazing discoveries such as whole vertebrae were found at this location.
dinosaur, colorado was originally called artesia, but the name of the town was changed in 1966 because of its' proximity to dinosaur national monument.



this is just another reason for people to go see the four corners.