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.