BYU Museum of Paleontology
We took a field trip to the BYU Museum of Paleontology to learn about dinosaurs and their fossils! This museum has been open since 1976 and its primary purpose is to provide a place to prepare, display, house, and study the rocks and fossils collected by BYU paleontology crews.
The museum has over 18,000 fossils!
This bear sized Giant Ground Sloth was found near the Orem Wal-mart, when a local farmer found the bones eroding out of a nearby slope.
The museum allows visitors to touch certain fossils. The kids were allowed to touch the one's that had signs saying "Touch Fossil." The children loved touching actual fossils.
Through this window the children could see the workers using pen-sized "jackhammers" called air scribes, which removes the rock that surrounds the fossils.
Things other than bone, such as skin impressions, tracks, trails, dung, and eggs can become fossilized. Here the children are looking at fossilized dinosaur eggs!
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