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| George the Allosaurus is the newest edition to the Riverville Museum of Natural History. Continue reading to learn more about him! |
The Riverville Museum of Natural History right here in Riverville,
New York near Animal Adventures Inc. (AAI.) is one of
the largest and most elaborate museums in the area, and they have a
very impressive dinosaur exhibit. The dinosaur exhibit already has
several skeletons, dinosaur replicas, souvenir shops and fossils of
dinosaur eggs and nests. But the exhibit just got even cooler,
because they just unveiled the skeleton of a brand new dinosaur: an
Allosaurus fragilis!
I going to have one of my co-writers, Lizzy the Lizard do this story
for me, but she's on off in Mississippi visiting my intern's uncle,
Tyrone, following some mysterious clues or something, so my trusty,
junior photographer and I, Daniel P. Smithwater and I went over to
the museum to learn more about the unveiling of the new dinosaur
skeleton from the museum's co-curator, Otis Ostrich, who as you might
recall is also the town's President of the Town Board.
Upon finally laying eyes on the Allosaurus – who has been
named George by its finders – I was stunned! The amazing skeleton
is ten feet tall, stretches 30 feet from nose to tail and weighed 2.1
tons in weight when alive. “This museum received George in Autumn
of last year when a paleontological team of fossil hunters decided to
donate him to this museum,” says Otis. “We gladly accepted him
and have spend a great deal of time and money cleaning, preparing and
getting it ready for the grand reveal!”
Otis explained that George is one of the most complete Allosaurus
ever found and its skull is around 95% complete. That in and of
itself is fascinating. Most times, when fossils of dinosaurs are
found, scientists only discover remains of scattered and/or broken
bones, teeth or claws.
I wanted to learn even more about George and the world he lived in,
so I went to AAI.'s head paleontologist, Dr. Samuel Adamson,
for answers. He is preparing for another dinosaur hunting season; he
and his team go out to several dig sites around North America
(sometimes around the world) every summer to hunt for new dinosaur
fossils. However, he was glad to take time to answer some questions I
had.
When asked to tell us a little bit about George the Allosaurus,
Dr. Samuel is quoted for saying, “Allosaurus is a
carnivorous theropod dinosaur known from Europe, east Africa and
western North America, mainly in the Jurassic Morrison Formation. It
wasn't the largest killer on the block, but this Jurassic predator
was the most common and one you wouldn't want to run into! The
average Allosaurus grows around eight to ten feet tall and 28
feet long. George is slightly bigger.” He went on to explain that
Allosaurus hunted just about every other dinosaur in the
region, including small to medium-sized ornithopods such as
Dryosaurus and Camptosaurus to creatures like
Stegosaurus and juvenile sauropods. The larger sauropods like
Apatosaurus and Diplodocus would have been too large to
bring down.
Then Dr. Samuel went on to tell me how George died. “George was
discovered in Flood sediments (those are thick layers of once-soft
rock laid down during the Genesis Flood of Noah's day around 4,350
years ago). This means that he died during the Flood. Evidence tells
us that as the water's were rising, animals ran inland to escape the
water. However, they couldn't escape for long, because the Bible
tells us clearly that the Flood waters covered the entire earth in
water (Gen. 7:17-21); therefore, any dinosaurs surviving late into the
Flood would have drowned. George died and was buried long before that
happened . . . [it is] likely that he was overcome with waves and was
rapidly buried in sediment before turning into the fossil skeleton he
is today.”
George is definitely a great testimony to Noah's Flood and a terrific
new edition to the museum collection. So be sure to come and check
George the Allosaurus out in his new exhibit and learn more
about this amazing dinosaur!
Written by: Mr. Smiley
Photographer: Daniel P.
Smithwater
Edited by: Christian
Ryan, Joy Hammond
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