Monday, November 22, 2010

Welcome to GEOL 106 Dinosaurs

Welcome to the Winter Quarter Dinosaurs course at North Seattle Community College. I'm your instructor, Dr. Tom Braziunas, and I am looking forward to working with you this quarter. The dinosaur on the move above was photographed outside the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, Canada. Can you identify it? (You can enlarge the photo by clicking on it.) Some other "museum" dinosaurs are shown below. Do you have any museum photos of your own?

3 comments:

Erica said...

This kind of looks like a Veloca (sp?) Raptor to me. I am probably wrong though. At first glance I almost thought that this picture was taken at NSCC campus! There are definitely some similarities in the background!

S Thompson said...

I agree with Erica, it does look like a Velociraptor. Though I would guess that it is a Albertosaurus

kevin v said...

With the short forearms it looks to me like it could be T-rex or similar species. It does look a little small though. I do not think it is a Velociraptor, as the real Velociraptor is rather smaller than depicted in the Jurassic Park series. The dinosaur called Velociraptor showed in Jurassic Park is actually Deinonychus. Whatever it is it appears to be some sort of theropod