What are these extra fishbone looking thingies on the side of the t-rex’s neck?

Look, this little guy has them too.

And so does this sauropod.

Are we sure we have these attached at the correct angle? Is it possible the dinosaurs could swell out their neck like a grouse or something? Should we be reconstructing them more like birds, with thicker, sleeker appearances?

Speaking of which… that’s basically a chicken foot, right?

Also … I’m not an expert, but I am weirded out by how big of a shoulder blade t-rex seems to need for his tiny hands. Were there possibly wings attached to these?

Basically chickens, amirite?

The chicken status of dinosaurs has been confirmed. They ate gastroliths, which are stones that help an animal digest, just as hens do.

Basically a moose .

A huge, terrifying moose.

I’m sure he looked better with skin on.

Speaking of what we call things, how are we supposed to keep up with prehistoric animals if they keep changing their names in this manner?

Now let’s look at some really cool petrified “wood.” Some of the specimens actually look like modern hardwood grain, but this one looks as if, when alive, it had the texture of a giant celery.

This one had some really disturbing strawlike structures inside that are creeping me out. Cork perhaps?

This one has the ghost of the tree trapped inside, going “Heeeelp meee!”

And these last two…. what the heck? I’m guessing the first one is a giant lichen and the second one is petrified slime mold or something like that.

What parts of this dinosaur are not made up? The ones in red.

Ah, my old friend, the iguanodon! I remember you from the dinosaur book I loved when I was a kid, published in the 1970s. My iguanodon back then looked like the guy on the far left. In case you can’t read the sign, it says, “These are all models of the same dinosaur.”

Next question : Triceratops. I always took its appearance for granted, ever since that same beloved dinosaur book, but now I am asking myself, What in the world did it need that huge expanse of bone for? Wasn’t it heavy? Are we sure it was all made of bone? Or was it cartilage or something lighter? Was anything attached to it … like even more expansive flaps of skin, or feathers?

This is the “death pose.” Here are some more:

Per this sign, evolutionists’ best guess about the death pose is that it’s caused by ligaments constricting as the animal begins to decay. Of course, animals that get a chance to decay don’t generally become fossils. You have a much better chance of becoming a fossil if you are suddenly buried in an anaerobic environment, such as under a giant tsunami of mud during, say, a cataclysmic worldwide flood. Which might also smash you in this position.

These different-sized femurs belong to a large herd of allosauruses (allosauri?) who were apparently all buried together.

This is pretty cool: There’s such a thing as a “brain cast” when a dinosaur’s brain gets “pickled” in peat.

Finally: Trilobites. I knew this guys existed, but I was thinking of them as basically glorified pillbugs.

I had no idea their spines were so … um … 3-D.

Will I ever be comfortable knowing these guys existed? No. No, I will not.

Thanks to the George C. Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden for an enjoyable afternoon feeling dwarfed by chickens and other horrors, in their pleasant air-conditioned museum!