• Camarasaurus skull still embedded in the quarry face

    Dinosaur

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Animals

Some of the animals found at Dinosaur National Monument (left to right): white-footed prairie dog, elk, great-horned owls, bighorn sheep.
Some of the animals found at Dinosaur National Monument (left to right): white-footed prairie dog, elk, great-horned owls, bighorn sheep.
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Dinosaur National Monument is a land of rivers and desert, of mountains and canyons. Coyotes and mountain lions wander the monument's rugged landscape, past dinosaur graveyards, thriving prairie dog towns, and the cool green of a cottonwood-shaded streambank. Peregrine falcons make their homes in towering canyon cliffs and greater sage grouse nest under the silver-leafed sagebrush. Below the rugged canyon walls, Dinosaur's rivers provide some of the last known spawning and nursery habitat for several endangered fish.

Did You Know?

Picture of mormon cricket perched on a blade of grass.

Mormon crickets are wingless grasshoppers that swarm across roads through the summer in the western United States. These flightless insects can form such large swarms that the road appears to move and change colors where they cross.