Video Dinosaurs

Video Dinosaurs
I grew up in Alaska. I did not know there were dinosaurs here, and I admit my perception of dinosaurs has been largely formed by film. What has changed in this weekend’s Rock and Mineral Show, which ended Sunday night.

We saw the skeletons, looking at the big teeth, watching movies with giant lizards roaming tropical lands, so you might expect to find dinosaurs in Alaska. And for many years, scientists agree it was too cold.

In 1961, a dinosaur bone was found near the Colville River on the North Slope. It was thought to be a mammoth bone, and it was not until the mid-1980s that they understood what they had. Since then, thousands of dinosaur bones have been discovered.

“And what’s so exciting to Alaska is that we have more dinosaurs, dinosaurs at high latitude in our state of all other high-latitude locations combined,” said University of Alaska Anchorage geologist Anna Easter.

During the Cretaceous period, the average temperature in Alaska ranged between 30 and 60 degrees – hotter than today, but not tropical. Find dinosaurs in Alaska contributed to a revolution in the way paleontologists think dinosaurs.