http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/07/dinosaur-sighting-roadside-triceratops/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/07/dinosaur-sighting-roadside-triceratops/comment-page-1/#comment-4484 JP Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:35:27 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5950#comment-4484 The stance and head of the animal, particularly the long snout, reminds me of another roadside dinosaur, the triceratops in Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, SD. Perhaps one was inspired by the other? The stance and head of the animal, particularly the long snout, reminds me of another roadside dinosaur, the triceratops in Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, SD. Perhaps one was inspired by the other?

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/07/dinosaur-sighting-roadside-triceratops/comment-page-1/#comment-4483 Harold Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:10:19 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5950#comment-4483 The Marvel comics series <i>Dark Avengers</i> had a storyline, beginning with issue #10, where supervillain Molecule Man had transformed his childhood hometown of Dinosaur, Colorado into the ultimate tourist trap - a sort of dimensional anomaly into which passers-by could enter but never leave. The Dark Avengers (unreformed supervillains and a few duped heroes, rebranded as the heroic Avengers) were all mildly amused by the nature of Dinosaur, Colorado - until they fell into the Molecule Man's trap. The Marvel comics series Dark Avengers had a storyline, beginning with issue #10, where supervillain Molecule Man had transformed his childhood hometown of Dinosaur, Colorado into the ultimate tourist trap – a sort of dimensional anomaly into which passers-by could enter but never leave. The Dark Avengers (unreformed supervillains and a few duped heroes, rebranded as the heroic Avengers) were all mildly amused by the nature of Dinosaur, Colorado – until they fell into the Molecule Man’s trap.

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