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(C) Dinosaur Park
Rapid City, South Dakota
built 1936
Dinosaur Park consists of seven dinosaur statues placed on a hill overlooking Rapid City, South Dakota. Developed by the city along with the Works Progress Administration, its creators hoped the location would attract tourists coming to the Black Hills to visit Mount Rushmore. Most of the dinosaurs depicted are based on fossils that have been found in South Dakota and the western United States. The dinosaurs in the park are Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Edmontosaurus annectens, Protoceratops, and Dimetrodon (technically a synapsid, not a dinosaur). As in the ancient past, time has not been kind to these dinosaurs, and some are missing their teeth and claws. |