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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Dinosaurs in Brighton

That's right! There is now official evidence of dinosaurs in Brighton, TN! Our neighbors have been putting a pool in their backyard. While digging one day, the pool guys made an important discovery... dinosaurs bones! An expert from the Pink Palace Museum was called out to evaluate the discovery. Turns out it's a jaw bone & teeth from a dinosaur relative to the mastadon, called a trilophodon. There's never been a discovery like this anywhere in this area... how cool! He was very impressed with how well preserved the bones & teeth are. We were able to go check it out before all the news coverage began. Here are our pictures...
This is the best one, I think... You can see the teeth so clearly! It's almost like they still have an enamel-like surface on them!
This is the jaw bone. It broke a little when it was found. They say the wish-bone shape is indicative of the trilophodon.
Here's Callie Jewel in the jaw bone :) This picture was really an afterthought... how many times in your child's life will they get to be so up close to real dinosaur bones?! and get to touch it?! found across the street from where you live?! When Cade went over to see, he kept looking around asking, "Where's the dinosaur?" ha! Hudson thought they were really neat :)
We figured it was pretty cool news for the local area, but had no idea what national attention the discovery would receive! Channels 3 & 5 covered it locally - 3 even showed all the neighborhood kids out digging for their own discovery! It was very cute. (We have it recorded because the boys are on it, and at the end, Hudson says, "I found a big rock!") NBC's nightly news covered the story & FOX news channel morning show did, too. Very cool!
So... there you have it... that's it... Proof that real dinosaurs once roamed this Earth right where we live!

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