While heading north from Colorado to Glacier Natl Park, we were planning a one-night stop in Casper, WY.  But, we learned about a museum at the college in Casper that had some real good geologic and dinasaur exhibits, so we added a day to our stay in Casper to visit it.

It was a real good museum!  Small, but packed with good exhibits and fossils from every geologic age on the planet.  In addition, there was a mostly intact mamoth fossil that had been completed using casts and assembled in the middle of the museum room.  It was HUGE!!  The backhoe operator from an oil rig company hit something in the dirt while digging for an oil rig, and could tell that they were old bones.  So, he got his supervisor, who got the owner of the company and the owner of the land involved, and they contacted the museum.  They agreed to move the oil rig being assembled and a team came and dug out the fossil.

It’s called Dee because the backhoe operator was named Dee!

Sorry, no pictures, but if you go to their website you’ll see lots of good information. Here’s a link to the museum website: www.caspercollege.edu/tate–geological–museum.