The Real Jurrasic Park

65 million years ago dinosaurs roamed the Earth, but you can still catch a glimpse of these giant beats... as concrete and wooden roadside attractions. Multiple dinosaur parks are still littered throughout the US countryside, attracting curious tourists with their awe inspiring size, and sometimes comically unscientific look. Rapid City, South Dakota's Dinosaur Park is at the top of the hill and features large scale dinos that have a more cartoonish than accurate look to them. These replica prehistoric beasts have been overlooking Rapid City for over 70 years. For forty years, sculptor E.V. Nelson has been crafting dinos with surreal colors at the Prehistoric Gardens in Port Orford, Oregon, which is located in a genuine American rain forest. Fellow dino crafter Jeff Fish Wells has been making the creatures since 1981 at the Wells Dinosaur Haven in Uncasville, Connecticut. His proudest creation is a full scale T-Rex made from a submarine hull, and the Rex rocks out with oversized mandolin held in it's arms and mouth. And how could you expect to find quirky American attractions in small towns without running into a little religious fanaticism along with your dinos? At the Dinosaur Gardens Prehistoric Gardens Zoo in Ossineke, Michigan, visitors are greeted by a statue of Jesuss. Then those brave enough to enter the over 70 year old so called zoo will walk through a historically inaccurate yet well crafted display of dinos interacting with cavemen. At the end of your tour, enter the belly of a Apatosaurus statue, where you'll find a heart shaped Jesus inside. And the two dinos known as the Cabazon Monsters in Cabazon, California have recently had their own Christian conversion. Located in the middle of the desert and clearly visible from the highway, Dinny, the Apatosaurus and his unnamed T-Rex neighbor took a decade each to build and became pop culture icons in the 80s, appearing in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Wizard, and various commercials. They were recently purchased by a ...

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[barrietorontowindsor]

Only in America....

[DivineTruthRedeemed]

many think these dragons were surviving dinosaurs. Why not? crocodiles survived, mammals survived, birds survived, so why not?

[kanaabodi]

I want to see the dinosaur only, I don't want to see how beautiful you are acting, girl

[britawni]

In my opinion god created the all life that includes the dino's.Said he took 6days well anyone ever think what a day is to god.We think 24hrs what if a day to god is 65million yrs.

[gregrutz]

@TastyTacoBoy Evolution was proen with the facts. Faith is for religions.

Only small marine creatures 530 million years ago fits evolution.

[gregrutz]

@DivineTruthRedeemed Because Large dinosaurs stopped making fossils 65 million years ago. The small ones with feathers survived.

[chumon1992]

@luv2vacation2471 Except you could say the same about right wing Christians. On both sides theres always fanatics. The point is, no one regardless of what they believe should force feed it to others. People should be free to choose for themselves.

[PiromancerFreak]

your moms a great beast that once walked the earth....

[do501]

anti evoloution is just made up bullcrap humans could not have lived with dinosaurs.

just look at a scientific source not religious crap!

[do501]

@TastyTacoBoy yea keep thinking that bullshit but eveoloution has pleanty of hard evedance so try looking up facts insted of preaching lies because scientific theories are not religion dumbass and there was multicellular life before the cambrian explosion look that up lier!

[TastyTacoBoy]

Evolution/Darwinism is a religion with very little actual hard evidence of macroevolution, requiring a lot of blind faith to believe the theory. There are huge gaps. Yet the non-thinking follow it like sheep.  Look up "Cambrian Explosion." It doesn't fit the evolutionary theory. All scientists in the world thought the sun rotated the earth until Copernicus came around. The common theory is not always the right one.

[Predatorocks]

Dinosaur World is another a lot of dinosaurs in Tampa FL!