Mountains, fossils and a dinosaur learning centre! Thailand

With Thai coastlines being hundreds of miles from where they once were and understanding that fossils are commonly found in areas of sedimentary rock or lands that regularly deposit material, a line of fossils can be found where prehistoric land previously met the sea. This line is now in parts of north and central Thailand- the old coastline!

On the way to the dinosaur park we passed a broken sign pointing off down a national park road. Unaware that there was even a waterfall nearby we checked it out. Upon arrival we were told by the park rangers that swimming in the waters was not allowed due to heavy rain and as a result, we were allowed free entrance.

A slippery concrete path led us down the hillside to the waterfall.

With rain coming in and a heavy downpour off in the distance we headed off to the dinosaur park. A few photos online showed full size replicas and original fossils. Upon arriving, this turned out to be 1 replica, a bunch of fibre glass models in the car park and 1 real fossil fenced off!

On a much more exciting note! we took a shortcut- a shortcut that ended up taking 4 hours longer than we had first planned! It eventually connected up with the road into the dinosaur park but took us up over the mountains.

It wasn't until after that we began to wonder if the landscape would have been similar millions of years ago when those dinosaurs were roaming. Climate may have been very different, but were the mountains!?

The fossil that had been unearthed at this location belonged to a sauropod. The large replica skeleton is of a sauropod. Photos below.

Even though this museum/fossil site was in the middle of nowhere, information signs and posters were in both Thai and English.

A simple learning corner aimed to teach the basics of evolution and dinosaur categories. Until this point I was unaware that all dinosaurs were divided into 2 main groups, Ornithiscians and Saurischians. Differentiated according to the shape of their hips. Ornithiscians having a hip like a bird, while the other is shaped like a lizards hip.

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