In southern Montana we took a tour of the Lewis and Clark Caverns. These two explorers passed through the area years before the caverns were discovered and were totally unaware of the formations hidden within the mountains.
The 2 hour tour took us down 627 steps to various "rooms" full of weird shapes and forms. The tower on the left of the picture is 30 ft tall.
Museum of the Rockies is home to hundreds of dinosaur bones found in the area. Part of the University of Montana the museum claims to be one of the leading centres for paleontology and has many active research projects.
(Elaine in discussion with a learned old timer at the museum).
This recreation of a small (veloceraptor type) dinosaur attacking a much larger herbivore shown what they believe they looked like. Most closely related to modern birds with their lung structure and hollow cell bones some also had feathers.
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