If you’re passing through Denver International Airport, be on the lookout for creatures from the Cretaceous.
Four Tyrannosaurus rex displays (like the one above) are in the airport’s baggage claim areas. In addition to offering a fun photo-op, the prehistoric placards promote the T. Rex Encounter at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science through January 8, 2012.
It’s Dino-Day at StuckatTheAirport.com!
Here’s the 33-foot-long Yangchuanosaurus dinosaur skeleton at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It’s on loan from the Fernbank Museum of Natural History and is in the Atrium in airport’s main terminal.
(Photo courtesy: ATL)
Here’s the 15 foot tall, 30-foot long Tyrannosaurs rex at Pittsburgh International Airport. Look for it airside, as you enter or leave the people-mover trains.
Here’s an allosaurus, one of the dinos at Toronto’ s Pearson International Airport.
And here’s the much-loved brachiosaurus outside the Field Museum store at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport
(Photo courtesy Flickr user ProStaK
From now until 2012, travelers passing through the Terminal 1 international arrivals area at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport will see a large Allosaurus bearing down on an Othnielia that has tripped to the ground.
Don’t be scared. The dinosaurs are on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), which has lots more dinosaurs on display. And while you can’t save the Othnielia from the Allosaurus, you can help pick new names for these two creatures.
“Ever since these two dinosaurs roamed the earth approximately 150 million years ago, they have been without given names. With help from the community, that is about to change. The GTAA [Greater Toronto Airport Authority] is launching a contest to find names for the new dinosaurs. …The experts aren’t sure if these dinosaurs are male or female, so send us whatever names you think fit!”
You can get more details and enter the contest here.
Interestingly, there are also dinosaurs on display in at least two other airports in North America:
A giant replica of a Brachiosaurus skeleton towers over the Field Museum store in Terminal One at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and, at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, there’s a replica of a 33-foot-long dinosaur in the airport atrium. The Yangchuanosaurus skeleton is on loan from Atlanta’s Fernbank Museum of Natural History.