by Kristen Kidd | Jun 29, 2025
It’s a tale as old as the Ice Age, and as recent as 15 years ago when Christian and Becky Shorey were newly engaged local science educators volunteering to help dig fossils out of a construction site in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The two took two weeks to be...
by Kristen Kidd | May 7, 2025
Colorado’s prehistoric landscape was vastly different than what we see around us today. Currently Colorado’s Front Range is dominated by foothills and mountains; eroding features shaped by climate and environmental changes over millions of years. Over time, the...
by Kristen Kidd | Feb 18, 2025
Join Dinosaur Ridge and lead paleontologist/geologist Dr. Louis Taylor as we journey south from Morrison into the beautiful landscape of Trinidad, Colorado. Trinidad Lake State Park straddles the boundary of the End Cretaceous extinction event – the dinosaur-killing...
by Kristen Kidd | Feb 12, 2025
The history of Red Rock Canyon in Colorado Springs began 300 million years ago with the crumbling of the Ancestral Mountains that existed before the present-day Rockies. Dino Ridge Lead Tour Guide Alyce Olson will lead our group on a hike through 215 million years of...
