Meet Ally, a 30-foot Allosaurus fragilis skeleton greeting visitors in the B-gates concourse at Salt Lake City International Airport. The Natural History Museum of Utah installed the 150-million-year-old state fossil specimen to celebrate Utah’s prehistoric heritage and mark 100 years since U scientists first discovered these bones.
Feature image above: The wagon caravan bringing dinosaur fossils up the U’s President’s Circle in 1924, with the Park Building in the background. Photo credit: Frederick Pack/J. Willard Marriott archives
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