Scientists will dig a Jurassic site in Wyoming this summer

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – US and European scientists are hoping to learn about a promising new site for dinosaurs in northern Wyoming this summer.

The Indianapolis Children's Museum is leading a project that will allow more than 100 scientists to dive into the ranches of the Bighorn Basin. Coordinators do not say exactly where the site is to discourage looters and curiosity seekers.

But Professor Phil Manning of the University of Manchester in Britain said the site had already delivered fossils of some of the biggest dinosaurs dating back 150 million years ago, to the Jurassic period. Among these are long neck phytophaga, which may be diplodocus and brachiosaurus dinosaurs.

There are also preserved traces of predatory and prey dinosaurs.
The site was once a tropical floodplain. It is now called the "Jurassic Kilometer".