Stegosaurus-Jurrasic Park #1 Traditional Cache

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Keystone: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this cache page.

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Hidden : 9/13/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Stegosaurus was a large, ponderous, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the environs of North America during the late Jurassic period (about 150 million years ago). What made this herbivore (and other stegosaurs like it) especially striking were the double rows of large, bony plates jutting out of its back. No one is quite sure why Stegosaurus had these plates: they may have evolved for defensive purposes (there were lots of hungry tyrannosaurs and other large theropods roaming the woodlands of North America), or they may have served to dissipate heat from this dinosaur's body, roughly the same function of an elephant's floppy ears. Besides its plates, what set Stegosaurus apart from other herbivorous dinosaurs was its unusually small, walnut-sized brain, which prompted one paleontologist to speculate that it had a supplementary brain in its butt, one of the most amusing dinosaur blunders of all time. Since Stegosaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs ever to be discovered (the first fossils of this genus were unearthed way back in 1877), this led to the popular misconception that all dinosaurs were nature's D students. Recently, though, scientists have come to the conclusion that at least some saurischian dinosaurs (but certainly not the ornithischian Stegosaurus) may have been fairly smart, at least by the standards of the Mesozoic Era.

White's Woods is a 250 acre parcel of mature forest located along N. 12th St. in Indiana, Pa. It lays next to the 270 acre IUP Co-Op Park. Together, the two combine for over 12 miles of interconnecting hiking and mountain biking trails. All the caches I've placed here are near (within 100ft) of a trail, so only minimal bushwhacking is required. This is pretty open, mature forest though and, if you do bushwhack, it should still be relatively easy going. The trails range from gas well roads to primitive foot trails and the terrain varies from slightly hilly to rocky and steep.

 

 

 

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