@MarSou 3 February 2022 more from that month

Village of Giants I came upon another article about the nearest villa Lourinhã, only 15 km from where I live Surrounded by amazing Atlantic Ocean, beaches of white clean sand, abrupt High cliffs where Pangeia broke into the several continents... And a whole lot of Dinos Here you can see Dino's everywhere, there's Lifesize figures in every square, roundabouts, restaurants... And the museum, the DinoPark... Here's some memories with me and Mommy Read more 👇 "Although Jurassic Park is not a reality, here’s an alternative: Dino Parque da Lourinhã (Dino Park). The portuguese Dino Park was created with the cooperation between the Municipality of Lourinhã and the german Münchenhagen’s Dinosaurierpark. It is located in Lourinhã, a village that is 45 minutes away from Lisbon. It is basically an outdoor museum with an area of 10 hectares that includes 4 tracks from the end of the Paleozoic, the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. The cool thing about these tracks is that you get to observe over 120 models of dinosaurs (and other animals) on a real scale. Beside the tracks, you can visit the main central building which grants access to the museum of Lourinhã. The exhibition displayed here includes a great collection of paleontologic discoveries and there is also a laboratory on which visitors can observe the preparation of fossils in real time, or the assemblage of complete skeletons. Let’s focus on the outside, for a bit. The dinosaur models are obviously the Dino Park’s greatest feature. The models were built on a real scale, considering the latest discoveries and with the cooperation with scientists from around the globe. Visitors can expect to see the well known Triceratops or the infamous T-rex, but also local dinosaurs, such as the Torvosaurus gurneyi (the biggest carnivore from the Jurassic, with 11m in length), the Lourinhasaurus antunesi (a carnivore dinosaur, also from the Jurassic with 7-8m long) and the gigantic Supersaurus lourinhanensis and the Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis. These two sauropod species were so large that it was not possible for a lone predator to hunt them. The museum, as mentioned above, presents an exhibition based on fossil discoveries from the Lourinhã area. This region is located in one of the richest places in Portugal with upper Jurassic fossils and it is one of the best places in the world for 150 million year old findings. This happens because back then, Lourinhã was a huge valley with water courses, which attracted a multitud of animals, including our beloved dino friends and even the first mammals. The conditions in this area were determinant to obtain fossils of exceptional quality. Lourinhã is well known for its fossils, but also ichnofossils - there are plenty of dinosaur footpring trails, footprints with skin details, stomach stones and if this wasn’t enough, there are intact eggs with embryos! This is quite amazing, specially since eggs are incredibly hard to preserve. But despite that, this region has several egg laying locations that belong to the huge Lourinhasaurus." Pretty cool place to visit, isn't it?? 😊