Dinosaurs Found in Unexpected Places
Dinosaurs found in unexpected places. In 1933, the Sinclair Oil Corporation sponsored an exhibit at the World’s Fair in Chicago. The Earth’s oil reserves, it was thought, formed during the era of the dinosaurs–the Mesozoic Era. The exhibit was so popular, a silhouette of a green dinosaur, a Brontosaurus, became Sinclair’s official logo (pictured left). Gaining popularity, a few decades later at the New York World’s Fair in 1964, Sinclair introduced their expanded exhibit, called Dinoland, featuring life-size replicas of nine different dinosaurs, including their signature 27-foot tall and 70-foot long Brontosaurus. Admission was free.
The exhibit re-enacted the once-popular dinosaur oil production theory along with erupting volcanos, flashing lightning, and bubbling streams. Now, more than a half-century later, dinosaurs found in unexpected places give new insights into the Earth’s massive flooding and plate tectonic events.
