There are no dinosaur bones in the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon might look like the perfect place to go looking for dinosaur bones, but none have ever been found there, and for good reason. The rock that makes up the canyon walls is vastly more ancient than the dinosaurs — about a billion years more ancient, in some cases — but the canyon itself probably didn’t form until after the dinosaurs were long gone.

There are lots of other fossils in the area

While the dinosaurs might have missed out on seeing the Grand Canyon, lots of other fossils have been found that suggest other creatures frequented the location. They range from ancient marine fossils dating back 1.2 billion years to fairly recent land mammals that left their remains in canyon caves about 10,000 years ago.

Published in Dawn, Young World, August 10th, 2024