Dinosaur suit like monster. They continued to be used in films such as "" (1985) which used animatronic brontosaurus suits with radio-controlled heads, and in television series like "Dinosaurs" (1991), a sitcom with a family of dinosaurs. The film "Jurassic Park" (1993) used dinosaur suits for some of the creatures, such as velociraptors and pterodactyls. In modern-day movies such as "Jurassic World" (2015), this was instead done using CGI. In children's television, Barney, an anthropomorphic purple dinosaur, was used in the show "Barney & Friends" alongside other dinosaurs, becoming widely known in pop culture. Some sports teams have dinosaur mascots represented by
Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum a new state office building. The site opened as Dinosaur State Park in 1968, the same year its dinosaur trackway was memorialized as a Registered National Landmark. The park's geodesic dome (see picture at right) encloses some 500 tracks while another 1,500 remain buried for preservation. The tracks are from the early Jurassic period and were made over 200 million years ago on what must have been a sandy shore of a lake, by a carnivorous dinosaur similar to "Dilophosaurus". The tracks bear the name "Eubrontes", the term for fossilized footprints invented by geologist Edward Hitchcock. The tracks range from