At the end of the day today the University of Wyoming Geological Museum is going to be closed. The museum and the paleontologists who worked there are victims of state budget cuts, and the spirited effort to keep the museum open did not get top-level administrators to change their minds. The closure of the museum is still a shock to paleontologist Brent Breithaupt, who worked hard to make it what it is now. He recently told the Laramie Boomerang:

I can’t fathom the concept that I’m not going to be coming in every day to see the dinosaurs. … I can’t fathom the concept that the dinosaurs won’t be there for other people to see; to see the