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Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of tossing couch cushions, its scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil deep — really deep — below the surface of one of its own parking lots, the museum announced this week.
A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...
Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows ...
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A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New SpeciesPaleontologist Victor Beccari was looking through the fossilized reptiles housed at London’s Natural History Museum when he ...
Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment build up on top of one another, they create a physical timeline. The oldest ...
These Cretaceous Period rock layers, known as the Yixian Formation, are famous for two types of fossils: A collection of still-perfectly articulated skeletons preserved in 3-D relief; and ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
Cutting-edge digital fossil-mining reveals early squid evolution, diversification, and importance in marine ecosystems.
Researchers at DMNS unearthed a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil, the oldest found within Denver city limits.
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