vertebrate paleontology

“It's an incredible museum—like a dinosaur national monument but more impressive,” says Jingmai O'Connor, an American paleontologist with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Constructed over a massive exposed site covered in dinosaur fossils, the museum has ...

“My gut says it's a juvenile,” said Greg Liggett, a Bureau of Land Management paleontologist based in Billings. “It makes a lot of sense. There had to have ... “Montana is a hotbed for T. rex,” said David Burnham, preparator of vertebrate paleontology at the KU Biodiversity Institute. “In fact, I call it T. rex world.” ...

“The teeth suggest it's a Tyrannosaurus rex; however, there is still more work to be done,” David Burnham, preparator of vertebrate paleontology at the KU ... In 1988, eminent paleontologist Robert Bakker announced that the skull of what was believed to be a juvenile T. rex dug up in Montana decades ...

Paleontologists digging in Montana have hit the dinosaur jackpot. They've uncovered ... However, when Carr reviewed the controversial fossil for his master's thesis, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1999, he found that it had features seen in other juvenile tyrannosaurs. "And on top of ...

said co-author Christian Sidor, a professor of biology at UW and a curator of vertebrate paleontology at Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Sidor's team, comprised of a group of students, geologists, paleontologists, and postdoctoral researchers, conducted excavations in Ruhuhu Basin ruins in ...

"These papers highlight what a regional perspective we now have—we have the same fossils from Tanzania, Antarctica, Namibia and more," Christian Sidor, a University of Washington biology professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture said in a ...

ReBecca Hunt, a paleontologist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Moab, Utah, published a paper March 19 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology identifying Arkansauras fridayi as a new species unique to Arkansas. It lived here during the Early Cretaceous period, about 113 million years ...

LOCKESBURG, Ark. (AP) - A scientific journal has given its imprimatur to Arkansas' state dinosaur, noting that its kind flourished in Asia but are not well-represented in North America. Details about the Arkansaurus fridayi were published Monday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Joe Friday ...

That includes the differences seen in their limb proportions, according to Masaya Iijima, a vertebrate paleontologist from Hokkaido University in Japan He found that over the course of millions of years, crocodiles tended to have longer humerus bones and femur bones than alligators. That suggests that the ...

Vertebrate paleontologist Dennis Voeten of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France and his colleagues used an imaging technique called propagation phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray microtomography to study detailed cross-sections of the humerus and ulna bones of three Archaeopteryx ...

WATERLOO — Ask Matt Lamanna when his interest in paleontology was born, and he provides the answer quickly. ... from the end of the age of dinosaurs are hard to find in Africa,” explained Lamanna, the assistant curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

Masaya Iijima, a vertebrate paleontologist from Hokkaido University in Japan and lead author on the study, measured more than 120 alligator and crocodile skeletons from nearly a dozen museums across the world. Then he analyzed the results using a statistical model. The specimens mostly belonged to ...

In 1974 he became Professor of Biology and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). ... Here, with his former student Neil Shubin (University of Chicago) and the vertebrate paleontologist Edward B. Daeschler (Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University), ...

After reading Othenio Abel's Principles of Vertebrate Paleontology, she had her calling: the study of ancient animals through their bones. She would go on to become one of the most significant paleontologists of the 20th century, and the first woman to be elected president of the Society of Vertebrate ...

Rob Gay, a paleontologist at the University of Western Colorado and leader of the expedition, announced the results at the Western Association of Vertebrate ... The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, alongside five Native American tribes, is suing Trump over Bears Ears and a number of other proposed rollbacks of ...

“Within the paleontology community, the size of this site and the potentially large number of specimens buried there represent an extraordinary opportunity ... Gay's announcement, made at the Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists's annual conference in St. George, Utah, also calls attention to ...

Until now, four-legged animals from the Mesozoic era, the dinosaur age, were not known to be in the area of Slovakia. The majority of Slovakia was covered by water during the Mesozoic era and therefore the probability of finding remains of four-legged animals is very small. The only exception until ...

11th Annual SeAVP Conference, May 23–27, 2018, North Carolina (Link); Trekking Across the GOBE: From the Cambrian through the Katian, IGCP 653 Annual Meeting, June 3-7, 2018, Athens, Ohio, USA (Link); European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, Caprica, June 26–July 1, ...

... of tiny teeth have led scientists to identify the most distant ancestor of today's kangaroos. The fossils were found in the desert heart of Australia, and then hidden away, and almost forgotten in a museum collection for over three decades. The findings are published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.