Tag Archive for: dinosaurs

John Good

Arm Day at the Gym Apparently Not a Thing for Newly Found, Tiny-Armed Dino

smithsonianmag.com

In paleontology, you’re always most likely to find something on the very last day of the season. That’s what happened in 2007, when a multi-institution team of paleontologists was poking around Patagonia’s Huincul Formation looking for one last find. “It’s the last day, you’d better find something good!” Field Museum paleontologist Pete Makovicky joked to the team. Then Akiko Shinya, his lab preparator, did just that. A few moments after Makovicky’s command, Shinya found the first signs of an unusual dinosaur with an unexpected connection to the celebrated Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Utah Geological Survey

These Paleo Pets Made Fossil Hunting Less Lonely

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In the solitary hunt for bones, furry companions provide company, act as field assistants and sometimes even make the ultimate sacrifice

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Utah Geological Survey

Think dinosaurs roared like in ‘Jurassic Park’? The truth, new research says, is a bit wimpier

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Picture, if you will, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.

The odds are good what you envision has been brought to you in part by “Jurassic Park,” a plastic toy or some other facet of pop culture.

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John Good

148 million years later, the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah remains a cold case (with video)

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Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry • About 148 million years have passed since dozens of corpses of meat-eating dinosaurs were deposited here, just north of the San Rafael Swell and about 30 miles southeast of Price.

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Utah Geological Survey

Nature’s special effects: Travel in time at the best U.S. dinosaur sites

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Fossil hunters have been racing to the American West since the 1800s, and despite important and historic results, the contest to find new dinosaurs hasn’t always been pretty.

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John Good

99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Encased in Amber

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Finding things trapped in amber is far from a rare occurrence: lizards, bugs, flowers and more are regularly found encased in hardened lumps of the tree resin. But when a group of researchers digging through amber mined in Burma uncovered a sample with a pair of tiny bird-like wings frozen inside, they knew they had something special. At around 99 million years old, these wings are some of the most pristine fossilized feathers ever found.

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John Good

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber

nationalgeographic.com

Two tiny wings entombed in amber reveal that plumage (the layering, patterning, coloring, and arrangement of feathers) seen in birds today already existed in at least some of their predecessors nearly a hundred million years ago.

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John Good

The Event that Wiped out Dinosaurs Also Nearly Did in the Mammals

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About 65 million years ago the Cretaceous era came to a dramatic end when a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth and likely jump started the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. In the wake of such devastation, plucky mammals in their underground burrows survived and eventually rose to the prominence they enjoy today.

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John Good

Interact with Paleontologists at Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry This Week

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The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office is offering a special opportunity for young scientists and their families to interact with professional paleontologists at work in the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.

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John Good

What Killed the Dinosaurs in Utah’s Giant Jurassic Death Pit?

smithsonianmag.com

Utah is dinosaur country—so much so that the state has a scenic byway system called the Dinosaur Diamond that connects ancient final resting places across the desert. But among the sites holding preserved tracks and dusty fossils, one boneyard stands out as a 148-million-year-old mystery: the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.

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