Tag: Cretaceous
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NY Times: Hundreds of Fossilized Pterosaur Eggs Uncovered in China
The New York Times’ Trilobite blog has a story about the discovery of a more than 200 fossilized Pterosaur eggs. The species of pterosaur is known as Hamitpterus tianshanensis and it lived in the early Cretaceous period in what is now north western China. Xiaolin Wang discovered the eggs in a 120 million year old…
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CBC Quirks & Quarks – New dinosaur had duck legs, a swan neck and penguin flippers
CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks has a segment about a new dinosaur discovery. The new species is called Halszkaraptor and it lived during the Cretaceous Period about 71 to 75 million years ago in what is present day Mongolia. The original paper appeared in Nature. Halskaraptor was somewhere between the size of a chicken and…
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Waubonsie HS in Aurora is hosting a free event titles “Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous” on November 17th, 2017
Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the CretaceousMeet Spinosaurus, the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered—larger than T. rex—and hear the incredible story of how this prehistoric giant was almost lost to science, before being brought back to light with the help of a remarkable young paleontologist, Dr. Nizar Ibrahim, a National Geographic Explorer With amazing video recreating…
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NatGeo: Why Pterosaurs Were the Weirdest Wonders on Wings
National Geographic Magazine has a interesting story in their November 2017 issue. Large and small pterosaurs are some of the strangest animals to ever live. They went extinct 65 million years ago during the end Cretaceous mass extinction event. This article has many details and great pictures which describe what and who pterosaurs were during…
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Four-legged snake fossil found
CNN has an interesting video about a 110-million-year-old snake fossil. The was discovered in Brazil and dates to the Cretaceous period. Its most interesting feature… the snake had 4 legs! Scientists hope it sheds light on how and why snakes lost their legs.
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New Book on Hell Creek Formation from GSA
From the Geological Society of America: Full Title: Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas Editors: Gregory P. Wilson, William A. Clemens, John R. Horner, and Joseph H. Hartman Description: For over a century, the Hell Creek and Fort Union formations and their constituent…
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Lecture Tonight: New Cretaceous Allosauroids by Peter Makoviky
General Meeting: 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Peter Makoviky from the Field Museum of Natural History, speaking on “New Cretaceous Allosauroids from the Americas.”
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Amber Yields Clues to the History of Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere
Via geology.com: Gas bubbles trapped in amber show an oxygen-rich Cretaceous atmosphere Republished from an information release posted by USGS in June, 2009. In addition: amber in India’s Cambay area has new information too.
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Events This Weekend
Friday, April 9 – ESCONI General Meeting. Dr. Bucky Gates , Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College, will be the speaker at 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Dr. Gates will talk on Reconstructing Paleoecosystems Through Microvertebrate Taphonomy. Reconstructing ancient ecosystems is one of the primary aims of paleontology. However, the burial…
