Tag: hadrosaur
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New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in China
SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new dinosaur in China. The unnamed animal lived between 70 and 67 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period, in what is now the Sanshui Basin in the northwestern part of the Pearl River Delta in South China. It represents the first lambeosaurine known from…
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‘Dinosaur mummy’: Researchers believe they’ve found one of the best preserved dinosaurs ever
Credit: Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Canada Phys.org has a story about the discovery of another “dinosaur mummy”. A few years ago, a nodosaur found in Alberta, Canada was said to be the best preserved dinosaur ever. Now, researchers say they may have found an even better one. This specimen is a hadrosaur found in Dinosaur…
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“I Know Dino” podcast
Roy Plotnick, long time ESCONI member and friend appears in a recent episode (#377) of the podcast “I Know Dino”. They usually discuss dinosaurs, but with Roy, they discuss paleontology in general and his book “Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life”. Roy gives ESCONI and rock clubs in general a very…
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SciNews: New Species of Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in New Mexico
SciNews has an article about a new dinosaur discovery. The animal, a duck-billed dinosaur called Ornatops incantatus, lived about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now modern day New Mexico. A paper in the journal PeerJ has all the details. Its partial skeleton, including part of the skull, was found…
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Behind a New Jersey Hardware Store, a Paleontological Bonanza
Atlas Obscura has an interesting story about a fossil site in southern New Jersey. The site dates to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. There is an episide of TED’s pindrop, that also tells the story. Learn about Ken Lacovara, discoverer of Dreadnoughtus in 2005 and dinosaurs in New Jersey!…
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‘Remarkable’ fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw
Science has a post about a special fossil insect. The ‘remarkable’ fossil consists of sap-sucking aphids trapped in amber and stuck to the jawbone of a duck-billed dinosaur. It was discovered in 2010 in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. All the detail are in a paper publish in the journal Science. The “remarkable” two-for-one…
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SciNews: New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unveiled: Kamuysaurus japonicus
Science News has an article about a newly described dinosaur from Japan. It’s a duck-billed dinosaur that lived 72 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Named Kamuysaurus japonicus, it belongs to a family Hadrosauridae. All the details can be found in a paper in the journal Scientific Reports. The specimen was analyzed by paleontologists from…
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SciNews: ‘Shovel-Billed’ Dinosaur Roamed Texas 80 Million Years Ago
SciNews has an article about the discovery of a primitive hadrosaur. The specimen was found and collected in the 1980s and 1990s in Texas and is called Aquilarhinus palimentus. It belongs to Hadrosauridae (duck-billed dinosaurs) a group of plant-eating dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. The original paper appeared in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. “Hadrosaurids…
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National Geographic: Gem-like fossils reveal stunning new dinosaur species
The National Geographic has a story about the discovery a new dinosaur in Australia. The animal, called Fostoria dhimbangunmal, lived about 150 million years ago. It’s an early member of a group that will eventually evolve into duck-billed hadrosaurs. The bones are opalized and was discovered near a town called Lightning Ridge, famous for brightly…
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The February 2017 General Meeting is “An examination of a historic collection of hadrosaurid dinosaur material from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico”
The program at the next ESCONI general meeting (Feb 10 at 8 PM TEC 1038B at COD) will be “An examination of a historic collection of hadrosaurid dinosaur material from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico” by Dr. Merrilee Guenther of Elmhurst College. Come out and join us for an interesting night!
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The February 2017 General Meeting is about historic hadrosaurid material from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Our February program will be presented by Dr. Merrilee Guenther, Associate Professor, Department of Biology Elmhurst College. The title of her talk is “An examination of a historic collection of hadrosaurid dinosaur material from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico” It should be a good one, come on out!
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General Meeting: Friday, April 10, 8 pm: Hadrosaur Find by Bucky Gates
On Friday, April 10th, at 8:00 pm in Room #131 Building K, College of Dupage, Bucky Gates, Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College, will speak about “New Hadrosaur Find and Their Bearing on Cretaceous Land Bridges and Macroevolutionary Trends of the Group”. (1st Photo: Lake Forest College)(2nd photo: Utah Museum of Natural History.)
