Tag: Hell Creek
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Giant sea monsters lived in rivers at the end of the dinosaur age
ScienceDaily has a story about mosasaurs. It seems that giant mosasaurs didn’t just live in the oceans… they also prowled rivers. A large tooth found in a North Dakota deposit along with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth and a jawbone from a crocodylian revealed an isotope signature consistent with a live in fresh water. See the…
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Giant Sea Lizards Ruled the Waves While T. Rex Roamed on Land
Smithsonian Magazine has a post about mosasaurs. A new paper in the journal PaleoBios finds that mosasaurs ruled the oceans up until the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous some 66 million years ago. It had been theorized they went extinct millions of years before the impact. Fossil vertebra from the Hell…
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ESCONI October 2021 General Meeting – October 8th, 2021 at 8:00 PM via Zoom – “Hell Creek Amber: Paleontology’s New Frontier in the Western Interior”
The speaker at our October 8, 2021 meeting via Zoom will be Stew Cook, Paleo Prep Lab Manager at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka Montana. Carter County is where Burpee Museum has excavated since 2001, and the source of “Jane” and “Homer”. The topic of his talk will be amber from the Hell Creek…
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Dinosaur Cowboys Are Hunting for the Next $32 Million T. Rex
Bloomberg has a story about the Dinosaur Cowboy. Known for discovering the “Dueling Dinosaurs”, Clayton Phipps is a rancher and an amateur paleontologist. The story does a great job describing the controversy around the commercial exploitation of fossils, mainly dinosaurs. On a sunny, 99-degree day in northern Montana, Clayton Phipps grabs a backpack and heads…
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Stan the T. rex just became the most expensive fossil ever sold
LiveScience has a story about the sale of Stan the T-rex on October 6th, 2020. Stan sold for $32 million and set a new record for the sale of a fossil. SUE the T-rex, which went on sale back in 1997, had the previous record as it sold for $8.36 million. Many paleontologists are dismayed…
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The Forgotten Paleontologist: A Commentary by Keith Robitschek
The discovery: Paleontological events are based on theory and evidence is required to prove that an event actually occurred. Today, the event that occurred sixty-six million years ago at the Yucatan peninsula has been proven through scientific research based on core samples at the impact site and iridium analyses in the K-Pg boundary that was…
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The Guardian: Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?
The Guardian has an article about the so called “Dueling Dinosaurs”. The “Dueling Dinosaurs” are a large fossil plate that consists of both a 28 foot long ceratoptian (probably Triceratops horridus) and a 22 foot long theropod (possibly Tyrannosaurus rex or the controversial Nanotyrannus lancensis). Both skeletons are fairly complete, with exceptional preservation, fully articulated,…
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Roy Plotnick: High impact paleontology
Roy Plotnick has another interesting article on Medium. In this one, he discusses the recent New Yorker article about “Tanis” site in the Hell Creek Formation. There is a good summary of the backstory of the actual discovery of the site. It was found by an old ESCONI member Rob Sula! Also mentioned are Paleo…
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Quicks & Quarks: A catastrophe frozen in time — a new fossil site shows how the dinosaurs died
CBC Radio’s Quicks & Quarks has a segment on a newly discovered fossil deposit that reveals many clues about the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs. The site is a snapshot in time from a few hours after the impact. The North Dakota site, nicknamed Tanis after the “lost” ancient Egyptian city, lies on private…
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May General Meeting: Rob Sula, The Hell Creek Formation: The Twilight of Non-Avian Dinosaurs
The Hell Creek Formation: The Twilight of Non-Avian Dinosaurs Take a trip 66 million years back in time and explore the late Cretaceous Hell Creek formation with Rob Sula. We’ll explore interpretations of fossils of Triceratops, Edmontosaurus and, of course, the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex. We’ll also examine some of the more obscure flora and…
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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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Hell Creek Field Trip with Burpee Museum
Spaces are still available for Burpee Museum’s Highway to Hell Creek Expeditions. See the flyer below or visit our Expeditions Page (http://www.burpee.org/education/expeditions.asp) for more details.
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Local events of interest this weekend, 2010
Friday, September 17, 7:00 pm – Elgin Public Museum, Elgin, IL, Lecture – “Archaeology of Disaster.” Fire, flood, famine, war, plague, earthquake . . . All major disasters leave distinctive signatures in the archaeological record. From the New Madrid quakes of 1811 and 1812 that changed the very course of the Mississippi River, to the…
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Lecture on Hell Creek by Rob Sula – 9/18/2010 – 2:00 pm, Lizzadro Museum
One of our members, Rob Sula, will be giving a lecture about“The Dinosaurs of the Hell Creek: A Biological Arms Race” at Lizzadro Museum on Saturday, September 18th, at 2:00 p.m. Ages 8 yrs. and up – 60 minutes Regular Museum Admission, Museum Members Free. Description of lecture …. “Take a trip 66 million years…
