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T. rex, king of dinosaurs, may have had New Mexican cousin
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (889+ words) Spencer Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science curator and part of a paleontological survey in the late 1970s that uncovered the leg bone, speaks about the tibia, that may be a close cousin of T. rex, on Thursday in…...
Triceratops skeleton 'Trey' to hit the auction block as dinosaur market soars
1+ week, 3+ day ago (273+ words) A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs. The…...
Northwestern New Mexico fossils add to understanding of last days of the dinosaurs
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (777+ words) Maybe that black cat that crossed your path wasn't so bad after all. For the dinosaurs, an extinction-causing asteroid derailed what seemed to be a pretty good run. Research from an international group of scientists, including Williamson and New Mexico…...
New Mexico fossil fueled discovery of new species, ice age musk ox relative
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (526+ words) Left, the skull of'Speleotherium logani, left,'at Muskox Cave. Right, Lloyd Logan, the new species' namesake, extracts the skull from the cave in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.' If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might…...
Dinosaurs were thriving in Northern New Mexico before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (483+ words) This illustration provided by researchers depicts an Alamosaurus sanjuanensis as an asteroid hits the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests were still thriving in North America before the , but it's only one piece of the global…...
Prehistoric plant discovered in Socorro County could yield clues about Permian period
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (411+ words) Before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there was Soccoropteris cancellarei. The plant, which was found in Socorro County, is a newly discovered species that would have lived about 290 million years ago, according to a paper published in'Annals of Botany'earlier this…...
Deep sea fossils, vibrant wildflowers on display along Cave Creek Trail in the Pecos Wilderness
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1443+ words) John Donahue and his dog Lemonade watch as Paulo Donahue, 5, approaches the entrance of Cave Creek Cave in Santa Fe National Forest earlier this month. Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave…...
The dinosaur at your bird feeder: Uncovering the Jurassic origins of modern birds
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1068+ words) Since the 1960s, fossil discoveries have confirmed the scientific consensus that birds evolved from the group of predatory dinosaurs known as theropods. A Merlin restraining a Rock Pigeon. A 2011 study in the journal PLoS ONE hypothesized Velociraptor and its relatives used…...
Two-fingered dinosaur discovered in Mongolia with help of N.M. researcher
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (614+ words) A new dinosaur has been discovered in Mongolia, with the help of a New Mexico paleontologist, which could inform research here. Bones recovered from a construction site in Mongolia show a partial skeleton of a newly discovered species of therizinosaurus,…...