Dino Museum’s paleonthologists report their findings of Galeamopus pabsti, a new sauropod, and Jianianhualong tengi, a small feathered dinosaur. Researchers excavated G. pabst more than two decades ago in Wyoming. However, the dinosaur languished in obscurity until a pair of paleontologists identified it as a sauropod.
How do you take down a Tyrannosaurus rex? Back in the Cretaceous Period, a mammal wouldn’t stand a chance of being able to take down this apex predator; but for the mammals employed at the Dino Museum, taking down a T. rex is just another day at the office. This particular T. rex was featured in the Museum’s Lords of the Land exhibit for nine years, from 2007-2016, and in...
We keep close contacts with other similar museums in the region, and today we went on a radio trip to call in and visit the fine folks at Age of Fishes Museum, Bathurst’s Fossil and Mineral Museum, Somerville Fossil Collection, and finally the Sun Caves. Heading out into rural area on a hot 97 °F day, we drove through a region where the armoured placoderm fish, Cowralepis, was unearthed...
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