Tag: paleontology
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Florissant homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Numerous fossils collected by Charlotte Hill in Florissant are preserved in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, and at Harvard and Yale universities.
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Colorado homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Shuffling through specimens of shale pressed with prehistoric organisms, paleontologist Herbert Meyer kept coming across a familiar name. It’s 2009, and Meyer had just completed a database for the petrified pieces found at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. In documenting these fossils, dating back…
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The story of Charlotte Hill, a Colorado homesteader who collected ‘staggering’ amount of fossil specimens
Numerous fossils collected by Charlotte Hill in Florissant are preserved in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, and at Harvard and Yale universities.
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Fossil hunter discovers T. Rex skeleton, brings home to Woodland Park dinosaur museum
On the last day of an expedition to fossil fields in the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota this summer, fossil hunter Anthony Maltese discovered the partial remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, scattered under soft mud in an area his team had been excavating, on and off, for the last 30 years. The team…
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‘Godzilla’ shark discovered in New Mexico gets formal name
Paleontologists say they have given a more formal name to the ancient shark fossil dubbed “Godzilla Shark” after it was discovered in New Mexico in 2013