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The museum was created by an act of the New Mexico Legislature signed into law by Governor Bruce King in March, 1980. [2] Part of the motivation for the project was to provide a home for some of the numerous dinosaur fossils discovered in New Mexico rather than sending them to out-of-state institutions. [3]
Natural history. Live snakes, snake art, exhibits and memorabilia. Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. Albuquerque. Bernalillo. Central New Mexico. Aerospace. History, science, and art of ballooning and other lighter than air flight. Amistad Museum.
Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC. The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to have been a ...
The fossils were given to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in 1980, and it was designated the state fossil in 1981 under former-Gov. Bill Richardson.
Scientists reassessing a partial skull first unearthed in 1983 in southeastern New Mexico have concluded that the fossil ... New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science and one of the authors ...
Aug. 11—You can't count on grizzly bears to help out with research in paleontology. But it can happen, according to Anthony "Tony" Fiorillo, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of ...
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
Spencer G. Lucas. Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest.