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Horner has published over 100 professional papers, eight books including Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky; [17] a children's book, Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up; [18] a non-fiction book on dinosaurs from Montana, Dinosaur Lives; [19] and numerous articles. He was also a part of a 2005 discovery of soft tissue in a T. rex fossil.
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]
Fossils of organisms' bodies are usually the most informative type of evidence. The most common types are wood, bones, and shells. [59] Fossilisation is a rare event, and most fossils are destroyed by erosion or metamorphism before they can be observed. Hence the fossil record is very incomplete, increasingly so further back in time.
In June 1983, Garcia discovered of one of biggest fossil finds in North America. [1] Later, fossil experts described it to be one of the most significant paleontological finds discovering 1.5 million year old prehistoric graveyard of what was once a bed of a prehistoric river that had attracted a wide range of animals.
Tyler R. Lyson (born 1982 or 1983 [1]) is an American paleontologist.He is the discoverer of the dinosaur fossil Dakota, a fossilized mummified hadrosaur.He has done significant research on the evolution of turtles and on the rise of mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...
Step back in time to the Mesozoic Era, where dinosaurs ruled the Earth. With this quiz, you’ll encounter iconic giants like the T. Rex and the Stegosaurus, clever predators like the Velociraptor ...
Lyme Regis, Dorset. Mary Anning [1] was born in Lyme Regis in Dorset, England, on 21 May 1799. [2] Her father, Richard Anning (c. 1766–1810), was a cabinetmaker and carpenter who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists; her mother was Mary Moore (c. 1764–1842) known as Molly. [3]