Tag: sauropod

Japan’s first western ichthyosaur discovered during educational museum event

PALEONTOLOGY
A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been confirmed through joint research by Okayama University of Science and other institutions...

Study finds link between Grand Canyon landslide and Meteor Crater impact

ASTRONOMY
Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with their co‐authors, links two iconic...

New sauropod species from Romania transforms understanding of dinosaur island life in Europe

PALEONTOLOGY
The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass...

New insights into sauropod evolution: Discovery of tail clubs in India

PALEONTOLOGY
A new University of Michigan study of dinosaur fossils from India has revealed that the sauropod dinosaur Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis wielded a bony tail club. The...

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