PTEROSAUR TROVE A bone bed in northwestern China with a rare collection of fossils of Hamipterus tianshanensis offers a glimpse into the early development of this pterosaur (illustrated) that lived during the Cretaceous Period. (sciencenews.org)
Horner is best known for finding large skeletons, nesting colonies, and vast bone beds where herds of dinosaurs died, and his dig here has turned up a number of outstanding specimens, including eight Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, one of which is the largest in the world. (discovermagazine.com)
Consider bone beds — sites where many fossils of the same dinosaur species have been unearthed. (discovermagazine.com)