Sentences with phrase «fossil digging site»
The fossil dig site at St Bathans in New Zealand where the fossilised remains of an extinct giant burrowing bat, Vulcanops jennyworthyae, were found.
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Don't forget to get your hands dirty at the fossil dig site.
Not exact matches
Today, thanks to an abundant fossil record and more than a century of collecting by paleontologists, Laramidia is the best known major landmass for the entire Age of Dinosaurs, with dig sites spanning from Alaska to Mexico.
Once believed to be 400,000 years old, the fossils were found to be 580,000 to 620,000 years old after calculating the ratio of thorium to uranium in the limestone layers above and below the dig site.
The finding means that Baby Louie isn't the only fossil to gain an identity: The same fossil eggs that were found with him, known as Macroelongatoolithus, are commonly unearthed at dig sites across Asia and North America, but paleontologists previously didn't know what types of creature laid them.
Ten years of excavation at a dig site an hour south of Madrid revealed the nearly complete fossil of a newly identified giraffe ancestor species, scientists reported Wednesday in PLOS ONE.
That, at least, is what Florida Atlantic University scientists hope to prove by analyzing ancient DNA found at an archaeological dig in Vero Beach... Fossil Site on the Charles Deering Estate in south Miami - Dade County.
If those kinds of practical considerations don't get your kids excited about South Dakota, check this out: at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, S.D., they can become junior paleontologists and learn how to dig for fossils.