Construction workers working on the new Public Safety Facility in Thornton, Colo., found a rare triceratops skeleton and skull. Thornton is a suburb of Denver. The triceratops fossils will go on display at the Denver Nature and Science Museum.
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Has the age of dinosaur-fossil discovery passed us by. Not quite, say paleontologists, who are wondering how many species of dinosaurs are there to discover and how many fossils of them are out there.
Host Michael Aranda says the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1824, and over the next 150 years, paleontologists only found an average of one fossil a year. Now we’re finding an average of 15 per year. Aranda says that paleontologists calculate that between 2069 and 2102 we will have found 75 percent of the dinosaur genera, and by the mid-22nd century, 90 percent.
Tune in as Aranda explains in this edition of SciShow.
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The discovery of a fossil dating back 419 million years has thrown paleontologists and evolutionary scientists into a frenzy. Turns out that the fossil, known as entelognathus, is a crucial missing link of the sea. SourceFed’s Joe Bereta sorts out the details.
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The long-held belief that primates began their evolution in Africa has been called into question following the discovery in China, of the oldest known primate fossil. Writing in this month’s Nature journal, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of Archicebus achilles, a primate that lived more than 55 million years ago. Rob Muir reports for Reuters.
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Find out about rival paleontologists whose near-simultaneous discovery of dinosaur bones has sparked a century-old debate: Should the familiar dinosaur be called an Apatosaurus or a Brontosaurus? Alex Dainis fills us in on the back-story in this edition of Bite Sci-zed.
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Researchers say they’ve possibly pinpointed the earliest dinosaur to roam the Earth. Nyasasaurus parringtoni existed about 245 million years ago. The fossils were unearthed from Tanzania in Africa. More from I Know Dino.
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Drug smuggling and the underground trade in human organs might generate more headlines, but now the Feds have busted a more clandestine black market, involving the sale of dinosaur bones, smuggled into the United States and Europe from Mongolia. A Florida man has been apprehended on charges of transporting and selling the bones and related fossils. H/T SourceFed
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