Fossil Friday: Not the Ancient Lizards You Might Think They Are
Quiz (answers to quiz are at the end of this blog): 1) The word “brooding” when talking about dinosaurs refers to: a) A way of...
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Apr 15, 20222 min read
Fossil Friday
The most expensive fossil to ever be sold and the implications of privately sold specimens.
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Jan 30, 20222 min read
Fossil Friday: Nevada’s New Giant Ichthyosaur
Fossil Friday goes to the newest discover of the Cymbospondylus youngorum that lived 246 million years ago.
Dr. Rowland
Mar 5, 20211 min read
The Famous Fossil Archaeocyathan Reefs of Nevada
You might not have guessed it, but among paleontologists who study fossil reefs, Nevada is quite famous. The earliest reefs on Earth, those
Dr. Rowland
Feb 26, 20212 min read
A new record for the antiquity of fossil DNA and the hybrid ancestry of Columbian mammoths
The 1993 movie Jurassic Park (yes, it was really 28 years ago ) introduced us to the idea of obtaining DNA from fossils and doing interestin
Dr. Rowland
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Camels in Southern Nevada's Fossil Record
Paleontologists from the LVNHM are actively working on a 15-million-year-old fossil site (Miocene Epoch) in the Horse Spring Formation, nort
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Feb 12, 20211 min read
75th Anniversary of an Iconic Book on Life in the Past
Seventy-five years ago, in 1946, an American artist named Charles R. Knight published a book titled, Life Through the Ages. You may not have
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Feb 5, 20211 min read
Virtual Tour of the Smithsonian
As a Smithsonian Affiliate, we like to explore all that the Smithsonian has to offer. Did you know that you can take a virtual tour of the N
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Jan 29, 20212 min read
What was the life span of enormous megalodon sharks?
Megalodons (technically Otodus megalodon) are an extinct species of school-bus-size sharks that lived between about 23 million years ago and
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Jan 22, 20212 min read
How do paleontologists transport fragile fossil bones from the field to the lab?
Paleontologists often encounter a jumble of fragile fossil bones at an excavation site. Time may be short and the weather may be uncomfortab
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Jan 15, 20212 min read
Dire Wolf DNA Analysis Reveals a Surprising Ancestry
Dire wolves, which recently became famous in pop culture via 'Game of Thrones,' were real wolves! They were probably the dominant predators
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Jan 8, 20211 min read
What color were dinosaur eggs?
Some bird eggs are very colorful, such as the blue robin egg in the first photo (from the LVNHM bird egg collection). But no other egg-layin
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
The Days are Getting Longer: It’s Recorded in the Fossils
Dr. Rowland back for our first #FossilFriday of 2021!
Does it seem like the years are flying by, with each year going faster than the one be
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Oct 16, 20200 min read
Fossil Bones and the Presidential Election of 1796 ― Part II
Early in 1797, Thomas Jefferson was still waiting to find out whether he had won the election (he lost to John Adams), when he unexpectedly
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Oct 8, 20200 min read
Fossil Bones and the Presidential Election of 1796―Part I
Dr. Rowland here for another #fossilfriday
Since we are now in election season, it’s a good time to tell the story of a mysterious box of b
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Sep 24, 20200 min read
World's 1st Museum Devoted to Extinct Animals
The first museum in the world devoted to 🦖 dinosaurs and other extinct animals was almost built in New York’s Central Park!
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Sep 17, 20201 min read
Who made the first sculpture of Nevada’s State Fossil?
Who made the first sculpture of Nevada’s State Fossil? It was Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a Nineteenth-Century British artist/sculptor
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