Tag Archive for 'Montana'

An artist’s rendering of Spiclypeus shipporum. Image credit: Mike Skrepnick.

Spiclypeus shipporum: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Montana

May 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana. An artist’s...

Blood vessels from the demineralized Brachylophosaurus canadensis bone. Image credit: M. Schweitzer, North Carolina State University.

Paleontologists Find Mineralized Blood Vessels in 80-Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Fossil

Dec 1, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...

Reconstruction of Aquilops americanus in its environment. Image credit: Brian Engh / Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.

Aquilops americanus: Small Cat-Sized Dinosaur Discovered in Montana

Dec 11, 2014 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists led by Dr Andrew Farke from Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology has described a new genus and species of ceratopsian dinosaur...

Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point (Tasmania), by John Glover, 1834.

Tasmania, Western North America were Once Neighbors, Finds New Research

Aug 4, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Joanne Whittaker of the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Australia’s...

Triceratops models at JuraPark in Solec Kujawski, Poland. Image credit: CLI / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Research Provides New Insights into Evolution of Triceratops

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

A new study led by paleontologist John Scannella of Montana State University provides a detailed look at shifts in the morphology of Triceratops –...

Mercuriceratops gemini. Image credit: Danielle Dufault / Gerhard Boeggemann.

Mercuriceratops: New Long-Horned Dinosaur Discovered

Jun 18, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from Canada and the United States has discovered a new genus and species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the...

This is an artist's impression of the newly discovered Acheroraptor temertyorum, which lived at the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.

Acheroraptor temertyorum: New Dinosaur Discovered in Montana

Dec 20, 2013 by News Staff

Canadian paleontologists have described a new genus and species of raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America about 66 million years ago, at the...