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In March, a group of paleontology students from Sul Ross State University embarked on a research trip to Big Bend National Park in Texas. Under the guidance of Dr. Jesse Kelsch and Dr. Thomas ...
The Alamosaurus is the largest known land dinosaur in North America. Big Bend National Park contains fossils from over 90 dinosaur species, some of which are unique to the park. A giant bone from ...
Buried beneath the sun-baked rock of Big Bend National Park ... held reputation as a hotspot for dinosaur fossils. Previous discoveries at the park include the bones of a giant pterosaur, the ...
Cretaceous-era fossils, and stretches of Chihuahuan Desert in between, Big Bend National Park is always the main event. This Texas national park sits at the state’s southern tip, forming a desert ...
Sul Ross students and professors collect a fossil from a giant dinosaur at a Texas national park. Photo from Sul Ross State University. A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North ...
While Alamosaurus remains have been found at Big Bend NP before ... researchers from the University of Texas in the 1970s. The fossil is now back at the SRSU paleontology lab, where students ...
Sul Ross State University geology students uncovered the fossil while on a research mission at Big Bend National Park in March, according to the college's press release. The bone was identified as ...