A red-headed mammoth, a cave piled high with ancient animal remains, and an unusual South Dakota dinosaur are all among the discoveries that shaped Western Digs’ most popular paleontology stories of…
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Wyoming Cave Yields a Trove of Ice Age Fossils — and Ancient Animal DNA
A team of enterprising and adventurous scientists in Wyoming has just finished the first in a series of excavations at one of the largest deposits of Ice Age fossils in…
Read MoreYoung Dinosaur Found in Ancient Mud Pit Is New Species of ‘Small Giant,’ Fossils Suggest
A young sauropod that met its death mired in an ancient mudflat may have been small for its kind — that is, the size of a modern humpback whale —…
Read More‘Ugly’ Teenage Ceratops Discovered in Alaska
A strange scene discovered on Alaska’s North Slope depicts the mass deaths of nearly a dozen unusual dinosaurs, according to paleontologists. The specimens are all ceratopsids — the group that…
Read MoreDinosaur Death Trap Found in Utah May Contain Raptor Family, ‘Horse Dragons,’ Cannibalized Baby
MOAB, UTAH — A pack of ravenous but hopelessly trapped Utahraptors, a pair of besieged “horse dragons,” and even a cannibalized baby are among the victims that Utah’s state paleontologist…
Read MoreDinosaur Pileup Found Preserved in Utah Desert
About a hundred million years ago, an iguanodon was browsing in a deep mudflat when it found itself stuck. Perhaps hearing its helpless bleat — or smelling its rotting corpse…
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