NEW YORK (AP) Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ancient maternity ward where the creatures came to give birth.
An international scientific team investigates a rich fossil bed in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's famed Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, where several 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.
RENO As many as 37 fossilized, school bus-sized marine reptiles from 225 million years ago are clustered in a remote, mountainous desert region of central Nevada in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. A team of.
An international research team examined a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.