It was a balmy spring day in May 2009 when Jim Koch’s plow kicked up an unusually hefty rock.Koch was prepping a field for alfalfa on his farm in the Town of Vienna just a short drive north of Madison. At first, he didn’t notice the rock. But after s
Exceptional meteorite, plowed up from a Dane County field, finds new home in UW Geology Museum wisc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wisc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Is it a crocodile? A bird? Technically, it’s a species of rhynchosaur, a distant relative of modern birds and crocodiles with a beak-like mouth that existed over 200 million years ago – the fossils of which scientists unearthed from the exposed rocks of the Popo Agie Formation tucked in the northern Rocky Mountains in central Wyoming.
Newly described ancient reptile named in language of First Nations where fossils were found scienceblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scienceblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.