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Albuquerque, NM – A New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science researcher was part of a team that identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
This new species, Speleotherium logani, was identified in a paper authored by New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) paleontology curator Gary Morgan, along with first author Richard White, Jim Mead, and Sandy Swift of the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The findings were published in a recent edition of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.
“New Mexico is known as a hotbed for dinosaur fossils, but discoveries like this remind us that our state’s fossil record extends long after the Cretaceous extinction,” said NMMNHS Executive... Read More...
Albuquerque, NM – A team of researchers, including a pair of paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, have identified a massive new species of duck-billed dinosaur in the rocks of northwestern New Mexico. This newly discovered dinosaur, which researchers named Ahshiselsaurus wimani, lived around 75 million years ago and may have weighed more than nine tons.
“Discoveries like this remind us that science truly is a community,” said Dr. Anthony Fiorillo, Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) and one of the co-authors on the paper. “Our team of researchers spanning five institutions and two countries were able to build upon research that started nearly a century ago and now advances our understanding of what our state looked like during the Late Cretaceous Period.... Read More...
Albuquerque, NM – A team of researchers that included the Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science recently identified jawbones from a species of ostrich-like dinosaur in Montana.
This discovery, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology earlier this month, expands the known range of this family of theropod dinosaurs, and helps researchers better understand how these dinosaurs spread across North America, including potentially to what’s now New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Executive Director Dr. Anthony Fiorillo was a co-author on the paper, alongside authors Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Ryuji Takasaki, Kentaro Chiba, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Mototaka Saneyoshi and Shinobu Ishigaki.
... Read More...Albuquerque, NM – A team of researchers from the Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science unearthed a new species of plant that lived before the age of dinosaurs in rural Socorro County.
This new species, Socorropteris cancellarei, lived roughly 290 million years ago during the Permian Period, and provides vital insight into what the landscape that’s now southern New Mexico may have looked like at that time. The research, co-authored by Smithsonian curator William DiMichele alongside NMMNHS Curator Spencer Lucas and NMMNHS Research Associates Susan Harris and Paul May, was published in the most recent edition of the journal Annals of Botany.
“Even during our museum’s renovation, our researchers continue their work scientifically exploring our world,... Read More...
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