Tag: Late Jurassic
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Perfect Snack of the Late Jurassic: Baby Sauropods and the Dry Mesa Food Web
What the Dry Mesa Quarry Reveals A recent reconstruction of the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry ecosystem in southwestern Colorado casts new light on who ate whom during the Late Jurassic. Among the surprises is a simple, almost counterintuitive takeaway: the smallest steps on the ground—baby and juvenile sauropods—made an outsized impact on the local food…
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Tiny fossil fish rewrites freshwater evolution after 70 million-year hideaway
Hidden for 70 Million Years, a Tiny Fossil Fish Changes Our View of Freshwater Evolution A minuscule skeleton about 4 centimeters long from the Late Cretaceous period has just rewritten a chapter of evolutionary history. Discovered by a collaborative team from Western University, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, and international partners, this tiny fossil…