Mongolia has laws that protect fossils - they are the property of the state and their export is banned.
Paleontologists usually handle fossils bare-handed, but at the warehouse the scientists were given purple synthetic gloves to wear as they worked.
The earliest identified species (Sinodelphys szalayi) is known from 125-million-year-old fossils found in China.
Many of its fossils are of soft-bodied creatures that are not preserved elsewhere.
Using wires, pieces of metal sheeting and circuit boards, artist Peter McFarlane transforms old circuit boards into amazing computer-age fossils that somehow look prehistoric.
Some scientists said they thought they saw evidence of tiny fossils that looked like dried-out life from Mars embedded in the meteorite.
By pairing the 3-D printed fossils with robotics, scientists are able to test how dinosaurs actually moved when they roamed the Earth millions of years ago.
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To investigate further, the team took collagen - the dominant protein found in bone - from the fossils, and compared this with collagen found in other fossils and modern animals.
The study hinges on the analysis of existing fossils found in western North America, from Canada through to the south-west of the US, where the fossils of small reptiles are much better preserved than in other parts of the world.
And it is a spectacular one, encompassing UNESCO World Heritage sites, pirate coves, dinosaur fossils, surf beaches, seal-basked rocks and enough Cornish pasty parlours to sustain your hiking between them.
"Comparative anatomy" - in which, for example, the forelimbs of a number of fossils are compared to establish which are most closely related - was the entire toolbox for the earliest palaeontologists.
Hind-limbed snakes are key fossils in this debate and that is why we really need to study them in detail.
These particular dinosaurs are in the university's museum, but they are bucking a trend: More and more fossils are ending up in private collections--including Myhrvold's.
These fossils show that these ancient, pre-Nicklausian men, though shorter and thinner than modern linksmen, all possess the same hitch in their backswing that most golfers still do.
You don't have to squint too hard to picture a 10-year-old Myhrvold scrabbling for fossils in the canyons of the Santa Monica, Calif. mountains, his bored mother waiting helplessly on the hillside.
This is both a museum and an active paleontology dig exploring an ancient sinkhole where dozens of mammoth fossils have been discovered (Tel. 605-745-6017, www.mammothsite.com).
Sponsors participate at every stage of the paleontological process, side-by-side with a site scientist: from the use of hammer and chisel to free fossils from hard rock, to the moulding of bone replicas for display at the on-site laboratory.
The results show the Peking Man fossils came from ground layers that were 680, 000-780, 000 years old, making them about 200, 000 years older than had previously been believed.
Along with Paralititan, researchers uncovered other fossils that they believe may belong to some of Stromer's lost dinosaur species, as well as fossils from fish, crab, coelacanth, and crocodile-like species.
He said the variation was due to the type of limestone the fossils were excavated from, which can reduce the level of detail - or resolution - of the specimens.
The fossils ranged from small Eocene swimmers imprinted on rock to the remains of late-Cretaceous dinosaurs.
Peary, and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, a real-life Indiana Jones who roamed the Gobi Desert hunting for dinosaur fossils.
This confirms what has been observed in two other transitional fossils, Archaeopteryx (the oldest known bird) and Rodhocetus (a proto-whale).
"If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks, " he said.
Andrews himself identified dozens of fossils of new dinosaur and other species, including the Velociraptor, the terrifying meat-eater made famous by the film Jurassic Park.
To substitute for fossils, and thus reconstruct the ancient branches of the tree as well as the modern-day leaves, Dr Dunn used mathematically informed guesswork.
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The researchers maintain that another Kenyan fossil, KNM-ER-1470, currently designated as H. rudolfensis, should be put back with fossils from Olduvai Gorge into H. habilis.
As well as the fossils Scott collected, the exhibition also features a stuffed emperor penguin, watercolours of the ice-scape by Edward Wilson, and photographs from the pole taken by Herbert Ponting.
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Heritage brokered the T. bataar on behalf of a thirty-seven-year-old bone hunter named Eric Prokopi, who lives in Florida, a great state for fossils.
For years, the Prokopis had prepped fossils on their kitchen floor and in their garage, but in May, 2011, they built a five-thousand-square-foot workshop in their back yard, and they assembled the T. bataar there.
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