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Paleontologists with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have discovered a previously unknown prehistoric species — a 270 million-year-old amphibian with wide eyes and a ...
Prehistoric Life: the rise of the vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons, New York, December 1994 (illustrations by John Sibbick) The Smithsonian Handbook to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals , co-authored with Hazel Richardson, Dorling Kindersley , 2003, ISBN 978-0-7894-9361-3
Researchers have uncovered a "dinosaur highway" after hundreds of giant prehistoric footprints dating back 166 million years were found in an English quarry. Discovered at the Dewars Farm Quarry ...
The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-86411-2. OCLC 40943525. Naish, Darren; Wyse, Liz (2001). Parsons, Jayne (ed.). Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 9780789479358. Richardson, Hazel (2003). Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric ...
The Museum of the Rockies is a Smithsonian affiliate museum, and had long promised to find a T. rex for the Smithsonian to display. [75] Due to the 2013 federal government shutdown, the fossil did not arrive in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian officials said it remained in storage in Montana, and would not arrive at the Smithsonian until late ...
While the dinosaurs' modern-day surviving avian lineage (birds) are generally small due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs (non-avian and avian) were large-bodied—the largest sauropod dinosaurs are estimated to have reached lengths of 39.7 meters (130 feet) and heights of 18 m (59 ft) and were the largest land animals of ...
Saurophaganax ("lord of lizard-eaters") is a dubious, chimeric genus of large saurischian dinosaur, possibly a sauropod, from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Morrison Formation of Oklahoma, United States. This taxon was historically considered to represent a species of Allosaurus or very large allosaurid.
He attributes his interest in dinosaurs to going a library in west Tampa, Florida, and opening up a book about dinosaurs when he eight-years old. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Tampa, Florida in 1964. In 1979, Garcia worked as chief investigator for the Smithsonian Institution, collecting prehistoric sea cows, whales, and ...