The species was named in honor of the late Professor Richard Aldridge, a paleontologist and ornithologist formerly of the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology.Nidusis Latin for “bird’s nest,” and “adelric” is derived from the Old English name “Aedelic” (a source for the n...
He was a director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of The Planetary Society. Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural ...
In addition to plenty of exhibits about wildlife and anthropology, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has one of the finest dinosaur fossil collections in the world. Visitors can see experts work with real dinosaur fossils in the PaleoLab or check out the dinosaur skeletons on display. Make ...
A new company calledDinosaur Tripslets enthusiasts travel with paleontologist Brian Curtice to dig for bones and explore fossil sites across the United States. "These trips are the stuff of a paleontology fan's dreams," said Curtice, adding that trips include an "astounding displays of dinosaurs,...
Malcolm C. McKenna, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, remarked "I don't know if anybody in history ever got to 90 degrees north to be greeted by water, not ice." "The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million ...
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When a mysterious creature violently kills a man in a Maine lake, Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), the local game warden, looks into the bizarre case, along with Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson) and visiting paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda). Looking for clues in a tooth that the ...
A team of scientists based mostly in China has mined a database of more than 11,000 fossil species that lived from around 540 million to 250 million years ago by using the world's fourth most powerful supercomputer, Tianhe II. Fan Junxuan, a paleontologist at Nanjing University in China,...
176 Jurassic Park (1993) 127 min 8.2 68 34,709 $402.45M A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose. 179 177 Unforgiven (19...
But perhaps the worst was paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen had a long-standing rivalry with fellow dinosaur expert Gideon Mantell. When Mantell took his own life in 1852, Owen somehow got hold of his spine. He had it pickled and displayed it at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.[7...