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Born in Blackfoot, Krumenacker helped discover oryctodromeus fossils in 2006 and worked with elementary school students to recommend the dinosaur become a state emblem.
Step back millions of years at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument where rare dinosaur fossils are on display this summer! Have you ever visited this prehistoric treasure in Idaho?
Katsura found the remains of the Oryctodromeus in 2004 while prospecting on public land. The fossils were lying in the expanded end of a burrow that measured about 6.6 feet long.
Paleontologists have uncovered the world's first fossil evidence of burrowing behavior in dinosaurs. The 95-million-year-old skeletal remains of the diminutive dinosaur -- along with the bones of ...
A Montana State University graduate student and MSU paleontologist David Varricchio are part of the research team that discovered the most productive and diverse dinosaur fossil site known in Idaho.
The team has named the beast Oryctodromeus cubicularis, meaning 'digging runner of the lair'. It belongs to a group of small herbivorous dinosaurs, and lived 95 million years ago during the mid ...
One of the most common fossils found at the site belong to a burrowing plant-eating dinosaur, first described by Varricchio in a 2007 research paper, called the Oryctodromeus — a long name that ...
An artist's impression of Oryctodromeus cubicularis' head The recovered bones, shown in their expected place, reveal the dinosaur had birdlike back legs, and could use its short, powerful arms for ...
The paper had four co-authors, including David Varricchio from Montana State University who discovered the first described Oryctodromeus skeletons and burrows in Montana, and Tony Martin, who ...
The 95-million-year-old bones of an adult Oryctodromeus cubicularis and two of its young were found together in a burrow in southwest Montana, said Montana State University paleontologist David ...