时间:2025-04-04 13:13:31 来源:网络整理编辑:綜合
In the rocky hills of what is now Montana, a Tyrannosaurus rex once lumbered across the land, standi
In the rocky hills of what is now Montana, a Tyrannosaurus rex once lumbered across the land, standing as high as 20-feet tall and stretching up to 40-feet long.
Some 66 million years later, a team of U.S. paleontologists have unearthed its skull, making an extremely rare find for the realm of dinosaur fossils. The 2,500-pound boulder of a bone traveled west this week to Seattle, where it arrived at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
SEE ALSO:Because regular lightning is not scary enough, here's T-Rex lightning“The combination of the skull features, the size of the bones, and the honeycomb-like appearance of the bones tell us this is a T. rex,” Greg Wilson, the museum’s adjunct curator of vertebrate paleontology, said in a media release on Wednesday.
“This was a very exciting moment for us,” he said.
Wilson led a team of more than 45 people who helped excavate the dinosaur fossils over the course of a month this summer.
Luke Tufts and Jason Love, two paleontology volunteers with Burke Museum, were searching for signs of fossils in the Hell Creek Formation when they encountered a large scattering of bone fragments at the surface of the sandstone. The 4-foot-long skull featured a keyhole-shaped opening that paleontologists said was unmistakably the squamosal bone of the enormous carnivorous vertebrate, according to Burke Museum.
“When we started to see those teeth with the skull, we knew we had a fantastic specimen,” Wilson recalled in the media release.
The T. rexis now nicknamed the “Tufts-Love Rex” in honor of the two enterprising volunteers.
Despite the T. rex’s prominent role in our dinosaur dreamscapes, this finding is incredibly rare: Only about 15 “reasonably complete” T. rex skulls are known to exist in the world, the Burke Museum noted.
Paleontologists have so far excavated just 20 percent of the Tufts-Love Rex’s full skeleton, including the skull, teeth, ribs, vertebrae, hips and lower jaw bones.
The Burke Museum team said it successfully shipped the skull, wrapped in a plaster field jacket, to its Seattle location on Thursday.
The public can view the T. rex skull, along with other dinosaur fossils and paleontology field tools, at the museum from Aug. 20 through Oct. 2. The University of Washington plans to permanently display the skull at the New Burke Museumwhen it opens in 2019.
Tourist survives for month in frozen New Zealand wilderness after partner dies2025-04-04 13:01
小記巴西世界杯三十二強(十七)(巴西足球紀錄片)2025-04-04 12:57
【波盈足球】 卡達國王:為球迷辦了一屆「非凡」的世界盃 ( 美聯社,世界杯 )2025-04-04 12:46
【波盈足球】 世足阿根廷今日不哭泣!年輕球迷 :奪冠幸福感掩蓋社會危機 ( 阿根廷,球迷 )2025-04-04 12:30
Uber's $100M settlement over drivers as contractors may not be enough2025-04-04 12:26
【波盈足球】 世足賽暖心時刻!阿根廷男街友獲贈10號球衣「跪拜叩頭淚崩」 ( 阿根廷,球衣 )2025-04-04 12:23
葡萄牙和韓國二十年前的‘恩怨情仇’(葡萄牙與韓國的恩怨情深嗎)2025-04-04 11:24
巴西世界杯曆屆成績(中國對巴西世界杯曆史)2025-04-04 11:14
Darth Vader is back. Why do we still care?2025-04-04 10:43
【波盈足球】 姆巴佩表現亮眼 總教練看好法國未來 ( 法國,美聯社 )2025-04-04 10:34
New Zealand designer's photo series celebrates the elegance of aging2025-04-04 13:05
【波盈足球】 足球史上最偉大球員爭論 英前國腳用這原因挺梅西 ( 戴爾,球員 )2025-04-04 13:01
世界杯最新積分榜:日本爆冷頭名晉級,德國出局,16強僅差2席(14年的德國有多強)2025-04-04 12:52
【波盈足球】 姆巴佩表現亮眼 總教練看好法國未來 ( 法國,美聯社 )2025-04-04 12:04
Australian football makes history with first LGBT Pride Game2025-04-04 11:57
【波盈足球】 「世足表現最差11人」冠軍阿根廷有1球員入選 ( 馬丁,阿根廷 )2025-04-04 11:51
葡萄牙足協緊急辟謠:C羅從不威脅離開國家隊 ,每天為國家貢獻一切(今晚葡萄牙有c羅嗎)2025-04-04 11:17
英格蘭隊3:0戰勝威爾士隊晉級16強(法國32025-04-04 10:46
Did our grandparents have the best beauty advice?2025-04-04 10:45
【波盈足球】 足球史上最偉大球員爭論 英前國腳用這原因挺梅西 ( 戴爾,球員 )2025-04-04 10:41