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21-04-2025
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Texas geology students unearth bone of giant dinosaur in Big Bend National Park
BREWSTER COUNTY, Texas – Budding geologists on a research expedition in a Texas national park have unearthed a massive vertebra from a giant long-necked dinosaur that roamed during the Cretaceous Period. Students from Sul Ross State University's geology program visited Big Bend National Park in March to retrieve the bone belonging to an Alamosaurus, the largest known land-dwelling animal to have lived in North America. Fossils from the sauropod are known to be found in the Big Bend but are usually fragmentary and poorly preserved, according to researchers. Cave Discovery Of 6,000-Year-old Hunter's Toolkit Offers Rare Glimpse Into Earliest Lives In West Texas The university said the trip's goals included conducting structural and stratigraphic analyses of Cretaceous—Eocene rocks. The specimen collected by the students, led by assistant professors Jesse Kelsch and Thomas Shiller, belongs to one of the most complete skeletons in the area, originally collected and described by researchers from the University of Texas in the 1970s. Associated vertebrae were previously collected from the same quarry by Shiller and his students and are currently being studied in the campus' paleontology article source: Texas geology students unearth bone of giant dinosaur in Big Bend National Park
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10-04-2025
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Sul Ross geology students collect vertebra from Alamosaurus in BBNP
Apr. 10—Students from the Sul Ross State University Geology program visited Big Bend National Park in March on a research mission and to retrieve dinosaur bones belonging to Alamosaurus. Led by Dr. Jesse Kelsch, an assistant professor, and Dr. Thomas Shiller, an associate professor, participants included students in Stratigraphic Analysis and Structural Geology courses. The goals of the trip included conducting structural and stratigraphic analyses of Cretaceous — Eocene rocks and to retrieve a large vertebra belonging to Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that lived in North America during the Cretaceous Period. Alamosaurus is the largest known land-dwelling animal to have lived in North America. Fossils from the giant sauropod are known in the Big Bend but are usually fragmentary and poorly preserved. The specimen collected by SRSU belongs to one of the most complete skeletons in the area, originally collected and described by researchers from the University of Texas in the 1970s. Associated vertebrae were previously collected from the same quarry by Dr. Shiller and his students and are currently being studied in the SRSU paleontology lab. For more information about the Geology program, visit
