For many years, researchers have been studying a state park in Nevada, but despite their efforts, the reason for the high number of ichthyosaur deaths in the area some 230 million years ago remains a mystery. Blue and humpback whales, along with other marine giants of today, regularly undertake l
, indicates that nearly 200 million years before the evolution of giant whales, marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs, which were the size of school buses, may have also undertaken similar migrations for breeding and giving birth in safer environments., examine a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs lay petrified in stone.
To try to solve this prehistoric mystery, the team combined newer paleontological techniques such as 3D scanning and geochemistry with traditional paleontological perseverance by poring over archival materials, photographs, maps, field notes, and drawer after drawer of museum collections for shreds of evidence that could be reanalyzed.fossil bed at Quarry 2 in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. Fossilized bones have been color-coded where each color corresponds to a different skeleton.
To do this, the research team collaborated with Jon Blundell, a member of the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office’s 3D Program team, and Holly Little, informatics manager in the museum’s Department of Paleobiology.
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