How Paleontologists Are Finding Fossils in Surprising Places

Fossils from unexpected places, and new ways to study them, are changing how we see the deep past.

By Gemma Tarlach
Jan 1, 2019 12:00 AMNov 18, 2019 3:23 AM
Mansourasaurus
About 75 million years ago, the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert was a world of lush vegetation and coastlines where the titanosaur Mansourasaurus, described this year, roamed. Andrew Mcafee/Carnegie Museum of Natural Histo

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About 75 million years ago, the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert was a world of lush vegetation and coastlines where the titanosaur Mansourasaurus, described this year, roamed.Andrew Mcafee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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