Dinosaurs

Megalosaurid vertebra Ahrensburg preview

Friedrich von Huene’s Megalosaurid Vertebra from the Lower Jurassic of Northern Germany

Friedrich von Huene’s Megalosaurid Vertebra from the Lower Jurassic of Northern Germany In the 1960s, renowned Tübingen-based palaeontologist Friedrich von Huene was given the opportunity to study an incomplete vertebra from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of northern Germany. The specimen had been found in the gravel pit Forst Hagen in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. The vertebra […]

Dinosaurs, Palaeontology

Protoceratops andrewsi at the American Museum of Natural History

Protoceratops andrewsi at the American Museum of Natural History In 2023, I had the opportunity to study plesiosaur material at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. While there, I took some time to explore the rest of the exhibits. In the Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs, there’s a historic mount of two