Uncovered parkland reveals dinosaur remains.Researchers and students from the Murie Science and Learning Center The Murie Science and Learning Center is a collaboration between Denali National Park and Preserve, seven other National Parks and several park partners. The Murie Science and Learning Center promotes scientific research to aid park managers and provide science-based education in Denali Park, Alaska and the Dallas Museum of Natural History in Dallas, Texas, have unearthed 18 new trace fossil sites in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve Denali National Park and Preserve (dənäl`ē), in the Alaska Range, S central Alaska; comprising Denali National Park (4,740,912 acres/1,919,398 hectares), est. as Mt. . The discoveries were made in the Igloo igloo (ĭg`l  ) [Inuit,=house]. The Eskimos traditionally had three types of houses. Canyon and Double Mountain areas of the park. The findings are mostly evidence of theropods (upright carnivores) with footprints of theropod theropodAny species of bipedal, carnivorous saurischian in the suborder Theropoda. The chicken-sized Compsognathus,the smallest known adult dinosaur, probably weighed 2–4 lb (1–2 kg); the tyrannosaurs weighed tons. prey, hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs. These remains date back 70 million years. The number of tracks in the specimens is so numerous that a researcher for the Dallas Museum of Natural History has called them "Cretaceous dance floors." More information can be found at www.murieslc.org. |
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