How the discovery of an Alaskan duck-billed dinosaur is connected to SMU
"We think this might be the most integrated dinosaur story, certainly in the North, but possibly anywhere in the world," SMU paleontologist Tony Fiorillo said.
Author: Kevin Reece
Updated: 6:48 PM CDT July 27, 2021
DALLAS — The 66-million-year-old story of duck-billed dinosaurs in the Arctic and their connection to previous species in Texas is being decoded in a basement lab and archive at Southern Methodist University thanks to the recent discovery of more fossilized footprints at a remote site in Alaska.
"By the time we are done we think this might be the most integrated dinosaur story, certainly in the North, but possibly anywhere in the world," said Anthony Fiorillo, Ph.D. Fiorillo is an SMU Earth Sciences faculty member and a senior fellow at SMU's Institute for the Study of Earth and Man.