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Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in wa
An international scientific team investigates a rich fossil bed in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's famed Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, where several 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.
In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online.
An international research team examined a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.
Research suggests that nearly 200 million years before giant whales evolved, school bus-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs may have been making similar migrations to breed and give birth in waters where predators are scarce.