Finding a new species of dinosaur is pretty rare. Getting a hand in the discovery and naming of one — that’s rarer still. Or it would be for anyone other than 32-year-old Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor of geological sciences in the College of Science and the newest addition to Virginia Tech’s paleontology team. Nesbitt […]
Posts Tagged ‘Reptiles’
Earliest evidence for reptiles
December 10th, 2012 Riffin
Newly discovered fossilised footprints provide the earliest evidence yet for the evolution of reptiles – a major event in the history of life. They are 315 million years old, making reptiles up to 3 million years older than previously thought. The footprints were discovered by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of Bristol in sea […]