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Category: research Triassic fossil reveals nature’s best jaw for hunting fast fish , articleNewly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of millions of years.
Date: Apr 28, 2025 - -
Video ItemVirginia Tech Global Distinction A tiny fossil leads to a bigger discovery , video
As a vertebrate paleontologist, Helen Burch hopes her research can help contribute to knowledge of the ancient world and how it shaped our present day. Through a recent fossil discovery found excavating a site in Petrified National Park in Arizona, Helen helped discover a new potentially poisonous reptile species Microzemiotes sonselaensis.
Date: Jan 27, 2025 - -
Video ItemCategory: campus experience Unwrapping a part of Earth's history , video
The Virginia Tech Paleobiology Research Group hosted its annual fossil unpacking party at the Museum of Geosciences, inviting the public to unwrap fossils that Sterling Nesbitt and Michelle Stocker gathered from sites in Texas and Arizona. The fossils include mostly fossils of reptiles, amphibians, and fish from the late Triassic.
Date: Sep 13, 2024 - -
Video ItemCategory: research A tedious, time-consuming effort to unearth prehistoric life , video
Fossils from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and beyond are cleaned and prepared for study at Virginia Tech's Paleontology Prep Lab. "Everything in here is over 200 million years old," says Assistant Professor Michelle Stocker. "Everything that we're digging up is a fossil that no human has ever seen before, in most cases." These fossils not only further our understanding of past life on earth, but they also help us understand the biodiversity that we have today.
Date: Feb 22, 2023 - -
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Category: campus experience Department of Geosciences’ community fossil unpacking party returns after two-year hiatus , articleThe event, open to all campus and community members, takes place at 7 p.m. Aug. 30 in 2062 Derring Hall, longtime home of the Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences. The fossils to be unpacked were discovered this past summer in digs in Arizona and Texas.
Date: Aug 24, 2022 - -
Video ItemCategory: research Preserving history through modern paleontology , video
Virginia Tech paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt and University Libraries’ 3D Design Studio Manager Max Ofsa are scanning, digitizing and replicating prehistoric bones using a modern form of paleontology.
Date: Dec 13, 2019 - -
Video ItemCategory: research Virginia Tech paleontologist discovers new, miniature relative of Tyrannosaurus rex , video
Virginia Tech paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt finds the fossil of a new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Standing at roughly 3 feet tall and approximately 9 feet in length, the newly named animal is much smaller than its ferocious cousins made popular in movies and books.
Date: May 06, 2019 -