A group of university students on a research mission in Big Bend National Park retrieved a large dinosaur bone belonging to an Alamosaurus.
The Alamosaurus is the largest known land-dwelling animal to have lived in North America. Researchers have found fossils from this dinosaur in the park before, but they are usually fragmentary and poorly preserved, according to the release from Sul Ross State University.
The group of students and their faculty advisors uncovered the large vertebra during their March research trip. The vertebra belongs to the most complete skeleton in the area, originally described by researchers in the 1970s.
This isn’t the first time dinosaur fossils have been uncovered in Big Bend. Students from the university previously collected “associated vertebrae” from the area, and the specimens are being studied in the university’s paleontology lab, the university said.
Some of Big Bend’s fossil finds include bones of a giant pterosaur, the largest known flying creature of all time with a 36-foot wingspan, as well as the massive skull of the giant horned dinosaur Bravoceratops, according to the park’s website.
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