In March, a group of paleontology students from Sul Ross State University embarked on a research trip to Big Bend National ...

She showed it to Kranz, who immediately pegged it as a 110-million-year-old bone, a vertebra from the tail of a small carnivorous ... plant-eating sauropod, like the Apatosaurus.

The sauropod — dinosaurs that are characterized ... The authors pointed out that Qunka’s unique tail vertebrae provides new insights into non-avian Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in the region ...

The goals of the trip included conducting structural and stratigraphic analyses of Cretaceous — Eocene rocks and to retrieve a large vertebra ... from the giant sauropod are known in the Big ...