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Paleontology
Dinosaur, crab fossils reveal ecosystem secrets
March 31st, 2003
A team of geologists has found a well-preserved fossil of a crab within inches of a tail vertebra from a massive plant-eating dinosaur in Egypt's Bahariya Oasis. It is the first evidence in literature of the two found together. The find helps piece together what ancient environments might have been like. The study was directed by Joshua Smith, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The find reveals much about both species and the kind of ecosystem where the fossils were found, thought to be a predator-rich mangrove setting dominated by tree ferns and other coastal...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2003-03-31)
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