A 130-million-year-old skull of a tiny mammal found amid a set of dinosaur bones in Utah more than a decade ago could reshape the way scientists think about the breakup of Earth’s ancient super-continent, Pangea, and about the way mammals spread across the world. Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson FarmThe skull, now on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah, was found amid a cache of dinosaur fossils uncovered by paleontologists with the Utah Geological Survey. Utah Geological SurveyThe fossil represents the latest science to come out of Utah’s Cedar Mountain Formation, a geologic wonder providing troves of new information to paleontology. It was discovered almost by accident inside a lab while scientists were working to extract the dinosaur bones that surrounded it. Luckily, he had showed the site to James Kirkland, the state paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 30, 2018 09:56 UTC