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Today in Montana History

July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments

July 23, 1978

Jack Horner, a Shelby native and a preparator working for Princeton University’s paleontology department, and Bob Makela, a high school science teacher at Rudyard, are invited to stop at Marian and John Brandvold’s rock shop in Bynum. Marian Brandvold is curious about some small, fossilized bones that she has found southeast of Bynum. The scientists determine that the collection of fossilized bones, including a two-inch-long jawbone, are those of baby hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs. A week or so later, Horner and Makela discover the first of many baby dinosaur nests west of Choteau. The discovery sends shockwaves around the world for paleontologists who, up to this time, have only small bits of information about baby dinosaurs. Horner and Makela come to determine that this duck-billed species, which they name Maiasaurus meaning “good mother lizard,” care for its young which stay in the nest for a relatively long period of time.

From Montana Dateline by Ellis Roberts Parry.


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  1. Dennis on May 6, 2009 5:08 pm

    I think that your Web Site is awesome. I am not doing a report on Montana but I love it there. I have been there 10 times.

  2. David in Great Falls on May 12, 2009 9:11 pm

    Very cool, Dennis! Glad you love Montana so much!

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