Described in 1858, the partial skeleton of Hadrosaurus foulkii was one of the most important dinosaur discoveries ever made. At that time, the few known dinosaurs were represented by a collection of ...

Today, your standard dinosaur exhibit comes with a few skeletons (or at least skeletal replicas) posed in lifelike stances. But 147 years ago this was a pretty novel concept. In 1858, naturalist ...

In April of this year, I headed out to a marl pit in Clayton, New Jersey to watch a team of Drexel University students and their teacher, Professor Kenneth Lacovara, dig for fossils. Marl, a lime-rich ...

What he unearthed was a 25 foot duck billed hadrosaurus, the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton found anywhere in the world. Until this moment, Americans had only seen scattered teeth and claws.

Part of Plate XII from Leidy's Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States, showing some vertebrae from Hadrosaurus. Feedloader (Clickability) By the time the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge ...

The skeleton of a dinosaur that once roamed South Jersey is again on display at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. The fossilized remains of a Hadrosaurus foulkii, also known as ...

Haddy has returned! The new mount of Hadrosaurus foulkii, the first dinosaur skeleton ever publicly displayed in the world, is back on view in the Academy of Natural Science’s Dinosaur Hall. And this ...

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