The Virginia Museum of Natural History has received a $43 ...

January 23, 2018

The Virginia Museum of Natural History has received a $43,289 grant from the Federal Bureau of Land Management (under the Department of the Interior) to begin a year-long project to fully catalogue, georeference and photograph 4,873 animal and plant fossils dating back to the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossils, which were collected from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation on federally protected land in Montana between 1990 and 2010, not only contain a robust sampling of earth's ecosystem about 68 million years ago, but one-of-a-kind specimens not found anywhere else on the globe.