What is the next step for paleontology of national parks in Alaska?
Researchers will continue to visit the Alaska National Parks to determine what other fossil treasures there might be. By looking at sites around the state, it may be possible to develop a more complete picture of the environment, and its flora and fauna. Hadrosaurs as well as other herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs have been found in northern Alaska from the same time period. These finds show that the dinosaurs were year-round residents of these northern latitudes. Denali National Park and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve both have sedimentary rocks from the same general time. By studying these and other parks in Alaska, scientists will continue to learn more about the earth, its environment and the species that lived here during those ancient times.
