Where does Division of Paleontology dig for fossils?
Since 1990, the Division has been conducting paleontological expeditions in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert reprising historical work initiated by the American Museum in the 1920s. An amazing assortment of abundant fossil birds and other dinosaurs, lizards, and mammals have kept and will keep, AMNH scientists and their colleagues busy for decades. Our paleontologists are also active in the Andes collecting Eocene mammals; across the US (South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and Missouri as well as closer to home in New Jersey) looking for Late Cretaceous ammonites, as well as farther abroad in the Bay of Biscay in southwestern France, Denmark, and Japan; in Madagascar finding Late Triassic mammals and dinosaurs; in Alaska looking for Devonian sharks with sights on future fossil fish finding in Bolivia, Australia, and the mid-West US; in China unearthing dinosaurs from across the entire Cretaceous; and in New Mexico pushing back the origins of dinosaurs. With a world full of fossils, we will
