COVID-19 has led to several planned excavation digs to be sidelined or postponed, but the Witte Museum is doing what they can to stay in discovery mode. Witte Museum fossil image. (KSAT)Dr. Adams gave KSAT12 an inside look at the secret Witte Museum repository. So labs are just so important to do paleontology,” Dr. Thomas said. And so, as an example, this year we went out and spent a few days collecting some Mosasaurus fossils,” Dr. Thomas said.

Witte Museum unearths $250,000 grant to help collect, maintain fossilsPublished: August 31, 2020, 12:49 pmThere are excavations going on throughout the year, and now, thanks to a new grant, the Witte Museum will be able to find so much more.

Witte Museum receives $250,000 grant for conservation, preservation of fossilsPublished: August 31, 2020, 12:25 pmThere are excavations going on throughout the year, and now, thanks to a new grant, the Witte Museum will be able to find so much more.

It's the first time this gait has been found in this family of ancient crocs, which typically walked on four legs like modern-day crocodiles and alligators. Similar "enigmatic" footprints found at other sites in South Korea had been thought to belong to giant pterosaurs prehistoric flying reptiles walking on two legs. It's possible the animal primarily walked on two legs but was also able to walk on four. No two-legged prehistoric crocodiles had been found from this period, although the study said that crocs that walked on two legs may have roamed the Earth much earlier during the early Mesozoic era that started about 250 million years ago. They said the consistent absence of forelimb prints and the narrow trackway pointed to a new species that walked on two legs.