Fish death, mammal extinction and tiny dino footprints

News from this year's meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

 

Paleontologists convened September 23–26 in Bristol, England, for the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Science News writer Sid Perkins reports from the meeting on the latest findings on fish fossils in Wyoming, the loss of Australia’s megafauna and the smallest dinosaur tracks.