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Jian changmaensis

Ashley Poust, Voorhies Endowed Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, stands in the collections with lower jaws of Teleoceras from Ashfall Fossil Beds. Poust is part of an international team that identified Jian changmaensis, a newly described feathered dinosaur from China’s Changma Basin.

Poust helps identify new species of feathered dinosaur

June 18, 2026

Science & Technology

Ashley Poust, Voorhies Endowed Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, uses a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope in his Nebraska Hall lab to examine a histological slide of the fossil bone tissue of a theropod dinosaur.

NU State Museum researcher helps identify new feathered dinosaur species

June 18, 2026

Science & Technology