Fossil Discoveries that Could Happen in the Future

1Confirmation of Nanotyrannus being a fully grown or larger morph of Dakotaraptor, rather than a small tyrannosaur.


2Discovery of a new genus of Pachycephalosaur with manipulative feet/hands and extremely high intelligence.


3Discovery of a basal ceratopsian from the late Jurassic period in North America.


4Discovery of a Paleocene non-avian dinosaur or pterosaur which survived after the KPG extinction event (66 mya).


5Discovery of a Columbian mammoth mummy


6Discovery of a dwarf abelisaur on Ha�?eg Island.


7Discovery of a complete Giganotosaurus skeleton


8Discovery of mummified remains of a Tyrannosaurus.


9Confirmation of ammonites living far beyond the Mesozoic


10Discovery of a mummy of a late-surviving chalicothere.


11Discovery of a complete skeleton of Spinosaurus


12Resolution of the lifestyle of Spinosaurus.


13Discovery of a late-surviving basal tyrannosauroid in Asia or North America.


14Discovery of feathers from a Therizinosaurus.


15Discovery of an American mastodon mummy


16Discovery of a fossilized Velociraptor skeleton with irrefutable evidence of feathers all over its body


17Discovery of a North American spinosaurid


18Discovery of a Smilodon mummy somewhere in the Americas


19Discovery of viable DNA of a non-avian dinosaur or pterosaur


20Discovery of viable pre-Pleistocene animal DNA


21Discovery of a North American abelisaurid of the late Cretaceous


22Discovery of late-surviving adapiform primates in North America


23Discovery of viable dinosaur DNA


24Discovery of definite late Cretaceous stegosaurs


25Discovery of late-surviving chalicotheres in North America


26Discovery of late-surviving prosauropods in between late Jurassic and late Cretaceous