The current year has become an important event for paleontological research. An international team of scientists - geologists and paleontologists - went on a seven-day field expedition to northern Tajikistan from 25 June to 1 July 2024. This was the first paleontological expedition in the region, which has not been conducted since 1991. It aimed to discover fossilized vertebrate remains from the Late Cretaceous deposits of the Western Fergana in the territory Republic of Tajikistan.

  The team was led by Drs Paul Rummy and Lizhao Zhang, scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yunus Mamadjanov, Scientific Secretary of the Research Centre for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Dushanbe), National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

A paleontological expedition has discovered New fossils of vertebrate animals from the cretaceous period in Tajikistan