Comments on: Walking With Primates http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/05/walking-with-primates/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: On the Trail of an Unknown Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/05/walking-with-primates/comment-page-1/#comment-606 On the Trail of an Unknown Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking Wed, 27 May 2009 16:47:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=1334#comment-606 [...] Weird new dinosaurs and exquisltely-preserved fossils regularly make headlines, but these discoveries make up only a tiny portion of what paleontologists actually discover and work with. The majority of the fossil record is far more fragmentary, and while little scraps of bone might not cause journalists to start drooling they are just as important to understanding ancient life. [...] [...] Weird new dinosaurs and exquisltely-preserved fossils regularly make headlines, but these discoveries make up only a tiny portion of what paleontologists actually discover and work with. The majority of the fossil record is far more fragmentary, and while little scraps of bone might not cause journalists to start drooling they are just as important to understanding ancient life. [...]

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