http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/05/bringing-dinosaurs-up-to-speed/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/05/bringing-dinosaurs-up-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-4149 Sarah Mon, 09 May 2011 22:15:54 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5460#comment-4149 Perhaps one day we will know all there is to know about dinosaur evolution, but for now, we still have to look for more clues. In this article, it is a good point that paleontologists focus too much on finding huge specimens that they lose track of finding the evolutionary journey of one specimen to another, say from an Allosaurus to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I hope they will focus more on that genetic tree of dinosaurs more than finding the biggest fossils. We'll get there. Perhaps one day we will know all there is to know about dinosaur evolution, but for now, we still have to look for more clues. In this article, it is a good point that paleontologists focus too much on finding huge specimens that they lose track of finding the evolutionary journey of one specimen to another, say from an Allosaurus to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I hope they will focus more on that genetic tree of dinosaurs more than finding the biggest fossils. We’ll get there.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/05/bringing-dinosaurs-up-to-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-4138 Doug Fri, 06 May 2011 22:42:23 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=5460#comment-4138 yep. This is what I hope to do with my museum (if i ever get it started): one more institution out there looking for fossil so that we would have more specimens to look at. It seems that if you find a bone from the Cenozoic, you can usually assign it to a genus. But with dinosaurs, find a bone or horn or tooth and no such luck; you can only get it to the family level. That may change someday though. yep. This is what I hope to do with my museum (if i ever get it started): one more institution out there looking for fossil so that we would have more specimens to look at. It seems that if you find a bone from the Cenozoic, you can usually assign it to a genus. But with dinosaurs, find a bone or horn or tooth and no such luck; you can only get it to the family level. That may change someday though.

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