Comments on: A Detailed Guide to a Hadrosaur’s Foot http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/12/a-detailed-guide-to-a-hadrosaurs-foot/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Mark Carnall http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/12/a-detailed-guide-to-a-hadrosaurs-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-5521 Mark Carnall Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:02:56 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=6820#comment-5521 This is brilliant! The frustrations and limitations aren't just limited to hadrosaurs though, the whole vertebrate subphylum could do with an atlas. There are millions of misidentified or unidentified specimens laying in museum drawers in need of these kind of resources to in order to add them to the global pool of samples. Sometimes I wish biology would catch up with the technology that has been available to achieve this kind of initiative. This is brilliant! The frustrations and limitations aren’t just limited to hadrosaurs though, the whole vertebrate subphylum could do with an atlas. There are millions of misidentified or unidentified specimens laying in museum drawers in need of these kind of resources to in order to add them to the global pool of samples.

Sometimes I wish biology would catch up with the technology that has been available to achieve this kind of initiative.

]]> By: Doug http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/12/a-detailed-guide-to-a-hadrosaurs-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-5515 Doug Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:08:13 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=6820#comment-5515 this is an awesome paper. give me an idea for a paper i'm pursuing. I had also thought of trying this out for fossil camels, but Xiaoming Wang said someone already tried and didn't have much luck. But that probably won't stop me from trying... this is an awesome paper. give me an idea for a paper i’m pursuing.

I had also thought of trying this out for fossil camels, but Xiaoming Wang said someone already tried and didn’t have much luck. But that probably won’t stop me from trying…

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