Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Scientist Says Lots of Dinosaurs Remain (Washington Post)
From The Washington Post: Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered. At least, their fossils are.
Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania and Steve Wang of Swarthmore College estimate that 71 percent of all dinosaur genera - groups of dinosaur species - have yet to be discovered.
"It's a safe bet that a child born today could expect a very fruitful career in dinosaur paleontology," Dodson said in a statement.
The estimate appears in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). [News, Palaeontology]
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Also reported on the Washington Post's 'Findings' page.
The PNAS paper is "Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs" (Abstract)
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