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...Raptorex came to light, meanwhile, is a story in itself. About three years ago, Sereno, who usually does his own fossil-hunting, was approached by ophthalmologist and avid fossil collector Henry Kriegstein for help in identifying a newly purchased specimen. Kriegstein had bought the fossil legally, but when Sereno saw it, he became convinced it was from China and that it had almost certainly been smuggled out of that country. "I told him that I'd help," says Sereno, "but only if he was willing to donate the fossil to science and let us return it to China when...
...like creatures to begin growing. Once they started to get into the league of the big predators, though, where speed and bone-crushing jaw strength would let them range farther and crunch the bones of the biggest prey, there was no competition at all. By about 90 million years ago at the latest, T. rex - or as we might now say, the king-size version of Raptorex - was unchallenged. "There was no turning back," says Sereno, referring to the leading theory on why the dinosaurs became extinct, "until the comet...
...whale - contains high levels of mercury, and at its highest instances, the concentration of methyl mercury in bottlenose dolphin meat is 32 times the limit set by Japan's Health Ministry. School children in Taiji eat dolphin, like the rest of the town's population. Junichiro Yamashita, who years ago raised national awareness of dolphin meat's health risks as Taiji's local assemblyman, was interviewed for the film along with current assemblyman Hisato Ryono. But Ryono, who was touted as a hero on the mercury issue in the documentary, told a local television station that he was informed...
Acurio takes heart from the success of Japanese cuisine around the world. He says that 40 years ago, no one imagined that raw fish, seaweed and super-spicy wasabi would be a worldwide craze. But now there are more than 40,000 top-quality sushi bars in the world; last year they generated more than $150 billion, and another $40 billion in related products were sold. That example is warming the hearts of Acurio and his compatriots who have visions of Peruvian restaurants on Main Street, U.S.A., serving up such staples as cuy (the national dish of roasted guinea...
Peruvians, however, do not want to wait decades to conquer the world's palates. "We are living the same kind of moment Japan did decades ago, inventing a market where one does not exist," says Acurio. The world is a different place from the one in which Benihana first branched out of Japan and opened in the U.S. - in New York - in 1964. Tastes have become more global and transportation allows fresh produce to move from a farm in Peru to a restaurant kitchen in Europe or the U.S. in less than 24 hours, making it easy to start...