Word: paleontologists
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...meat eaters to elephant-size vegetarians. Falcarius, as it turns out, was dug up by a black-market fossil collector named Lawrence Walker, who found it on federal land in Utah while digging at night under a tarp. Convinced he was onto something big, the poacher tipped off a paleontologist he knew, James Kirkland, and led him to the site. Kirkland tried to protect his source but, asked under oath how the dinosaur was discovered, reluctantly turned Walker in. Kirkland got his 15 minutes of fame last week. Walker served five months in prison. --By Coco Masters
...captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic, particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life...
...captured the imaginations of Central Europeans with hundreds of carefully researched, evocative paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic , particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life...
...little doubt that by recreating the original pterosaur's design, the Q.N. team will succeed. Says he: "Nature does nothing that is stupid. The only purpose of those huge wings would be to fly, and there is a certain amount of evidence that the pterosaur could fly pretty well." Paleontologist Langston is equally optimistic: "We fully expect this model to fly," he says. "If anyone can do it, MacCready can." --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles
...clear that mammals did fill some of the niches reserved for larger animals. "It's quite possible," says Anne Weil, a Duke University paleontologist who wrote a commentary accompanying the Nature report, "that they competed with dinosaurs for the same prey." And because they ate dinosaurs, she says, they may even have had an influence on dinosaur evolution. What sort of influence? "We don't know," she says. "That's how it is with the best finds. They leave you with more questions than answers." Those answers may be lurking under the barely scratched surface of Liaoning province. --Reported...