Ever since moviegoers saw the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ millions have wondered if scientists could make a dinosaur in the lab.
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Sometimes the only way to tell the difference between a baby dinosaur and a grown-up one is to find fossils of them both together.
Good science isn’t rooted in chance. It’s based on people with expertise being in the right place at the right time, equipped with enough knowledge to know what they’re looking at.
An old technique to explore the inside of fossils unfortunately ended up destroying some unique specimens. New technology has been used to reconstruct one such fossil.
New evidence shows marked similarities between two fossils – one from Brazil, the other South Africa. This confirms compelling geological findings that continents were once one giant land mass.
Palaeontologists have been lining up to complain about the inaccuracies in the new blockbuster. They need to focus on the positives.
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Project Officer – Office of the Queensland Chief Scientist
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Edinburgh
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Honorary Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Paleontology, The Ohio State University
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Lecturer in Palaeontology, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)
