Most Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered
Posted on September 5, 2006 Comments (4)
Dinosaurs remain to be discovered (bozos broke link so I deleted it – poor usability)
“It’s a safe bet that a child born today could expect a very fruitful career in dinosaur paleontology,” Dodson said in a statement.
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The estimates are based on the rates of discovery — about 10 to 20 annually — and the recent increase in finds of fossils in China, Mongolia and South America.
Vast Majority of Dinosaurs Still to Be Found, Scientists Say, National Geographic:
What’s more, the duo believes that 75 percent of these dinos will be discovered within the next 60 to 100 years and 90 percent within 100 to 140 years, based on an analysis of historical discovery patterns.
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February 12th, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
“The discovery of the 72-million-year-old fossil adds to the rich gallery of dinosaurs that scientists now know lived in western North America during the latter part of the dinosaur era…”
December 4th, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
In five months, they collected 10,000 species. Some 2,000 of these may be new to science…
April 15th, 2011 @ 8:03 am
Just a fun video for this Friday, showing a visit by a puppet dinosaur to a Australian school…
September 24th, 2011 @ 9:12 am
The Nigersaurus was discover in what is now the Sahara Desert in Niger. When the Nigersaurus was roaming the area, 110 million years ago, the climate was a Mesozoic forest…