Sunday Adventuring: Prehistoric North Carolina
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Fossil-hunters once pulled only bones out of the dirt. Then they started pulling up whole skeletons as one big rock, using X-rays and MRIs to catch images of the organs of dinosaurs in the rock. Then they started examining pollen particles accompanying the fossilized bones.
I wonder what important evidence we are destroying today, when we exhume fossils, that future innovations will cherish?
Iron Concretion from a Fossilized Dinosaur Heart
Fossil-hunters once pulled only bones out of the dirt. Then they started pulling up whole skeletons as one big rock, using X-rays and MRIs to catch images of the organs of dinosaurs in the rock. Then they started examining pollen particles accompanying the fossilized bones.
I wonder what important evidence we are destroying today, when we exhume fossils, that future innovations will cherish?
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Iron Concretion from a Fossilized Dinosaur Heart |
