Sunday Adventuring: Prehistoric North Carolina
April 6th, 2008Fossil-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 |
(cue the broken record) They need to sequence that ancient pollen DNA!
A moment of silence, please, for all the lost information contained in all the “dirt” removed from all previous excavations.
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Thank you.
*Pours out some of his 40oz for his prehistoric homies*
-BMF