Sunday Adventuring: Prehistoric North Carolina
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 |













(cue the broken record) They need to sequence that ancient pollen DNA!
Comment by ClintJCL — April 6, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
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.
Comment by SonOfEris — April 6, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
*Pours out some of his 40oz for his prehistoric homies*
-BMF
Comment by BMF — April 6, 2008 @ 10:04 pm