Not exact matches
Palaeontologists have become used to being the butt of
such jokes, ever since Michael Crichton's fantasy of recreating a dinosaur world reached the silver screen.
Such a complete, exquisitely preserved skeleton of a small dinosaur was something that
palaeontologists could only have dreamed about a decade ago.
Jørn Hurum, a
palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, whose classification of the fossil he called «Ida» has come under fire, says that
such a system, if adopted by
palaeontologists, «would be fantastic».
The catarrhine family tree — one of two primate lineages, and the one that includes humans — regularly attracts requests for revision from
palaeontologists bearing fossils
such as Ida, according to palaeobiologist James Tarver, lead author of the latest study.
Before now, if
palaeontologists had found the fossil remains of
such a complex community of organisms, they would probably assume that the site was free of the ice shelf when these animals were living there.