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IMAGE: (here a team from the Aathal dinosaur museum in Wyoming, co-author Hans-Jakob Siber front center) often belong to different animals. view more
Credit: (c) Sauriermuseum Aathal
Fossil sites sometimes resemble a living room table on which half a dozen different jigsaw puzzles have been dumped: It is often difficult to say which bone belongs to which animal. Together with colleagues from Switzerland, researchers from the University of Bonn have now presented a method that allows a more certain answer to this question. Their results are published in the journal
Palaeontologia Electronica.
Fossilized dinosaur bones are relatively rare. But if any are found, it is often in large quantities. Many sites contain the remains of dozens of animals, explains Prof. Dr. Martin Sander from the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Bonn.
Dinosaurs take over OMSI
The exhibit of animatronics, skeletons, fossils and more opens March 20; so, stay away COVID
Will it be third time s the charm for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry?
Not unlike what has happened with other museums and public attractions, OMSI opened two exhibits in the past year and had to shut down each of them because of the COVID-19 pandemic and government restrictions Body Worlds lasted a week, and then a while more after reopening, and Genghis Khan only two weeks.
Now, the museum is planning Dinosaurs Revealed, March 20 through Sept. 6. It s a big, new exhibit with 26 animatronic dinosaurs, skeletons and fossils, and you can time-travel in the form of designated environments and presentations for the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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