Paleontology, Part II

I've been absent for a while; traveling and preparing for the upcoming studio tour. Soon, I'll post some photos from the past month, but first I want to share some stuff with you about the recent Paleontology seminar at Ghost Ranch.

This week Science magazine published an article about the work we were doing there. Check out this cover art and the blurb that goes with it:

COVER Depiction of four dinosaurs and dinosaur precursors from fossils found at the Hayden Quarry of northern New Mexico. The dinosaur precursors Dromomeron romeri (lower left) and a Silesaurus-like animal (bottom center) coexisted during the Late Triassic with the dinosaurs Chindesaurus bryansmalli (top center, with crocodylomorph in its mouth) and a coelophysoid theropod (upper right), indicating that the initial rise of dinosaurs was prolonged rather than sudden. See page 358. Image: Donna Braginetz

The article from Science can be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/317/5836/358

And there's also a nice article about this at the UC Berkeley website: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/07/19_dinosaurs.shtml

Click on the video and you'll get to hear Randy Irmis talking about the finds there.

Congratulations, Randy!

Note to Shannon: It really WAS in incredible week! Let's do it again next year!!!