"Remnants of Ancient Life - The New Science Of Old Fossils"
Just finished reading by Dale E. Greenwalt, released by Princeton University Press.
Dinosaurs were considered to be unknowable green and grey enigmas when I was a young child. Green and grey were the colors illustrators usually choose for editorial and even, back in the 1960s, scientific prejudices of the time.
The notion that paleo-biologists would be able to recover the pigmentation of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms was unthinkable decades ago.
Greenwalt, who is a Resident Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Museum of Natural History, vividly brings how new insights into dinosaurs and other extinct ancient life have been brought about by technology that allows bio-molecules to be recovered, and in return provide new insights into the life-cycles of extinct animals, and even extinct plant life.
A very intriguing read.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Remnants-Ancie...
Dinosaurs were considered to be unknowable green and grey enigmas when I was a young child. Green and grey were the colors illustrators usually choose for editorial and even, back in the 1960s, scientific prejudices of the time.
The notion that paleo-biologists would be able to recover the pigmentation of dinosaurs and other extinct lifeforms was unthinkable decades ago.
Greenwalt, who is a Resident Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Museum of Natural History, vividly brings how new insights into dinosaurs and other extinct ancient life have been brought about by technology that allows bio-molecules to be recovered, and in return provide new insights into the life-cycles of extinct animals, and even extinct plant life.
A very intriguing read.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Remnants-Ancie...
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