The Ethical Palaeontologist: Leave Only Footprints

This is a blog about science: how awesome it is, how misunderstood it is, how screwed over by policy-makers and politicians it is, and how if we could just make science education that little bit more effective we might all be happier. If you've come looking for cold hard research blogging, you are not going to find it here - this isn't what this blog is about. But if you are in love with science, and you want to know why this part-time palaeontology PhD student is in love with science too, then you and I are going to get on just fine.

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Leave Only Footprints

I take all credit, of course. It was because I got a tattoo of a series of sauropod footprints on 10 May. Six days later, Will told us all about the baby sauropod tracks in Korea. And today the BBC News has a story about the footprints of a herd of 11 sauropods found in Yemen.

Yeah, it looks blurry and scabby, but it's meant to!

Work is teh suxxor at the moment, so no time to review the paper good and proper, but the tracks look beautifully preserved, and it's certainly a significant discovery. More sauropod footprints please!

Schulp A.S., M. Al-Wosabi, N.J. Stevens. 2008. First Dinosaur Tracks from the Arabian Peninsula. PLoS ONE 3(5) e2243. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002243.