Why we keep on finding so many dinosaurs.

[DE&i]

http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-70/

 

My son is a fan of the Palaeocast website. This particular episode is titled the Golden age of Dinosaurs. Dr David Evans explains why we find so many Dinosaurs.

[Ludwigia]

Thanks for the link.

[Troodon]

Excellent, thanks for posting 

[Susan from PA]

Awesome podcast!  Thanks so much for sharing.  As mentioned in the podcast, the series "Dino Hunt" is well worth the time to watch if you have an interest in dinosaurs.  I believe it was only available in Canada, but it can be found on YouTube by searching "Dino Hunt Canada."   It is a four part series, and has a runtime of about 45 minutes per episode.  

[Raggedy Man]

Excellent article thanks for posting. One could also state based on the number of dinosaur fossils found; how many more we do not find based on bias in the fossil record. 

[Ridgehiker]

Wendy in the photo is best known for finding dino egg nests on her family's ranch near  Warner, Alberta.

 

That photo of the mummified hadrosaur rib cage has me curious.  I go down to the the Onefour area about once a year and now wonder  if I've walked by similar preservation and never recognized it.

 

Just  a note on new dino discoveries.  There are roamers and excavators. I'm a roamer...walk over the terrain for 8 hours constantly looking for 'stuff' or crawling around a site for microvertebrates. Then there are the excavators who spend time carefully digging up and preparing a particular specimen...they probably enjoyed making models when younger.

 

These days the excavators probably 'discover' the most new dinos when returning to known sites or preparing jacketed fossils in the lab.