Our little Avisaurus tooth might be headed for a research project

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One of the stated goals of Fossils on Wheels is making contributions to science. it will be in the charter when we have finalized our 501c3 and it will be part of our mission statement. My son and I believe in this idea as much as we do in the education pursuits. I recently contacted a very well known Paleontologist who has made some ground breaking discoveries in the world of avian evolution. I wanted to pick her brain a bit and I told her a little about we are doing. i happened to mention we just got a small "Avisaurus" tooth for our program.

 

She informed us about  a research project to study Avian teeth and let us know we could contribute to that research. She did not ask or put any pressure on us. She was super cool and understood if we did not want to do it. It was just a suggestion.

 

I searched pretty hard to find a bird tooth for our program and we have barely gotten to use it but that little tooth may be our first real contribution to the Paleontology realm. It took me 1 second to head to my son's room and ask him what he thought. He agreed with me that it was worth doing. We both loved the idea actually. Obviously my hope would be for the tooth to be studied and scanned then returned to us which may be a possibility. If it turns out that this is indeed a potential bird tooth, we will be sending it to the researchers.

 

Little is known of Cretaceous bird teeth. If we can help further that knowledge in any way, we want to be part of that. So we may not have a bird tooth to show the kids but we will have a story of about one of our teeth contributing to real scientific knowledge which is something to be proud of