b1-66er: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/01/27/local-paleontologist-discovers-new-dinosaur-species/
b1-67er: Very surprising that was the first nevada dinosaur.
66: How common are 'new' dinosaurs?
67: Common. One a week. I've considered that as a retirement project. Discover a dinosaur. Not easy but feasible.
You could do it without ever going in the field if you wanted too.
In the late 1800s they were hunting dinosaur bones so frantically that some of those bones have never been evaluated since
66: How would THAT work?
67: They are sitting around in crates at Harvard and in museums and stuffed in drawers.
I'd say maybe 1/4 of all dinosaurs are found by people digging through museum collections.
66: Crazy crazy.
Was there a dinosaur-discovery-and-bring-the-bones-in period of time?
67: That was about 1870s I think. Como bluff by Medicine Bow was the height of it. Some of the professors were sticking it to the native Americans on their completion.
66: What do you mean by THAT?
67: They told the tribes that the other professors were digging up the burial grounds, hoping the natives would run off or kill the competing professors.
66: That's a harsh and rugged way to play the game.
67: No doubt
