RE: PALEONEWS: Maverick dinosaur hunter rewriting the prehistorybooks

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@mailcity.com>]

Hey,
Tonight there was a nice segment on Sereno on a Chicago news station.  Tomorrow 
the mounts of Jobaria (two of them) and Afrovenator will be unveiled at the 
Children's Museum at Navy Pier.  For all of you that are familiar with the 
topic, the process of excavating, cleaning, casting, and mounting these bones 
has been a very long story, even for paleo standards!

The team almost ran out of money, and Dr. Sereno ran the Chicago Marathon and 
won $7500 for his efforts.  Many of you probably voted for him in the online 
poll a few months back.  He won the internet vote by about 10%!

Anyway, Suchomimus is also on display at Navy Pier, and the exhibit (although 
meant for children) is excellent.  Jobaria, from the news reports, looks even 
better, so if any of you live near Chicago I urge you to get out there.

Oh, yeah, and for your info, the report mentioned that "Dr. Sereno has found 
several new dinosaur species," but did not mention Herrerasaurus or Eoraptor!

Steve

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"The biggest thing I don't like about the New York museum are the foreign 
dinosaurs.  Protoceratops...Oviraptor; you can walk an entire hall without 
seeing one American specimen!"
     --John Rocker (probably)
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