[Rockhounds] How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered?

[Donald Tuttle]

How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered?
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Is that like asking how many people are dead in the cemetery?
Ans.: Hopefully all of them except the caretaker.
If we are discovering new dinos at an average of two per week, say 104 per
year, how does that tell us how many more are out there patiently waiting
to be dug up and hung up on the family tree?

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 7:41 PM Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com> wrote:

> I have to read all that if I ever get a break from work  :)
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> Paleontologists are uncovering new dinosaurs at an astonishing rate. On
> average, a new species of “terrible lizard” is named about every two weeks
> <http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/5905.html> from fossil sites all over
> the world. And as experts announce each astonishing species, the nature of
> the dinosaur family tree shifts. Fossil hunters are not just uncovering new
> dinosaur species—they’re revealing entirely new dinosaur groups that were
> unknown even ten years ago.
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> “One of my go-to lines whenever I’m giving a public talk or writing a pop
> science article or book,” says University of Edinburgh paleontologist
> Stephen Brusatte, “is that we’re in the golden age of paleontology.”
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> While the 19th-century “Bone Wars
> <https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dinosaur/>” are widely
> known as when many dinosaurs were discovered and named, the early 21st
> century is seeing the greatest dinosaur bone rush of all time.
> Paleontologists are rapidly documenting various non-avian dinosaurs that
> roamed our planet between 66 million and 235 million years ago—a span of
> time more than two and a half times as long as the post-Cretaceous history
> of our planet. And experts hypothesize that more dinosaurs remain unknown
> than have been uncovered.
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> “Not all of these new dinosaurs are just another flavor of sauropod or
> stegosaur, not just another type of tyrannosaur that differs from other
> tyrannosaurs by a tiny bump on its snout or an extra tooth,” Brusatte says.
> Some represent entire groups of dinosaurs paleontologists didn’t know about
> and can alter the big picture of how dinosaur evolution unfolded through
> the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-many-dinosaurs-remain-undiscovered-180982560/
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