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Because the DNA of the dinosaur that was trapped in the amber gave us some kind of clue that these tiny things could be trapped and be made to seem precious, rather than looking like nuts.
I wanted to be a paleontologist, a dinosaur paleontologist, and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur.
And I have been fortunate enough to find things like the first eggs in the Western hemisphere and the first baby dinosaurs in nests, the first dinosaur embryos and massive accumulations of bones.
And so we're making a better picture of what a dinosaur looks like.
The theme of this story is building a dinosaur, and so we come to that part of "Jurassic Park."
And I guess you inject it into maybe an ostrich egg, or something like that, and then you wait, and, lo and behold, out pops a little baby dinosaur.
Now if you want dinosaur DNA, I say go to the dinosaur.
Back in 1993 when the movie came out, we actually had a grant from the National Science Foundation to attempt to extract DNA from a dinosaur, and we chose the dinosaur on the left, a Tyrannosaurus rex, which was a very nice specimen.
And so here was the first soft tissue from a dinosaur.
We're not going to be able to make a dinosaur based on a dinosaur.
So we don't have to make a dinosaur because we already have them.
The sixth-graders look at it and they say, "No." (Laughter) "You can call it a dinosaur, but look at the velociraptor: the velociraptor is cool."
The chicken is a dinosaur.
If you look at dinosaur hands, a velociraptor has that cool-looking hand with the claws on it.
They're not going to do something like the dinosaur killer did.
Let me note that we have not had a giant impact like the dinosaur killer for 65 million years.
You'd have a big dinosaur and a littler dinosaur.
Now we have a way of actually testing to see whether a dinosaur, or any animal, is a young one or an older one.
But cutting into the bones of a dinosaur is hard to do, as you can imagine, because in museums, bones are precious.
So if you cut open a little dinosaur, it's very spongy inside, like A. And if you cut into an older dinosaur, it's very massive.
Now as you can imagine, cutting open a leg bone is one thing, but when you go to a museum and say, "You don't mind if I cut open your dinosaur's skull, do you?" they say, "Go away."
And then Stygimoloch, another dinosaur from the same age, lived at the same time, has spikes sticking out the back of its head.
So here's a dinosaur that has spikes sticking out of its head, no dome and gnarly stuff on its nose.
But there's another dinosaur that is found in this formation that looks like a Triceratops, except it's bigger, and it's called Torosaurus.
It's a giant duck-bill dinosaur.
So again, real easy to say that Tyrannosaurus ontogeny included Nanotyrannus, and therefore we can take out another dinosaur.
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
And maybe the dinosaur analogy is a good one, because we're actually making some probabilistic guesses about how these things link.
And my first forays into biological research, doing dinosaur paleontology as an undergraduate, were really squarely in that realm.
We're working on also simpler technology, not that complex, with younger people and also older people, like this dinosaur is from Mexico.
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