Mark Norell
Mark Norell
Mark A. Norellis an American paleontologist and molecular geneticist, acknowledged as one of the most important living vertebrate paleontologists. He is currently the chairman of paleontology and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He is best known as the discoverer of the first theropod embryo and for the description of feathered dinosaurs. Norell is credited with the naming of the genera Apsaravis, Byronosaurus, Citipati, Tsaagan, and Achillobator. His work regularly appears in major scientific journalsand was...
birds close evolution feathers similar
Dromaeosaurs are really interesting because they are so close to birds in evolution, having feathers and other, similar attributes.
fight helped thin
I don't think it would have helped in a fight very much. It's very thin and fragile.
fossils lifetime predicted seriously
These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.
collected literally quarry skeletons
It was collected in this quarry that literally had hundreds of skeletons in it.
names number
A number of them don't even have names yet.
fighting fights-and-fighting
It would not have been used for fighting - it would have been paper-thin. That's still a long way ahead.
cat clearly reason
There is no reason to CAT scan this specimen, because clearly it's not pieced together,
collect
We always collect more than we can study.
questions
There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.