I'll be a guest tonight at 7 PM EST on NPR's talk show On Point, talking about the new wave of dinosaur science. Jack Horner will be on as well, delivering the dirt about his mind-blowing discovery of soft tissue from a T. rex. Should be interesting.
Update, 3/29/05 9:30 am: The show is now archived here. The links to the real player and windows media feeds are at the top of the page.
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A quick heads-up: I'll be talking about the tree of life tomorrow morning on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition. The segment will be archived on their "Science Out of the Box" web page. We'll be talking about everything from animals to mushrooms to the unclassifiable viruses that graft the tree of life…
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to have lunch with Jack Horner, a noted paleontologist, best known academically as the discoverer of the Maiasaura, a duck-billed dinosaur that proved that dinosaurs had parental instincts; and also an expert in the arena of dinosaur growth research (in particular…
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Darn - I'll be out of town on that date, but you make sure to show up! The October meeting of Science Cafe Raleigh will be on the 23rd at my favourite Irish pub in Raleigh, Tir Na Nog, and the speaker is Dr. Mary Schweitzer, the NCSU researcher who discovered and analyzed soft tissues in…
Listening right now....cool! And it was discovered at my University!
Aw, damn. I was at work when this aired, but I would definitely have tracked down a radio had I known (I don't read blogs from work, so I missed your announcement). I started reading your blog about a month ago and have been quite intrigued. I saw the article in National Geographic on the t-rex soft tissue last week and was actually curious on your take, and now I've missed it! Will they have a copy of it on their web site, do you know? It's not showing up on their site just yet.
I'm sorry to say that I missed the talk, but this recent discovery is really fascinating. To obtain such a rare and valuable sample of soft tissue is, as Carl Zimmer pointed out, mind-blowing.
About the only thing dampening this amazing discovery is that creationists are already using this as "a stunning rebuttal" against evolution and "millions of years". I'm hoping someone can sort this matter out soon once the tissue has been properly analyzed.
It's online now- Tuesday, March 29 1:00am Toronto Time (3:00pm where I am- South Korea)
Answers in genesis have already an article on this discovery (which I heard on BBC news a couple of days ago) on their website by
Dr. David Menton.It's the usual nonsense ie this proves the Earth is only a few thousand years old etc.
About the only thing dampening this amazing discovery is that creationists are already using this as "a stunning rebuttal" against evolution and "millions of years". I'm hoping someone can sort this matter out soon once the tissue has been properly analyzed.
The one fair comment in the rebuttal is that scientists should be open to the question of "might this seemingly conflicting find invalidate our accepted theory?"