The Hot Spots of the Dino Boom

[Anomalocaris]

Why All the Cool New Dinosaurs Are From Asia And South America

There are a few reasons why so many dinosaurs are being identified so quickly: technology for scanning and analyzing bones has sped up the pace of paleontological publication, and the number of working paleontologists has increased in the past few decades. But part of the reason is strictly geographical: more paleontologists are being trained in more places around the world and are working locally. And in places like China and Mongolia, international access to potential dig sites, limited through most of the 20th century, has dramatically opened in the past 25 years.

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Edited October 10, 2015 by Anomalocaris