Neil Clark

[cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au (Chris Nedin)]

In case anyone was wondering about the silence from the Hunterian Museum, I
have been given permission to post this piece of email.

"Have you heard about Neil?  In the first week of January we went
to the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where Neil found his dinosaurs.
He was joking that he wanted to find a trackway.  And we did!!!
Part and counterpart even, with 2 (maybe 3) separate tracks, one
with prints a hands-length long, one bigger.  There were 2 or 3
prints on each track.  Both clear tracks showed three toes.  (The
previously known footprint was four-toed.)  I came back to the US
two weeks ago, and Neil went back to Skye to collect the tracks.
And broke his leg on the last day!  He was taken by helicopter to
a hospital on another island.  The "rescue" was on the local news
and the location was mentioned, and a reporter figured out that
the rescue must have involved someone collecting dinosaurs.  Neil
had half a page to himself in the Scottish (?) newspaper over the
weekend!!  So now Neil is famous again, but our summer field plans
are off.  I'm just glad he's okay!  ...  The nature of the
break is such that he will be laid up for a while.  He hopes to
get some sort of Internet access from home, but will probably not
be able to contribute to the mailing lists for a few months."

Everybody say "Ahhhh"

Chris

cnedin@geology.adelaide.edu.au                  nedin@ediacara.org
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Many say it was a mistake to come down from the trees, some say
the move out of the oceans was a bad idea. Me, I say the stiffening
of the notochord in the Cambrian was where it all went wrong,
it was all downhill from there.