RE: PALEONEWS: Maverick dinosaur hunter rewriting the prehistorybooks

[Phillip Bigelow <bh162@scn.org>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Luis Oscar Romero wrote:

> The CNN article brings back a sore spot for argentine paleontologists: The
> "finding" of Herrerasaurus, which the media recently is suggesting was found
> to Dr. Sereno, when its holotype was actually found by Reig back in 1960
> (and additional material in 1963) and formally described by him, and been
> studies by many scientists since then, Benedetto (1973), Benton (1990) &
> Novas (1992a, 1992b).<snippage>

Indeed.  In a letter to the editor of _Science News_,
(an old issue, published a few weeks after the issue with Eoraptor on
the cover (which included a big write-up on Sereno's work), professor
Novas made that very point.

Reading the letter, I could almost feel the veins swelling on Novas' neck!
:-)


<sigh...science can be so INTENSE at times>

               <pb>