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RE: Where would you hunt?
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 13:21:45 -0600
> A guy walks into your office. He's a dino fan, not a scientist, and
> won the lottery. He offers you a million dollars to fund expeditions
> to "go somewhere and dig up something and add to our knowledge of
> dinosaur evolution." (He wants to go along just for fun and name a
> junior synonym after himself.)
>
> He mentions that he had actually brought two million dollars but that
> some guy named Tom Holtz had talked him into giving half of it to
> train new dino prep technicians.
Well, you do need them on a dig.
(as far as I know)
> The questions is, where in the whole world would you want to go in
> order to dig up something that would ADD TO current dino-paleo
> knowledge? Not saying you cannot go to the old places (Argentina,
> Chad, Egypt, Mongolia, Madagascar) but perhaps there is some untested
> ground with explosed Mesozoic formations that deserves a look if only
> there was money?
would North Korea be feasible? (part of the bribe might be naming a junior
synonym after the late Kim)
>