Re: [dinosaur] Message from Nizar Ibrahim re: the new Spinosaurus paper

[Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>]

On 5/3/20 10:24 AM, Thomas Richard Holtz wrote:
> Good morning, all!
> 
> Nizar Ibrahim asked for me to post the following to the DML:
> 
> I know you are on the DML, and a number of people are having difficulties
> accessing the paper, so I was wondering if you would be happy to share this
> (apparently the article has been made available in full?):
>


This is why Jon Tennants work was so important, and not just in Paleo



> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/OtavioVulcao/status/1255965350656606208__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!5JlNRvibP-12MY7Zryvpr07M_P5Lz_Jdtv2IdsRHJnaB8715JKFSoaVvCawz8oa9$
>  
> 
> The response has been pretty incredible and extremely positive (just check
> the thousands of amazing pieces of artwork people have been posting
> continuously since the paper came out). And I was delighted to see a
> dinosaur trend on Twitter - as opposed to the usual mix of politicians and
> celebrities.
> 
> It was also a great moment for African paleontology, and I hope that the
> attention this discovery has generated is going to allow me to fully
> convince senior officials in Morocco to start building a national museum of
> natural history. So far, I am cautiously optimistic. Shining light on the
> continent's incredible ancient heritage, and doing some infrastructure and
> capacity building there was always a major goal of all my projects in
> Morocco.
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