{"id":17781,"date":"2024-02-11T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17781"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:00:20","slug":"everything-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=17781","title":{"rendered":"Everything old is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Old fossil that I am – or, rather, on my way to being – I read with interest this review<\/a> by Liam Shaw<\/a> in the London Review of Books<\/em>. The book in question: Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils<\/a><\/em> by Dale E. Greenwalt, Princeton, March 202<\/em>3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaw’s piece has a lot of very interesting references; whether they are his own or come from Greenwalt I am not sure. For instance, Michael Crichton; I am of the generation that belatedly discovered a fascination for the Jurassic<\/a> and recall being very open to the possibility of dinosaur DNA being preserved in fossilized mosquitos or the like – and was absolutely terrified of velociraptors<\/a>. And I also took notice of those first reports – from not so very many years ago – that dinosaurs had, not only ‘beautiful<\/em> plumage’<\/a>, but colorful ones as well! Here are some nice<\/a> pages at the University of Bristol, where some of the leading paleontologists in the field are stationed. And to stretch the powers of the imagination even further:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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