THE LITTLE BOOK OF PALAEONTOLOGY
A POCKET GUIDE TO OUR FOSSILISED PAST
AUTHOR RASHA BARRAGE
PUBLISHER OCTOPUS PUBLISHING
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In an early scene of the 1993 classic dinosaur movie Jurassic Park, a palaeontologist shoots a lead slug into the ground at a fossil site in the South Dakota badlands. After a few seconds, an image of a dinosaur skeleton appears on a monitor as he declares: “A few more years development and we won’t even have to dig anymore.” At the time, and to the majority of us without a PhD, this sounded like another wild yet fun crumb of science fiction in the Jurassic Park universe. But 30 years later, microcomputed tomography
