• Question: How much fossils of Utah raptors have you found?

    Asked by anon-291868 to Lucile on 3 May 2021.
    • Photo: Lucile Crete

      Lucile Crete answered on 3 May 2021:


      None! 😉

      There is so much to explore from the past (millions of years!), that archaeologists/palaeontologists couldn’t all be able to work on every time period of the Earth’s history. We specialise in specific time periods and/or, often, on specific types of remains (animal bones, humans bones, stone tools, metal work, settlements…etc). Archaeologists (like me) typically work on sites that relate to human presence or human activities. Because most dinosaurs (apart from birds!) had gone extinct long before humans populated the Earth, I never dig up dinosaur bones (apart from once in France when I was a student, for the experience)! I leave that to the palaeontologists who are specialised on dinosaurs and who would know much better than me how to identify what they found and how to analyse these properly! 😉

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