Jason Gilchrist

Jason Gilchrist

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fossils
August 27, 2018

Walking in the footsteps of dinosaurs

The recent discovery of a dinosaur trackway site on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides insight into “a day in the life of a bunch of dinosaurs just loitering about, 170 million years ago” according to paleontologist Dr. Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences.
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fossils
December 28, 2017

The Skye dinosaur footprint vandal: Lessons for assault on U.S. National Monuments

One year after a bizarre act of local fossil vandalism on Scotland’s Dinosaur Isle let us consider the value of footprints in the sand and the implications for U.S. Government cuts to national monuments of global paleontological importance.
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