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September 5, 2003

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, et al. So you'd like to add to paleontological history and name a dinosaur? What do you have to do to get your wish?

    A. The job falls to whoever first does scientific research about the specimen, or who decides it is worthy of being named a new species, says Jack Horner, dinosaur paleontologist and advisor to the "Jurassic Park" movies, in his book "Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky."


     
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