Number of Dinosaurs Yet to be Discovered
In getting caught up on reading some trade magazines I recently came across an article that interested me. Regular readers know I have an interest in paleontology and dinosaurs. In Scientific Computing there was a brief mention of a study done by Steve Wang a statistician at Swarthmore College who has calculated that most dinosaurs that ever existed have NOT yet been discovered. He also calculated that 75% of those unknown will be found in the next 60-100 years. This means it will be an exciting time for paleontolgy for the next 100 years.
This was published in the Proc Nat Acad Sci. and here is the abstract. The article is Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs (pdf).
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