If placed on the bulbous part of the stem base of a dried specimen, it will turn dark for roughly 15 seconds before starting to fade.
This will help any expert you show the photographs to along with the specimen, as it will establish the context in which you found it.
She expects to receive more specimens later this week, but it will take several days to weeks to complete tests.
Until there are more specimens, he says, it will be hard to tell "if it was novel anatomy or just dumb luck" that led to the later success of T. rex and its mighty relatives.
Its immediate sequel will offer a census of all known copies (the first attempted since Sir Sidney Lee's in 1902, and a good deal more ambitious in scope), and, as the definitive source of information about the condition, provenance, binding and whereabouts of each extant specimen of F1, it will presumably be seized on at once as the bible of the up-market contract book thief.
If the World Cup of 2015 can maintain the momentum of reducing beautiful physical specimens to nervous wrecks, it will truly be the biggest and the best.
If further study does confirm that the specimen is not Prionosuchus, it will be the second species of terrestrial vertebrate known from the Pedra de Fogo Formation, and thus an important discovery.
It has been said that it is impossible to do this, but by reference to the specimen exhibited by Dr. Phelps, it will be seen that the acetabulum is the thickest part of the pelvis, and there is no difficulty whatever in making a sufficiently deep acetabulum.
ADASP realizes that specimens and practices vary, and it will not be possible to report these elements in every case.
The ADASP realizes that specimens and practices vary, and it will not be possible to report these elements in every case.
