Paul Sereno
Paul Sereno
Paul Callistus Serenois a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence" who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. His most widely publicized discovery is that of a nearly complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator — popularly known as SuperCroc — at Gadoufaoua in the Tenere desert of Niger...
animals area far large number
We think that area was pretty well maxed out so far as the number of large animals you could put into that environment.
collected common crocodile feet large
The most common thing we stumbled on is a very long-snouted and very large crocodile. We collected a 6-foot skull. The crocodile would have been about 50 feet long.
grabbing hand ideal large
The hand is amazing. It was probably ideal for fishing, for grabbing ... into those large fish.
doubt minute
I would not doubt for a minute that those two encountered each other, not favourably for the Nigersaurus,
dominant predator
With its forearms and its jaws, it would have been able to take down just about anything. It was the dominant predator of its time.
earth nobody places
There are places where nobody has been on earth, while we look at the stars,
age-and-aging huge tracts word written
We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.
discover entering era
We're really entering a new era where we're going to discover a lot of things.
prospects school
I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,
jobs motivation inspiration
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
life mission
I'm not on a mission to be famous, ... I'm here and I want to do these things -- life is short.
animal easily eye fully level next size standing
If you were standing next to it, your eye level would be at its knee. This animal was easily the size of Tyrannosaurus rex. And it was not fully grown.