Tanner Publishes Essay in Nature, Quoted Widely Following Groundbreaking Dinosaur Research
Following publication of an聽聽Larry Tanner, Ph.D., professor of biological and environmental studies at 黑料社 College, was quoted in聽nearly 1,000聽media articles around the world on the significance of聽research findings聽that shed new light on how dinosaur’s diets allowed them to dominate the planet.聽Tanner was聽补濒蝉辞听invited by聽狈补迟耻谤别,听widely considered to be the most reputable science journal in the world,听迟辞听.
罢丑别听Nature聽article is headlined “Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy.” In describing the research methodology, the article’s abstract states “Here we use聽hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of feeding to compare trophic dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages that record this event… to suggest that the processes shown… may explain global patterns, shedding new light on the environmentally governed emergence of dinosaur dominance and gigantism that endured until the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.”
Tanner was not part of the study but two of his research papers are footnoted in the research. In stories that appear on major news sites聽,听听补苍诲听, Tanner comments on the magnitude of the research, stating “People have collected and classified coprolites for decades, even hundreds of years but no one has studied them in this detail before…What we need now is to try to see if we can see the same sorts of transitions between animal groups at other locations.”聽.(Tanner’s remarks start at around the 2:35 mark.)
