How Many Dino Fossils Exist?
Has the age of dinosaur-fossil discovery passed us by. Not quite, say paleontologists, who are wondering how many species of dinosaurs are there to discover and how many fossils of them are out there.
Host Michael Aranda says the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1824, and over the next 150 years, paleontologists only found an average of one fossil a year. Now we’re finding an average of 15 per year. Aranda says that paleontologists calculate that between 2069 and 2102 we will have found 75 percent of the dinosaur genera, and by the mid-22nd century, 90 percent.
Tune in as Aranda explains in this edition of SciShow.
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