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Strange Science is a spectacular website, a resource where to find people, illustrations and a thousand small facts that made the history of Paleontology. Isn't small facts that usually start big revolutions? When Steno dissected the shark's skull, was he realizing that he was founding Stratigraphy? Aren't illustrations the best way to speak the mind? Strange episodes, odd interpretations, weirdos side by side with the Big Men and Facts told by the manuals are found here.
Below the heading we read: 'Ever wonder how people figured out there used to be such things as
dinosaurs? Curious about how scientists learned to reconstruct fossil
skeletons? The knowledge we take for granted today was slow in coming,
and along the way, scientists and scholars had some weird ideas. This
Web site shows some of their mistakes, provides a timeline of events,
gives biographies of a few of the people who have gotten us where we
are today, and lists resources you can use to learn more'.
For instance, go check the 'goof gallery' with its "dinosaurs & dragons " or "sea monsters " to find tens of illustrations depicting what ancient (and usually large) beings must have looked like, with sources and links. Or the tens of biographies with the appropriate reference list. The site is much visited and thus well-updated.
It was rightly reviewed by Science and credit given to the author: 'Denver Web page designer Michon Scott says she's "just an interested
amateur" paleontologist, but she started posting old pictures from
books a couple of years ago and the site took off'.
Not much more to say, but a suggestion to go there and dwell into a marvelous history.
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