Interview | Steve Brusatte on why India could be the world’s next dinosaur hotspot
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte identifies India as a significant, under-explored region for dinosaur fossil discoveries. He notes that while India possesses a rich geological history, a lack of academic infrastructure and trained paleontologists hinders progress.
Why it matters
Highlights the potential for major scientific breakthroughs in paleontology if educational resources are better allocated in emerging economies.
Roughly once a week, a creature dead for tens of millions of years is introduced to science for the first time. Around 50 new dinosaur species are named every year — a pace the species might have struggled to match even at their peak in the Cretaceous period, between 145 and 66 million years ago. Steve Brusatte, the University of Edinburgh palaeontologist who consults on the Jurassic World films and wrote the bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018), calls it “a golden age”.
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