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A dinosaur hunter’s epic quest leads to the Smithsonian

SMU Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences Louis Jacobs has spent a lifetime playing in the dirt – sifting through layers of sediment and combing through rocks for fossils to help solve the great mysteries of evolution on a changing Earth. In short, he’s a dinosaur hunter, traveling the world to search for remnants of the […]

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Meet the trick-dancing engineer making fossils shine

Meet the trick-dancing engineer making fossils shine And yet, Long, a country-western trick-dancing engineering major from Friendswood, Texas, spent the better part of a year working in SMU’s Shuler Museum of Paleontology, carefully removing the rock surrounding million-year-old fossils dug up in Angola in 2005. The fossils were discovered by the international scientific team Projecto […]