I can be a dinosaur finder
Learning Adventures Series: I Can Be A Dinosaur Finder Details and Credits for PC
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- Publisher: Macmillan Ltd.
- Release Date: 1997
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Summary: Explore the world of dinosaurs with a paleontologist. New and improved version of Wanna be a Dino Finder. For ages 6-10.
| Developer: | Cloud 9 Interactive |
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| Genre(s): | Miscellaneous, Edutainment |
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Rules of life for a dinosaur hunter
He created a museum of dinosaurs, his pet rabbit is called Ivan Vasilyevich. He solves family disputes by drawing comics, and believes that the meteorite and the ice age are not to blame for the death of fossil animals.
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Carlos Vildoso Morales, 51, paleontologist, Lima, Peru
“Evolution is not proven, which means it remains a theory”
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Peruvian Carlos Vildoso is a paleontologist, more than his life, he is 20 years old devoted to the search and study of dinosaur bones. This is a rather rare occupation in the modern world. Carlos has a special view on evolution.
And in his museum of dinosaurs, anyone can take part in the excavations.
I have been fascinated with dinosaurs since I was six years old, when I first saw their images in a children's magazine. Even then I realized that this is for life.
I found my first fossil bones at the age of 26, in the jungles of Peru. How do I feel when I find them? It's getting hot inside, as if I'm touching the great secrets of nature, life and death, the incomprehensible mystery of the universe. This mystery beckons me, and I want to unravel it.
I used to live in a tent in the desert for weeks or to wade through the impenetrable jungle. The life of a paleontologist is full of adventure!
Once upon a time I dreamed of opening a museum of dinosaurs, where people from all over the planet could come and also participate in excavations. My dream came true: with the Institute of Paleovertebrates of Peru, we opened an open-air museum - "Land of the Dinosaurs" in the province of Ancash.
Anyone can participate in the search for dinosaur remains on the territory of our museum. And there are a lot of them! No special preparation is needed, only comfortable sportswear and shoes are required. We provide all the special equipment on site, and also spend several hours of theoretical training: how to look for dinosaur bones and how to work with the finds.
Almost every year we find new species of dinosaurs. The fact is that all the dinosaurs that you see in the films, in the Jurassic Park, for example, tyrannosaurs, triceratops or brachiosaurs, are all dinosaurs of the northern continent of the ancient Earth - Laurasia and they were not on Gondwana, the southern continent * . Therefore, in Peru and Argentina we find completely different species. And this is an incredibly exciting discovery!
The size of an Argentinosaurus, for example, is a third of a football field! Its length was 37 m, and its body weight was 80 tons.
In South America, there are the remains of the most gigantic species of dinosaurs.
Thanks to paleontology, we have understood the processes of the origin of life on Earth, climate and landscape changes. And thanks to this knowledge, we understand more about our species - how much we still have left on Earth
Most of all I like working with children and students - it is in the eyes of young people that I find so much enthusiasm and desire to learn and uncover the mysteries of life that happy to share.
You can't do science "slightly" or for money and a career. If you decide to do science, then you need to give yourself entirely and from the heart. Without this you cannot be a scientist, you are just a deceiver.
Many colleagues do not like me. I am a revolutionary. I'm naughty. I am against dogma. There should always be openness to the new, the incredible, the unknown. How else? If you follow the old models and theories, there will be no progress.
Ask why you need to examine the remains of long-dead animals? Paleontology may seem to some to be a completely useless science. It is thanks to paleontology that we have understood the processes of the origin of life on Earth, climate and landscape changes. And thanks to this knowledge, we understand more about our species - how much we still have left on Earth.
Neither a meteorite nor a natural cataclysm could have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. The reason for the mass extinction of dinosaurs, like many other species on Earth, remains a mystery to me, but judging by the finds, this is not what we now assume. Why species go extinct is still a mystery, and by unraveling it, we will also unravel when our species Homo sapiens comes to an end.
Today it is very difficult to become a paleontologist, there are not many countries in the world where this profession is taught. For example, I studied in Argentina, in all of South America, only there you can get such an education.
In Russia, as far as I remember, you can study to be a paleontologist in Moscow.
I only dream that humanity could apply its scientific and technological knowledge to live in harmony with nature and the environment
I had to learn Russian in order to read the works of your scientists. Russia has made a huge contribution to paleontology, many talented specialists have come from your country, for example, Ivan Efremov. And in honor of your region of Perm, an entire epoch of 47 million years is named - the Permian period.
What is my next dream? I only dream that mankind could apply its scientific and technological knowledge to live in harmony with nature and the environment. If we do not achieve this, as a paleontologist I can say that we do not have long to live on Earth.
I have almost no free time. I love to sculpt from clay - and not only fossil animals, but also ethnic heroes of Peru, for example, Inca warriors, because there are no toys in the form of national ethnic heroes on the market for children, although there are many of them in the history of Peru! I hope this gives an idea to mass-produce toys for children to develop a love for their own culture.
I like languages, apart from Spanish, English and Russian, I speak some Hebrew. I also study the ancient languages of the world, which no one speaks today, for example, Latin, Aramaic (the language of Jesus Christ), Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs in Mexico), Quechua (the language of the Incas). By next year I plan to publish the world's first phrase book in the languages of ancient cultures and peoples of the Earth!
I also like to draw comics. I draw scenes from the history of the Inca Empire with humorous content, and I also draw scenes from my own family life, and this helps my wife and I laugh at our differences and resolve conflicts peacefully. In these comics, I depict us as animals. My character is a fat pig, and my wife is a thin and tall gazelle.
I don't like pets, although I have a pet that lives with me for many years. This is a rabbit, his name is Ivan Vasilievich ( he pronounces the Russian name with an accent, while laughing ), and this rabbit has character.
He is very jealous and does not let anyone near me - he attacks. He also likes to watch TV: I turn on a program showing wild life for him, and he sits and watches for hours.
I don't believe in evolution. As a paleontologist, I can see how one species was suddenly replaced by another. But I don't see that it "evolved" or transitioned smoothly into another species. Evolution has not been proven, which means it remains a theory.
The same with spirituality. Spirit may exist. After all, it has not been proven that it does not exist!
*Note . Dinosaurs lived on our planet about 100 million years ago. Then the planet looked different. The climate was much hotter, the composition of water and air was also different. There were two giant continents on Earth - Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Russia, Europe, part of Asia, North America - this is all the former Laurasia.
South America and Africa were once Gondwana.
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Image caption,Scientists complain that dinosaur mythology is difficult to demystify due to the way they are portrayed in popular culture
Since the century before last, when dinosaur fossils were first described in scientific literature, we have known about them much. But the general public's ideas about them are based mainly on the stereotypes of mass culture - such as, for example, the famous "Jurassic Park".
For decades, paleontologists have been trying to dispel the myths about the most ancient inhabitants of the Earth, which continue to mislead the public, while at the same time trying to clarify, if not completely revise their previous ideas about them.
Here are some of the popular, but not quite true, outdated or even erroneous ideas.
Dinosaurs became completely extinct immediately after the impact of the Earth with the asteroid
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Image caption rainy day: an asteroid with a diameter of about 10-15 km crashed into the Earth, leaving a huge crater on the site of the modern Gulf of Mexico and giving rise to the effect of "nuclear winter".
According to scientists, due to climate change and a reduction in the food supply in the following millennia, up to 75% of the animals that lived on the planet, unable to adapt to new realities, gradually died out, in particular, almost all tetrapods weighing more than 25 kg. But some dinosaurs still survived.
London's Natural History Museum paleontologist Paul Barrett told the BBC they were relatively small, feathered creatures whose descendants can still be seen today.
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Image caption,Flying dinosaurs, which eventually turned into birds, survived the devastating impact of an asteroid that devastated the Earth about 66 million years ago
"Birds belong to the same class of fauna," the scientist said. modern dinosaurs.
"Given the number of bird species, there are more dinosaurs on Earth today than there were 66 million years ago," he added.
Tyrannosaurus rex could be saved by standing still
Bipedal Tyrannosaurus Rex or "tyrant lizard", reaching 10-13 meters in length and weighing 8-9 tons, is the largest land predator in history.
He became extremely popular after the release of the first series of the Jurassic Park franchise in 1993, in which he terrorizes people who find themselves there.
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Image caption,In the highly unlikely event that you happen to encounter a live T-Rex, remember that it is quite capable of seeing you
In the film, the Tyrannosaurus rex is shown as a visually impaired monster, able to recognize prey only by movement.
This is true of some amphibian species, but not of tyrannosaurs, Professor Barrett points out.
"Dinosaurs had sharp eyesight," he said. "According to a study published 15 years ago, the tyrannosaurus rex was generally the most vigilant creature that lived on Earth. Nothing could be more stupid than to freeze at a meeting with him."
Tyrannosaurus rex could outrun a car
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Image captionTyrannosaurus rex could run, although not as agile as shown in the movies
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In Jurassic Park's impact scene, a T-Rex catches up with a tour jeep and breaks its front tooth on it.
According to the scientists' previous calculations, tyrannosaurs could really accelerate up to 50 km/h in a rush for prey. However, more modern and advanced experiments on computer models have shown that these multi-ton monsters ran at a more moderate pace - about 20-30 km / h, that is, they were most likely unable to compete in speed with a car.
In addition, as curator of the Yale Peabody Museum of National History, Dr. Marianna di Giacomo, recalls, there is a significant difference between the maximum speed in a short throw and the one with which a living creature can comfortably move for a long time.
"Marathon runners are slower than sprinters, and sprints are never long," she says. "T-Rex may have been able to run faster in short runs, but it was clearly too tough to compete with a car."
Dinosaurs can be cloned
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Image captionThere are some serious obstacles that prevent us from cloning dinosaurs in practice
Dinosaurs disappeared millions of years before the first humans, and it is unlikely that we will be able to to see them live in any foreseeable future, although it is this idea that underlies the famous motion picture and the book of the same name by Michael Crichton, which formed its basis.
The main reason is that DNA doesn't last that long.
"The oldest DNA samples found in fossils date back about two million years, and even those are just fragments that belonged to bacteria, fungi and the like," explains Professor Barrett.
The oldest samples of animal DNA are no more than 50 thousand years old.
"Beyond this time frame, we don't have the DNA of extinct animals and plants, so I'm quite skeptical about dinosaurs," he concludes.
Dr. di Giacomo agrees, pointing out that even a major breakthrough in the study of dinosaur genetics does not guarantee successful practical applications.
"Cloning species whose existence is separated from us by geological epochs is an incredibly difficult task. There are too many unknowns," she says.
There are also ethical issues, notes di Giacomo.
"The Jurassic Park films just show that this should not be done. The attention of their creators is entirely focused on the dangers and negative consequences for people. But it would be no less cruel for dinosaurs to transfer them to a world to which they are absolutely not adapted."
Dinosaurs were clueless creatures with underdeveloped brains
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Image caption behaved, says Dr.
di Giacomo. "Not all dinosaurs were extremely smart, and not all were idiots. They were only as smart as their living conditions required," she notes.
Professor Barret thinks that many dinosaurs were quite intelligent, especially small carnivores.
"Some of them hunted at night to avoid competition from more powerful competitors," he says.
Dinosaurs were bad parents
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Image caption,Maiasaurus was given this name because of evidence of outstanding parenting skills
For more than a hundred years it was believed that dinosaurs were ruthless indifferent loners and did not care about their offspring. But in the 1970s and 80s, data were obtained about their more complex social behavior.
A species of herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 77 million years ago was given the name Maiasaur by researchers (from the ancient Greek and Latin words meaning "good mother" and "lizard").
