DIGGING
ANCIENT BONES Paul Sereno, paleontologist with the University of Chicago, is dwarfed by his dinosaur find: tail vertebrae and a femur of Jobaria tiguidensis, a species he discovered in 1997 in the Sahara desert. The animal lived 130 million years ago in the Cretaceous period and was named after Jobar, a figure from Tuareg mythology. |
All images © Marc Steinmetz, 2002 |