Dave Hone

You would see that.

Well, how's that happening?

Either they're magic or they've got some kind of, in which case they'd probably cure it.

instantly, or there's some kind of technology in society supporting that change.

Yeah, it is.

But it's the right amount of data.

That's the thing.

We can find dozens of skeletons that we can't do very much with, and then the right one...

Things like stomach contents or bite marks.

That's a super powerful bit of data, but it doesn't turn up that often.

So it's not like you can get it off every skeleton.

And that's the thing.

It's the pool of data.

And I think that's what people miss.

As paleontologists, we get caught up on single superlative specimens and then try and take them as a...

like a silver bullet almost.

So mycoraptor, I mentioned this before, little flying dinosaur, crow's eye or gliding dinosaur, crow's eyes thing from China.

We've got at least a dozen good specimens of it by now and multiple ones with stomach contents.

There's one I've described with a little mammal foot inside it.

There's one with a bird inside it.