Dr. Corentin Loron

Even though they're not represented today, you can think, oh, okay, eight meter tall tower will provide shade, it will provide food, it will provide, you know, and all of those sort of things.

Security for animals, yeah.

It's sort of a generic ecological, I don't like to call that low, but, you know, things that are going to be basic principle.

So this is also how you can actually learn of it, not especially knowing what it is, but knowing what is its function in ecosystem.

And I think this you can really do by gathering those information.

paleoanthropology which is you know very human centered and a lot and and actually studying dinosaurs and ancient animals like is your field a sort of a much more niche and smaller field or is that changing oh i don't know i mean we can talk of the nomenclature of field or sometimes or can be can be you know the choice of of calling yourself paleobiologist rather than paleontologist but uh i think i think in my case and i will talk from in my opinion uh

is that what is my interest?

My interest is to learn about how past organisms were living, what were the biology of past organisms.

Therefore, I think paleobiology, in that case, is a very good choice of name.

But some people might argue otherwise.

And I think what's growing in terms of calling yourself a paleobiologist today is really sort of integration of techniques.

Looking at things coming from biology, modern biology, genetic insight, all of this, coming from chemistry, physics in terms of the technique you can apply to fossils, etc.

I think maybe that's why this field is growing at the moment, but it's a matter of nomenclature, I guess, or semantic almost.

Yeah, so at the moment, we don't have any evidence of that.

This is only a direct inference.

If you're eight meters high, how do you stand?

And you probably need to anchor yourself very strongly in the ground.

Yeah.

Now, we don't have evidence of fossil preserve where they were living.

So it's very hard to know exactly if this was the case.