Bruce Tiffney shares this cool Smithsonian video with
us.
It features Paleobotanist Kirk
Johnson, director of the National Museum of Natural History & an old friend
of Bruce’s. Johnson has studied the effects of the dinosaur-killing
asteroid and led expeditions that resulted in the discovery of more than 1,400
fossil sites on all continents. His work has been featured in NOVA
documentaries, including “Ice Age Death Trap” and the upcoming “Making of North
America”. Most recently, Johnson has overseen the acquisition of the Nation’s T. rex, a 66 million-year-old skeleton
that will be the centerpiece of the Smithsonian’s new dinosaur hall that will
open in 2019. Bruce notes, “It is
good in that he questions the use of commonly applied words like apocalypse and
Armageddon, as he looks at global change.
Check it out!
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