'Alaska is rich with fossils and they have an important statement to make about what we think we know, challenging the stereotype, that’s what I like,” Dr. Anthony Fiorillo said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - When it comes to dinosaur bones, Alaska may not be the first place that most think of.
“I just remember the experience of being, ‘I need more of this,’” Fiorillo said. “This can’t be my last trip to Alaska.”“The number of localities in Alaska that you could count that had dinosaurs probably would fit on one hand, you know, there were very, very few,” Fiorillo said. “It seems like now, I can actually say you can’t take 10 steps without tripping over a dinosaur fossil,” he said. “Like, they’re everywhere.”
“I’m sure my feet touched the ground, but I was away from where the float plane was coming to get us,” he described. “I thought that I actually ran through the air. I grabbed two people and dragged them back there to say, this is a dinosaur footprint, it’s the first one in any Alaska National Park, if something happens to me, somebody needs to know this.”
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