John Ostrom 1928–2005

You do know that dinosaurs were more like giant birds than lizards, right? I mean, we all saw Jurassic Park. The idea was proposed in the 1860s, but much as it took Galileo to offer observational proof of Copernicus, it took another scientist, John Ostrom, to find the connection: Archaeopteryx.

Moment of silence for renowned paleontologist John Ostrom.





























(Thanks, eponymagin.)