I love dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts, but that's pretty much the way I feel about paleontology. All too often you'll read some science-y piece about some fa

I love dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts, but that's pretty much the way I feel about paleontology. All too often you'll read some science-y piece about some fantastic new insight- a new species, animal X did Y with regards to raising its young, etc. Then you go through a couple of layers of redirects to see the actual information, and find that the new species is classified on the basis of a partial skeleton, or just a handful of bones, or some incredibly fragmentary DNA extracted and compared from two poorly preserved specimens. 10000 years from now, our descendants will be digging through our garbage dumps and trying to find significance from the substantial deposits of shiny metallic plastic jewelry etched with the obscure glyphs "AOL" on one side.