Tuesday, April 17, 2007

DinoBase

Came across DinoBase today. Very cool. It's the same idea as FishBase, which I've used a lot in the past: you can search by genus, species, year of discovery, or author of the paper that described it. There's also images, a forum (which looks to have a few actual dinosaur paleontologists posting on it), recent news, and so on: a clearinghouse for dinosaur information, basically. It still needs some polish, but I really like it so far.

What I'd like to see is a more thorough database -- I'd like to be able to browse to a species, and then see its geographical region, other species that shared that region at the same time, its prey and predators, and so on. Though granted, there are dinosaurs that were discovered a hundred years ago that we still know less about today that a week's observation of a living specimen would tell us.

1 comment:

Sarda Sahney said...

Glad you like DinoBase. I agree about more thorough search options. We are working on it and are happy to welcome further comments and suggestions!

I have also added your blog to our 'Blog Reactions' at http://dinobase.gly.bris.ac.uk/news-dinobase.html.

Thanks, Sarda