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Published online 4 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060904-2
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Happy hunting predicted for dinosaur seekers
Two-thirds of all species groups are yet to be unearthed.
Thanks to movies such as Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and visits to natural history museums, 'dinosaur hunter' is one scientific job that schoolchildren aspire to. And according to a study of dinosaur diversity, these budding palaeontologists will have plenty to do: researchers estimate that more than 1,000 new groups of dinosaur species remain to be discovered.
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