logo
welcome
edmontonjournal

edmontonjournal

’Our story is incomplete:’ Famed dino hunter reflects on the history of paleontology

edmontonjournal
Summary
Nutrition label

65% Informative

Philip Currie says he'll keep digging until he's one with the fossils he has spent his life unearthing.

He hopes to find an intact specimen of his favourite dinosaur, Troodon formosus.

The museum that’s named after him celebrates its 10th anniversary next year .

Currie : Alberta is home to the Dinosaur Provincial Park , east of Calgary , where 50 species of dinosaurs and 150 species of turtles, crocodiles, lizards and lizards.

“If dinosaurs hadn’t become extinct, what would we look like now? Even though I’m not religious, I think about these things on a bigger scale,” he says.

“Our story is incomplete. There is something else going on.”.

VR Score

69

Informative language

68

Neutral language

21

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

38

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

External references

8

https://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&title=%E2%80%99Our%20story%20is%20incomplete%3A%E2%80%99%20Famed%20dino%20hunter%20reflects%20on%20the%20history%20of%20paleontologyhttps://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&media=https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/edmontonjournal/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/philip-currie-museum-20241013.jpghttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url= https%3A//edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&text=%E2%80%99Our%20story%20is%20incomplete%3A%E2%80%99%20Famed%20dino%20hunter%20reflects%20on%20the%20history%20of%20paleontology&via=edmontonjournalhttps://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&title=https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url= https%3A//edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontologyhttps://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontologyhttps://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool?canonicalUrl=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&title=%E2%80%99Our%20story%20is%20incomplete%3A%E2%80%99%20Famed%20dino%20hunter%20reflects%20on%20the%20history%20of%20paleontologyhttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A//edmontonjournal.com/news/our-story-is-incomplete-famed-dino-hunter-reflects-on-the-history-of-paleontology&text=%E2%80%99Our%20story%20is%20incomplete%3A%E2%80%99%20Famed%20dino%20hunter%20reflects%20on%20the%20history%20of%20paleontology&via=edmontonjournal