"Celebrated curiosity monger"
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Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
Carl Zimmer is the author of
twelve books and counting.
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"...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters, heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad." --Moby Dick
I seem to have ended up as the Dinosaur Feather Color Bureau Chief at the New York Times. After discovering colors in fossil bird feathers, scientists found colors in dinosaurs last week. But this week another group of scientists has got the color pattern across a dinosaur’s entire body.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Great article, Carl. Can’t wait to see whether the early tyrannosaurid Dilong from the Liaoning fauna has a similar color scheme (And if so, would it be too much to ask that none other than Tyrannosaurus rex might have had a similar one too. Am reminded of an animated “Star Trek” episode where Kirk, Spock and McCoy are chased by a T. rex-like predator with brightly colored plummage.).
February 4th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Mr. Zimmer,
I thought you’d like to know that the multimedia link embedded in the NYTs article is the same link as the article, therefore one can’t get to the multimedia presentation.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Thanks–Link fixed!
February 8th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Whoa! Trippy.
Dinosaurs in true colour!?
I. Am. Blown. Away.By. How. A-W-E-S-O-M-E this is.