Overview
- German experts say domestic media attention for dinosaur research trails the more robust coverage in the English-speaking world.
- Researchers cite structural constraints such as limited funding paired with a small community of scientists as factors slowing high-profile discoveries.
- Germany hosts all 14 known Archaeopteryx specimens in Bavaria and boasts multiple Konservatlagerstätten that preserve even soft tissues.
- Marco Schade uses modern CT scans to study an Emausaurus fossil from a 1960s Vorpommern find and hypothesizes it may have been regurgitated by an ancient crocodile.
- Scientists find that public curiosity spikes when researchers engage audiences directly despite muted traditional coverage.