Polar dinosaur search lures Ottawa native Final Edition

As a youngster, Natalia Rybczynski collected animal bones at her family's Smiths Falls-area cottage. Next week, she sets out to find evidence of dinosaurs in the high Arctic. George Kampouris spoke to the paleontologist. Apart from a long list of published papers and presentations at scientific...

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Published inThe Ottawa citizen (1986)
Main Author Kampouris, George
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 29.07.2003
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Rybczynski, Natalia
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Summary:As a youngster, Natalia Rybczynski collected animal bones at her family's Smiths Falls-area cottage. Next week, she sets out to find evidence of dinosaurs in the high Arctic. George Kampouris spoke to the paleontologist. Apart from a long list of published papers and presentations at scientific conferences, Ms. Rybczynski has authored a report that appeared in Nature, science's top journal, describing the discovery in Russia of the earliest terrestrial herbivore to efficiently chew its food. The reptile, named Suminia, dates back 260 million years, to the time of the earliest land animals. Colour Photo: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen / Natalia Rybczynski will take over as paleo-mammalogist at the Canadian Museum of Nature in September, but before she settles in she'll be headed to Canada's Arctic.
ISSN:0839-3222