Jean Le Loeuff is director of the Espéraza Dinosaur Museum, in Aude.
In an amusing but erudite work -
In the skin of a dinosaur
, Éditions HumenSciences -, the paleontologist draws up the state of current knowledge on the intelligence, the perceptions and the behavior of this animal.
LE FIGARO.
- You put us
in the shoes of a dinosaur
: so there were still things to say on the subject?
Jean LE LOEUFF.
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We learn every day!
More than half of the scientific studies I cite in my book were published after 2018. A decade ago, studying dinosaur behavior was still considered a bit quaint.
But, today, entire research laboratories are carrying out very serious work on the question.
It's a science in the making, and we're going to make further progress in the years to come.
What world did these animals live in?
Everything has changed a lot during the 170 million years of the presence of dinosaurs on earth (between 240…
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