By Stephan Lautenschlager, Fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol.
This article is part of our series: a day in the software life, in which we will be asking researchers from all disciplines to discuss the tools that make their research possible.
Palaeontology, the study of fossils and extinct organisms and modern software technology are two disciplines which seem to have little in common at first glance. However, films and TV documentaries like Jurassic Park or Walking With Dinosaurs not only show this assumption to be wrong, but…
By Stephan Lautenschlager, Fellow and PhD Candidate at the University of Bristol
Palaeontology, the study of fossils and extinct organisms, has a reputation for being a very traditional and dusty discipline. Partly influenced by Palaeontologists’ portrayal in the media, the public imagines them roaming the badlands in the search for new fossils. Alternatively, they are seen as ivory tower scientists, spending most of their time in museum collections studying the bones of long extinct animals. Although both images hold a partial truth,…