{"id":156521,"date":"2023-01-28T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-brilliant-mind-of-edison-lee"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:23:37","slug":"the-brilliant-mind-of-edison-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-brilliant-mind-of-edison-lee","title":{"rendered":"The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brilliant-mind-of-edison-lee2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, archaeologists uncovered one of the most \u2014 if not <i>the <\/i>most \u2014 pristine <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/dinosaur-fossil-backyard-largest-europe\">dinosaur fossils<\/a> yet: a near-whole ankylosaur, complete with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The most amazing detail, though? Its uncannily preserved face and skin.<\/p>\n<p>It took Mark Mitchell, a technician at Royal Tyrell Museum, an absurd 7,000 hours and nearly six years to meticulously exhume the fossil by delicately chipping away at the surrounding stone. For his efforts, he had the newly discovered specie of nodosaur \u2014 a type of ankylosaur \u2014 named after him: <i>Borealopelta<\/i> markmitchelli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring preparation, I would piece together the blocks like a puzzle, and the animal started to really take shape,\u201d Mitchell said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/01\/researchers-look-a-dinosaur-in-its-remarkably-preserved-face\/\">new interview with <i>Ars Technica<\/i><\/a>, describing the painstaking process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, archaeologists uncovered one of the most \u2014 if not the most \u2014 pristine dinosaur fossils yet: a near-whole ankylosaur, complete with its jagged spikes, most of its limbs, armor coating, and some of its guts and stomach contents. The most amazing detail, though? Its uncannily preserved face and skin. It took Mark Mitchell, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}