Paul Sereno Quotations

We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

We're really entering a new era where we're going to discover a lot of things.

There are places where nobody has been on earth, while we look at the stars,

I would not doubt for a minute that those two encountered each other, not favourably for the Nigersaurus,

With its forearms and its jaws, it would have been able to take down just about anything. It was the dominant predator of its time.

We think that area was pretty well maxed out so far as the number of large animals you could put into that environment.

The most common thing we stumbled on is a very long-snouted and very large crocodile. We collected a 6-foot skull. The crocodile would have been about 50 feet long.

I'm not on a mission to be famous, ... I'm here and I want to do these things -- life is short.

If you were standing next to it, your eye level would be at its knee. This animal was easily the size of Tyrannosaurus rex. And it was not fully grown.

I didn't have very rosy prospects in school,

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

The hand is amazing. It was probably ideal for fishing, for grabbing ... into those large fish.