How do we know what we know about Paleontology (read description)?

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Ok, so I'm trying to reasearch about dinosaurs, and I look EVERYWHERE on the internet and cannot find ANYTHING that is empirical. ex) I look for a dino like Pedopenna Daohugouensis and I can't find many things. 1) I can't find EMPIRICALLY all fossil finds there are 2) I can't find the discoverers articles about the fossil and how they found it (and if I could, how could I read it?) 3) I can't find any of it's basic traits. These problems (and many more) come up frequently make me wonder, where can I find any empirically proven and documented evidence of fossils (like the one above). Please help, thank you.

Purple Helen · Accepted Answer

Here are some links:

http://www.dinodata.org/index.php/dinonews/news/4522-psittacosaurus-major

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedopenna

This wikipedia one includes some cross references (but I expect many articles will be in Chinese, so you may not be able to read them)

Infodino · Answer

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/dilophosaur/intro.html

The story of the discovery of Dilophosaurus, as told by the man who actually found it.  The man was a professor at Berkeley.  The story is told with audio files, and pictures, of both the skeletons AND the paleontologist.

There are a TON of places like this on the internet.  I actually just happened across this one today.

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