Профессия 一 палеонтолог : От камня до динозавра

Kto takoy paleontolog y chem on zanymaetsya? Chem paleontolog otlychaetsya ot arkheologa? Y zachem emu nuzhny molotok y metla?Eta knyga rasskazhet, chem na samom dele zanymaetsya paleontolog: kak on myslyt y prynymaet reshenyya, chto dolzhen umet, chya pomoshch emu nuzhna v rabote y yz chego sostoyt ego den. Kazhdaya professyya polna sekretov. Slozhno dogadatsya, skolko znanyy, syl y truda stoyt za postroennym domom, napysannoy knygoy yly sozdannoy vydeoygroy. V seryy «Krutaya rabota» my pokazyvaem vsyu mnogogrannost y slozhnost raznykh professyy: rasskazyvaem, yz chego sostoyt obychnyy den spetsyalysta, y obo vsyom, chto pryachetsya za zanavesom, raskryvaem ystoryyu y fylosofyyu raznykh zanyatyy. Chtoby kazhdyy rebyonok nashyol sebe delo po dushe. Do sykh por mnogye okamenelosty ymeyut strannye narodnye nazvanyya. Na Volge tonkye rostry belemnytov (ostatky mollyuskov, pokhozhykh na kalmarov) prozvaly kozymy usamy, a rakovyny ammonytov — kotelkamy s soplyamy. Okamenelosty — eto, kak pravylo, prosto kamennye slepky rakovyn yly kostey, poetomu yzvlech DNK yz ostatkov dynozavrov ne legche, chem yz kyrpycha: eyo tam net. No yz-za gromkogo slova «kosty» s paleontologamy sluchayutsya nelepye ystoryy. Odnazhdy ym ne razreshyly slozhyt kosty dynozavrov v podval zhylogo doma, potomu chto podumaly, chto kosty budut plokho pakhnut y zhyltsy stanut zhalovatsya. Metody ne stoyat na meste. V svoey rabote paleontology yspolzuyut samye peredovye tekhnologyy. V etom paleontologyya ne ustupaet dazhe yadernoy fyzyke: nekotorye tsennye obraztsy yzuchayut s pomoshchyu kollaydera.

Who is a paleontologist and what does he do? How does a paleontologist differ from an archaeologist? And why does he need a hammer and a broom?This book will tell you what a paleontologist really does: how he thinks and makes decisions, what he should be able to do, whose help he needs in his work, and what his day consists of. Every profession is full of secrets. It's hard to guess how much knowledge, effort, and labor is behind a house built, a book written, or a video game created. In the "Cool Job" series, we show the versatility and complexity of different professions.: We tell you what an ordinary specialist's day consists of, and about everything that hides behind the curtain, we reveal the history and philosophy of various activities. So that every child can find something to do. Until now, many fossils have strange folk names. On the Volga, the thin rostrums of belemnites (the remains of squid—like mollusks) were called goat's whiskers, and the shells of ammonites were called pots with snot. Fossils are usually just stone casts of shells or bones, so it's no easier to extract DNA from dinosaur remains than from bricks: it's not there. But because of the loud word "bones", ridiculous stories happen to paleontologists. One day, they weren't allowed to put dinosaur bones in the basement of an apartment building because they thought the bones would smell bad and the residents would complain. The methods do not stand still. Paleontologists use the most advanced technologies in their work. In this respect, paleontology is not inferior even to nuclear physics: some valuable samples are studied using a collider.