NELS Peterson spends his days studying the ground for clues, in the hope of discovering what happened to the remains of his prehistoric victims after they died.
Unlike most dino-detectives, Peterson has a little help in his investigations in the form of a laser scanner that builds a three-dimensional map of the sand in which the creature met its end. This can tell him if the body was moved after death, and by what.
Things are changing in the world of dinosaur hunters. “Palaeontology has been stuck in the 1900s,” says Peterson, an electrical engineer at Montana State University in…
