Entrevistas aos bochechos: 1ª pergunta ao Paul Upchurch

Lamento estar em Inglês, assim que fôr possível traduzirei para Português.

RA: As a first question I would like you to describe a little bit your work… Ongoing projects… and so on…
PU: My two main interests are essentially: the evolution of sauropods and the biogeography of particular dinosaurs, but also of other terrestrial animals in the Mesozoic. Of course, the two go together very nicely because by working in dinosaurs I gain data for other animals. The kinds of things I’ve been working on lately include coming to Portugal to collect data and that is part of a wide project. I’ve received some funds either from Banco Santander and also from the British Paleontological Association, and that money will allow myself and my students to go to Portugal, Spain, Germany and North America to collect data on sauropods, partially for taxonomic work but for my particular case to draw a very large phylogeny on sauropods, probably about 120 to 130 species, which is about two thirds of the current known diversity. That is the bigger picture, and once I have that evolutionary tree I will be using it to biogeography, diversity, issues to do with body size evolution…