{"id":408,"date":"2018-09-10T04:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T04:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-09-11T04:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T04:37:46","slug":"nizar-ibrahim-quoted-discovery-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2018\/09\/10\/nizar-ibrahim-quoted-discovery-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nizar Ibrahim<\/strong>, assistant professor of Biology in the College of Engineering &amp; Science and a research associate for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was recently quoted in the <em>Discovery Magazine<\/em> article, \u201cDark Data: The Vulnerable Treasures Sitting On Museum Shelves,\u201d Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<p>This article examines the recent and devastating fire at Brazil\u2019s National Museum, which destroyed more than 90 percent of the fossils and other scientifically significant finds.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>For paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, the catastrophic fire was particularly poignant. Ibrahim first made a splash a few years ago with Spinosaurus, the largest predatory dinosaur known, and the only one adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Ibrahim\u2019s find was considered a rediscovery of the animal because the first fossils of it, found in Egypt more than a century ago by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer, were destroyed during World War II. Allied bombs leveled the Munich museum where they were kept.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSeeing the museum in Rio engulfed by flames was an extremely painful experience for me and, inevitably, the black-and-white images of the burnt-out shell of the Munich museum that housed Spinosaurus and other incredible finds came flooding back,\u201d says Ibrahim. \u201cStromer saw the Munich museum \u2013 one of the best in Europe \u2013 reduced to rubble during a war. Seeing a large museum destroyed in peaceful times in a fire, possibly because of problems with fire hydrants and major funding cuts, is a reminder that it doesn\u2019t take air raids to destroy an entire museum.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/deadthings\/2018\/09\/04\/dark-data\/#.W5Ad_5NKh7N\">http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/deadthings\/2018\/09\/04\/dark-data\/#.W5Ad_5NKh7N<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nizar Ibrahim, assistant professor of Biology in the College of Engineering &amp; Science and a research associate for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,102,99,98,101],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}