I think Dale’s presentation was awesome. He really did an amazing job teaching the whole class about the history of fossils and paleontology. I enjoyed his enthusiasm, as well as the little facts about Ohio’s history and that of Orton Hall as well. I also liked how he talked about the naming of different species of dinosaurs such as those named after Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Carnegie, etc. I also found that many scientists didn’t believe in extinction to be interesting, especially since Jefferson even warned Lewis and Clark about Ground Sloths. I could only imagine what it was like for them to walk around the unseen terrain and always have that thought in the back of their mind that they might encounter a Ground Sloth!