During a break from excavating a partial Gasparinisaura skeleton, Helena received some very exciting news: she has been nominated for a Women in Science Award for Best Palaeontologist. She has had a tip-off from a colleague at the Academy that she won't be disappointed during the ceremony... So it's time for her to start working on her acceptance speech. She's thinking back on all the women who have inspired her throughout her career and needs your help gathering some facts and figures to pepper throughout her speech.
If you prefer to print the puzzle, the version below will save you a lot of black ink!¬
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3 What is the estimated weight of the Gasparinisaura in decagrams?
5 (see Question 3 Down first) When Goldring completed her term as New York State's palaeontologist, how many years would it be until the next woman was appointed to the role?
7 Subtract 11 Across from 3 Down, then add 9 Across
9 Bolortsetseg Minjin is a Mongolian palaeontologist who does a lot of dinosaur-themed science outreach work. She once found ___ fossils in the Gobi Desert in just one week!
10 Gertruda Biernat was a Polish geologist and palaeontologist, who was active in the Polish resistance during WWII. She is noted for her work in identifying and studying brachiopods of the Ordovician period. When did she get her PhD?
11 What is the estimated length of the Gasparinisaura in mm?
13 Halszka Osmólska was a Polish palaeontologist specialised in Mongolian dinosaurs. In what year did she become the director of the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences?
16 13 Across - 3 Across - 15 Down - 7 Across - (20 Across ÷ 10)
18 German-American Jewish palaeontologist Tilly Edinger was a brilliant scientist who founded the concept of studying neurology within palaeontology. How many honorary degrees did she receive between the years 1950 and 1964? Add 2 to this number.
19 Add 5 Across to 18 Across
20 Nadezhda Voronets was a Russian and Soviet geologist and palaeontologist. In 2011, the 47th meeting of the Russian Paleontological Society was dedicated to her work, on the anniversary of her ___th birthday
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1 In what year did American Palaeontologist Annalisa Berta finish her term as president of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology?
2 Asunción Linares Rodríguez was a Spanish palaeontologist who excelled in teaching and research. She became the Chair of Palaeontology at the University of Granada, being the first woman to obtain such a position on a science faculty in Spain. In what year was this?
3 Palaeontologist Winifred Goldring was the first woman to be appointed New York State's paleontologist in ___
4 Meemann Chang is a much-decorated Chinese palaeontologist now in her 90s. In 2021, an asteroid was named after her. What was the number of this asteroid?
6 In what year did Chinese palaeontologist Hao Yichun co-write the first Chinese textbook on palaeontology?
8 The Gasparinisaura was named after an Argentinian Palaeontologist. In what year was she promoted to the grade of Superior Researcher?
11 In what year did Mary Anning and her brother Joseph discover the fossilised remains of an Ichthyosaur at Lyme Regis?
12 Mahala Andrews was a vertebrae palaeontologist who worked for the National Museum of Scotland. In 1982 she published her book The Discovery of Fossil Fishes in Scotland up to ___
13 In what year were the first Gasparinisaura fossils found?
14 Subtract (18 Across multiplied by 7) from 20 Across
15 Mary Ann Mantell, born in 1795, was a British fossil collector. Like many women of the period in her position, she made a significant contribution to her husband's work in early palaeontology. How many detailed lithographs of fossils did she draw up for her husband's scientific publication The Fossils of the South Downs?
17 In what year did South African vertebrate palaeontologist Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan win the "Distinguished Women Scientist Award" from the South African Department of Science?
Gasparinisaura were herbivorous ornithopods from the Late Cretaceous. In 2008, three juvenile skeletons were found with clusters of up to hundred-forty rounded and polished stones (gastroliths) in the abdomen, which would have helped them grind down tough fibrous plant material already in their stomachs.
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Useful information for the series
Once solved, the first ten caches in this series can be done in a roughly circular walk, although one stretch is along a road that is not the best so please make sure you walk on the safest side of the road, and if you have geokids with you, keep an eye on them!
We've suggested two places where you can park to do this walk, you can find them in the waypoints.
Alternatively you can do seven of this group as park-and-grabs, but for three of them you'll have to get out and go for a short walk :)