A university in western Japan will establish a department specializing in dinosaur studies beginning next April as the field grows in popularity.The Okayama University of Science already offers a course on dinosaurs, but plans to increase the number of lectures, opportunities for field work, and professors with the new department, as well as widening research to include areas such as biosciences in addition to geology and paleontology."We aim to make it a new educational and research hub in western Japan for studying dinosaurs, and hope to use our strength as a comprehensive science univers…READ FULL ARTICLE
