Jurassic Pork: What Could a Jewish Time Traveler Eat? - Evolution: Education and Outreach

Jurassic Pork: What Could a Jewish Time Traveler Eat? - Evolution: Education and Outreach

Paleontologists use multiple methods to reconstruct the anatomy and behavior of extinct animals, including direct observations from well-preserved fossils and inferences from the phylogeny of modern and extinct relatives. We illustrate these techniques by reference to the biblical definitions of kosher and non-kosher animals; that is, how can we apply these approaches to the hypothetical question of whether an extinct form would have been kosher…