恐竜クラファン、８３０万円に　北大教授、米で化石発掘へ

　北海道大総合博物館の小林快次教授が恐竜化石の発掘調査費用を集めるため、昨年１２月から募っていたクラウドファンディングで、８３７万５０００円が集まった。当初目標の５００万円や第２目標の８００万円を上回り、１４日に期限を迎えた。
　主な調査地は米アラスカ州で、恐竜が寒冷地でどのように越冬していたかや、当時は海で隔てられていなかったアジアとの間を行き来していた様子の解明を目指す。（2025/02/15-14:46）

A Japanese researcher has raised 8,375,000 yen through a crowdfunding campaign for dinosaur fossil excavation surveys to be conducted mainly in the U.S. state of Alaska.
   The campaign, launched last December by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, professor at the Hokkaido University Museum in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, ended Friday, with funds raised exceeding both the initial goal of 5 million yen and the second goal of 8 million yen.
   Through the excavation surveys, Kobayashi aims find out how dinosaurs survived the winter in cold regions and how they traveled to and from Asia, which was not separated by the sea at that time.
   Having accomplished the second goal of 8 million yen, the professor will be able to expand his survey areas by traveling in small planes and to take undergraduate and graduate students to the surveys.