Paleontology 101 - Untamed Science

If you've ever watched a Hollywood movie, like Jurassic Park, you probably think paleontologists go out looking for beautifully preserved fossil skeletons in the field. Truth be told, that's not exactly what paleontologists are likely to find in the field. In this video, I went out to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences to meet up with Lindsay Zanno. She helped walk me through the details of what it's like to get a dinosaur from the field into a display.

The key things she emphasized were that a) it's a lot of work b) it's not glamorous c) rarely to they find complete skeletons d) they don't excavate it with little brushes out in the field and e) they spend close to 50 times the effort on a skeleton, in the lab, once it's been pulled out of the earth.

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[theywalkinguptoyouand]

Paleontology is such a useless overfunded field. I hate PhDs who love calling themselves doctors.
Think about it. An average medical student (or even a nurse) has saved more lives than ALL the paleontologists in the world.

[sarahp]

Showed this to my preschoolers and they loved it! Especially the big skeleton and Dr. Zanno with a sledgehammer. Thanks!

[AliciaHandsome]

Ever since I was a toddler I've been saying to my mother "I want to dig up dinosaur bones" which I now know is called Archaeology but as I've gotten older and I'm now 12 I've decided I'd rather study Palentology I know palentologits do sometimes unearth the remains of dinosaurs but I don't really mind.

[Beto]

I remember being little and "digging up" during recess at school. Can't wait to become a paleontologist !

[maggierose]

Wow, I never knew this much stuff about paleontology. This video is awesome!

[GregJay]

I have to say I have always been fascinated by dinosaurs ever since childhood, like us all but, recently I caught a program that has put forth the theory that it's all a bunch of hooey, now normally I would just have a chuckle at such a statement. But, I have to say after viewing this program he makes some very good points on a few things such as, every single dino skeleton is a so-called "copy" of the alleged original which is not seen anywhere? Apparently, this is true not one dinosaur on public display is a real fossil, they are usually silicone copies. Where are the real fossils at? Why are they not for viewing by the public? This does lend some credence to their argument. Just because we want to believe something doesn't make it true, in fact mainstream anything seems to just be one lie stacked up on top of another lie all for scholarship and careers. Here is another startling fact. According to mainstream science not one primary source exists for anything earlier than 1100 CE or AD I checked and sure enough that is true. We have all been led down the primrose path and bamboozled. But, Dino's? Say it ain't so! Belief is the enemy of knowing.