Travel with a team of paleontologists as they dig into the Gobi Desert to uncover new species of dinosaurs. They find several dinosaur graves containing a new find, Guanlong, or crested dragon, a never before seen species trapped in a...

An intriguing question awaits you and your imaginative learners. What would life be like if dinosaurs had survived and were still alive today? A passionate paleontologist gets kids thinking about what paleontologists do and what would...

Could a Tyrannosaurus be created in a modern-day lab? Join paleontologist, Jack Horner, in using protein sequencing to find the closest relative to the T-Rex, and then hypothetically re-creating a specimen in the lab.

Watch this great video from NOVA online or read the transcript about the many dinosaur species and hundreds of specimens paleontologists discovered buried in the Arctic permafrost. One of their methods of excavation was novel, and not...

Luis Chiappe and his team of paleontologists excavate a dinosaur. Working out what species the dinosaur is won't be possible until the bones are back in the lab in Los Angeles. [3:03]

Professor Mike Benton has the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that are so well preserved that it is possible to discern the color of the feathers on the dinosaur. [3:04]

An interview with Michael Novacek, author of Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem - and the Threats That Now Put it at Risk. He talks about the history of ecosystems and environmental threats the Earth faces. Includes link to a...

This video explores the day in the life of a paleontologist, including gathering gear/tools and searching for treasure based on certain digging techniques and research. [2.41]

It sometimes takes years and many mistakes to piece together an entire animal. Collins uses Anomalocaris as an example of the long complicated process. Several fossil pieces of Anomalocaris were originally identified as entirely...

A single location, the Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies has revealed thousands of fossils that tell a story of an ancient explosion of animal life, called the Cambrian Explosion. [5:05]

"A scanning device most commonly seen in hospitals is reshaping the science of paleontology by allowing researchers to peer inside irreplaceable fossils without damaging them." Find out what scientists are now able to see that they've...

The scientific fields of paleontology, embryology, anatomy, and genetics have all contributed to a new view of the evolution of the animal kingdom. [3:42]

Jenny Clack visits a site with fossilized tracks of an early tetrapod. She and her assistant hypothesize about what the animal was doing around 370 million years ago. [8:22]

Paleontologists and molecular biologists have searched for a couple of decades to find and replicate DNA from some non-avian dinosaur fossil. [0:59]

A panel of paleontology experts describes some of Utah's ancient treasures.