Watch how paleontologists scour the Gobi Desert to find fossils that fill in a gap in the fossil record. How big did dinosaurs get during the Jurassic period? Get your class thinking about these questions and more with this short clip....

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.

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]

Teach language, vocabulary and listening comprehension with Celebrity Vocab clips! [1:25]

An inquiry-oriented look at the work and personal interests of a paleontologist. Includes advice to kids who don't like science. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic on the interactive flashcards.

An inquiry-oriented look at the work and personal interests of a paleontologist from Ross MacPhee. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic on the interactive flashcards.

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]

A short video exploring how paleontologist use fossils to learn information about Earth's history and animals that once existed. [4:11]

Follow Des Collins, a paleontologist, as he looks back into deep time to study the Cambrian explosion in this video. He studies fossils from the Burgess Shale in Canada. He describes the excitement and difficulty of putting together an...

Watch the adventures of Peter Ward in this video. As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He's interested in the adaptations that allowed this...

What's the word on street? Murray explains the vocabulary word "paleontologist." [0:30]

In the Inyo Mountains of California, paleontologist James Hagedorn looks for clues in the rocks for organisms that lived over 500 million years ago,a hard thing to do since most organisms weren't preserved. Watch him in this video as he...