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How do paleontologists reconstruct environments from the ancient past? smithsonianNMNH 65 views Smithsonian Curator Anna K. Behrensmeyer visits a modern wetland and finds conditions that might have looked familiar to the Cretaceous dinosaurs of the Washington DC area.
Ancient Global Warming & What It Might Mean for the Future smithsonianNMNH 74 views Roughly 56 million years ago, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum took place and raised global temperatures at 5-8 degrees centigrade over 10,000 years. These warm periods...
My First Fossil Expedition smithsonianNMNH 122 views Meet intern Leah Rand and listen to her experience as a Smithsonian intern in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History.
What's Ash Anyway? smithsonianNMNH 73 views Learn about the ash that comes from volcanoes with Dr. Liz Cottrell, a geologist from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Archaeologist and Curator Torrey Rick - Part 1 of 2 smithsonianNMNH 18 views Sometimes we go into college wanting to become one thing and come out something else entirely. Discover how Dr. Torrey Rick got on the path to his current career at the Smi...
Volcanoes Under Pressure smithsonianNMNH 74 views Dr. Liz Cottrell, a geologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, talks about what happens inside a volcano that causes it to erupt.
Plate Tectonics smithsonianNMNH 127 views Smithsonian geologist Liz Cottrell of the National Museum of Natural History shows us the tools she uses to learn more about whats buried beneath the Earth's crust.
Gwynneira Issac - Frank Cushing (1857-1900) smithsonianNMNH 51 views
JoAllyn Archambault - 19th Century Anthropologist James Mooney's Outstanding Research smithsonianNMNH 29 views
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