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Footprints in the Ash smithsonianNMNH 299 views 84,000 years ago, a group of early Homo sapiens walked through wet volcanic ash in northern Tanzania. Paleoanthropologist Dr. Briana Pobiner tells their story.
How do we know what dinosaurs and other extinct animals ate? smithsonianNMNH 89 views What did extinct animals eat? See how scientists use fossil evidence to answer this question.
How do we know whether dinosaurs cared for their young? smithsonianNMNH 282 views How do scientists use different kinds of data, such as fossilized nests and trackways, to understand dinosaur reproduction and parenting?
How do paleontologists identify dinosaur teeth? smithsonianNMNH 959 views Smithsonian Curator Matthew Carrano identifies Cretaceous dinosaur teeth from the Washington DC area.
How do paleontologists reconstruct environments from the ancient past? smithsonianNMNH 136 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 105 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 165 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 135 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 27 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 110 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.

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