ShowID

3165

Event Date:

1/7/2022

Length:

00:29:31

Category:

Science

Producer

Smithsonian Institute

Project

Science How?

Comments

January 16, 2014 This video features Dr. Nick Pyenson, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Join him in uncovering fossil whales in Panama, Canada, and Chile and probing their evolutionary mysteries using 3D laser scanning technology. Consider what whale remains can tell you about past environments. Find out how paleontologists deal with large fossils. See how modern digitization techniques can be used to study a paleontological site. Learn how Nick and his team are analyzing fossil whales in conjunction with other data to enhance our understanding of whale paleontology.

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