SciFri Radio: Paleontology

SciFri Radio: Vertebrate Paleontology Update
An update on the latest research from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting.

SciFri Radio: Tiny T-Rex
Scientists report the discovery of a dinosaur that could have been a scale model of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex.Scientists report the discovery...

SciFri Radio: How Cooking Made Us Human
Primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking allowed humans bigger brains and greater success.

SciFri Radio: Studying a Baby Mammoth
Ira talks with paleontologist Daniel Fisher about his studies of the frozen remains of a baby woolly mammoth, found in Siberia two years ago.

SciFri Radio: Oldest Fossil Brain Discovered
Scientists have found a 300 million year old fossil shark ancestor with an unusual feature -- fossilized brain tissue within the creature's skull.

SciFri Radio: Largest Snake
Researchers have found fossil remains of a species of snake that they say weighed 2500 pounds, and grew to 45 feet long.

SciFri Radio: More Evidence for Dinosaur / Bird Link
Analysis of proteins found in a scrap of collagen from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex leg bone provides strong evidence for the idea that...

SciFri Radio: Amir Aczel 'The Jesuit and the Skull'
In this segment, Ira talks with author Amir Aczel about his new book 'The Jesuit and the Skull, a biography of priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard...

SciFri Radio: Michael Novacek and 'Terra'
In this segment, Ira talks with Michael Novacek, paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, about his new book 'Terra.'

SciFri Radio: Ice Age Extinctions
One team of scientists thinks it knows what killed the woolly mammoth and other ice-age creatures.

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SciFri Videos: Paleontology

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Video: Michael Novacek on Toothy Dino Discovery
Ira talks with Michael Novacek, author of Terra, paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, about a new...

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Video: Elephants Can't Jump
John Hutchinson, a biologist at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London, studies the locomotion of extra-large animals.

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Video: Bones Come To Life With 3-D Scans
Using CT scans, DigiMorph, a project run out of the University of Texas, has compiled hundreds of 3-D visualizations of fossils, skeletons and...

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Video: Hobbit Bones Hold Clues To Its Origin
Anthropologist Bill Jungers of Stony Brook University Medical Center shows off a new cast of the most complete skeleton of Homo...


SciFri Newsbriefs: Paleontology

Newsbrief: Age-Old Orchid
A fossilized orchid, the first ever discovered, reveals the age of the flower family.

Newsbrief: Super-Sized Scorpion
Ancient claw indicates sea scorpions were over eight feet long.

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