Paleontologist Answers Fossil Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
10,002Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where are the most common places to find fossils worldwide? How can you give yourself the best chance to become a fossil after you die? Did we ever find the crater from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Fossil Support.\n\nWatch Ken's previous Tech Support: • Paleontologist Answers Extinction Question... \n\n0:00 Fossil Support\n0:18 T-Rex Big Head Solidarity\n1:10 DNA from mosquitos like in Jurassic Park?\n1:33 How do hollow bones fossilize?\n2:01 Fossil juice\n2:31 What dinosaurs really looked like\n4:16 ELI5 How exactly is crude oil created from fossils?\n5:11 The oldest fossils\n6:13 How do museums make the display models for their fossils?\n8:37 Convergent evolution\n9:29 Draco Rex Hogwartsia, okay\n10:04 Fossilize yourself\n11:19 Estimating Dino Size\n12:34 Dino diets\n14:23 Ken’s favorite dinosaur\n16:09 Global hotspots for fossils\n17:10 The best preserved dinosaur fossil\n18:12 How long are we talking here\n18:36 ♫Fossil Rain…Fossil Rain♫\n19:38 How ancient species really lived and behaved\n20:31 The Dino fossil to Dragon myth pipeline\n21:37 Mosasaur teeth\n22:09 Dinosaurs became birds, but not the flying ones\n23:26 Dino DNA?\n24:03 Asking for my friend Fred Flintstone\n25:01 Tortoises, gators, and crocs\n25:39 Adult or juvenile fossil?\n26:31 The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs\n\nDirector: Justin Wolfson\nDirector of Photography: Chris Eustache\nEditor: Richard Trammell; Alex Mechanik\nExpert: Ken Lacovara\nLine Producer: Jamie Rasmussen\nAssociate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White\nProduction Manager: Peter Brunette\nProduction Coordinator: Rhyan Lark\nCasting Producer: Nick Sawyer\nCamera Operator: Lauren Pruitt\nSound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen\nProduction Assistant: Quinton Johnson\nPost Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin\nSupervising Editor: Erica DeLeo\nAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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