Paleontologist Answers Fossil Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Paleontologist Answers Fossil Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

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Paleontologist 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.

Watch Ken’s previous Tech Support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bshwXGqwA68

0:00 Fossil Support
0:18 T-Rex Big Head Solidarity
1:10 DNA from mosquitos like in Jurassic Park?
1:33 How do hollow bones fossilize?
2:01 Fossil juice
2:31 What dinosaurs really looked like
4:16 ELI5 How exactly is crude oil created from fossils?
5:11 The oldest fossils
6:13 How do museums make the display models for their fossils?
8:37 Convergent evolution
9:29 Draco Rex Hogwartsia, okay
10:04 Fossilize yourself
11:19 Estimating Dino Size
12:34 Dino diets
14:23 Ken’s favorite dinosaur
16:09 Global hotspots for fossils
17:10 The best preserved dinosaur fossil
18:12 How long are we talking here
18:36 ♫Fossil Rain…Fossil Rain♫
19:38 How ancient species really lived and behaved
20:31 The Dino fossil to Dragon myth pipeline
21:37 Mosasaur teeth
22:09 Dinosaurs became birds, but not the flying ones
23:26 Dino DNA?
24:03 Asking for my friend Fred Flintstone
25:01 Tortoises, gators, and crocs
25:39 Adult or juvenile fossil?
26:31 The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Chris Eustache
Editor: Richard Trammell; Alex Mechanik
Expert: Ken Lacovara
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas; Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nick Sawyer
Camera Operator: Lauren Pruitt
Sound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen
Production Assistant: Quinton Johnson
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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