Meet the Paleontologists

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Meet the paleontologists who helped create the Museum's new exhibition, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, and learn about the latest cutting-edge technology that researchers are using to study pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that lived from about 220 and 66 million years ago. • Mark Norell, curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology, and Alexander Kellner, Associate Professor at the Museu Nacional in Brazil, have led expeditions to the most remote areas of the planet. And yet, discovering bones that have been buried for millions of years is just one aspect of their job. • Paleontology has traditionally combined a number of disciplines, including earth history, geology and biology. Many paleontologists today spend more hours in computer labs than they do in the field. Michael Habib, a neurobiology professor at the University of Southern California who consulted on the exhibition, applies principles of engineering and biology to understand how pterosaurs might have flown and behaved. • #pterosaurs #dinosaurs #flyingdinosaurs #MarkNorell #Alexander Kellner #paleontology #paleontologist #digging #fossils #bones • • Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs is on view from April 5, 2014, through January 4, 2015. Learn more about the exhibition at http://www.amnh.org/pterosaurs. • Episode 1: What Is a Pterosaur? • • What Is a Pterosaur? • Episode 2: Why Are Pterosaur Fossils So Rare? • • Why Are Pterosaur Fossils So Rare? • Episode 3: Why Did Pterosaurs Have Crests? • • Why Did Pterosaurs Have Crests? • Episode 4: How are Pterosaur Names Pronounced? • • How are Pterosaur Names Pronounced? • Episode 5: How Were Pterosaurs Adapted for Flight? • • How Were Pterosaurs Adapted for Flight? • Episode 6: Meet the Paleontologists • • Meet the Paleontologists • *** • Subscribe to our channel: • http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... • Check out our full video catalog: • / amnhorg • Facebook: http://fb.com/naturalhistory • Twitter: / amnh • Tumblr: / amnhnyc • Instagram: / amnh • *** • Video Credits: • Music: • Skating On by Marshall Smith/ • Warner Chappell Production Music • Illustration: • ©AMNH 2014 • Photography: • AMNH/C. Chesek • AMNH/D. Finnin • AMNH/Microscopy and Imaging Facility • Courtesy of Michael Habib • Courtesy of Alexander Kellner • Animation • Camila Engelbert • Joshua Krause • Shutterstock • Video: • AMNH/Department of Exhibition • AMNH/J. Bauerle and B. Tudhope • • This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. • © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

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