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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Watch Dr. Lacovara’s previous episode, Extinction Support: https://youtu.be/bshwXGqwA68
I have a two tyronosaurus trex braine tissue pretified fossil
Can I sell it?
Nakuha ko ito sa malaking punong acasia na di kayang yakapin ng Sampung katao
More please!!
If he’s ever on again, can we get a comment on the whole picture of a T-Rex with the proportions of a chicken?
The trex was basically evolving into a massive walking 2 legged snake
So protected, cold and iron rich european bogs are good places to eventually become a fossil?
I support your stance on soft tissue structures, and your example of the air sacs on dreadnoughtus was an excellent idea–and only one of many many possible features.
Pure pseudoscience, it is well known and accepted that the tyrannosaurus was a obligate vegetarian.
The reason for the large head and teeth is that vegetables were much larger at that time, and also ambulatory and covered in thick skin or scales.
These titanic vegetables were also carnivorous, and ate the tyrannosaurus as much as it ate them.
Yeah spinachosaurus was a tough one I heard. Carototops was also a nightmare for the dinos
rhank you Dr.Ken very interesting questions and answeres.
If birds are indeed evolved dinosaurs, do we need to revisit the theory that dinosaurs are extinct?
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Dinosaurs are made up..
18:03 Giant, rotten meat booty (check the subtitles)
4:05 I don’t know man, pissed off turkeys are pretty scary.
If I dont have a dinosaur in my family, I can’t be a dinosaur. Dreams, shattered.
20:04 Therizinosaurus?
Dr. Lacovara explains these concepts so clearly. The way he broke down how fossils form and preserved over deep time was really fascinating and easy to follow.
is that AI used at 3:33 and if so i hope your channel didnt generate that just for this video. im petty sure a million animated videos of four legged dinos walking exist already!
Getting serious Mark Cerny of paleontology vibes here.
It’s starts with fantasy stories the defy science. He just says T-Rexs head just got bigger an bigger and the arms smaller and smaller. No. That isn’t a thing anyone saw but more than that, Gould would point out that of the 20 T-Rex skulls, found in all different places and ‘strata’ around the world they are all pretty much the same. so you can think about that for a while. In fact, that is nearly the single thing that had Gould insist this story (wihch is imagination) that T-Rex, well you see, as its head grew and grew and its arms shrank and shrank is just outright mathematically impossible.
To be fair, pandas have the skeletal structure of a true carnivore… And they aren’t. Could this be possible prehistorically?
I wonder if they’ve ever found a dinosaur skeleton that had bone cancer.
17:28 as a Canadian, it’s so cool hearing about the ones found here ❤️🔥☺️