Eons

The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northeastern China, most seemingly posed in perfect rest. This has prompted comparisons to a famous archeological site where behavior is similarly well preserved: the site of Pompeii, a town crystallized by volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago.

The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

10m 39s

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    Why Paleontologists Can’t Stop Fighting About Spinosaurus

    8m 37s

    What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? Was it wading in the shallows, or could it have been a skilled swimmer? Each scenario paints a very different picture of Spinosaurus, and the discovery of new fossils has paleontologists rethinking just how weird and watery this dinosaur was all over again.

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    The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs

    12m 22s

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    Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

    S7 E21 - 12m 12s

    After having solved the small matter of evolution by natural selection - becoming one of the most famous scientists in the world in the process - Charles Darwin turned his focus to a different personal obsession…

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