Bending Fossils: Experiments In Paleontology (Harvard Adventures, Part 3)
Our ability to use today's technology in unique and novel ways is a major part of scientific discovery. In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Pierce shows us how she uses 3D modeling software to experimen...
========== This series of episodes is brought to you by The Field Museum, the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the National Science Foundation. (intro jingle) [Emily]: Hey we're back here at the Museum of Comparative Zoology with Dr. Stephanie Pierce Stephanie, what do you do here at the Museum? [Stephanie]: Well, I'm the curator of vertebrate paleontology and I study the anatomy and the function of both modern and extinct animals. [Emily]: And today we're going to talk about that Bending Experiment that they just did. Yeah!
[Stephanie]: (yay) [Emily]: So, in our last episode um, Katrina and I were focusing kind of on the vertebral column of that fisher and, once the camera stopped rolling, what happened next? [Stephanie]: Well, once...