Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons
Wherein we explore tiny skeletons and adaptive evolution. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is hosted and written by: Emily Graslie Created By: Hank Green...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! Because of the nature of the collection we have all of these old, wild-caught specimens and you can put a zoo specimen of the same species in amongst the wild-caught and it stands out like night and day. - Yeah, yeah. In terms of shape and excess bone, and all these weird- missing teeth. - Yeah, abcesses. Yeah it's ick. Andrea is our go to person for numbering bones. We would love to give you a demonstration of how fine she puts a six digit number on a skull that's about that size. I would love to know because I have demolished a couple pygmy shrew skulls. So these are not numbered yet, - What? but o...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! Because of the nature of the collection we have all of these old, wild-caught specimens and you can put a zoo specimen of the same species in amongst the wild-caught and it stands out like night and day. - Yeah, yeah. In terms of shape and excess bone, and all these weird- missing teeth. - Yeah, abcesses. Yeah it's ick. Andrea is our go to person for numbering bones. We would love to give you a demonstration of how fine she puts a six digit number on a skull that's about that size. I would love to know because I have demolished a couple pygmy shrew skulls. So these are not numbered yet, - What? but o...
