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This episode focuses on extinct and newly discovered species. Host Emily Graslie discusses the ways The Field Museum helps scientists around the world conduct their research. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series.
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Host Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Corespondent at The Field Museum, introduces this new series. This episode features stories on a newly discovered dinosaur, the different species of trees in the Amazon jungle, a biography of Dr. Margery C. Carlson, and the classification of mammals on Luzon Island in the Philippines. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series.
This episode focuses on spooky science stories. One of the segments features footage from the bird prep lab at The Field Museum. Host Emily Graslie also discusses how animals are disease reservoirs, and how the incomplete notes of Dr. Elias Francis Shipman still haunts science today. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series. Please note this title shows animal dissection.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie highlights the suckermouth armored catfish, dinosaur fossils, and a group of parasitic ants. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series.
In this episode, host Emily Gralie features stories on current scientific research. One segment highlights the work of Paleontologist Carmen Soriano. She is studying tiny fractures in dinosaur limbs. Another segment focuses on a community group, and their quest to bring back an extinct plant. The final story explains how two scientists discovered fossils of the beardog. Part of the "Natural News From The Field Museum" series.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie interviews Crystal Maier, Collections Manager of Insects at The Field Museum, about her research in New Zealand. She was searching for beetles that spend their entire lives underwater. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
The Field Museum is helping to restore local native plants in Illinois. Host Emily Graslie discusses how 145-year-old beans from the botanical collection is helping to de-extinct a rare species of endangered legumes and flowers. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Host Emily Graslie interviews Joyce Havstad at The Field Museum. Havstad explains the concept "holotype" and discusses her current research into new species of prehistoric life. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Biologists and anthropologists at The Field Museum are studying weaponry to discover the distribution of Central Pacific sharks from more than 100 years ago. Various weapons in the collection have the unique feature of being studded with shark teeth. In this episode, host Emily Graslie discusses the findings and implications from examining the weapons in the collection. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie tours the insect collection at The Field Museum. It is the largest collection at the museum with more than 12 million specimens. With the help of Crystal Maier, a collections manager, Graslie discusses some of the species in the collection. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
The Field Museum has a long history of hiring artists to help teach people about the dinosaurs and other early life on Earth. This episode features a few famous painters: Charles R. Knight, John Conrad Hansen, and Maidi Wiebe. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this behind-the-scenes glimpse into cataloging at The Field Museum, host Emily Graslie learns how to number small skeletal samples in the mammal collection. She also visits the seal fossil collection and examines the differences between the teeth of various species. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this behind-the-scenes glimpse into the skeletal collections at The Field Museum, host Emily Graslie examines various elephant skeletons. Bill Stanley, Director of the Gantz Family Collections Center, describes the differences in skull structure between the species. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this behind-the-scenes glimpse into the platypus collection at The Field Museum, host Emily Graslie examines various skeletons. Bill Stanley, Director of the Gantz Family Collections Center, describes the various anatomical structures of the platypus. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this behind-the-scenes glimpse at The Field Museum, host Emily Graslie learns how the museum catalogs the new specimens that scientists collect. She also reviews some of the historical field notes the museum keeps on file. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie discusses the creation of museum exhibits with Max Garett. Garrett is known as "The Replicator," and he helps create authentic replicas for exhibits at The Field Museum. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Host Emily Graslie provides a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of a new diorama at The Field Museum. The diorama will house striped hyenas taxidermied by Carl Akeley in 1896. Akeley was a pioneering taxidermist noted for his contributions to museums. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Host Emily Graslie takes the fish fossils she found at Fossil Lake back to the museum. She works with Akiko Shinya, who is a fossil preparator, to prepare the fossils for exhibition. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Host Emily Graslie travels to Fossil Lake in Wyoming. In this episode, she learns the history of Fossil Lake from Lance Grande, who is the Negaunee Distinguished Service Curator at The Field Museum. Fossil Lake is home to the largest complete representation of early Eocene life in the world. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
How is it that a museum can have over twelve hundred fossils of a particular species in its collection and not even know what it is? For decades, it was thought the Tully Monster, a bizarre animal that lived 307 million years ago, was an invertebrate. However, as host Emily Graslie reveals in this episode, scientists at The Field Museum finally cracked the mystery of the monster. It is actually related to lamprey fish. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
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