Archaeologists Dig Dinosaurs... April Fools!

Hello, and welcome to The Dirt, a podcast all about dinosaurs! Since we’re archaeologists (and thus don’t study dinosaurs, ahem) we know nothing about them, so for this special April Fools’ Day episode, Anna sits down with paleontologist Chris Capobianco from Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Learn about how quickly a fossil forms, the process of preparing fossils for research or exhibition, what dinosaurs really looked like, how exactly one goes about becoming a paleontologist, and what the future may hold for the discipline (and humanity).

To learn more about paleontology and what researchers like Chris do, check out:

Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (Twitter)

Invertebrate Paleontology (MCZ)

Photo credit: “A Brachyceratops skeleton found in Montana being prepared for an exhibition in 1921,” Public domain image via the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3c27774.