Working out what species this is wont be possible until the bones are back in L.A., but fossils are fragile and moving them is a risky business. Ready? One, two, three, move. It has to be 400 pounds at least, right, if no more. Go slowly. The team be...
Amazingly less than 100 meters away, there are more clues to the past. Luis colleague has found the remains of a sauropod. Theres a piece of rib here thats going into the ground about this angle. And then theres a piece of the pubis, the hip bone rig...
I think when most of us go into an exhibition like this, we don't think about all of the work thats gone into it, and an exhibition of this scale requires hundreds of people whore working together, from scientists to engineers to artists and designer...
So beyond the fact that the exhibition is obviously about dinosaurs, what's the idea behind it? It's really how do we know what we know about dinosaurs. So you are not just presenting facts to people, you are actually showing how you've got to that k...
Here in Crystal Palace in south London, you can still see the first dinosaur exhibition that was ever built anywhere in the world. The sculptures were unveiled in 1854. It was the start of an obsession that weve never got over. But it wasnt long befo...
Dinosaurs. Youve probably seen hundreds of them. You might think you know what they look like. But almost every dinosaur youve ever seen is a work of fiction. You turn on the television. it almost feels that we know everything about them. And thats n...
This roof's just getting lower and lower now, which I don't like. All of this part of the ceiling here has just collapsed. It's a bad time for the torch to come apart. If this goes out, I'm in real trouble. I can let you just see -- all of this stuff...
13. Yeah, look at this. Look, see all of these for the holes. Thats what I'm talking about. The last volcanic eruption was in 2004, but some of these lava fields are ancient, more than 7,000 years old, and they hold a special place in Icelandic folkl...
Now Im on the lookout for fuel for a nice warm fire. Therere loads of these birch trees around here, and these are what Im looking for. I can tell theyre birch just because of the way theyre silver-limbed. This time of year in the winter, all the lea...
Now Im on the lookout for fuel for a nice warm fire. Therere loads of these birch trees around here, and these are what Im looking for. I can tell theyre birch just because of the way theyre silver-limbed. This time of year in the winter, all the lea...
And you are warm again. The storm has blown over. And Ive spotted a forest in the distance. In Iceland, the poor soil, wind and temperature means that trees are few and far-between. But when you find them, they are ideal for both shelter and wildlife...
Already I can feel the wind changing. And the Icelanders have a saying -- if you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes, and it will get a lot, lot worse. Im in the wilderness in Iceland. Here, there are huge freezing rivers like this. And an...
I could actually eat the meat raw. But its harder to digest and can actually take energy away from the body. So cook meat whenever you can. You see here just where all the water is boiling. And all I need to do is take my shoelace off and then I have...
And this is a kind of pretty nasty area where Ive got a boiling pool on both sides. Temperatures here are about forty degrees Fahrenheit. So it is warm enough for edible grasses, moss and lichen. Since Viking times, sheep have roamed free, grazing he...
You know, thats kind of a manageable temperature. Ive got to get in fast and if I dont get these wet clothes off, my body will get into shock. In this wind, they should hopefully dry in maybe a couple of hours. But at least during that time I can lie...
