Introduction to paleontology

Sutherland, Stuart (Professor) (author.). Teaching Company, (production company.). Smithsonian Institution, (other agent associated with work.).

Summary: Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.

Record details

ISBN: 9781629973364
ISBN: 162997336X
ISBN: 9781501955594
ISBN: 1501955594
Physical Description: videodisc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

General Note:	Title from disc surface. Course no. 1657. Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: approx. 30 min. Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) in course guidebook.
Formatted Contents Note:	Disc 1. History on a Geological Scale ; Life Cast in Ancient Stone ; Tools of the Paleontological Trade ; How Do You Fossilize Behavior? ; Taxonomy: The Order of Life ; Minerals and the Evolving Earth -- Disc 2. Fossil Timekeepers ; Our Vast Troves of Microfossils ; Ocean Fire and the Origin of Life ; The Ancient Roots of Biodiversity ; Arthropod Rule on Planet Earth -- Disc 3. Devonian Death and the Spread of Forests ; Life's Greatest Crisis: The Permian ; Life's Slow Recovery after the Permian ; Dinosaur Interpretations and Spinosaurus ; Whales: Throwing Away Legs for the Sea ; Insects, Plants, and the Rise of Flower Power -- Disc 4. The Not-So-Humble Story of Grass ; Australia's Megafauna: Komodo Dragons ; Mammoths, Mastodons, and the Quest to Clone ; The Little People of Flores ; The Neanderthal Among Us ; Paleontology and the Future of Earth.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer: Professor Stuart Sutherland, The University of British Columbia.
System Details Note:	DVD.
Language Note:	In English; closed-captioned.