when dinos ruled

[Kendall Clements <k.clements@auckland.ac.nz>]

Concerning TV documentaries, Jeff Hecht said "For that matter, I'd like 
to see something taken from a few other than the American ethnocentric 
one." A documentary that I particularly like is "Ghosts in the dinosaur 
graveyard," which is about an American Museum of Natural History 
expedition to the Gobi. Although the scientists are American the 
setting is most definitely not! It discusses Cretaceous mammals as well 
as dinosaurs, and has one of the more accessible accounts of 
phylogenetic systematics I've seen on TV. It also has a very lucid 
segment on the origins of birds.

Later this morning I'm showing a clip from the Barbara Feldon narrated 
series in a lab. The Iguanodon segments with David Norman are 
particularly good for teaching. I'm hoping the upcoming "Walking with 
dinosaurs" will be equally useful!

Kendall Clements

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Kendall Clements k.clements@auckland.ac.nz