
How to Build a Dinosaur
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(0.00 / 0 votes)Dinosaurs - you've probably seen
hundreds of them.
You might think you know what they look like,
but almost every dinosaur you've ever seen
is a work of fiction.
LOW GROWL You turn on the television,
it almost feels that we know everything
about them,
and that's not really the case.
But now, a groundbreaking new
exhibition is working
with the world's leading dinosaur scientists
to revolutionise the way we see these animals.
We've found, using computer models,
that a human sprinter
would probably be pretty well matched
for a muscular tyrannosaurus.
Scientists are pushing the frontiers
of our knowledge
in new and surprising ways.
We can say these dark stripes were not red,
- black or whatever - they were ginger.
- That's just amazing.
But we've never even found a complete skeleton
of a Tyrannosaurus rex,
the most famous dinosaur.
So, how on earth have we worked out so much
about animals that lived millions of years ago?
How do we get from an incomplete pile
ROARING:
How do you build a dinosaur?
I'm Alice Roberts. I'm an anatomist used
It's not hard to put a human skeleton together.
You only need to look in the mirror
to get a pretty good idea of
where the bones go.
But what do you do when the bones belong
to animals that went extinct
millions of years ago?
We all think that we know
We've seen plenty of them
- pictures, in films and animations,
even in toy shops.
But given that the last of the dinosaurs
died out
none of us has ever actually
seen a living dinosaur.
So, how do we know what they looked like
and how can we be sure that
we're getting it right?
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 we've never got over.
But it wasn't long before the science
behind these reconstructions
had lost credibility.
Even by the end of the 19th century,
had changed so much
that these models were already
looked upon with scorn.
This megalosaurus, for instance,
is shown walking on all four legs,
but we now know he would have been bipedal -
he would have stood on just his hind legs
and his forelegs would have been quite small
and lifted right up off the ground.
When the first iguanodon was discovered,
only one thumb bone was found,
so palaeontologists thought
it must have been a horn.
But iguanodon didn't have a horn.
It's very easy to walk amongst
these massive models
and to laugh at the 19th-century idea of
what a dinosaur was like.
We now know so much more.
We've worked out a phenomenal
amount about the dinosaurs.
But how have we done that?
How do you start to get close to animals
that lived hundreds of millions of years ago?
From 19th-century London,
to 21st-century Los Angeles.
I want to know how we can be sure
that we're now getting it right.
So, I've come to LA's Museum of
Natural History.
The museum is undergoing major
redevelopment at the moment,
and at the centre of it all
is a multimillion dollar new dinosaur exhibit.
the museum's Dinosaur Institute
'and curator of the new exhibition.'
- Hello, Luis. Hello.
- How are you?
- I'm very well. Nice to meet you.
- Likewise.
'He'll be packing it with everything
we know about dinosaurs,
'from the biggest to the smallest,
with the latest science
'on how they looked, moved and interacted.
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