Hunting Animals of the Past

Duration: 22

Genre: Ancient world | Animal | Educational

Year Published: 1951

Creator: University of Nebraska

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows paleontologists searching for remains of animals in Kansas, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and pictures the tools used in the search. In a museum, skeletons of various animals such as the camel, bison, and dinosaur are shown. Pictures fossil hunters exploring for remains and finding such things as a rhinoceros toe bone, a deer jaw, and a horse tooth. Describes the care and treatment given the fossils when they are found and when they arrive at the museum for mounting and display.

Complete Record: Shows paleontologists searching for remains of animals in Kansas, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and pictures the tools used in the search. In a museum, skeletons of various animals such as the camel, bison, and dinosaur are shown. Pictures fossil hunters exploring for remains and finding such things as a rhinoceros toe bone, a deer jaw, and a horse tooth. Describes the care and treatment given the fossils when they are found and when they arrive at the museum for mounting and display., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.