Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

How Do Paleontologists Reconstruct Environments from the Ancient Past?

Smithsonian Curator Anna K. Behrensmeyer visits a modern wetland and finds conditions that might have looked familiar to the Cretaceous dinosaurs of the Washington, D.C., area.

Resource Type
Videos and Webcasts
Grade Level
6-8
Topics
Paleontology
Exhibit
David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time