How to Build A Dinosaur (Movie)
The movie How to Build a Dinosaur shows the museum staff sitting in the museum prep lab discussing how hard it is to mount fossils into skeletons for display. The difficulty is due to the material that makes up the fossils. So...
Solid rock, which is why they are so heavy.
Why do they think that fruitadens are bipedal (walk on two legs)?
The front legs are smaller than the thigh bone.
The dinosaur models in the Crystal Palace park in South London were built in the 1850s. What is wrong with them?
The models have major errors in how the dinosaurs look and stand.
Even though they have the word fruit in their name, scientists think fruitadens were omnivores (ate plants and animals). What evidence do they have?
They both have large mashing teeth for plants and sharp teeth for slicing through insects and worms.
How do scientists know the color of a dinosaurs feathers?
They discovered fossilized feathers that preserved the shape of pigment chemicals in the feathers. In modern birds different shape chemical pigments give different colors.
The narrator sits down with an artist who draws two different dinosaurs. What do the two dinosaurs represent?
Two possible reconstructions of T-rex based on the same bones.
What do people studying ostriches hope to learn about dinosaurs?
By comparing muscle sizes of ostriches to extinct dinosaurs, they can learn about how dinosaurs moved.
How often are new dinosaurs discovered?
New discoveries are made all the time. Most named dinosaurs have been named since 1990.
When dissecting the ostrich, the narrator becomes aware of "scars" that you can find on the bones of dinosaurs. What are the "scars" on dinosaur bones?
Places where muscle and ligaments attach to the bone.
