by Marcus Maurice
A new National Geographic Channel series challenges existing beliefs about dinosaurs.
For many people that are fans of the long-running TV series,
Friends, the job of a
paleontologist conjures up images of Ross as the
nerdy,
fossil-loving
dullard who
was stuck working in a museum. As one of the world's
leading paleontologists, Phil Manning
is out to change this
perception and also
assemble pieces of a global
puzzle that will give everyone a more complete picture of dinosaurs. Manning uses various experts in design, engineering, and medicine as he connects some of the
dots in
paleontology to
uncover mysteries about how smart
Tyrannosaurus rexes were, why their bones
healed so well, and what the actual color and
texture of dinosaur skin looked like.
Over thousands of years, bones become
fossilized, but brain matter doesn't. Instead, it
disintegrates into dust, so experts don't really know what went on inside the minds of dinosaurs,
let alone the
humongous Tyrannosaurus rex. On National Geographic Channel's
Jurassic CSI, Manning
attempts to unlock the secrets hidden inside the brains of the kings of the dinosaurs. In another episode of the six-part series, Manning uses
industrial engineering and blood research to
figure out how dinosaurs were able to heal so well from injuries.
Textbooks paint a dinosaur's skin as
alligator-like and mostly green or gray, but no one knows for sure. Manning utilizes
forensic technology and the world's most
precise imaging machine to find
pigment chemistry on fossils and
come up with the exact color and texture of dinosaur skin. This month, join Phil Manning as he goes back in time to unlock the answers to
unsolved dinosaur questions on
Jurassic CSI.
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