Another episode of the Field Museum's "The Brain Scoop" is up over YouTube. It is a discussion of climate change with a preview of the new Deep Time Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. The new hall is scheduled to open on June 8th, 2019.
Dr. Scott Wing spent a decade combing the hills in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming to find fossil evidence of an extinction event that occurred in the Southern Ocean of Antarctica, 56 million years ago. Here, we talk with him and Dr. Kirk Johnson about how studying the fossil record helps us better understand current impacts of human-caused climate change on our planet, and what it means for our future world.
