I wanted to be a paleontologist, a dinosaur paleontologist, and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur.

I am almost extinct I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

And it was a paleontologist, the late Louis Leakey, who actually set me on the path for studying chimpanzees.

And the fourth thing is that you actually did one or the other of those three things, but the paleontologist never found you.

Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk from TEDxVancouver paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.

Strange landscapes, scorching heat and mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talks about his surprising encounters with prehistory and a new way to help students join the adventure.

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits including teeth, tails, and even hands to make a Chickenosaurus .