Dr. Paula Cushing
has been studying
these strange
animals for nearly
17 years, and says
there is so little
known about them,
that anyone can
discover
(
more)
Dr. Paula Cushing has been studying these strange animals for nearly 17 years, and says there is so little known about them, that anyone can discover something new. They're camel spiders: neither camels, nor spiders! So... what are they, anyway?
We've set out from The Field Museum in Chicago to collaborate with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Check out our first video on the Human Biology Collection:
https://youtu.be/shKWGMdvmJQ
And our video with anthropologist Dr. Steve Nash, about their collection of Native American Peace Medals:
https://youtu.be/3-AGSdwVQRQ
Learn more about Dr. Cushing’s work, and camel spiders:
http://www.dmns.org/science/mu...
The 3D-reconstruction at 5:49 is from the paper, "Morphology of the tracheal system of camel spiders (Chelicerata: Solifugae) based on micro-CT and 3D-reconstruction in exemplar species from three families:
http://bit.ly/2w1madp
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