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From Trilobites to Extraterrestrials: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond
Education and Outreach coordinator Phoebe Cohen led a family day program on October 17th at 2:00pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History entitled "From Trilobites to Extraterrestrials: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond". The successful program educated and entertained 40 participants, including kids, parents, and HMNH volunteer docents, who learned about how paleontologists decide what's a fossil and what isn't, how that might help us find life on other planets, how we find exoplanets, and what we might find on them. Watch the video below (~55 minutes).
How Do We Look for Life on Other Planets?
What is complex life and why did it evolve?
How do you define complex life? What makes it complicated? And if single celled life is so pervasive and optimal, why did life evolve to be big and complex at all? Find out by watching this video:
What happened to the Ediacaran organisms?
Did the Ediacaran organisms just disappear, evolve into something else and are we related to them? Watch Dr Phoebe Cohen explain what scientists know and don't know about evolution and fate of early complex life.
What is the Ediacaran, what is a fossil, what is the completeness of the fossil record?
What is the Ediacaran time period? Watch Dr Phoebe Cohen explain what a fossil is and the discus the completeness of the fossil record during the Ediacaran time period.
What is an animal?
Think you know what an animal is? What are you and what defines things like you? Dr Phoebe Cohen explains how we know a species is an animal and what defines animals.
The Ediacaran Organisms: Are they animals?
Some of the Ediacaran organisms look a bit like plants, but many scientists believe they are animals. Watch Dr Phoebe Cohen explain why.
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