Palaeontology Courses

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

A Year in the Life of the Royal Tyrrell Museum's Palaeontology Lab

2 ratings

Explore the fascinating world of fossil preparation and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum's Palaeontology Lab through an insider's perspective on its annual operations.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Palaeontology of the Cretaceous Chalk

1 rating

Explore how fossils reveal life and adaptation in the soft seabed of the Cretaceous chalk seas.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Bringing Dinosaurs to Life - Using Innovative Techniques and Methods in Vertebrate Palaeontology

Explore how digitization, 3D reconstruction, biomechanics, and finite element analysis reveal how dinosaurs moved, fed, and functioned.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits

How depositional environments, sedimentation rates, winnowing, storms, and preservation shape exceptionally rich fossil beds.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Palaeontology and U.S. National Monuments - Implications for Science and Public Lands

Explores how paleontological discoveries shaped debates over Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

When X-Rays and Dinosaurs Collide: X-Ray Imaging in Vertebrate Palaeontology

An overview of how planar X-rays, CT scans, and 3D reconstructions reveal fossil anatomy and support vertebrate paleontology.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds

54 ratings

Paleontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds is a five-lesson course teaching a comprehensive overview of the origins of birds. This course examines the anatomy, diversity, and evolution of theropod dinosaurs in relation to the origin of bird…

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Paleontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

35 ratings

The aquatic problem: trace how air-breathing land animals readapted to the sea through the diversity, convergence, and phylogeny of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution

33 ratings

Trace the origin of vertebrates through Palaeozoic lineages, the evolution of fins, jaws and tetrapod limbs, and fossils from the Burgess Shale and Miguasha.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Palaeontology

An undergraduate introduction to India’s geological history, stratigraphy, and palaeontology, including invertebrate morphology and horse evolution.

• Swayam
• 16 weeks
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course