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:    • The Human Biology Collection  

And our video with anthropologist Dr. Steve Nash, about their collection of Native American Peace Medals:    • Can Peace be Purchased?  

Learn more about Dr. Cushing’s work, and camel spiders:
http://www.dmns.org/science/museumsc...

The 3Dreconstruction at 5:49 is from the paper, "Morphology of the tracheal system of camel spiders (Chelicerata: Solifugae) based on microCT and 3Dreconstruction in exemplar species from three families: http://bit.ly/2w1madp

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Producer, Writer, Creator, Host:
Emily Graslie

Producer, Camera:
Brandon Brungard

Producer, Camera, Editor:
Sheheryar Ahsan

Interview with:
Dr. Paula Cushing

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This episode is a collaboration between
The Field Museum in Chicago, IL
(http://www.fieldmuseum.org)
and
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science
(http://www.dmns.org/)
And filmed on location in beautiful Denver, Colorado.