Dino Drill

Dr Pedro Viegas from Bristol University shows us his instrument – a tiny pneumatic drill used to dig out fragile dinosaur bones without destroying them.

The team are using these drills to excavate the Bristol Dinosaur, a Thecodontosaurus which lived 200 million years ago.

19 September 2013

3 minutes

This clip is from

BBC Inside Science—Chemical weapons; Crowd-sourcing weather; Fingerprint ID; Dino drill

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