This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Anyone who has had kids knows that they go through obsessive phases that can last anywhere

from a few days to several years. I went through a lot of phases growing up.

That's producer Emmett Fitzgerald. There was a brief train phase. Then in preschool,

I was obsessed with farming equipment. I could list obscure European tractor brands off the top

of my head like an old Italian wheat farmer. But I think my most intense obsession,

like many kids, was dinosaurs. I knew more about dinosaurs at the age of five than I do now.

And I was all but certain that I would one day become a paleontologist. I don't know exactly

where this dinosaur obsession came from, but I think part of it was just that dinosaurs looked

so cool. I had all these books filled with incredible drawings of colorful dinosaurs leaping

around, roaring, and tearing into one another. I fell in love with the artwork in those books.

And at least for the time being, art is the only way we experience dinosaurs. We can study

bones and fossils, but barring the invention of time travel or some Jurassic Park Resurrection

scenario, we will never see these animals with our own eyes. There are no photos or video,

which means that if we want to picture how they look, someone has to draw them.

Hello, I'm Dr. Robert Bucker known to the folks in North Texas as Jurassic Bob.

Hi, dig bones, dinosaur bones. Bob Bucker is one of the most famous living paleontologists.

And he also happens to be a very skilled paleo artist. He thinks the two go hand in hand.

Art is very important in teaching natural history science, maybe all science. Teach everyone art,

and everyone music too patterns. Geez. I like Bob a lot. When I interviewed him in a studio in

Boulder, Colorado, he showed up an hour early and he brought his own snacks. He's got snacks here.

He's got coffee and some apple pie. Free range apple pie. This is so liberal. This place. This is so

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