(music plays)

Kara and David stand in a TV studio. Behind them, two wall screens read "Dino Days."
Kara is in her early thirties, with short wavy black hair. She wears a safari hat, a purple shirt and a safari vest.
David is in his mid-thirties, with a beard and brown hair. He wears glasses and a stripped green and gray zip sweater over a gray T-shirt.

Holding a notebook, Kara says FROM VERONICA, AGE
NINE, FROM TORONTO: IF DINOSAURS
ARE EXTINCT, THEN HOW DO YOU
KNOW ABOUT THEIR SKIN AND
FEATHERS IF ONLY THE FOSSILS OF
PLANTS AND BONES REMAIN?
THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.

David says IT IS A GOOD QUESTION.
BECAUSE IN SOME EXCEPTIONAL
CASES, IT'S NOT ONLY THE FOSSIL
BONES THAT ARE PRESERVED.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE LOTS OF
DINOSAURS LIKE CARNOTAURUS, FOR
INSTANCE, OR THE DUCK BILL
DINOSAURS WHERE WE HAVE
IMPRESSIONS OF THEIR SKIN, WHICH
WERE PRESERVED ALONGSIDE THE
SKELETONS, AND SHOW THAT
DINOSAURS HAD A PEBBLY, SCALY
SKIN.

Kara says LIKE A REPTILE?

David says LIKE A REPTILE.
EXCEPT SOME SMALL MEAT-EATING
DINOSAURS LIKE PHILOSORAPTOR,
WHERE SOME REALLY AMAZING
FOSSILS FROM CHINA IN PARTICULAR
SHOW THAT THEY WERE COVERED IN
FEATHERS JUST LIKE THEIR
DESCENDANTS, THE BIRDS.