Did Dinosaurs Really Go Extinct?
Welcome to… Jurassic Pluck Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @jtotheizzoe @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Most people are taught that dinosaurs went extinct...
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[MUSIC] (sound of footsteps) Maybe it's the power trying to come back on? (thunder, crashing) (rooster crowing) Not as scary, but scientifically speaking, it makes sense. [MUSIC] The Jurassic Park movies are built around a dream: Using science, humans could one day walk among the giant reptiles that used to rule the Earth. (roar) Spoiler alert: We already do. Thanks to science, we know our planet is home to 10,000 or so species of living dinosaurs. We just call them birds. (roar) How do we know this is true? Let’s leave the nest, and bring birds’ place on the tree of life into view. Everything on Earth with this sort of four-limbed, belly in the front, spine in the back,head on top arrangement is a tetrapod. Last year we did a whole series on wh...
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[MUSIC] (sound of footsteps) Maybe it's the power trying to come back on? (thunder, crashing) (rooster crowing) Not as scary, but scientifically speaking, it makes sense. [MUSIC] The Jurassic Park movies are built around a dream: Using science, humans could one day walk among the giant reptiles that used to rule the Earth. (roar) Spoiler alert: We already do. Thanks to science, we know our planet is home to 10,000 or so species of living dinosaurs. We just call them birds. (roar) How do we know this is true? Let’s leave the nest, and bring birds’ place on the tree of life into view. Everything on Earth with this sort of four-limbed, belly in the front, spine in the back,head on top arrangement is a tetrapod. Last year we did a whole series on wh...
