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You get fungi, you get fish, you get plants, you get amphibia, you get reptiles, and then, of course, you get the
dinosaurs.
Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid landed on Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula, creating conditions equivalent to those of a nuclear war, and the
dinosaurs
were wiped out.
Terrible news for the dinosaurs, but great news for our mammalian ancestors, who flourished in the niches left empty by the
dinosaurs.
And I'm going to put together, as guest editor, a special issue on the question, "Did an asteroid kill the dinosaurs?"
And the first paper is a standard scientific paper, presenting evidence, "Iridium layer at the K-T boundary, and potassium argon dated crater in Yucatan, indicate that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"The President of the Royal Society has been vouchsafed a strong inner conviction that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"It has been privately revealed to Professor Huxtane that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
"Professor Hawkins has promulgated an official dogma binding on all loyal Hawkinsians that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
And I have been fortunate enough to find things like the first eggs in the Western hemisphere and the first baby
dinosaurs
in nests, the first dinosaur embryos and massive accumulations of bones.
And it happened to be at a time when people were just starting to begin to realize that
dinosaurs
weren't the big, stupid, green reptiles that people had thought for so many years.
People were starting to get an idea that
dinosaurs
were special.
I have gone on to find more things and discover that
dinosaurs
really were very social.
We have found a lot of evidence that
dinosaurs
changed from when they were juveniles to when they were adults.
And then Steven Spielberg, of course, depicts these
dinosaurs
as being very social creatures.
Michael Crichton really was one of the first people to talk about bringing
dinosaurs
back to life.
And then, then, then, and then ... Then the dinosaurs, being social, act out their socialness, and they get together, and they conspire.
And the Hell Creek Project was this massive undertaking to get as many
dinosaurs
as we could possibly find, and hopefully find some
dinosaurs
that had more material in them.
We don't really know how long
dinosaurs
lived, because we haven't found the oldest one yet.
So here was the character that linked birds and
dinosaurs.
But birds are
dinosaurs.
Birds are living
dinosaurs.
We actually classify them as
dinosaurs.
We now call them non-avian
dinosaurs
and avian
dinosaurs.
So the non-avian
dinosaurs
are the big clunky ones that went extinct.
Avian
dinosaurs
are our modern birds.
The
dinosaurs
had a really bad day.
The difference between the
dinosaurs
and us is that we have a space program and we can vote, and so we can change our future.
I'm going to talk about
dinosaurs.
Do you remember
dinosaurs
when you were that age? (Applause)
Dinosaurs
are kind of funny, you know.
And I usually just say, "Well,
dinosaurs
were big, different and gone."
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