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Now I assume that we remember
dinosaurs.
A long time ago, back in the early 1900s, museums were out looking for
dinosaurs.
So everyone was out looking for all these bigger and better
dinosaurs.
Where are all the little ones?" (Laughter) And they thought about it and they even wrote papers about it: "Where are the little dinosaurs?"
Well, go to a museum, you'll see, see how many baby
dinosaurs
there are.
But all they had were big
dinosaurs.
First off, scientists have egos, and scientists like to name
dinosaurs.
And what happened, of course, is we ended up with a whole bunch of different
dinosaurs.
Dr. Peter Dodson at the University of Pennsylvania actually realized that
dinosaurs
grew kind of like birds do, which is different than the way reptiles grow.
So this was a problem, and Peter Dodson pointed this out using some duck-billed
dinosaurs
then called Hypacrosaurus.
I mean, if they'd have just taken that, taken Peter Dodson's work, and gone on with that, then we would have a lot less
dinosaurs
than we have.
And so they went on naming
dinosaurs
because they were different.
But I have a museum and I collect
dinosaurs
and I can saw mine open.
In North America in the northern plains of the United States and the southern plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan, there's this unit of rock called the Hell Creek Formation that produces the last
dinosaurs
that lived on Earth.
So here are 12
dinosaurs.
So these are
dinosaurs
that are called Pachycephalosaurus.
But they did look at these three and they said, "These are three different dinosaurs, and Dracorex is probably the most primitive of them.
So just with these three dinosaurs, as a scientist, we can easily hypothesize that it is just a growth series of the same animal.
OK. (Laughter) Which of course means we have 10 primary
dinosaurs
to deal with.
When you have a little museum, you have little
dinosaurs.
Now when we name dinosaurs, when we name anything, the original name gets to stick and the second name is thrown out.
All right, so we can do this with a bunch of
dinosaurs.
So there's these two dinosaurs, T. Rex and Nanotyrannus.
And that doesn't make any sense at all, because we don't know of any
dinosaurs
that gain teeth as they get older.
Fourth-graders love their dinosaurs, they memorize them.
We are losing species from the Earth faster than the
dinosaurs
disappeared, and leading that loss are amphibians.
Someone is re-engineering
dinosaurs
by extracting their DNA from prehistoric amber.
Now, luckily for me, I live and work in New York City, where there are plenty of
dinosaurs.
And so you can see
dinosaurs
and insects and collections of locomotives and all of that, but you're really not involved; you're being talked to.
We think the one that got the
dinosaurs
was about five miles wide.
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