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And I've always thought it a shame that these giant, plant-eating dinosaurs are too often portrayed as passive, lumbering platters of meat on the landscape.
The dinosaurs would reign for another 12 million years before their hegemony was snuffed out in a fiery apocalypse.
But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered, along the way, inventing culture and metalworking and painting and dance and music and science and rocket ships that would eventually take 12 particularly excellent apes to the surface of the Moon.
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hits the Earth and wipes out the dinosaurs.
The pivotal, calamitous day during which the dinosaurs were wiped out, setting the stage for the modern world as we know it didn't have to be.
Dinosaurs like Dreadnoughtus were real.
The dinosaurs died in the world's fifth mass extinction, snuffed out in a cosmic accident through no fault of their own.
Only unlike the dinosaurs, we can see it coming.
And unlike the dinosaurs, we can do something about it.
75 percent of plant and animal species were lost, including, sadly, the dinosaurs.
They're the dinosaurs of politics.
This is the greatest extinction event in Earth's history, even bigger than when the dinosaurs died out.
So, I do a lot of work on dinosaurs.
I'm known to TEDsters as the guy that has sex with dinosaurs.
I'm going to talk about a different aspect of dinosaurs, which is the finding of them.
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur.
It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
So, you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands, areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.
So, the thing that's wonderful for me about finding dinosaurs is that it is both an intellectual thing, because you're trying to reconstruct the environment of millions of years ago.
The study of dinosaurs led to the realization that there's a problem with asteroid impact, for example.
The study of dinosaurs may, literally, one day save the planet.
In fact, the Mesozoic, when dinosaurs lived, had much higher CO2 than today, was much warmer than today, and is one of the interesting proof points for the effects of CO2 on climate.
They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs.
This is a picture of it growing on a dinosaur, because everyone thinks dinosaurs are cool.
I loved dinosaurs.
Sort of a timeline, very non-linear scale, nature rates and trilobites and dinosaurs, and eventually we saw some humans with caves ... Birds were flying overhead, after pterosaurs.
Other people have dinosaurs, you know.
And so my work, really, is trying to understand the character of that Mesozoic radiation compared to the Cenozoic radiation to see what mysteries we can understand from dinosaurs and from other animals about what life on drifting continents really can tell us about evolution.
I thought if I'm going to understand dinosaur evolution, I'd have to go back to those beds where they had picked up fragments, go back to a time and a place where the earliest dinosaurs existed.
And we're coming over a cliff, and at the top of that cliff, dinosaurs had basically taken over.
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