We know how the dinosaurs died. We don't know why they lived. | Steve Brusatte

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Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=membership&utm_content=bt-ytdesc-text-fi-brusatte-Kk0VyaXjWXQ Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, Hollywood lied to you about Ancient Rome. Here’s the truth | Mary Beard: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_yP8C7uo3Y Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World's science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented. Brusatte traces dinosaurs back to footprints smaller than a house cat, found in Poland just after the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, and explains why those early survivors spent millions of years as background characters next to car-sized salamanders and armored crocodiles. 0:00 Chapter 1: The rise and fall of dinosaurs 3:17 The first true dinosaurs emerge 8:01 Spectacular giants 15:06 The last morning 19:16 Chapter 2: T. Rex: The king of dinosaurs 22:30 Everything Jurassic Park got wrong 25:12 The mystery of the tiny arms 31:13 A new dinosaur species found every week 32:02 Chapter 3: The rise and reign of mammals 40:19 How flowers changed everything 44:34 Mammals go dumb, then huge 1:05:44 Should we bring them back? 1:09:21 Chapter 4: How birds became the last dinosaurs 1:23:54 Flight was an accident 1:37:31 What did dinosaurs sound like? 1:40:30 The pigeon is a dinosaur Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/brusatte-history-of-dinosaurs/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description © Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://bigthink.com/membership/ ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/subscribe/ ►Listen to Big Think Interviews on Spotify Insights from the world's biggest thinkers, now as a podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7KRYoRD1NdF2aoQcBMyPlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Steve Brusatte: Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs. He is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but grew up in the Midwestern USA. Steve has traveled around the world digging up dinosaurs and, working with many international colleagues, has named more than 15 new species, including the tyrannosaur 'Pinocchio rex' (Qianzhousaurus) and the raptor Zhenyuanlong.