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The dinosaurs we know are still evolving
The dinosaurs we know are still evolving
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In my lifetime, the amount of things
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that we've [music] learned that I was
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told even as a kid we were never ever
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going to know.
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>> Mhm.
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>> For example, dinosaur color. Used to be,
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you know what?
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Do whatever colors you want. Nobody
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knows what color dinosaurs were. You
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know, make that neon pink, you know,
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T-Rex or, you know, Stegosaurus with,
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you know, bright yellow plates or what
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have you.
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Now we're starting to find out what
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colors they actually were by comparisons
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to modern birds and looking at, you
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know, skin and feathers and the
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microscopic nature of it that creates
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structural color. So, you know, in a way
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like it didn't kill the magic, it just
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made it more interesting. Like, okay, we
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got some color. Now, what other colors
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were there? What color patterns were
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there? Did they vary between different
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sexes or populations or species? So, all
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of this curiosity, it's
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incremental and cumulative and it
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changes our perception of what the
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ancient world was like. I love the fact
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that the dinosaurs that I grew up with,
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especially seeing older documentaries
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and books and out-of-date museum
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displays, are now fundamentally
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different. It's the same species,
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sometimes the same skeletons, but
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they're rearranged, they're brought to
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life in a different way. And it feels
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like something that everybody can
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participate in.
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>> [music]
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>> And I love that paleontology can be
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welcoming in that way, that it's
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something if you can put boots on and go
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look for fossils or even just like
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volunteering in a museum, poking through
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drawers,
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you can change the way people see
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ancient life.
