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The dinosaurs we know are still evolving

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0:00In my lifetime, the amount of things

0:01that we've [music] learned that I was

0:03told even as a kid we were never ever

0:04going to know.

0:05>> Mhm.

0:06>> For example, dinosaur color. Used to be,

0:08you know what?

0:09Do whatever colors you want. Nobody

0:11knows what color dinosaurs were. You

0:12know, make that neon pink, you know,

0:14T-Rex or, you know, Stegosaurus with,

0:16you know, bright yellow plates or what

0:17have you.

0:19Now we're starting to find out what

0:20colors they actually were by comparisons

0:21to modern birds and looking at, you

0:23know, skin and feathers and the

0:24microscopic nature of it that creates

0:26structural color. So, you know, in a way

0:28like it didn't kill the magic, it just

0:29made it more interesting. Like, okay, we

0:30got some color. Now, what other colors

0:32were there? What color patterns were

0:34there? Did they vary between different

0:35sexes or populations or species? So, all

0:39of this curiosity, it's

0:42incremental and cumulative and it

0:44changes our perception of what the

0:45ancient world was like. I love the fact

0:47that the dinosaurs that I grew up with,

0:49especially seeing older documentaries

0:51and books and out-of-date museum

0:52displays, are now fundamentally

0:54different. It's the same species,

0:56sometimes the same skeletons, but

0:57they're rearranged, they're brought to

0:59life in a different way. And it feels

1:01like something that everybody can

1:03participate in.

1:04>> [music]

1:04>> And I love that paleontology can be

1:05welcoming in that way, that it's

1:07something if you can put boots on and go

1:09look for fossils or even just like

1:10volunteering in a museum, poking through

1:12drawers,

1:13you can change the way people see

1:14ancient life.