Planet earth is filled with
the dazzling diversity of life
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but few animals can compare
with the extinct dinosaurs
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for variety, size,
and sheer magnificence.
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They roamed the earth
away back in the ancient past
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and came in an incredible
range of shapes and sizes.
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Some of the ancient
creatures had enormous bodies
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and were the most colossal
creatures ever to have lived
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on land while others were
only the size of chickens.
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Some were fierce and had
sharp claws and razor teeth
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while others were
harmless and docile.
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Many of them had spikes,
horns and plates and were the
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weirdest animals
ever to walk on earth.
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Some were agile and could
run very fast while others
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were ponderers,
slow-moving and awkward.
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Dinosaurs lived on all
seven continents, yes, even
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Antarctica. But how much do we
really know about these amazing
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creatures? How and where did
they live? Why did they die out?
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And what do their
fossil traces tell us?
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Join me on the dinosaur
trail as we search for answers,
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we'll travel back in time
and get up close and personal
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with the biggest,
fastest, fiercest, and strangest
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creatures that
ever roamed the earth.
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Dinosaurs once roamed
the earth in large numbers
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and though they are now extinct
these creatures continue to
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captivate the imagination
of people young and old
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around the world.
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But what exactly is a
dinosaur? Well, to begin with
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they're reptiles and these
ancient reptiles lived on land
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in contrast to other ancient
reptiles like Plesiosaurs
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that were water reptiles
and Pterosaurs that were
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flying reptiles. And the
feature that distinguishes
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dinosaurs from these
other reptiles is a hole in the
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hip socket which allowed
dinosaurs to walk upright
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with their limbs directly
underneath their body's.
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Dinosaurs have huge long tails
that didn't touch the ground,
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they had scales, they
laid eggs and built nests,
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so all dinosaurs
hatched from eggs.
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Although they had these features
in common dinosaurs also
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had lots of differences that
made each species unique too.
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There were over 1,000 different
species of dinosaurs and they
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came in all kinds
of shapes and sizes.
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The tallest dinosaur
known was Sauroposeidon
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a herbivore that walked
on four legs and grew up to
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18 meters or 60 feet tall
which is the same height as
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three giraffes
standing on top of one another.
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In contrast, one of the smallest
dinosaurs ever found was
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Microraptors that was discovered
in China and was about the size
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of a pigeon, it only weighed
about one kilo or two pounds
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and fed on insects.
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One of the fastest dinosaurs
was Gallimimus which could
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run at a rate of over
70 kilometers or 43 MPH,
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about as fast as a cheetah, the
fastest land animal alive today.
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The dinosaur with the best
armor was probably Ankylosaurs
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these herbivores' weighed
about five tons and were up to
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10 meters or 33 feet long
but couldn't move much faster
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than a human could walk.
They had super tough-plated
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skin covered with spikes
and a club tail which helped him
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to defense against hunters.
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If a predator attacked
the low and heavy reptile
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would swing its tail that
was made up of seven bones
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fused together in a hard
and heavy mass like a club with
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enough force to
break the attackers bones,
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other dinosaurs had their
own unique defense apparatus.
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The Triceratops for example,
had three impressive horns
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jutting out of its face and
huge solid curved head plate
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or frill, it was probably the
most spectacular horned dinosaur
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of all time. Although it
appeared dangerous Triceratops
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was actually a slow-moving
herbivore that used its
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beaklike jaw and slicing
teeth to pluck and chew plants
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but it sure needed its
horns and fierce appearance
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because it lived in
Tyrannosaurus Rex territory
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and that's not the kind
of neighbor you want to have
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living nearby.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex
whose name means king of the
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tyrant lizards but is
popularly know today as T-rex
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was probably the fiercest
and most powerful land predator
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that has ever lived.
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It was a massively built killer,
3 and 1/2 meters or 12 feet tall
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13 meters of 43 feet long
and weighing about 9 tons.
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It had strong legs and thigh
muscles for charging into attack
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with lethal speed. It had
terrifying long bone-crushing
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teeth, powerful jaws, and eye-
sight as sharp as an eagle's.
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They often traveled in small
groups of four or five adults.
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They roamed through a
wide variety of habitat
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but it was on the plains
and along the river valley's
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that the T-rex family
focused their attention.
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They were the deadly
enemy of so many animals
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but in particular a veracious
predator of Triceratops
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and the smaller Einiosaurus
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Using their keen power of
scent that could predict prey
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six kilometers or four
miles away, the T-rex began to
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stalk their prey, a herd of
Einiosaurus who were peacefully
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grazing in an open
field in the river valley.
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But attacking a horn creature
like an Einiosaurus was laced
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with danger as they
were no soft target, they had
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vicious horns that were
lethal weapons that could stab
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and severely wound and they
certainly knew how to use them.
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If a hunter puts a foot
wrong, the next few minutes
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could be his last, just how
the hunt ended we'll never know.
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The age of the dinosaurs ended
abruptly when a huge cataclysm
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killed off the dinosaurs and
resulted in a mass extinction.
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But thanks to modern
science, we know a lot about the
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dinosaurs that
used to roam earth.
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So, how do scientists know
so much about dinosaurs today?
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I mean they've been
extinct a long time ago.
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Nobody can see a dinosaur today
they can't observe them in the
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wild like they do
with modern animals.
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No, instead they rely
upon what dinosaurs left behind
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their bones, fossils. Scientists
study dinosaurs bones and
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other bodily material left
behind in fossil graveyards
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that have been
discovered around the world.
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Virtually everything we
know about dinosaurs comes from
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studying these fossils.
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No one knows when the
first dinosaur bone was found
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ancient peoples most likely
uncovered fossils of dinosaur
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bones from time to time.
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But they had no idea what
they'd found, even early English
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and European scientists
weren't sure about the fossils
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they found. For
example in 1676 Robert Plot
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a curator of an English museum
discovered a huge thigh bone
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in England, he believed
it belonged to an ancient
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species of human giants.
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Only many years later was it
determined that it belonged to
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a dinosaur. In 1824,
William Buckland, a British
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fossil hunter and the
first geology professor at
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Oxford University was the first
person to correctly identify
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a dinosaur fossil
for what it really was.
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He wrote the world's first
scientific description of a
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fossil dinosaur which was
named megalosaurus in 1827.
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At this time the word dinosaur
hadn't been invented yet,
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the word had first been
used by Richard Owen in 1842
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he produced the term
dinosaur from two Greek words
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which means terrible
lizards to describe these
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distinct creatures which
he recognized as significantly
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different from today's reptiles.
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Although the study of dinosaurs
really got its start in 1842
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there wasn't much available
to study, in fact in 1860
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just six types of
dinosaurs were known.
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But then people started finding
spectacular dinosaur bones
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in America. In the
1870's two dinosaur hunters
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Edward Drinker Cope
and Othneil Charles Marsh
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started competing
to find new fossils,
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this became
known as The Bone Wars.
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By 1892 they had discovered
more than 120 new species
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of dinosaurs between them.
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As the 1900s began, many
scientists and universities
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all over the world were
inspired by The Bone Walls
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and these new discoveries.
They began to study and research
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dinosaur fossils and so a
whole new branch of this science
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known as Paleontology began.
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Now paleontology is the
scientific study of fossils,
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the remains of long-dead
dinosaurs and other creatures
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and the people who specialize
in this field are called
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Paleontologists, they're
the detectives who examine
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the evidence that dinosaurs
and other extinct animals
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left behind such as bones,
teeth, footprints, tracks,
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eggs, and skin impressions.
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These fossil hunters gather
and piece together the remains
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of these extinct creatures
to give us a glimpse of the past
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and help us better
understand life on earth.
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And what's really exciting
is that new fossil evidence
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is being found all the
time, virtually every day
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brings a new dinosaur
discovery, there's so much more
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out there to discover.
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But what have we learned what's
already here from what we've
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already discovered?
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Well, we've seen that a
wide variety and many species of
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dinosaurs roamed widely across
the world in large numbers.
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We've also seen that these
ancient creatures continue to
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captivate the imagination
of people young and old
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but it's not just present-day
people who are fascinated by
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dinosaurs. Nearly all ancient
civilization had stories or
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art depicting giant reptiles
and dinosaur-like creatures.
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Petroglyph's or rock
carvings, artifacts and even
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little clay figures
found in North America resemble
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modern depictions of dinosaurs
like the Anasazi dinosaur
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Petroglyphs in Utah that looks
strikingly like a brontosaurus.
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Then across in Europe from
the Roman Empire we have mosaics
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like the Nile mosaic
from Palestrina that shows
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dinosaur-like creatures.
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And in the Middle East, the
ancient Egyptians produced the
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Narmer Palette thousands
of years ago that depicts
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two dinosaur-like creatures
with their long necks entwined
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and it wasn't unique, the two
dog palette displays something
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similar, further east in
Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq.
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The Walls of ancient Babylon
built around 600 BC depict
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rows of curious long-legged
dinosaur-like dragons
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called Mushussu. Today
many scholars believe the
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Mushussu image and description
appeared to best fit a
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Sauropod dinosaur.
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Across in Asia at Cambodia's
Angkor Wat is a 12th-century
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Hindu temple complex that
later became a Buddhist Temple.
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On one of the temples Ta
Prohm is a clear depiction of a
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living Stegosaurus, the carving
is a side view of the animal
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and shows a series of
plates running down its back.
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In much the same way we now
know was present on the fossils
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of Stegosaurus dinosaurs.
There are literally hundreds
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of these dinosaur-like
depictions on the petroglyphs,
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artifacts, carvings, and
art of ancient civilizations
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around the world.
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Many people wonder about
the ancient Hebrews and ask if
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dinosaurs are
mentioned in the Bible.
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Well, the word dinosaur isn't
found anywhere in the Bible.
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Now that shouldn't surprise us,
because dinosaur is a relatively
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new word, remember that
it wasn't until 1842 that
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Richard Owen even coined
the word dinosaur and that was
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thousands of years after
most of the Bible was written.
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So, since the word dinosaur
didn't even exist when the Bible
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was written, naturally
you won't find that word in
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the Bible. However though
that term isn't in the Bible,
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doesn't mean that the Bible
does not refer to dinosaurs.
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Now imagine that you had to
find a word to describe a huge
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dinosaur without
actually using the term
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dinosaur. What word would
you use? How about dragon,
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or monster? Well, those
are the very words that the
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Bible writers chose. The
Bible uses the Hebrew word
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Tanniyn to describe a
mysterious creature resembling
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a giant reptile, this creature
appears 28 times in scripture
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the scripture or Old Testament.
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With English translations refer
to it most often as a dragon
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or a sea monster, the
term applies to a water monster
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as well as a land monster.
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Many scholars believe
that Bible writers used this
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term Tanniyn to
describe dinosaurs in the Bible.
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but those aren't the only
references to dinosaur-like
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creatures in the Bible.
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Dinosaurs seem to pop
up through the Book of Job
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which many believe is
the oldest book in the Bible,
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possibly written around 3
and 1/2 thousand years ago.
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Job chapter 40 mentions a
creature called a Behemoth
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and it provides a lot of
information about the creature.
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Here are the details...
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Here the Bible describes a
huge creature that Job has seen.
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It's a grass eater, that's
very strong with great muscles,
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it moves its tail which
is like a huge Cedar Tree,
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it's the first the
chief, perhaps the largest and
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strongest of God's creation.
No present day animal fits this
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description, but a giant
plant-eating Sauropod would,
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something like a
Brachiosaurus or an Apatosaurus.
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Then a little further on
Job chapter 41 describes another
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huge fearsome creature.
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This time a sea
creature, a sea monster.
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Again details of the
creature are mentioned.
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Certainly no other creature
living or extinct fits this
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description
better than a dinosaur.
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Now dinosaurs were land creature
but remember there were also
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huge sea reptiles that
live around the same time as
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dinosaurs that are
often grouped with them.
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They were some of the
most fearsome predators that
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have ever existed. One
group was the Plesiosaurs
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true sea monsters with massively
extensive jaws and one of these
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huge water reptiles such as
a Liopleurodon would certainly
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fit the description
in the Bible Book of Job.
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The Bible also mentions
other dinosaur-like creatures in
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Genesis, Isaiah,
and Psalms as well.
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So, if the Bible
does refer to dinosaurs,
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where did they come from?
And what happened to them?
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Well, the Bible says that in the
beginning God created all things
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including this earth
and every- thing in it.
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He accomplished His
creation in just six days,
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all of the land
animals were created on day six
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along with the
first people Adam and Eve.
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This means that dinosaurs
were created on the sixth day
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of creation
about 6,000 years ago.
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Now, how do we know
that? Well, God gives us a
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comprehensive timeline
right in the Bible itself.
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In Genesis chapter 5, we
see a list of Adam's descendants
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up to Noah and how long
they lived, then we can follow
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more dates than the
Bible gives us and measure
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to the time of Abraham and
on to Moses, and the Exodus,
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King David, Solomon's Temple,
the Babylonian Captivity,
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and on to Jesus.
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From there it's easy to
follow on down to our time
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and we see that the earth
is around 6,000 years old,
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the Bible provides a reliable
timeline that provides a
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framework through which we
can interpret and understand
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science and history.
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The Bible tells us that
the dinosaurs were originally
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plant eaters like all the
other creatures that God created
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Here's what it says in
Genesis Chapter 1 and verse 30.
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After Adam and Eve
disobeyed God and ate from the
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tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil, sin entered the world
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and some animals became
carnivores or omnivores'
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including many of the dinosaurs.
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So, what
happened to the dinosaurs?
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Well, the Bible tells us that
there was a great cataclysmic
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flood that largely destroyed
life on earth and only Noah,
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his family and the
animals that he brought with him
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onto the large ship
called the Ark survived.
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Noah was commanded by God
to bring two of every kind of
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creature on the ark so he would
have brought dinosaurs as well.
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Now, you're probably wondering
how Noah could possibly have
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squeezed all those animals
including large dinosaurs
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on a boat well, there
are several important facts
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we need to remember. Firstly.
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God instructed Noah to build
a massive ship that could hold
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not only the animals but
also all the food they needed
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along with Noah and his family.
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Secondly. Noah could have
taken younger and much smaller
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dinosaurs on the ark so that
they would be able to mature
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and reproduce
after the great flood.
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Thirdly. It's not hard
to conceive of dinosaurs
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being on the ark when we
remember that the average
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size of a dinosaur was
actually smaller than a cow.
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So, what happened to the
dinosaurs after the flood?
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How do we account
for their extinction?
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Well, remember most of
them would have perished
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during cataclysmic worldwide
flood and for those on the ark,
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the earth they disembarked
on after the flood was
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very different from the
one they knew before it.
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The flood devastated the
earth and made it a much more
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difficult world to
live in and survive.
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Possibly they simply died
out after the flood because
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their population never grew
large enough in the post-flood
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world. There may have been
major environmental change,
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making it more difficult to
find the right types of food
00:23:45.19\00:23:49.06
in sufficient
quantities to sustain them.
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Quite simply, it was quite
difficult for the dinosaurs
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to find enough food to survive.
00:23:56.67\00:23:59.77
Also, the great worldwide
flood and all the water covering
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the earth's surface would
have changed the earth's climate
00:24:04.81\00:24:08.18
and since the dinosaurs were
reptiles, it could have been
00:24:08.21\00:24:12.41
challenging for them to
stay warm enough to live.
00:24:12.45\00:24:15.38
And then humans may have hunted
dinosaurs to extinction for food
00:24:15.42\00:24:20.69
or sport, or self-defense.
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The fact is that no one knows
for sure what happened to the
00:24:22.96\00:24:28.53
dinosaurs, but we do know
the dinosaurs and not the only
00:24:28.56\00:24:32.83
animals to become extinct.
00:24:32.87\00:24:34.50
Many animals over the years
have died due to all sorts of
00:24:34.54\00:24:38.74
causes. Scientists tell
us that thousands of species
00:24:38.77\00:24:43.55
have gone extinct in
the past century alone.
00:24:43.58\00:24:46.72
So, we don't know for
sure exactly when and why
00:24:46.75\00:24:51.09
dinosaurs went extinct,
but we do know that it wasn't
00:24:51.12\00:24:55.69
too long ago because now there
in archeological and scientific
00:24:55.72\00:25:00.10
evidence to demonstrate it.
00:25:00.13\00:25:02.13
Recently eminent paleontologist
unexpected discovered
00:25:02.16\00:25:08.04
red blood cells, soft tissue,
and proteins in dinosaur fossils
00:25:08.07\00:25:13.31
for the first time.
00:25:13.34\00:25:15.61
These cells and soft
tissue could not possibly have
00:25:15.64\00:25:19.71
survived tens of
hundreds of millions of years,
00:25:19.75\00:25:23.35
these things simply
don't last that long.
00:25:23.39\00:25:26.15
But they do clearly fit
a Biblical understanding
00:25:26.19\00:25:29.92
of a creation
only 6,000 years ago.
00:25:29.96\00:25:34.00
These new discoveries contradict
the evolutionary time schedule
00:25:34.03\00:25:40.80
of tens and hundreds of millions
of years but provide immensely
00:25:40.84\00:25:45.14
powerful support for the
proposition that dinosaur
00:25:45.17\00:25:49.44
fossils were mostly produced
on the catastrophic conditions
00:25:49.48\00:25:53.21
a few thousand
years ago at most.
00:25:53.25\00:25:56.12
So we see that the Biblical,
Scientific, Archeological and
00:25:56.15\00:26:01.86
historical evidence all combined
to help us better understand
00:26:01.89\00:26:07.13
dinosaurs and the
world they lived in.
00:26:07.16\00:26:09.56
Yes, dinosaurs were awesome
creatures yet the best thing
00:26:09.60\00:26:15.20
of about these incredible
creatures is that they were
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created by our
majestic and all-powerful God.
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Thank You for the
wonders of the natural world
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that You have provided for us,
including the awesome dinosaurs
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you have provided
for us in the past.
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They leave us in awe and wonder,
they remind us that You are
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powerful God, but they also
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knowing that You're our creator
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