Did Dinosaurs Burp?

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tune into our Season 9 premiere to find out the answer to this stinky question. We’ll hear about dino gasses from returning guest Jessica Whiteside and their potential ecological impact from David Wilkinson. Our dive into dinosaur digestion will lead us to a smelly look at gas in Earth’s past!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay and I'm Marshall. Welcome to Tumble the show where we explore
0:05.0	stories of science discovery. Today we're asking an important question.
0:09.4	Did dinosaurs burp? Oh, that is the most important question. Did they end each
0:14.8	meal with a satisfied belch in a rub of the tummy?
0:18.0	Mmm, triceratops. Our search for answers to this question lead us deep down into
0:25.2	dinosaur digestion and comes back up as a stinky-looking gas in Earth's past.
0:35.2	Our question comes from Tumble listener Griffin.
0:38.9	My name is Griffin and question is did dinosaurs burp?
0:43.6	Okay, so how would we ever know if dinosaurs burped? Because burps don't fossilize.
0:48.4	I'm pretty sure if they did, what would that look like?
0:52.8	Maybe they'll just be like a little thin cloud of stone that hovers in the air.
1:00.0	That'd be an amazing story. Let's ask our listeners,
1:05.7	do you think that dinosaurs burped? And how would scientists find out?
1:11.1	Think about it and we'll be back to discover if anything came up after
1:15.4	dinosaurs food went down.
1:22.8	All right, so now that we've got a chance to think about it, how do we know
1:33.2	that dinosaurs burped?
1:34.6	Well, the first step to find out is to call a paleontologist and ask.
1:39.6	Ah, good idea.
1:40.9	I call Jessica Whiteside, who you might remember from our episode The Rise of the Dinosaurs.
1:47.4	And I was sort of surprised that she had an immediate answer to the question.
1:52.6	Did dinosaurs burp?
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