Did dinosaurs fart?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
You fart. I fart. Your dog farts. We all fart! Or do we…? Birds don’t fart, and they’re the closest living descendants of the dinosaurs. So, did dinosaurs fart? We asked paleontologist Kallie Moore to help us find the answer.
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| 0:36.4 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:43.9 | Um, um, um, um, um, |
| 0:46.0 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Dino, the Dino. |
| 0:52.8 | Um. studios. I'm Dino, the Dino. |
| 0:54.8 | Um. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm a diplodocus. Oh, I'm so hungry. |
| 1:06.4 | One sec. I've got to eat some more ferns. |
| 1:16.6 | When you're as big as I am, like a ten-story building laid flat on its side, you gotta get your gnaw on. Like, eat a lot. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh! |
| 1:23.6 | Oh! |
| 1:25.6 | These ferny ferns are so good. |
| 1:31.3 | I really am a major mouth to feed. |
| 1:34.5 | My tail alone is the length of a city bus, you know. |
| 1:38.5 | There's so much of me to love. |
| 1:43.9 | Oh, my tummy hurts. |
| 1:47.0 | Too many ferns, not enough ferns. |
| 1:50.0 | I can never tell if I'm hungry or stress eating. |
| 1:54.0 | Whoa! |
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