Super-size-asaurus: How did dinosaurs get so big?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ancient dinosaurs were some of the biggest creatures to ever stomp the Earth. But how and why did they get so giant? Was there more food to help them grow? Was the planet itself somehow different, allowing them to reach epic proportions? In this episode we talk to dino-experts Femke Holwerda and Brian Switek…

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brainzahn, where we're serious about being curious.
0:04.1	Brainzahn is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:14.5	What in the world?
0:15.6	Joseph, get over here now.
0:17.4	Coming Mary.
0:21.0	I can't believe what I'm seeing.
0:23.1	Look at what I found in the Sequeliff.
0:25.0	Whoa, it's huge.
0:26.8	I think those are the rest of the bones of that crocodile skull you found.
0:30.2	Yeah, but Mary, whatever you dug up, it's no crocodile.
0:34.2	It's so weird looking like a monster.
0:37.6	Don't be daft. It's not a monster. It's some kind of lizard fish.
0:41.6	A leash?
0:42.6	No, no, no.
0:43.6	A flizzard?
0:44.6	Whatever it is.
0:45.6	It's going to blow people's minds.
0:47.6	What are we waiting for? Let's dig it out.
0:50.0	Right. Let me grab a shovel.
0:53.0	This is it, brother.
0:55.0	Mark this year, 18 or 11.
0:57.0	This is the year we're going to become famous.
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