The dinosaur detectives of real-life Jurassic parks | Martin Lockley

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Dinosaur tracks can teach us more about the day-to-day behavior of creatures like T. rex or the Stegosaurus than their skeletons ever could, says paleontologist Martin Lockley. From a "dinosaur's lover's lane" in Colorado to the rocky shores of South Korea, Lockley explores what we can learn from the traces of some of the most impressive creatures ever to walk the Earth.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.9	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:13.4	We're going on a few field trips in today's episode with paleontologist Martin Lockley.
0:18.3	In his 2022 talk from Ted X Mile High, he draws a link between the footprints of dinosaurs
0:23.7	and discoveries about their behavior, even how they acted in love, way back in prehistoric
0:29.7	times after short break.
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1:03.9	I'm a paleontologist, which means I have what I'm told is every seven-year-old's dream
1:09.0	job.
1:11.6	But I don't spend my time digging up the remains of dead animals.
1:15.4	Instead I'm on the trail of clues left by dinosaurs and other extinct animals when they were
1:20.5	active and very much alive.
1:24.0	If I were to share with you some tracking tips, could you also become master trackers and
1:30.0	find these same clues?
1:31.8	Why not?
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