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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Tyrannosaurus Sex

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Although scientists still aren't sure exactly how dinosaurs reproduced, fascinating (and surprising) conjectures abound. Join Robert and Julie as they explore the procedures experts use to recreate the lives of dinosaurs, from the fossil record to DNA.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:08.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

0:16.6

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

0:20.1

And I'm Julie Douglas.

0:21.6

And you know, Julie, there's something kind of irritating about any of these instances that you frequently find it on the Internet, where someone will take something beloved from your childhood and they'll twist it into some sort of perverse joke or something sexy.

0:54.5

And you're just like, no. Now, this is a part of my childhood that I hold deer and I don't want to think about Fred Flintstone in this way or cats that look like Hitler. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that kind of, don't, don't mix, don't turn this innocent, you know, nicety from my past into a dark carnival of the soul.

0:59.9

And in another area that interestingly comes up, and this is a perfectly legitimate collision of the grown-up world and the childhood world, is the question of dinosaurs

1:07.3

having sex with one another.

1:10.4

See, even right there, I'm like, really?

1:13.3

My friend Bronosaurus, I know Apatosaurus, but I will continue to call

1:18.1

Bronosaurus Bronosaurus.

1:19.6

Because, again, from my childhood, I cannot imagine Bronosaurus kicking boots, you know?

1:24.9

Yeah, because these were our friends when we're kids, you know, these little plastic dinosaurs. If you're like me, you memorized all their names or a lot of their names. And you had a big box full of them, and you'd get them out, and they'd wrestle each other, and they'd bite each other, and the T-Rex would stab, I mean, the T-Saratops would stab the T-Rex in the gut, and the T-Rex

1:46.2

would try and bite the back of the T-Seratops head.

1:50.8

Good times.

1:52.1

Yeah, there's a good times.

1:53.1

And never did you imagine that one day that you would go on the Internet and just do a simple

1:57.7

search for, like, dinosaur mating and find a photo gallery of of dinosaurs doing it.

2:04.9

Yeah.

2:05.8

And it's interesting because with normal animals, I mean, everybody grows up, say, loving, like little girls love horses and guys love lizards and stuff, and other animals as well.

2:17.1

And then you go to the zoo and something weird is liable to happen, especially if you go to

2:21.1

like the Georgia Aquarium, which is, which is awesome place.

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