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Moment Of Um

Why didn't sharks go extinct like dinosaurs?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

If sharks were around in the time of dinosaurs, how are they still here today when dinosaurs have gone extinct? Were some just really, really good at hiding from the asteroid that hit Earth? For this episode, we talked to Karen Chin, a professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado.  Got a question you want to sink your teeth into? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll try our best to fin-ish what you started! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.

0:05.2

Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Weigel.

0:12.4

Um.

0:14.4

Hey Anna.

0:15.3

Hey Anna.

0:16.1

Have you picked out your Halloween costume yet?

0:18.0

You know, I really appreciate that you're thinking about this in the

0:21.1

middle of June. Thanks. Because so am I. Yes, what are we thinking? I definitely know I want to go as some

0:28.6

kind of ferocious beast. Me too. I always say the more teeth your costume has, the more fun you're

0:35.1

going to have. I was thinking of going as a dinosaur.

0:37.9

I was thinking of going as a shark. So in another life, our ferocious beasts would have hung out together.

0:43.5

Well, maybe not together. But neighbors, sure. You know, why did your species survive and mine didn't,

0:51.1

if they were both around at the same time? Actually, funny you should ask, Jeffrey had a question about this.

0:57.6

Hi, my name is Jeffrey.

0:59.5

I live in Birmingham, Alabama.

1:01.5

And my question is, if sharks were older than dinosaurs, why didn't they die out with water dinosaurs?

1:08.1

My name is Karen Chin, and I am a professor of geological sciences at the University of

1:14.6

Colorado, and I'm also a curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural

1:21.4

History. Paleontology is the study of ancient organisms other than humans. We study fungi, dinosaurs, mollusks, anything that's not human but is ancient.

1:33.3

I first want to clarify that there were really no water dinosaurs.

1:39.3

When people think of what we can call water dinosaurs, we're usually thinking of large marine reptiles,

1:46.5

like ichthyosaurs, pleasaurus, and mosasaurus. So I'm going to talk about, I'm going to

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