The World of the Dinosaurs - Symphony of Science

mp3: http://bit.ly/GDKFgS Now on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/world-d... A musical celebration of dinosaurs! "The World of the Dinosaurs" is the 14th installment in the Symphony of Science series; it investigates their habits, extinction, and how we learn about them. Featuring Alice Roberts, Bill Nye, Nigel Marvin, Dallas Campbell and more. Materials used in the creation of this video are from:

Dinosaurs Alive
BBC "How to Build a Dinosaur"
BBC "Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs"
Bill Nye - Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Park
Discovery Channel "Last Day of the Dinosaurs"
Jurassic Park
Jack Horner's 2011 TED Talk

Special thanks to everybody who's donated to keep the project alive and to those who helped track down the materials used in this video.

*Please note: not every animal depicted in the video is a dinosaur; some are contemporary animals that look like dinosaurs (the flying/swimming ones).

Lyrics:

[Dr. Alice Roberts]
How can we start to come close to animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago?

Dinosaurs
[Jack Horner]
Dinosaurs
[Bill Nye]
Dinosaurs
Di-Di-Dinosaurs

[Dallas Campbell]
Dinosaurs weren't just giant lizards
But a truly unique kind of reptile

[Narrator 1]
Dinosaurs roamed
For more than 150 million years
Dinosaurs roamed
In amazing shapes and sizes

Very few left evidence of their existence
And those bones never cease to fascinate us

[Roberts]
The more we find
The more complete our understanding
Utterly awe-inspiring
The world of the dinosaurs

[Campbell]
There are always new discoveries out there
Waiting to be found

[Narrator 2]
Tyrannosaurus, the largest flesh eater
The world has ever seen
Dinosaurs - all the dinosaurs-
Followed a well trod trail to oblivion

[Narrator 1]
Rock layers span the age of dinosaurs
The deeper the layer, the older the rock

At the top - rock from the Cretaceous
Below that, the Jurassic
And near the bottom, red Triassic badlands
When dinosaurs first appeared

(refrain)

(dino breakdown)

[Nye]
65 million years ago
[Nigel Marvin]
A meteorite smashed into the Earth
[Nye]
Hurtling toward our planet
At a hundred thousand kilometers a second
**correction: per hour, not second!

[Roberts]
If we'd never found their bones,
We wouldn't ever have known
These ancient animals ever existed

(refrain)

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[FatTonyCologino]

I'm just gonna wait for the Jeff Goldblum account to tell you why that's a bad idea.

[spinosaurus111]

Anybody else feel like it's their job to bring them back to life? the dinosaurs. Who just wants to BRING THEM! Back to the safety of the present

[thegreatestpepe]

For study maybe, but there are some issues. There was much more oxygen back then, so big Dinosaurs wouldn't be able to exist very healthily in nature, since they consume so much of it to live.

And it would destroy our ecosystem to introduce so many new species into nature.

[Ayesha Hagerman]

Hell yeah Bill Ny the science guy!

[Josh Tobone]

Am I right there was a Tarbosaurus or was it Tyrannosaurus rex!!!!!!!?

[IISocratesII]

It's easy to think about dinosaurs, but to truly wrap your head around the fact these amazing creatures existed and ruled this planet for millions of years, much longer than we have, is incredible.

[MrRjk0508]

Dinosaur r my favrte thing

[prabhu cr]

Waws

[dzarko55]

Then it won't be a classical dinosaur. While it might be in the same group of species, it won't be a true state of the art dinosaur.

[Dhionatan Santos]

UTTERLY AWE-INSPIRING