Jack Horner: Shape-shifting dinosaurs
This video is circled around the theme that the reason people like dinosaurs is because they are BIG, DIFFERENT, and gone. Paleontologist Jack Horner describes in a humorous tone and using understandable and conversational diction how because of scientists ego, we have been wrong in many areas about dinosaurs. When museaums joined into the dinosaur rush everyone wanted a bigger and better dinosaur. Jack Horner questions where are all the little dinosaurs? Most of us have always assumed that baby dinosaurs are just mini versions of the big ones, but where are they? Back to the ego thing, scientists like to name things, and if a dinosaur is different it gets a new name. Jack horner found that these various dinosaurs that have different names may actually be the same dinosaur just in different stages of growth. The baby dinosaurs arent mini replicas of their adult versions. This video blew my mind, I always expecting to believe what scientists to say to be true, and yet here is jack horner who just categorized all of these different dinosaurs as the same one. Unlike some other Ted videos I enjoyed this video because it was very natural. Some other speakers were the sorts who had note cards with them and had an entire narrative planned out. They had good things to say but it was unnatural to listen to. After this video I was pretty convinced that Jack Horners theory was right or at least on the right track, it was very convincing and easy to understand. It made sense. He also make a lot of humorous appeals by calling to mind how dinosaurs are usually a topic that we learn as children and forget about later on, ect. At the end of the video I was still laughing and I had learned a few things about dinosaurs, so all in all its a worth while video.
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