Could You Survive JURASSIC PARK?

Guest Starring
iJustine: https://www.youtube.com/user/ijustine
Harris Heller: https://www.youtube.com/user/harrisheller
Emily Graslie: https://www.youtube.com/c/EmilyGraslie/featured

Life finds a way…Jake (that’s me!) is enjoying a relaxing vacation at Jurassic Park when something goes terribly wrong and the dinosaurs escape their cages. With the prehistoric beasts running rampant, the race is on to get to the last boat off the island…and see if you could survive the awesome power of a T-Rex bite, being hunted by Pterosaurs and conversely, whether or not dinosaurs could actually survive in OUR world.

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0:00 Introduction
2:50 The Truth About Raptors (and dinosaurs in general)
5:30 DNA Half-life
6:26 Dino Bite!
9:39 Electric Fences
10:49 Pterosaur Smash
13:47 Could Dinosaurs Survive Today?
16:44 Wrap Up

ADDITIONAL LEARNING

• Ancient DNA & de-extinction
1) https://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555
2) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.1745
3) https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/de-extinction-can-we-bring-extinct-animals-back-from-the-dead/
4) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/should-we-bring-extinct-species-back-dead

• Dinosaur bites & eating habits
1) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-tyrannosaurus-rexs-dangerous-and-deadly-bite-37252918/
2) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0056
3) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/time-to-slay-the-t-rex-scavenger-debate
4) https://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/76/2/118/1680/The-Coevolution-of-Tyrannosaurus-amp-Its-PreyCould

• Pterosaurs, the REALLY BIG ones
1) https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/how-did-pterosaurs-fly
2) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56005/qa-michael-habib-pterosaur-flight-expert
3) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/searching-for-the-backstory-of-airborne-giants
4) http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html

• Climate of the Dinosaur era (paleoecology) and could they survive in our world:
1) https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/15/1463/2019/
2) https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/could-a-dinosaur-survive-in-todays-climate-conditions/
3) https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=when-dinosaurs-roamed-antarctica
4) https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/youth-education-science/mesozoic