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National Geographic Dinosaur Hunters
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Eighty million years ago, |
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disaster came to a world |
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It came in waves of |
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that buried |
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For eons, |
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in a place that would |
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the Gobi Desert |
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Among the dead |
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was one of the strangest |
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It was called Oviraptor. |
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It was swift, smart, lethal. |
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Now, only bones |
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And the vicious |
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The bones have given us |
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a glimpse of those |
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A dim reflection of life |
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But there is more |
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in the vast emptiness |
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Now an ambitious expedition |
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is traveling to |
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to uncover the secrets |
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They don't exactly |
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Often, they're mistaken |
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But Mike Novacek leads |
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along with colleague |
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They could be taken |
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but they're from |
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the American Museum |
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scientists piecing together |
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of evolution and extinction. |
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To me it's so |
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I'm so emotionally |
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I can't imagine why |
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where we come from isn't |
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Could you imagine |
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to live in the late |
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and not know that extinction |
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There's also just |
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I mean, |
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tells us something about |
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was 80 millions years ago, |
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Just having a sense of history |
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and what the planet |
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I think, just increases |
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for our own existence. |
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Mike and Mark are about to journey |
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to the sun scorched badlands of the Gobi. |
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It's a desolate area - |
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a half million dusty |
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and redrock cliffs. |
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But it's a paleontologist's |
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For this is where |
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and lay untouched |
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Then, in 1922, one of the |
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expeditions in history |
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Mongolia's dinosaur graveyard |
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Its leader was a charismatic |
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and... |
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named Roy Chapman Andrews. |
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Like Mark and Mike, |
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American Museum |
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But Andrews was an |
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and a scientific cowboy. |
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Where his paleontologist |
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Andrews hacked away with |
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But he found one of the |
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richest dinosaur boneyards |
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He returned with a spectacular |
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and a library |
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But in the 1920s, |
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Communists seized power |
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The open door to the West |
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For the next 65 years, |
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the fabulous fossil fields |
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were forbidden territory. |
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Now, everything's changed. |
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Only token symbols |
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Finally, |
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We don't want those onions? |
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They rot. |
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Mark and Mike were among |
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the first scientists |
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They're now back |
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with the Mongolian Academy |
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Three kilos? |
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Three kilos. |
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They have just enough supplies |
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and a long way to go... |
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on their way to |
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concentrations of fossils |
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a place called Ukhaa Tolgod. |
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Over a vast span of time, |
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Ukhaa Tolgod |
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Dinosaur history |
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as a great empire |
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a few hundred million years. |
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That's a significant |
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Imagine that time, |
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from the moment the dinosaurs |
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is a single day. |
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At midnight, |
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They're flourishing at noon. |
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They don't go extinct |
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Time passes. |
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The first modern man |
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a minute and a half |
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All of our recorded history |
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In the Gobi, time seems to |
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The Gobi is such a big place |
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and it basically has no life |
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We really have to bring |
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So all our food, |
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which we're carrying in |
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all our supplies |
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actually exploring |
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In such a vast area, |
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Even getting there |
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Roy Chapman Andrews |
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thought he'd solved |
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with a new piece of |
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When it was announced |
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a scientific exploration |
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with a fleet of motor cars, |
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men said that |
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Only camels had been used |
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We had 40 men, |
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and 150 camels |
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It was the biggest land |
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ever to leave |
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Roy Chapman Andrews. |
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From China, |
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He left Peking, |
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and drove deep into |
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of outer Mongolia. |
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Mongolia, a land of painted |
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Mongolia, a land of mystery, |
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A thirsty land. |
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Gazelles, wild asses, |
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the marching sands. |
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Few explorers had been there |
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of thirst, cold, and hunger. |
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But Andrews found |
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Our average speed was |
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Rocks, ravines, washouts, |
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followed one another |
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One might imagine that the |
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They have not. |
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And even modern jeeps |
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for a desert like the Gobi. |
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We have an electrical problem |
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It's not a very complicated |
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It's a Russian jeep. |
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It's not like a Japanese |
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They're up and running. |
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But next, |
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Piston, huh? |
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We think it's piston |
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A critical breakdown could |
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End of the expedition, |
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Maybe we'll make it. |
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With the nearest gas station |
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and time already |
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things will have to go |
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Oh, we're having |
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We think it's a fuel pump. |
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This could be way bad. |
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Seems to me I got this thing |
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without doing |
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Maybe we'll tow it |
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Abandon it. |
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We can't stay here |
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After more than |
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the vehicles all decide to |
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As they enter the dusty |
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they're traveling a long way |
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Dinosaurs first appeared |
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in a world |
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The creatures were thriving |
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as South America |
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About 75 million years ago, |
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dinosaurs began to disappear... |
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Their bones were more |
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Then in the 1920s, |
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came to a remote place |
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he would name |
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It was a likely- |
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There appear to be medieval |
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brick-red in |
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colossal gateways, |
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A labyrinth of ravines |
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with fossil bones |
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for the paleontologist. |
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Without a doubt |
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lying just beneath |
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But where? |
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If only my eyes |
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baffling surface |
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of what lay concealed! |
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Within minutes, |
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Andrews and his team |
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had stumbled onto the mother |
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They discovered the remains of |
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many of them completely |
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The fossils revealed a world |
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that Andrews found alien |
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Dinosaurs were |
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you might think of as |
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or the kind you dream of |
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It was an image our culture |
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Dinosaurs were fierce, |
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monstrous... |
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Many of the new ideas |
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are coming from the amazing |
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The team discovered the site |
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Now, to get to the dinosaurs, |
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all they have to do... |
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The maps in general are pretty |
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The towns on those maps |
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We don't even pay |
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any of the roads |
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They're completely wrong. |
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Even a satellite tracking |
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So the satellite |
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but the road you need |
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completely |
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so the roads here are |
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There are no signs and many |
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We're gonna go like this. |
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We're a little off course. |
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We're just a bit off course. |
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So we've gotta go |
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At times, you have to go in |
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Roy Chapman Andrews too spent |
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wandering the Gobi. |
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But in the end, |
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he blundered into a discovery |
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A member of his expedition |
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a critical link in the great |
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On July 13, |
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that he had found |
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We did not take |
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Nevertheless, |
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we were all curious enough |
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to inspect his find. |
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There could be no mistake. |
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Our paleontologist |
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"Gentlemen, |
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You are looking at the first |
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The discovery made Roy Chapman |
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But the eggs were not alone. |
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Lying above the nest |
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a bird-like dinosaur |
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It had apparently been |
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stealing the eggs. |
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So it was forever cursed |
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Latin for "egg thief." |
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It would be years |
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before we discovered |
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about the animal called |
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In the late '20s, |
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blew fiercely over |
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fields of Mongolia. |
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That's when |
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was forced to leave |
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We are more than ever convinced |
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was a paleontology |
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Still, we have shown the way, |
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Later, others will reap |
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Decades later, |
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Mark and Mike are |
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the treasures that Andrews |
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After more than a week |
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they finally reach their goal: |
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With all the delays, |
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they've only got |
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This is the place |
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where they've pinned |
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With luck, |
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exposed more bones. |
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But even here, |
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It is possible to fail |
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It's a huge area, |
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there are lots of rocks. |
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But they don't all |
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You can drive to |
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tantalizing set of badlands |
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and not find one |
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It's a treasure hunt in a way |
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and it is sort of like finding |
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But on this day, |
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Discovery |
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Oh, I see it. |
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Oh, wonderful. |
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Jeez. |
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That's nice. |
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Back to lizard |
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The side of a skull here. |
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The teeth sticking out. |
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You can see these teeth, |
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Each one of these is a socket |
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Pretty big. |
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This is a hand claw. |
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Has this big thing |
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it's the hand of an Oviraptor. |
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They've hit the jackpot: |
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among their first finds |
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the creature Andrews knew as |
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Considering that the Oviraptor |
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in the world and there's |
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of specimens found before |
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where we've found 25. |
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I mean, |
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just in the first 20 minutes. |
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This is really not |
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most of the time. |
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You don't go finding 12 |
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There's another |
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Yup. |
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Each one of these |
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that's the eroded rubble of |
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One, two, three, four |
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This is going to be |
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This is part of |
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Let me see. |
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This looks, |
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That's the tail and part of |
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and the tail shooting |
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This is nice. |
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I mean, what we're seeing |
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I mean, |
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and other creatures... |
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buried alive possibly |
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the surface like some |
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But it's great for us |
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We don't have enough tape. |
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We oughta count |
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Once, scores of dinosaurs |
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of Ukhaa Tolgod |
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I think this was an oasis |
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Huge numbers of dinosaurs |
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congregating around |
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And on occasions, |
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not just one event |
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these animals were buried |
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We'd have to imagine |
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an enormous force |
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on these creatures |
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Some of the dinosaurs almost |
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to swim to the surface, |
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much like a skier |
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in some cases, |
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to get out of this |
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or great wall of sand, |
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Perhaps |
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Hey, I just swept there. |
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You've made it |
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I take pride in my work. |
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Next year we'll bring some |
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The prehistoric sandstorms |
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buried dinosaurs |
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And on their first |
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Mark and Mike made an |
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A nest with eggs and inside |
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the embryo of an Oviraptor, |
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like a dinosaur |
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Here was the vicious |
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just a tiny baby |
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It was an important discovery - |
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a secret moment |
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of this strange |
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This year, |
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they're hoping to |
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about the Oviraptor |
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There's growing excitement |
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They think they've found |
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a completely |
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a relative of the Oviraptor, |
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what ultimately happened to |
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We have no idea what this is. |
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It's a really big animal. |
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It might be something new. |
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This specimen |
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implications that go beyond |
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just being a really |
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So it's exactly |
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what we wanted to find... |
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The skeleton is |
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Mark and Mike believe that |
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an exciting theory - |
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that some dinosaurs |
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They evolved into creatures |
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The bones tell the story. |
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There are uncanny similarities |
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in the skeletons of |
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like these and modern birds. |
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Almost without doubt, |
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they shared |
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And each new find |
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that dinosaurs |
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that birds, in fact, |
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Dinosaurs need to be thought |
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of as incredibly |
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that exist with us today. |
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We just call them birds. |
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Our skies are filled |
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It's a bad metaphor |
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to use to call something |
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you know... just |
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obsolete, ugly, |
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I mean, that's not what these |
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I mean, it's like the swifts |
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I mean, |
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And that they're |
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And the closest relative |
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is these small carnivorous |
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we've collected |
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At day's end, hopes are |
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will help connect the dots |
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The feeling of anticipation |
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if not always exactly in key. |
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First thing in the morning, |
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So, we hope we got something |
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Mike, work on that. |
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Kill that beetle, |
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As they pry the rock open, |
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Look at that. |
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Yeah. |
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I don't know what that is. |
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Bunch of... maybe. |
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Could it be a theropod, |
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No. |
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Well, it could be, but... |
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It's not known to science. |
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I think what we're lookin' at |
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is that there's a dead |
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It's gone and we're |
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And the ankylosaurs |
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are among the most common |
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It's not a |
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It's not even |
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I'm sure that |
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You want us to just go away? |
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What they want to do now |
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Today, the dinosaur hunters |
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have tracked down |
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Well, you win |
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That's just... |
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I'm tired. |
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They've spent |
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working in the |
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But tomorrow will |
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with any luck, a better one. |
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Instead, nature decides |
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As Mongolian would say, |
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Sounds like I'm bored. |
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Yeah, |
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The sun burns off |
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It's a new day and a new dig. |
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This find is not |
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It's not related to birds. |
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And it's not an Oviraptor. |
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But it probably was |
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It's an animal called |
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They called these guys |
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They were sort of everywhere. |
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They roamed around, |
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maybe in herds. |
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It's full of spikes. |
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We actually call it Spikey |
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We've sort of bonded |
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These are the eyes |
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So we're looking at |
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These are... cheek spikes |
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and the frill covering |
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Protoceratops was a bizarre |
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a hog-sized animal |
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a strict vegetarian |
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Around its head was |
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but the shield didn't protect |
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Enemies like the Oviraptor. |
| 00:33:44 |
And that's exactly |
| 00:33:45 |
what the team digs up next... |
| 00:33:49 |
A pair of them |
| 00:33:52 |
they seem to describe |
| 00:33:56 |
Yeah, |
| 00:33:58 |
We're trying to figure out |
| 00:34:03 |
Ozzie and Harriet. |
| 00:34:06 |
Batman and Robin. |
| 00:34:08 |
Well, we have a hypothesis |
| 00:34:10 |
and they were sort of |
| 00:34:12 |
across the miles. |
| 00:34:14 |
The star-crossed Oviraptors |
| 00:34:16 |
are given the permanent |
| 00:34:20 |
We have one hand |
| 00:34:24 |
This is the other one. |
| 00:34:26 |
Christa now is gluing |
| 00:34:29 |
And this is, of course, |
| 00:34:32 |
the neck coming up |
| 00:34:36 |
And over here we have a claw. |
| 00:34:40 |
It's a long hard process |
| 00:34:43 |
But they've done it before. |
| 00:34:48 |
Over the last few years, |
| 00:34:50 |
they've uncovered a world |
| 00:35:09 |
Some are related to birds. |
| 00:35:15 |
Others are even |
| 00:35:19 |
Our tiny ancestors - |
| 00:35:21 |
mammals that lived |
| 00:35:28 |
Most of these mammals |
| 00:35:30 |
like early mice and shrews. |
| 00:35:34 |
But these insignificant |
| 00:35:35 |
gradually evolved |
| 00:35:38 |
of our world - the cats, |
| 00:35:41 |
the whales |
| 00:35:56 |
But sometimes evolution... |
| 00:35:58 |
has to take a back seat |
| 00:36:03 |
We don't have much water here, |
| 00:36:06 |
so it's kind of hard to |
| 00:36:09 |
I thought |
| 00:36:10 |
For some reason, I messed up. |
| 00:36:15 |
I've got these on delicate. |
| 00:36:19 |
Yeah, personal grooming is |
| 00:36:24 |
The team spends a lot of time |
| 00:36:27 |
that they're groomed, |
| 00:36:29 |
looking their best |
| 00:36:33 |
because you never know. |
| 00:36:34 |
There may be some |
| 00:36:36 |
in a nearby village that |
| 00:36:45 |
There are only |
| 00:36:47 |
It's time for the second |
| 00:36:51 |
the Oviraptors await |
| 00:36:53 |
a sheltering shroud |
| 00:36:55 |
They're now |
| 00:36:57 |
of preparator Amy Davidson. |
| 00:37:00 |
I love skeletons. |
| 00:37:01 |
I actually never was that |
| 00:37:04 |
but I've always loved bones. |
| 00:37:05 |
And I have a background |
| 00:37:09 |
and I've always admired |
| 00:37:11 |
the skeleton that |
| 00:37:13 |
It's some of the most |
| 00:37:16 |
And these fossil skeletons |
| 00:37:21 |
as yesterday's camel skeleton |
| 00:37:23 |
But they are a dinosaur. |
| 00:37:27 |
These fossils are forever. |
| 00:37:33 |
It almost lasted forever. |
| 00:37:36 |
For 80 million years, |
| 00:37:41 |
reaching toward |
| 00:37:50 |
What were they like in life? |
| 00:37:52 |
Did they hunt together? |
| 00:37:53 |
Share food with each other? |
| 00:37:55 |
Fight with each other? |
| 00:37:59 |
Or was this love |
| 00:38:13 |
Scientists may never know |
| 00:38:16 |
if the bird-like Oviraptors |
| 00:38:19 |
But now there's a new find |
| 00:38:22 |
into the private lives of |
| 00:38:24 |
a place paleontologists |
| 00:38:27 |
only in their best dreams. |
| 00:38:30 |
Oh, yeah, it's farther down. |
| 00:38:34 |
They've discovered |
| 00:38:39 |
And then, in the dirt below |
| 00:38:45 |
an entire nest. |
| 00:38:54 |
How many eggs now revealed? |
| 00:38:56 |
Uh, one, two, three, four, |
| 00:39:02 |
And then three |
| 00:39:05 |
Twelve eggs. All right. |
| 00:39:11 |
Another one |
| 00:39:14 |
It's really |
| 00:39:16 |
because it's one of |
| 00:39:18 |
where we can capture |
| 00:39:20 |
that's 80 million years old. |
| 00:39:23 |
Here we have |
| 00:39:26 |
of or the death of a creature |
| 00:39:29 |
in association with something |
| 00:39:34 |
This one was fossilized where |
| 00:39:36 |
it happened to drop right |
| 00:39:40 |
She didn't just drop there. |
| 00:39:43 |
The good mother Oviraptor |
| 00:39:48 |
They probably brought food |
| 00:39:54 |
And the good mother |
| 00:39:56 |
Like a bird, |
| 00:40:01 |
The fearsome carnivore |
| 00:40:10 |
So the story of the dinosaur |
| 00:40:13 |
has finally come full circle. |
| 00:40:15 |
The Oviraptors |
| 00:40:18 |
and took care of the nest. |
| 00:40:20 |
Now, they will never be seen |
| 00:40:22 |
as simply nightmare |
| 00:40:29 |
The dig has been everything |
| 00:40:33 |
But to see what |
| 00:40:36 |
they have to get |
| 00:40:38 |
out of the ground, |
| 00:40:39 |
and then take them |
| 00:40:42 |
halfway around the world. |
| 00:40:48 |
She bathed in plaster, |
| 00:40:53 |
but dangerously delicate... like Rice Krispies |
| 00:41:00 |
No, no. |
| 00:41:00 |
That way. |
| 00:41:01 |
Okay, okay. |
| 00:41:02 |
Sorry. |
| 00:41:03 |
I thought you were going to |
| 00:41:04 |
Perfect. |
| 00:41:05 |
It's beautiful, Amy. |
| 00:41:06 |
More, more, more, more, more. |
| 00:41:07 |
It's beautiful. |
| 00:41:08 |
More, more, more, more. |
| 00:41:10 |
Okay. |
| 00:41:11 |
Nothing came out. |
| 00:41:12 |
All right, Amy. |
| 00:41:14 |
So far, so good. |
| 00:41:16 |
Now they have to convince |
| 00:41:19 |
to come down from her |
| 00:41:27 |
It's like moving |
| 00:41:45 |
Romeo and Juliet |
| 00:42:04 |
I'm happy. |
| 00:42:08 |
Just drive slowly, please? |
| 00:42:17 |
It's not there yet. |
| 00:42:27 |
They do get lost in the mail. |
| 00:42:29 |
The good mother Oviraptor |
| 00:42:31 |
and Romeo and Juliet |
| 00:42:35 |
And then, they disappear... |
| 00:42:54 |
After four months bound up |
| 00:42:58 |
the dinosaur fossils |
| 00:43:00 |
to their destination... |
| 00:43:03 |
the American Museum of |
| 00:43:12 |
The first arrival is Juliet. |
| 00:43:15 |
She's headed for Amy's lab, |
| 00:43:18 |
they'll find out |
| 00:43:21 |
lie beneath the recent coat |
| 00:43:24 |
I'm really glad this is here. |
| 00:43:26 |
From the summer in the Gobi to |
| 00:43:29 |
the winter in New York City. |
| 00:43:36 |
Juliet is now a seasoned |
| 00:43:43 |
After 80 million |
| 00:43:46 |
She, s the new kid |
| 00:44:14 |
There's a lot of questions |
| 00:44:16 |
There could be |
| 00:44:17 |
I have a feeling |
| 00:44:20 |
to be a nice skeleton - |
| 00:44:22 |
a nice skeleton, |
| 00:44:26 |
all laid out. |
| 00:44:27 |
It's pretty fun. |
| 00:44:48 |
It's a tricky business... |
| 00:44:50 |
make all the difference. |
| 00:44:54 |
Yeah, this is good. |
| 00:44:56 |
I'm really glad |
| 00:44:57 |
I didn't saw through a bone |
| 00:45:01 |
It's weird. |
| 00:45:03 |
It's just opening |
| 00:45:06 |
into this world I was living |
| 00:45:12 |
Yeah, this looks good. |
| 00:45:20 |
After all this work, |
| 00:45:23 |
if Juliet is an |
| 00:45:26 |
whether her skeleton is |
| 00:45:33 |
This is great. |
| 00:45:34 |
I'm really psyched, |
| 00:45:40 |
It does have a skull. |
| 00:45:47 |
I like, you know, |
| 00:45:50 |
It's really hard to |
| 00:45:51 |
I just look at it and say, |
| 00:45:54 |
It's traveled |
| 00:45:56 |
and halfway around the world |
| 00:45:59 |
and, you know, |
| 00:46:05 |
Working late? |
| 00:46:07 |
Yeah. |
| 00:46:08 |
And it's so beautiful. |
| 00:46:09 |
The more I work on it, |
| 00:46:11 |
the more you see |
| 00:46:17 |
My work just sort |
| 00:46:19 |
and this beautiful thing |
| 00:46:29 |
The process takes weeks. |
| 00:46:41 |
Finally, Juliet is revealed |
| 00:46:46 |
She's everything |
| 00:46:49 |
perhaps the most perfect |
| 00:46:52 |
a dinosaur for the ages. |
| 00:46:55 |
It's a beautiful fossil. |
| 00:46:57 |
In fact, I mean, |
| 00:46:58 |
that I think that |
| 00:47:00 |
the best prepared |
| 00:47:04 |
Oviraptor that's |
| 00:47:07 |
our expedition - |
| 00:47:11 |
I think we're going to |
| 00:47:13 |
to be able to relish |
| 00:47:14 |
of last summer |
| 00:47:18 |
It makes you wonder |
| 00:47:22 |
She's more than a pretty face |
| 00:47:25 |
These bones |
| 00:47:27 |
the evolution of dinosaurs |
| 00:47:30 |
Meanwhile, |
| 00:47:33 |
about the world |
| 00:47:38 |
I think what fascinates me is |
| 00:47:41 |
What was it like |
| 00:47:42 |
if you were flying in a little |
| 00:47:45 |
like some of the bush pilots |
| 00:47:48 |
What would it look like then - |
| 00:47:50 |
all those dinosaurs and the |
| 00:47:51 |
mammals and the lizards... |
| 00:47:57 |
After six long summers, |
| 00:48:00 |
Mark and Mike have uncovered |
| 00:48:02 |
of the Gobi... making Juliet's |
| 00:48:09 |
You could picture a lake |
| 00:48:12 |
and a bunch of Oviraptors |
| 00:48:15 |
like a colony of seabirds, |
| 00:48:26 |
And a bunch of these |
| 00:48:29 |
lumbering around |
| 00:48:35 |
and perhaps |
| 00:48:37 |
wandering through. |
| 00:48:39 |
And every once in a while |
| 00:48:43 |
coming over the hill |
| 00:48:56 |
And we can imagine |
| 00:48:59 |
Romeo and Juliet, |
| 00:49:02 |
and the good mother, |
| 00:49:21 |
Unnoticed in its |
| 00:49:23 |
is our own ancestor, |
| 00:49:25 |
a tiny tense creature |
| 00:49:27 |
the powerful beings |
| 00:50:00 |
In the end, |
| 00:50:01 |
they would all disappear |
| 00:50:05 |
along with most of the |
| 00:51:11 |
From our perspective, |
| 00:51:13 |
this mass extinction event |
| 00:51:19 |
because we're part of |
| 00:51:21 |
that survived |
| 00:51:23 |
and large hoofed animals and |
| 00:51:29 |
and ultimately humans. |
| 00:51:34 |
Ultimately, humans, |
| 00:51:37 |
and most of |
| 00:51:39 |
may not be able to count on |
| 00:51:45 |
Every species that's |
| 00:51:48 |
Has become extinct |
| 00:51:52 |
And whether extinction |
| 00:51:54 |
the total decimation |
| 00:51:57 |
or whether it's due to |
| 00:51:59 |
that species into |
| 00:52:02 |
nevertheless, everybody |
| 00:52:05 |
So in that view, |
| 00:52:09 |
Some species lived |
| 00:52:12 |
a story like any other story. |
| 00:52:15 |
Others evolved, |
| 00:52:19 |
So perhaps a message about |
| 00:52:22 |
is encoded in these silent |
| 00:52:29 |
The only real knowledge |
| 00:52:31 |
biological past |
| 00:52:34 |
And it gives us |
| 00:52:37 |
and where we sit in the world |
| 00:52:39 |
and what that world |
| 00:52:44 |
Time is the hardest |
| 00:52:47 |
and the story of life, |
| 00:52:51 |
is the greatest mystery |
| 00:52:55 |
But the expedition |
| 00:52:58 |
They've gazed into the past |
| 00:53:02 |
and tender world |
| 00:53:04 |
that much closer to our own. |
