Lecture 16 - Mesozoic Earth History Part 1

Lecturer: Dr. Christopher White
Location: Lone Star College, University Park

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I appreciate these lectures probably weren't intended for 'Joe public' but I'm thoroughly enjoying them all the same. Hmm, this episode started with a lot of orogenies. I guess that makes this an orogenous zone - How stimulating! Human nature: It's interesting to consider that a whole lot of people are like me following along out of interest alone and finding the subject most entertaining, Yet the students at which this series is aimed will almost certainly have wished to be doing almost anything else even though they all chose to take part. It's funny how a requirement to do something almost always robs that activity of any interest or personal value. I guess it's no fun being a teacher. PS It's also interesting to observe that seemingly every fully aquatic tetrapod to exist got it's start within the Paleotethys or Tetyhs. Every other aquatic tetrapod started out elsewhere. Why? For what little it's worth my suspicion is the transition to being fully marine is much harder than 'learning to swim', possibly only the (paleo)Tethys ever had sufficiently benign conditions for long enough for returning tetrapods to get the hang of bearing live young in to water?

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Mesozoic was the Golden Age of Life on Earth

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Did they ever figure out how the land was able to support such large numbers of huge creatures? Was there better air? More plant life? warmer and more land with no glaciers? Or is it an illusion that the land and sea were teeming with life? You'd think there must have been large numbers of each species or they wouldn't have lasted millions of years.

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@@polarvortex3294 the questions you're asking are about such a large chunk of time that it's very hard to answer it to anyone's satisfaction, least of all mine. As for the size of the creatures, you don't say which kinds, when. At one point, there were giant bugs. At another, there were large animals that had somewhat hollow bones (like birds do), so they aren't as heavy as one would think. And yes, at many points the oxygen level was higher than today. But at other times, there was the opposite, when it was so hot that there was no ice at all. Many creatures died, each time the climate swung one way or the other, even though the changes happened slowly enough that some could evolve to survive. Unlike today's climate swing, which is changing so fast, we are having a mass extinction right in front of our eyes (if people would look). Hundreds of thousands of years compared to only a few hundred. It's not going to end well for our great-great grandchildren. Edited to add: No, it's not an illusion. There are so many fossils of so many different kinds of critters large and small that it's impossible for it to be any kind of illusion. Just thought I'd clear that up, too.

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There is no KT boundary in Oklahoma where my grandparents property is. The rocks on the surface are about 85 million years old there are ammonite fossils laying around on the floor outside. The odd thing there are no fish and very few marine reptile fossils. There was a mosausaur skull used to prop the door open they called it toothy. It had lots of teeth.

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That simply means it was eroded down, not that it didn't exist.

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Or it was very close to the impact and could need looking into. We all know that anything that doesn’t fit into academias paradigm is ignored. If science was told the truth, Neil degrade Tyson’s entire life would largely be a lie. I can give examples but you probably know what I mean. Out of place artifacts. Ignored destroyed or hidden. Ufos, lie after lie after lie. I cloud write a book on the collective ego of academia and point out hundreds upon hundreds of ignored facts, intentional lies and even murder to keep their secrets. Go ahead call me a conspiracy theorist and I’ll give you proof. As a lifelong science nerd, I’m embarrassed to say I once believed ALL of what they were preaching. Some sciences like this guy are right. But nasa itself is a government organization hence it lies if it is told. Any public scientist, up until recently walked the line. That’s FINALLY changing thank god nd I’m so happy to say I was wrong and the so called ufo nuts and conspiracy theorists were right all along

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where can i watch part 2? thanks

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They find marine reptile fossils northwest of their property the water must have been too shallow at their house.

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