The origin, evolution, and extinction of the dinosaurs | Stephen Brusatte | СПбГУ | Лекториум

[@insainiti87]

Awesome lecture

[@ridwanp7884]

this is the lecture i always wanna hear

[@andrewgan557]

Ridwan P yup. Not like those of the young earth creationist

[@Prayukth]

There had to be a combination of factors at play for removing a species as successful as the dinosaurs... currently we know of three (asteroid, loss of plant eater diversity and the Deccan eruptions) who knows a fourth one may also be there. The analogy here is with the extinction of trolobites..it took nature 3 extinction events to completely wipe them out...but if birds have survived as the not so glamorous descendents of dinosaurs, the kt extinction event was not so successful after all...