Docs and Dialogue: Dino Birds
Docs and Dialogue: Dino Birds
Contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs never went extinct — they're still alive and flying among us in the form of birds. Birds are the only dinosaurs to survive the cataclysmic mass extinction caused by an asteroid the size of Mount Everest crashing into Earth some 66 million years ago. The big question is: how? How did birds not only endure the apocalypse that wiped out every other dinosaur, but go on to evolve and populate every corner of the planet? Now, rare fossil discoveries are revealing the secrets of bird evolution going back more than 100 million years — telling the story of how resilient, feathered dinosaurs persevered and transformed into the vast, colorful array of species filling our skies today.
Free and open to the public. Approximately 53 minutes, rated G, and made possible through Kanopy.