Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480
7,397Dave Hone is a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of numerous scientific papers and books on the behavior and ecology of dinosaurs. He lectures at Queen Mary University of London on topics of Ecology, Zoology, Biology, and Evolution.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:23 - Introduction
1:56 - T-Rex's size & biomechanics
25:38 - T-Rex's hunting strategies
38:45 - History of dinosaurs on Earth
59:17 - $31.8 million T-Rex fossil
1:12:22 - T-Rex's skull and bone-crushing bite force
1:31:12 - What Jurassic Park got wrong
1:49:31 - Evolution and sexual selection
2:10:05 - Spinosaurus
2:20:40 - What Jurassic Park got right
2:28:14 - T-Rex's intelligence
2:38:12 - Cannibalism among T-Rex
2:43:44 - Extinction of the dinosaurs
3:00:54 - Dragons
3:17:17 - Birds are dinosaurs
3:28:02 - Future of paleontology
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