Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Guest Starring
iJustine: youtube.com/user/ijustine
Harris Heller: youtube.com/user/harrisheller
Emily Graslie: youtube.com/c/EmilyGraslie/featured
Watch the behind-the-scenes: youtu.be/cUZfazvSoE0
Life finds a way…Jake (that’s me!) is enjoying a relaxing vacation at Jurassic Park when something goes terribly wrong and the dinosaurs escape their cages. With the prehistoric beasts running rampant, the race is on to get to the last boat off the island…and see if you could survive the awesome power of a T-Rex bite, being hunted by Pterosaurs and conversely, whether or not dinosaurs could actually survive in OUR world.
(Click “Show More” for references)
0:00 Welcome To Jurassic Park
1:52 Real Life Dinos
3:58 Real Life Science
6:10 Getting Bitten By A T-Rex
9:31 The Ptruth About Pterosaurs
13:04 Could Dinosaurs Exist Today?
16:50 Helicoptering Out
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
• Ancient DNA & de-extinction
1) nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555
2) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.1745
3) sciencefocus.com/nature/de-extinction-can-we-bring-extinct-animals-back-from-the-dead
4) sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/should-we-bring-extinct-species-back-dead
• Dinosaur bites & eating habits
1) smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-tyrannosaurus-rexs-dangerous-and-deadly-bite-37252918
2) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0056
3) nationalgeographic.com/science/article/time-to-slay-the-t-rex-scavenger-debate
4) https://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/76/2/118/1680/The-Coevolution-of-Tyrannosaurus-amp-Its-PreyCould
• Pterosaurs, the REALLY BIG ones
1) amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/how-did-pterosaurs-fly
2) mentalfloss.com/article/56005/qa-michael-habib-pterosaur-flight-expert
3) nationalgeographic.com/science/article/searching-for-the-backstory-of-airborne-giants
4) markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html
• Climate of the Dinosaur era (paleoecology) and could they survive in our world:
1) cp.copernicus.org/articles/15/1463/2019
2) sciencefocus.com/nature/could-a-dinosaur-survive-in-todays-climate-conditions
3) bbcearth.com/blog/?article=when-dinosaurs-roamed-antarctica
4) usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/youth-education-science/mesozoic
#CYSTM #jurassicpark #trex
Guest Starring
iJustine: youtube.com/user/ijustine
Harris Heller: youtube.com/user/harrisheller
Emily Graslie: youtube.com/c/EmilyGraslie/featured
Watch the behind-the-scenes: youtu.be/cUZfazvSoE0
Life finds a way…Jake (that’s me!) is enjoying a relaxing vacation at Jurassic Park when something goes terribly wrong and the dinosaurs escape their cages. With the prehistoric beasts running rampant, the race is on to get to the last boat off the island…and see if you could survive the awesome power of a T-Rex bite, being hunted by Pterosaurs and conversely, whether or not dinosaurs could actually survive in OUR world.
(Click “Show More” for references)
0:00 Welcome To Jurassic Park
1:52 Real Life Dinos
3:58 Real Life Science
6:10 Getting Bitten By A T-Rex
9:31 The Ptruth About Pterosaurs
13:04 Could Dinosaurs Exist Today?
16:50 Helicoptering Out
ADDITIONAL LEARNING
• Ancient DNA & de-extinction
1) nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555
2) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.1745
3) sciencefocus.com/nature/de-extinction-can-we-bring-extinct-animals-back-from-the-dead
4) sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/should-we-bring-extinct-species-back-dead
• Dinosaur bites & eating habits
1) smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-tyrannosaurus-rexs-dangerous-and-deadly-bite-37252918
2) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0056
3) nationalgeographic.com/science/article/time-to-slay-the-t-rex-scavenger-debate
4) https://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/76/2/118/1680/The-Coevolution-of-Tyrannosaurus-amp-Its-PreyCould
• Pterosaurs, the REALLY BIG ones
1) amnh.org/exhibitions/pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/how-did-pterosaurs-fly
2) mentalfloss.com/article/56005/qa-michael-habib-pterosaur-flight-expert
3) nationalgeographic.com/science/article/searching-for-the-backstory-of-airborne-giants
4) markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-we-think-giant-pterosaurs-could-fly.html
• Climate of the Dinosaur era (paleoecology) and could they survive in our world:
1) cp.copernicus.org/articles/15/1463/2019
2) sciencefocus.com/nature/could-a-dinosaur-survive-in-todays-climate-conditions
3) bbcearth.com/blog/?article=when-dinosaurs-roamed-antarctica
4) usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/youth-education-science/mesozoic
#CYSTM #jurassicpark #trex
