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Subtitle created after the soundtrack

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by Dan Ibanescu

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Synchronization: Dan Ibănescu

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ibanescu.dan@gmail.com

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Dinosaurs have haunted our imaginations
for a long time.

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But, most things we know
about dinosaurs...

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... are wrong.

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Currently, a revolution in science
transformed their story...

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... forcing us to look at dinosaurs
in a new, revolutionary perspective.

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The way we perceived dinosaurs
for most of the 20th century,

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compared to how we perceive them in the last 40 years,
it's like the difference between day and night, completely different.

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And in the process of reinvention
the dinosaurs were "overloaded".

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At least 150-160 million years ago,

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dinosaurs were among the dominant animals.

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There were gigantic predators in the sky ...

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... there were enormous predators on land ...

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The animals they hunted were "armed"
with huge horns, armor, clubs...

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So one of the fundamental questions
about dinosaurs is...

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why were they not successful?

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Perhaps they survived by hunting in packs,

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developing his own armor,

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perceiving their world in ways on
which we never imagined...

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Welcome to the Dinosaur Revolution!

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REVOLUTION OF THE DINOSAURS

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SURVIVAL TACTICS

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125 million years ago.

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Lower Cretaceous.

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Large sauropods, such as Cedarosaurus,

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migrate along the Earth,
in search of food and water.

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Like many other large herbivores,

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these Cedarosaurus move in herds,
the young being protected by the massive adults.

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But there are also bandits on this road...

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Utahraptors.

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Dominant predators.

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What they lost in size, they have
won through carefully coordinated attacks.

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Utahraptors were the ultimate killers.

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I guess you could say a Utahraptor would have been, like
opponent, as dangerous as a modern grizzly bear.

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And unlike the grizzly, it would have been,
probably a relatively faster animal.

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There is also evidence that, even
the great predatory dinosaurs lived in packs.

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Therefore, it is very possible that the Utahraptors attacked in
groups, to be able to bring down prey much larger than them.

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And the pack was woven with serious weapons ...

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We are talking about a curved blade that long ...

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... whether it was used to stab or tear,
whether it was simply piercing the intestines,

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it would have been a truly formidable weapon to use
for larger prey than other predatory dinosaurs.

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Survival tactics can manifest in the most
unusual places, to the most unusual characters...

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It was an amazing mini creature!

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A miniraptor called Rahonavis might have
possessed the ultimate weapon of survival...

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And the revolution continues...

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Dinosaurs are the ultimate survivors.

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We know this because they are, even today, with us.

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One of the greatest revolutions that a
occurred in - say - the last 15 years,

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is the discovery that birds
they are the descendants of dinosaurs.

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But although it is known that he wore
feathers, this little bird was not a bird.

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It's a predatory dinosaur, 30
cm high, called Rahonavis.

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He was probably a fast runner,
it definitely had wings

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possibly, he had the ability to float
and might even have been able to fly...

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And so, step by step, the adaptations,
techniques and anatomical changes

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who helped the little dinosaur
to survive day by day

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all together, produced these wonderful
beings that are birds ...

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70 million years ago...

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Madagascar.

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A passing Rapetosaurus and the promise of a light meal,
they make Rahonavis leave his safe bough...

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Majungasaurus, the apex predator...

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Two young Majungasaurus ...

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Beelzebufo, also known as
Devil frog.

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The biggest frog that ever hopped
ever on Earth.

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Survival tactics also include lessons
about what not to do

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in this case, eating crazy mushrooms...

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And the revolution continues...

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One thing Dinosaur Revolution tells us,
is that dinosaurs were not, in any way,
simple stupid animals...

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There is a famous quote from Albert Einstein:

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"Everything should be as simple as possible,
but not simpler than that."

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For decades I thought dinosaurs were too simple,

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and I later learned that I am
considerably more complex.

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Dinosaurs could have learned from the environment
surrounding and from their peers.

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We often associate size
brain with intelligence.

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The brain is probably overrated.

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You don't need a big brain to
to have complex behavior.

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They may also be able to see the world
in much more vivid colors than we imagined before.

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Dinosaurs almost certainly had
bird-like eyes,

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eyes with which they could perceive colors
much more intense than us mammals.

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And if they could look at their world and learn,

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the more chances
of survival they had,

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because danger comes in many colors,

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shapes,

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and sizes.

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160 million years ago in China,

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for some long-necked herbivores,
the "golden age" began.

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This is Shunosaurus.

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Like many other herbivores,
they probably lived in groups.

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Predators, such as Sinraptor,
they could feel the weakness.

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Lecția a fost învățată:

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Roșu înseamnă ”STOP!”.

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Dinozaurii nu erau singurele ființe capabile
to use their brains for survival.

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Și mamiferele făceau asta ...

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... și încă destul de bine.

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And the revolution continues...

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Jurasicul Superior a fost epoca
de aur a dinozaurilor uriași.

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Ei au stăpânit, cu adevărat, Pământul.

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But the discovery of new fossils shows that mammals
they have adapted to survive in their world...

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occupying a much more complex and diverse role,
much sooner than we imagined.

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For example, beavers from the Jurassic ...

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It is an animal whose existence I did not even suspect, a few years ago
years. Nothing like it has been discovered in the age of dinosaurs.

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And, believe it or not, in the Jurassic they were
even flying squirrels...

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These two findings are representative
on understanding Mesozoic mammals.

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Upper Jurassic, China.

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A land of forests,

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rivers,

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and of the "crowned" dragons,

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name Guanlong.

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It's hard to believe it's the two of them
related to the mighty T-Rex...

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... but it is so!

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Although he was not a beaver,

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Castorocauda had many beaver-like "tools", which
they allowed survival in a world dominated by dinosaurs.

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He was small...

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... and agile.

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Under the Jurassic Moonlight, another
early mammal went hunting...

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Volaticotherium is not in
reality a flying squirrel,

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but it looks and acts like one.

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It is still the golden age of dinosaurs.

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One day, mammals will dominate the Earth...

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... in this case, with a little help
from neighboring reptiles.

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Survival of the fittest
takes on a new and desperate meaning,

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in the Cretaceous, in a battle
deadly with a pack of raptors.

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It's a truly "frozen" moment
over time, and that's remarkable.

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And the revolution continues...

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One of the most common and
tough dinosaurs was Protoceratops.

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A creature equipped with a few "tools"
very effective for survival.

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At first sight, because it had no horns of any kind,
Protoceratops seemed like a pretty harmless animal.

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But at the end of the skull it had a kind of beak
it was used to tear the plants it ate,

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and certainly against predators too, if
he had nowhere to go. This thing was razor sharp.

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But like all animals, a Protoceratops
he was defenseless when he was young.

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A baby Protoceratops, left alone,
he would have died not long after.

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So in order to survive,
he would have looked around for his relatives.

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It could have joined an individual
solitary or, even better, a herd.

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But finding a herd is not a thing
easy, especially if you are newly orphaned...

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75 million years ago.

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The Gobi Desert.

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Protoceratops often traveled in herds.

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So an old lonely male is a
rare sight on the plains of Cretaceous Mongolia.

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Survival tactics
take an "aerial" dimension,

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when a Pterosaur mother adopts a strategy of 
leaving the nest dangerous for her young...

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And the revolution continues...

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Brazil.

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125 million years ago.

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While the dinosaurs ruled the Earth,
another group of animals ruled the sky...

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They were flying reptiles called Pterosaurs.

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Dinosaurs haven't ruled the Earth for a long time
135 million years, by accident.

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How do you survive in a
world like the Mesozoic?

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Maybe working together, in a pack,
to be able to bring down large prey.

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Maybe being able to climb trees,
to rise above predators.

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Maybe being the best
flying around...

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Whatever strategy they adopted,

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the various dinosaurs, mammals and pterosaurs

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they found a way to survive and to
pass the genes down through the Age of Dinosaurs.

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And that Age of Dinosaurs has us
given many things to tell...

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The dinosaur revolution...

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it's just the beginning...