21: Paleontologist Evelyn Vollmer, Figuring out the Age of the Earth, and What Defines a Dinosaur
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Are They Dinosaurs?
Scientific naming is confusing as fuck. There's a lot of deep rooted things in their letters and there's also a lot of human things to it which I think is important to remember. It's fun because you can also like you'll walk through a museum and a parent will be trying to teach their kid about something And they see a mammoth and they go look look at the dinosaurs Our mammoth are not dinosaurs. Yeah, it's hard to Go unpack all of that in two seconds, but that's because they lived in the ice age So dinosaurs said like way died out by that point. Oh, oh, I dislike that distinction very much Um, do we like that it did be
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