Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe | Kenneth Lacovara
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- What happens when you discover a dinosaur? Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara details his unearthing of Dreadnoughtus - a 77-million-year-old sauropod that was as tall as a house and as heavy as a jumbo jet - and considers how amazingly improbable it is that a tiny mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world could evolve into a sentient being capable of understanding these magnificent creatures. Join him in a celebration of the Earth's geological history and contemplate our place in deep time.
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This guy's not a paleontologist. He's a poet. Brilliant.
He definitely knows how to captivate an audience
+Mark Lucas They should've sent a poet. Oh wait, they did.
+Mark Lucas
Why can't he be both? Poetry and Paleontology are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Enneahedron Of course he could be both. That's not the point. I was using a form of language to emphasize the extent to which I was impressed with his presentation. Why wasn't 'that' obvious?
truly such a spectacular talk
Amazing presentation -- informative, interesting, poetic, thought provoking, and measured. To speak so eloquently for 16 minutes without so much as a single flub is stunning, just stunning.
I'm just 3 minutes in and I'm stunned, so much that I paused the video and peeked in the comment section to see if someone felt the same. He's got skills! Amazing to hear.
Funny I was thinking the same!
He's a great story teller..makes it very intriguing
what did u say about me
Agree he's a clever man indeed with a very serious message.
As a paleontologist, this made me cry. The love my colleagues and I feel for fossils, and evolution, and science, is so immense that my heart swells to the point of tears when I get reminded once again of why my job is important. I love this field, I love this guy, and I can say without a doubt that this is the most profound TED talk ever done. Brilliant.
great speaker,
That sounds amazing, i wish I could find a job I love that much. Hope you do well, God bless.
Life was Given to us you can! What are you passionate about? I guarantee I could tell you a way to turn it into your career.
Nicole Law yeah. I think this is beyond humbling. It’s a great reminder that we are incredibly fortunate to be alive and developed to the point we are.
The best lecture I've seen in a long time
This stuff is the reason I no longer watch TV.
Fabulous!
THis is fiction,,, assuming fact does not make it truth.
TV is the reason I don't watch TV
@@TheeRocker piss off god boy
@@TheeRocker Paleontology is based on facts and research, your claim that it is fiction is based on an assumption.
@@NabPunk I should have clarified myself. It's well understood, the odds are more probable that we are not from an evolutionary process from Ape to Man. But born man as we are.
Thanks for reccomending this. From all random recommended videos this was most unique and thoughtfull.
One of the best ted talks ever. Beautiful links between old and new. Perfect
So much build-up and intensity at the end ! This was brilliant !
A poet paleontologist
this was retarded.
I agree, just like a Hendrix solo!
He's an Evangelist of Science. Why rely on facts when you can preach science?
,,, almost like it was scripted, lol... This is fictional characterization based on evolution, because he stumbled upon an old bone. He is infatuated so much so, if he saw a live one, he would stair until eaten...
I grew up in pine hills Florida in the 70s and there were massive clay pits in the woods with every type of shark teeth you could find everywhere,it was awesome.You could also go to a spring and dive into the caves for shark teeth
Sounds great.
Powerful and compelling. Lacovara firmly puts humanity in its place and challenges us to actually change the course of history to avert disaster.
Such an eloquent speaker! Thoroughly enjoyed the talk, especially at the end
Almost too eloquent. His word choice was masterful to the point of being distracting. It felt like he'd written the talk and then memorized it. While I loved, his wordings there were points where a less polished talk might have been more effective.
Too eloquent. He also takes too many assuption for granted trying to make them seem like facts. Such as regarding the comet that hit earth...
It was good until the end.
So did that end up referencing global warming ? I can be dence.....idk
This. was. epic. I salute you good sir! This talk puts me in mind of Carl Sagan and that is a big compliment indeed.
Wonderfully written. Beautifully delivered. It was like poetry and it is definitely going to resonate with people.
it will only resonate with the mentally ill.
Poetry of LIES
Yeah, this bullshit worked on you unfortunately.
@Josh Gibladar your right.
Seriously, what is wrong with you people? This guy is right. It's not even a topic that I really think much about or try to do anything about, but he's definitely not wrong. Humans are really an infestation upon earth, far worse than cockroaches. To be honest though, I think we could use a good reset. The earth is beautiful, but humanity is nothing but a scar. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm tired of life as we all know it. Struggling to pay bills and buy food, living paycheck to paycheck in an unending battle, unable to put money away to buy anything or save for retirement, enslaved by our own governments under the less derogatory title of "citizen" while we work ourselves to the grave, law after law created in an attempt by our governments to extract more and more money each day from their slave labor force is not really living at all. It needs to end.
He sounds like he found a
thesaurus-Rex
Hunter Dean no your getting mixed up with Stephen Fry.
lol.... was going to say something similar but your comment is better.
Hah, he really is uh, what’s the word..
@Richard Hjerling He literally said, "Unlike the dinosaurs, we can do something about it." If that's fear-mongering, then I guess everything is! 🤣
Oh look a burger! I can eat it! Oh wait, am I threatening myself of death by hunger? Geez.
nooooooo! that's awesome
or a theosaurus rex
I teared up when he got a standing ovation. You can see the passion in Kenneth’s eyes. Glad I found this video
arguably one of the best TED talks ever.
The best is the talk about the guy who went to a mental institution after pleading insanity to a crime facing 4 years in prison and he wasn't really insane, then couldn't get classed sane again and stayed in the mental institution so long he went insane, so he stayed there for 15 years.
Whoa, link?
Absolutely. Awesome talk.
Ted talks are so pretentious
@@spodergibbs5088 Only to the ignorant.
i felt like i was listening to poetry, what an eloquent speaker!
Why study ancient history? Because it gives us perspective.
Humility.
@brett what makes you think they never existed? And no I wouldn't say we are guessing about everything, we are using the history to create a picture of what happened before us
brett - Yer, and the World is flat and only 6.000 yrs old🤤
@brett are those dinosauraus carbon dated in special labs that are not from his pocket paid but from another unbiast party that say those are really Dino bones? and they have DNA traces in them? like what about that? are u a flat earther? cause if u are... sorry to bother you ... your majesty.
or study future history, it's creepy
If only people had listened to him and the many other scientists who had said this for 30+ years.
absolutely phenomenal, I'm just speechless. Someone please give this man an award
Powerful and immensely important speech. I was nearly tearing up by the end.
BRAVO!
What an excellent speaker and communicator.
Thank you professor Lacovara.
What an amazing talk. Poetic, revealing, enthusiastic and with a callenging outlook. Thanks forever.
Brilliant articulation, delivery, storytelling and drama! Humbled!
I watched this on a Thursday by pure chance.
Same here. 😆
One of the most clear and concise talks I've heard in a while. Well done.
What a great speaker. I find this very entertaining to watch. I especially like the part of the dangers of gravity when being such a huge dinosaur.
Pretty excellent talk! Geology and palaeontology truly can be surprisingly humbling topics.
+Tom Meakin indeed but babies next to astrophysics
crappymeal Astrophysics is undeniably incredible in it's own right, and I love anything space related, but it puts you as an onlooker for the majority of the time. Whereas Geology feels more like you're "in it" xD
i can see what your saying
Anything related to Earth makes me feel relevant but space makes me feel irrelevant. No matter what you do you're not even a speck of dust in the cosmos.
People like him are the reason I want to become a paleontologist, going to work every day knowing that I might be a single step away from an amazing discovery must feel wonderful, I want to live that , everyday like he did
How does this video only have 200k views? Easily top 2 ted talks I’ve seen and better than any 5m+ ted talk out there. A truly incredible presentation.
What is your other favorite TED talk? Just curious to check it out...
@@AGDinCA Mine is "My stroke of insight", it's very true to our experience as human beings.
@@HalfAhBean Thanks for sharing!
"Perhaps on a Thursday" - I got that :)
Wow! No extra superlatives, simply, WOW.
This guy clearly loves his job and that makes me love to listen to him talk about it.
This guys analogy with the library was such an excellent choice in logic, well done speech man
This lecture should be part of a compulsory curriculum for all schools around the world. The amount of perspective one can get from this presentation is beyond amazing...
Hats off to this scientist!
Wow... The ending was unexpected...
THIS is a high quality speech, very intellectual, interesting and informative. Bravissimo!!
It's a TED Talk. The ending is probably contractual.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Edit: I had to watch this again and I noticed this man´s remarkable ability to through storytelling transform every person in that audience into a child. I hope it had the same affect on you as it did on me, and I hope this talk can be a reminder of how important it is to tell stories, because through them comes change.
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Absolutely epic presentation, such a different and sorely needed viewpoint. A prime example of how to change the world through one´s interests and passions. Really can feel this mans passion and wow Im lost for words. Truly astonishing.
Thank you for sharing these important words.
I will also definitely go searching for dinosaurs in the next desert I come across.
Peace and love and may the force be with you all, lets go.
That was an amazing speech cannot get enough.
At the half way mark I was so moved, involved in his presentation, I was expecting a standing ovation at the end.
What a great speaker and storyteller!
Absolutely superb presentation. Eloquent and beautifully crafted. Have to share this with others!
Agreed, I was blown away. Profoundly interesting and he is such a phenomenal speaker. I didn't hear a single "um" or "uhhh"
what a fantastic speaker! very stimulating and enjoyable to watch
Boy, you don't expect a paleontologist to be a poet.
😂
I would
Where did all the water and mud come from to cover them fast enough so they could be compressed sealed and fossilized before they could rot?
Simply Fate They were land animals so getting stuck in a swamp or being caught in a flash river flood are two scenarios that could account for the rapid burial necessary. Don't forget fossils are the rare exceptions, especially on land.
This narration is just amazing.
God dang this was super interesting!
What an engaging and charismatic speaker. This is how you should sound when you speak about your job; if not, you're in the wrong job. Excellent talk.
Brilliant and terrifying content so well delivered. Bravo Mr Kenneth Lacovara
Dr
I love how some of the speakers on ted have such a love for their job. Just look at this dude, all happy he got to name a dinosour, and named it dreadnoughtus, fears nothing. If he writes a book, I'm reading it
What an incredibly gifted public speaker. It's amazing how easy it is to get up in front of an audience and talk like that because of how passionate you are about your work. I envy this man.
Im sharing this in the Hope that my friends will watch it with their sons, daughters, grandkids and hope they understand what a miracle it is to Live on this earth, right now and how lucky we are!....fingers crossed!
Did you see how fast they came to their feet at the end of the presentation. It shows that he's a genius.
Not a genius, just a creative and aware mind. You can see it too
@@HalfAhBean I'd be willing to bet his IQ is genius level.
"Perhaps on a Thursday" The day I'm watching this video happens to be a Thursday 😊
This is one of the best and most underrated TED talks ever. I've watched this 6 or 7 times and it moves me every time.
1) "...among the *63 billion days* already enjoyed by the dinosaurs..." I'll take that as deeply poetic, that sinked in slow and meaningful 😁
2) One thing I like about watching TED talks is guessing that a speaker will get a standing ovation - and guessed right!
One of the best ted talks i've ever watched, quite humbling to think about this on the large scale!
One of the best TEDs I have seen! Well written, well delivered, and 100% true. Brings me hope to see people that just get it. Refreshing talk man. also, great name ;)
👏👏👏 to the people that just get it.
The most interesting talk on the subject I've ever seen. Well done. :-)
One of the greatest TED talks ever, well deserved standing ovation.
This man cares more about this dinosaur than most people care about anything. It's beautiful.
I miss ted talks like this.
NotTheWheel, I agree, now they are all just political indoctrination, and gender fluid, “rape culture” crap.
wow. this was amazing. thanks so much
I live on the "Jurassic coast" in southern England. There's a beach that is literally covered in small fossils. You can walk along the beach after the tide goes out and pick up fossils. I loved school trips to that place.
I wish Ii had the opportunity to do that. I have had the opportunity to visit Dinosaur national park in Alberta, and that was wonderful. I live on the Canadian Shield, and here, though there is lots of geology to admire, and learn about fossils are somewhat harder to come across on a daily basis. Greeting and all the best from this Canuck living in "The Great White North". Perhaps some day I'll get a chance to walk along that "Jurassic coast". Cheers!
This guys is amazing, he speaks with such passion, his love for planet Earth is contagious. The ending made me feel like going outside to clean some garbage. LOL
This guys talk was beautiful to listen to. Incredibly well spoken, was a pleasure.
The TED talk all other TED talks should be measured against. Awesome.
"... Each one a small miracle, but collectively, inevitable."
Eat your heart out, Crichton.
His speaking is poetic. He draws you in and keeps you transfixed.
He is not only a great scholar but also an excellent public speaker! His speech is so impressive and touching!
How eloquently explained. Thank you Kenneth for this beautiful presentation!
Absolutely epic talk, masterfully delivered by a wordsmith of note! Wonderful!
GlacierBlue nope
so well spoken
well done sir!!
Amazing talk, absolutely brilliant
By far the best TED talk ever. Great lecturer with brilliant control of his topic and the pacing necessary to wonderfully wrap up such big thoughts! Study this for eloquence and subject matter.
The right words full of common sense and intelligence. Thank you that was inspiring
Not so common in today's world, but hopefully we head in the right direction
Wish i could like this video again!! Awesome
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Best TedTalk EVER!
I knew this was going to become about global warming. The soap box, the grandstanding, oh my! I am 100% sure he has given up his car, and everything else to reduce his carbon footprint to almost nil. What a saint♥️
What is your point? Humanity shouldn't attempt to reduce anthropogenic global warming because it's a Chinese hoax? Or giving up every single modern convenience that contributes to CO2 emissions is a prerequisite for even mentioning it? Or maybe you're just a fossil fuel industry shill...
@@tuckfrump1416 Wy reduce something that is not a problem, for starters? Just because you said so? Or because governments wants to tax you at the most abundant element on the Universe: Carbon? Do you know how much your BREATHING produces, in terms of CO2? You would be astonished at HOW MUCH they could charge you for "simply breathing", while YOU are a major contributor to the "climate change", just because people breathe? Cow fart contributes to the huge amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Should we kill all cows and eliminate the "cow's fart induced climate change"?
You see, this whole planet moves due to Carbon, life was created because Carbon is a pretty unstable substance.
But please, do tell me how changing our "energy matrix", and "less cars" or "less fossil fuels" (which by the way will terminate more than half of the planet, by starvation and plague) would benefit the whole planet, all the while we have things that polute MORE than anything else, mainly 7.5 BILLION people breathing at the same time on this planet, or any of the other billions of animals doing the same? Imagine all that fart... Gosh, I will not even speak about those dangerous amounts of feces laying around, those giant puddles of CO2!
Please, tell me how the energy matrix, or cars, or jets, or fossil fuels can polute more, when the fossil records shows that we had THREE TIMES the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, when the dinosaurs where alive, and how the temperature at that time was 5 to 6 degrees HIGHER than what we have today, and yet, those GIGANTIC animals lived?
You understand nothing about the Carbon cycle on this planet. And yet, you don't understand how that "man made climate change" is a huge hoax being played in you, and those who don't understand science, and that accept the fallacy of authority so easily.
Just think of the carbon cost of flying the team out to Patagonia year after year? The harsh truth, is that there very few saints, just hypocrites who choose to cast stones to deflect away from our own 'contribution' to the demise of our planet, me included.
@@sombraarthur Lotta errors in your "facts" dude - most abundant element in the universe is still Hydrogen; on the surface of earth its Silicon, while for the planet its elemental Iron of the core. You won't "get" this, but the issue about CO2 has to do with a disruption of the stable Carbon cycle that existed some hundreds of thousands of years - an equilibrium between CO2 production ( volcanos, forest fires, decomposition ) and CO2 absorption (oceanic, plant respiration, etc). Since the use of fosil fuel (which exists bc bacteria that efficiently decomposed plants had not yet evolved) in the Industrial revolution - by mankind, not animals - CO2 concentrations have been seeking a new equlibrium in the atmosphere. Unfortunately, in that same time period, human popuations have increased 14-fold & per capita CO2 production grew exponentially since the 1940s. Your arguement about dinosaurs is specious - they were cold blooded, some were nocturnal hunters and forest dwellers. Beyond that, not much is known about their habits. We don't even know what their skin was like! Talk about "don't even know" something!
@@paulryan2128 so, how mny humans should we kill, in order to cap the levels of your diabolic CO2 in the atmosphere, given that we exhale CO2 and grow in geometrical progression? How many animals? How many plants will we have to kill, in order to keep the levels of CO2, given that when they die, they become carbon that later on is mixed with oxygen and then blown away by the wind?
Do you even know that at the time of dinosaurs, the levels of CO2 where 3 times as they are today?
Given that the "planet" does not "absorb" anything, it simply gets deposited somewhere, and at later times it is consumed by a life form or by another thing, how do you propose that we develop our solutions in oder to NOT raise the levels of it? Specially when you now know that every single animal breathes CO2, how will you circumvent that too? Don't even start me about FARTS... And how much those more than billions of animals in this planets (specially carnivores) keep that DEMONIC greenhouse gases INSIDE them, only to be released to the atmosphere! Don't you know that farts are made of methane?
Cut your bullshit. The carbon cycle is STILL the same. The amount of carbon in the cycle does not make a huge difference, and the planet had already at least 3 times the amount of CO2 in the atmostphere and an ice age came, putting the carbon levels way down again.
His speech is like music, it has a melody within. And the lyrics are great too.
This should be one of the most underrated Tedtalks ever
Just came here to nerd out for a minute.. leaving with a profound sense of perspective and a deep sense sense of unease...
I am amazed to see such praise in the comments. I thought that this was a cheezy representation of something that is common knowledge. And I am wrong again.
Perspective.
Not everyone on RUclips is as super duper smart as us.
Same old crap, repackaged to include his achievement as the star attraction of the great ape theory.
I wouldn't say it's common knowledge. The information itself is out there, but the perspective to see past the information is what is beautiful. If the perspective was common knowledge the world would be a better place where we live in harmony with each other. Not divided by our differences but united by them and our awareness of our place in the universe, a human race.
@@HalfAhBean Sounds like a line to pickup dumb white chicks. I bet it works!
is that "rocks of the right age" map at 1:30 available somewhere with labels or a key or something?
Very profound, very very... profound. It reminds me of my friend Juvenal Delinquis. Great guy. Rip Juvenal. He loved bugs.
Incredible talk, one of the best i have seen so far. The incredible narration and the perspective that it provides is deeply moving.
Beautiful presentation. Well written is an understatement. It was meaningfully poetic, and engaging. Great job. One of the best TED talks I've come across.
"No vestige of beginning, no prospect to an end".
Annnnnnnd totally debunked. The earth obviously began to exist a few billion years ago when a bunch of rocks clumped together in the same orbit around the sun.
Classic
Look up vestige.
1:45 My wife is a geologist. When she was a teenager her parents asked her what she wanted to study to which she replied 🤘🏼ROCK🤘🏼So they send her to university to study geology 🤦🏼♂️
He is a true and brilliant paleontologist
One of the best TED talks I've listened to!
not an Umm or an Errr
Amazing! What a great talk...could have used another 15 minutes.
Are you kidding. This talk was so pretentious.
@@spodergibbs5088 How so? You may feel that way because you don't enjoy thinking about our place in existence.
When I see some comments on this section....
"yup, we are all going to die"
Just remember to enjoy the time you have, it will be over all to soon.
You can depend on me to put all these god boys in their place, a little backup would be appreciated though. (I know debating them wont change their minds, but they must not go unchallenged)
@@NabPunk you seem to be giving yourself the title of defender of the faith. Is that not overly self important?
@@NabPunk agreed. Blind following of dogma and people choosing to give missinformation for the betterment of themselves individually and superficially in my opinion will be the death of humanity, and go against human nature, and just nature, unless we make the choices we need to make.
@@jt2097 isnt asking for backup like the opposite of that
WOW! Excellent speech!!! I'm awestruck. Great ending. Respect to our Earth and ancestors
Superbly written with an equally eloquent delivery. Has to be one of if not the best group of words ive had the pleasure of listening to in my life. Very well done.
Wow, didn't imagine i would tear up at this. What a brilliant speech!
An excellent clear and logical talk, those with serious disagreement to this need to finish their education. Or perhaps just get a decent unbiased education.
Stephen Hill; he, and you, can do your part by assuming room temperature and ceasing to emit the killer CO2.
Indeed, plants love CO2!
Wow. What a speaker. What a mind. How thought-provoking. Thank you, Doctor.
First time in a while where i've felt a standing ovation was deserved.
WOW ! Stunning performance. That man can present his ideas !