Even 200 Years After Dinosaurs Were First Discovered, There Are Still a Ton of Unanswered Questions

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It was 200 years ago that quarry workers in the UK began to find giant bones under the ground, and naturalist and theologian William Buckland first theorized the concept of dinosaurs. Around 20 years later the dinosaur nomenclature was finally officialized, with over 2,000 species now being recognized since. So how much more is there left to discover?

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00:00it was 200 years ago that quarry workers in the uk began to find giant bones under the ground

00:08and naturalist and theologian william buckland first theorized the concept of dinosaurs around

00:1420 years later the dinosaur nomenclature was finally officialized with over 2 000 species

00:19now being recognized since so how much more is there left to discover recent finds in china

00:24have not only produced new and more complete fossils than ever before they have also changed

00:29previous conceptions of what some of these creatures looked like some of the finds have

00:33included feathers and proto feathers and just this year in patagonia in argentina paleontologists

00:38discovered the remains of quite possibly the largest plant-eating dinosaur to date experts

00:42say the long-necked creature now dubbed argentinosaurus would have been around 115 feet long head to tail

00:48and weighed around 166 000 pounds researchers are still finding new clues about why the dinosaurs

00:55disappeared as well it wasn't until the 1980s that experts finally theorized that an asteroid hit

01:00earth 66 million years ago and began their extinction however a study in 2022 added to that suggesting that

01:07a period of mega volcanoes was the second hit of a one-two punch that did in the dinosaurs simply put

01:13there is seemingly no end to new discoveries with regards to the prehistoric beasts

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