How to pronounce “cret” in English

Cretaceous terrestrial revolution. It's a bit of a bombastic term, maybe. But in many ways, it was revolutionary because it touched so many aspects of life and of food webs and of ecosystems. And

Crete is one of these places, much of the Copper Canyons, which has remained frozen in time.

the Cretaceous turned into the Paleocene, the age of dinosaurs, gateway to the age of mammals. But really, this greenhouse world of the dinosaurs persisted. The Earth was still very warm. There

no Cretaceous cassette tape that we can find in the fossil record and plug in, and hear what these things were sounding like. But sometimes we do get clues from the fossils themselves. And in

And Crete is otherwise pretty insignificant.

that in the early Cretaceous, there are certain groups of dinosaurs that are dominant and diverse.

endure this middle-cretaceous extinction. Now, how did hunt though? That's a question that a lot of paleontologists have wrestled with. And these are difficult questions to answer,

blossom during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And a lot of the modern groups of mammals, it's not that they quite got their start then, but their immediate ancestors got

their start during the Cretaceous-Terrestrial revolution. And one of the key things is that there were all these mammals that were eating bugs, eating fruits and eating flowers. And

living in the Cretaceous period. So by the end of the Cretaceous, you would have had some birds that could sound like the birds of today. But it is really just one clue. We need to learn so

or the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary.

This is the end Cretaceous.

At the end Cretaceous, not only is there a gigantic asteroid impact, the biggest that we know of in the last billion years,

and the ruins of Crete.

So what happened on Crete was this.

So you step on Crete on your way there.

But what the Cretans did was unique.

The Butcher of Crete was one guy.

I'm Cretaceous period. You know?

legendary ruler of Crete.

city of Cretan antiquity.

And the high Cretan civilization, the Minoan civilization that they immediately proceeded to overrun, had, among its other attractions, this magical

And this indigenous Cretan script, by the way, which is several centuries older than Linear B but looks a great deal like it, is what we now call Linear A.

They took this indigenous Cretan script, adapted it for use with their own language, and eventually carried it back with them to the mainland.

of authority whereas a cretive leader is a symbol of inspiration a traditional leader is

Then later on in the Cretaceous, they're gone, are mostly gone, and you have Tyrannosaurs and other major groups. But best we can tell from the rocks that we have and the fossils that we have,

climate change in the middle Cretaceous, they were the ones that then had the opportunity to take over in the late Cretaceous. But still, again, this is largely a mystery. By the latest

they remained small predators until this middle Cretaceous turnover in dinosaurs. This time of climate change that we don't know much about. But we know that it wiped away many of the incumbent

an animal at the end of the Cretaceous and you ate parts of a growing plant, leaves, flowers, fruits, roots, your food would run out really quickly. But if you could eat seeds, that would be your ticket

At the end of the Cretaceous when an asteroid smashed into the planet and all of the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, so did most of the cephalopods.

So that's the end Cretaceous.

So at the end of the Cretaceous, people think, oh, the mammals thrived and the dinosaurs went extinct.

and it turns around and goes to Crete, and you have to have an enforced holiday in Crete, when you come back, there is anger.

So if you were a Cretan that morning, you would notice the sky getting dark.

So he puts him on Crete.

And so what I think the Cretan Runner would have been able to do, what the Cretan resistance was able to do, was tap into this legacy

Knossos in the wild countryside of northern Crete near present-day Heraklion.

woke up on the last day of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, you would have woken up to a world thrown into turmoil. This was an asteroid, and not just any asteroid, the biggest asteroid

of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. But it wasn't always that way. T. Rex came from a long line of ancestors. Ancestors that changed and adapted and endured and survived. And believe

- Yeah. - from the early Cretaceous period, about 112 million years ago, found in what is now Alberta, Canada. Amazing.

And we're talking about Bronze Age and Minoan civilizations Crete and Knossos and ancient Egypt, Libya, the Romans.

The largest mammal that's in the latest Cretaceous is about the size of a raccoon.

in the layers between the end of the Cretaceous, right when big dinosaurs go out, and then the Age of Mammals.

So interestingly, the end Cretaceous, we think of this big horrible thing.

But the path to Eastern Europe leads through Crete.

The tablets were what Arthur Evans had come to Crete to find.

He had also turned up evidence of a somewhat older Cretan script, which he called, quite reasonably, Linear A. The end

which were the civil documents of an ancient Cretan culture, might contain something similar.

The most recent one, the end Cretaceous extinction of course is responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.