So for many years, most departments at most hospitals across the country would have something called grand rounds, which was not quite as theatrical. There were no feathered headdresses. But a patient would come into an auditorium, and a group of doctors would watch, and someone would present that person's story.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions They are basically feathered apes. And they're can we know it when a parrot repeats words that we say
Steven and I had a lot of arguments about whether the velociraptors should have feathers and be colorful, and he won all of those arguments. He said a technicolor feathered dinosaur is not going to scare anyone. That's a fair concession.
cornerstone of that ideal has been freedom of religion, freedom to practice and be whatever you wanna be, or not be. There were always village Atheists and they were, in some instances, really tarred and feathered and all that. There were never village Agnostics. I tried to trace that. I thought maybe, it was actually almost an institutional phenomenon of the village Atheists, but nevertheless, Agnostics were looked on with less scorn than Atheists, and they were a little more accepted. But people of strong faith, and this is in our
And there were three different groups of scientist trying to bring back the woolly mammoth. So they were like this swarm of feathered locusts.
and an audience would come in to watch him examine patients. And he would put his patients in these really elaborate costumes, like with a feathered headdress, so people could see from the back rows that someone's head was shaking. He would use props.
Like, the Mayans saw animals as messengers to the gods. And the Aztecs worshipped Quetzacoatl, a god who took the form of a feathered serpent. All of that cultural connection laid the groundwork for centuries of literature.
And that bias went all the way down to costumes and props. Without Native folks on set to advise on cultural practices, you wind up with everyone in feathered headdresses and buckskin — which is traditional clothing … for the Plains Indians.
that we've hinted at with this record. We know that the cousin of T. Rex that they're finding in China is feathered when it was an adult.
And all the bite marks are on one bone, the humerus, the upper arm bone. get these places of exceptional preservation. Whenever you see, like, the feathers, or almost feathers, or almost always, whenever you see feathered dinosaurs, it's like, "Oh, we
So this is what Colorado would have looked like, say 67 million years ago. T. Rex, rivers full of turtles, a lot of other feathered dinosaurs would have been roaming around. And then you had the asteroid strike.
But all I could see-- those beautiful tree-like extended tentacles were not extended. And that's the pedal sea cucumber that I showed you a little bit earlier that had this beautiful, red, feathered protrusion.