Sixty-five million years ago, a meteor hit the earth near Mexico killing nearly all life on the planet. Out of the ashes, one reptile managed to survive in New Zealand: the Tuatara. Tuatara are some of the most bizarre reptiles on Earth. Despite their close resemblance to lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. Scientists venture into some of the most remote parts of New Zealand searching for clues to its origins. They reveal it’s distant relatives.
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Parece una iguana.
What a freaking deception from reality.
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Dis dat shid
I have one. It lives in my brain. Nu Zland – Tuatara 🔍
Gandwana???? What happened to Pangea???
Now watching From mizoram 👍🏿💞💞🥸
Except it did not outlive the modern dinosaurs called birds.
What's with the insane number of ads on this video?
😂😂😆😆 Modern dinosaurs? It's a lizard, a reptile and NOT a dinosaur. Lizards like that, crocodiles, alligators, Komodo dragons, etc., are ALL NOT dinosaurs. They are all reptiles, all cold blooded with 3 chambered hearts, need to live in hot regions, with legs that stick out of their sides, flat bodies, tend toward belly crawling and require warmth from the sun to metabolize and sources away from the sun to cool when overheated.
Dinosaurs ALWAYS have legs coming out from under their bodies that held them erect. To hold them erect requires persistent muscle tension and a high metabolism. Except for Ankylosauruds Dinosaurs did not have flat bodies. They did not need sunlight like lizards to warm their bodies. Paleontologists have long stopped calling them reptiles. Many of the species, in fact the majority, walked on 2 legs, requiring great balance and even greater constant muscle tension, which no reptile can maintain and this is especially true if the dinos weighs many tons.
Consider a full grown African bull elephant, the largest land animal of today. Fully grown they weight up to 7 tons. The largest ever recorded stood 13 feet high and weighed an astonishing 12 tons. Now imagine taking a 10 ton elephant, making it taller, stretching it's body out to 43 feet with a long stiff tail on one end and a head almost as big as a Volkswagen bug with teeth the size of butcher's knives at the other end, then plunk that on two legs and you have a tyrannosaurus Rex. The largest ever found is Canada's Scotty who dethroned Chicago's Sue. He was 43 feet long and weighed an estimated 10 tons. If an elephant requires being warm blooded and benefits from walking on four legs imagine how much more is required for a 40 foot, 10 ton T-Rex running around on TWO legs. Sorry, but that belly crawling lizard is no more related to Dinosaurs than it is to elephants or any mammals. We also know for a smoking gun fact that many species of dinosaurs had bird feathers. There is even some that think TRex may have even had downy feathers. There is some evidence the wide area around the Trex's eyes were red, a red pigment that might have been left behind by bright red downy feathers.
The connection to birds is unmistakeable. Dinosaurs we're just very large and strangely shaped birds with teeth, warm blooded and definitely NOT reptiles. I wish this misconception would finally be put to bed all the way down to documentaries like this that wrongly perpetuate this fallacy that dinosaurs were reptiles.
We need to understand that being at the top of the pyramid of creation means that everything we do trickles down the structure, from top to bottom. When it reaches the bottom, the inanimate level of reality, from which everything grows, it changes it. If we ooze ill-will, it creates negative changes throughout the system, which manifest in increasingly extreme climatic and geological events.
In other words, when human relationships go out of balance, everything goes out of balance. When our relations become extreme, everything becomes extreme; when we become violent, everything becomes violent. Each summer, the ramifications of the linkage between our relations and our world become more extreme, until we acknowledge that everything that exists, exists in a connected, hierarchical system and that whoever is at the top determines the state of the rest of the system.
It is not as if previously, we were better people than we are today. It is simply that there were fewer people, and therefore fewer elements that exude ill will.
Also, relationships between people in the past were less toxic than they are today. While there are fewer wars today than ever, the levels of suspicion and alienation between people are skyrocketing, to the point where people can no longer trust their own family members. As a result, wars between countries are rarer than ever, but divorce rates, domestic violence, and violence in the community, are at an all-time high.
Even the internet, which we invented purportedly in order to connect people, is being used to abuse, deceive, and exploit people. The world-wide-web proves that everything we create, we use against others. When there is such a negative element in a system, and that element is at the top of the system, how can the entire system not go awry?
Therefore, if we want the weather to cool, the sea-level to drop, and the storms to subside, we must cool the fire and calm the storms between us. Mutual concern, mutual responsibility, or at least the knowledge that we are dependent on each other, are necessary in order to restore balance in our world at all levels, from the ground we walk on to the hatred in our hearts.