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Danger in the deep: Prehistoric predators emerge at London's Natural History Museum

Fearsome enormous creatures lay beneath the waves while dinosaurs roamed the Earth, now a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum explores what lessons we can learn about climate change from Jurassic life underwater.

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00:28Satsang with Mooji
00:37While the dinosaurs were roaming on the land and pterosaurs were soaring through the skies,
00:42enormous marine reptiles were dominating in the oceans, and that's what we bring you to discover in this exhibition.
00:48So these enormous predators would have been lurking in the Jurassic depths,
00:53and we have incredible fossil collections here at the museum that help to bring those creatures to life.
01:14The plesiosaur has a long neck and a small head at the front,
01:18and it has four wing-like flippers that it would have used in coordination to sort of fly through the
01:24ocean.
01:25It was an air breather, so it would have to come to the surface a lot.
01:42Some of these climate changes were slow compared to what's happening today,
01:48and we can see from the fossil record that even slow climate change, relatively slow climate change,
01:55can have a big impact on the ecosystem.
01:58So in the last 200 years, we've added over 2,000 gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere,
02:04and that's going to have an impact on how much energy the Earth retains,
02:08and that is slowly warming the average temperature of the Earth and the oceans,
02:12which puts pressure on those ecosystems.
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