00:03it 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 have
00:25not only produced new and more complete fossils than ever before they have also changed previous
00:29conceptions of what some of these creatures looked like some of the finds have included feathers and
00:34proto feathers and just this year in patagonia in argentina paleontologists discovered the remains
00:39of quite possibly the largest plant-eating dinosaur to date experts say the long-necked creature now
00:44dubbed argentinosaurus would have been around 115 feet long head to tail and weighed around 166 000
00:51pounds researchers are still finding new clues about why the dinosaurs disappeared as well it wasn't
00:56until the 1980s that experts finally theorized that an asteroid hit earth 66 million years ago and
01:02began their extinction however a study in 2022 added to that suggesting that a period of mega volcanoes was
01:09the second hit of a one-two punch that did in the dinosaurs simply put there is seemingly no end
01:14to
01:15a new discoveries with regards to the prehistoric beasts
