The World of the Dinosaurs - Symphony of Science

Dinosaurs Alive
BBC "How to Build a Dinosaur"
BBC "Extinct: A Horizon Guide to Dinosaurs"
Bill Nye - Dinosaurs
Prehistoric Park
Discovery Channel "Last Day of the Dinosaurs"
Jurassic Park
Jack Horner's 2011 TED Talk

Special thanks to everybody who's donated to keep the project alive and to those who helped track down the materials used in this video.

*Please note: not every animal depicted in the video is a dinosaur; some are contemporary animals that look like dinosaurs (the flying/swimming ones).

Lyrics:

[Dr. Alice Roberts]
How can we start to come close to animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago?

Dinosaurs
[Jack Horner]
Dinosaurs
[Bill Nye]
Dinosaurs
Di-Di-Dinosaurs

[Dallas Campbell]
Dinosaurs weren't just giant lizards
But a truly unique kind of reptile

[Narrator 1]
Dinosaurs roamed
For more than 150 million years
Dinosaurs roamed
In amazing shapes and sizes

Very few left evidence of their existence
And those bones never cease to fascinate us

[Roberts]
The more we find
The more complete our understanding
Utterly awe-inspiring
The world of the dinosaurs

[Campbell]
There are always new discoveries out there
Waiting to be found

[Narrator 2]
Tyrannosaurus, the largest flesh eater
The world has ever seen
Dinosaurs - all the dinosaurs-
Followed a well trod trail to oblivion

[Narrator 1]
Rock layers span the age of dinosaurs
The deeper the layer, the older the rock

At the top - rock from the Cretaceous
Below that, the Jurassic
And near the bottom, red Triassic badlands
When dinosaurs first appeared

(refrain)

(dino breakdown)

[Nye]
65 million years ago
[Nigel Marvin]
A meteorite smashed into the Earth
[Nye]
Hurtling toward our planet
At a hundred thousand kilometers a second
**correction: per hour, not second!

[Roberts]
If we'd never found their bones,
We wouldn't ever have known
These ancient animals ever existed

(refrain)

[RunningSiopao]

When I was younger I searched for dinosaur songs and this appeared I got addicted to this but after a few days I couldn't find it anymore today I just reminded myself that I have to search for that old song I used to listen to so I did and searched 65 million years ago and I finally found it now I am very happy to hear the song I used to listen to.

[MortaLF]

When the guy says "There's always new discoveries out there, waiting to be found." it makes me feel like a child again. I dont know why but this song moves me.

[CJ-dgpx]

Anyone still coming back to this song 11 years later?

[fesaknorko]

" The more we find the more complete our understanding " line always moves me to tears ... understanding the universe is best thing living for and worth dying for

[Chumi-vbmi]

Man i remember when this came out when i was in elementry school. I still remember roasting my teacher with my new dino facts. Thanks melody.

[derppotat]

Bruh this is iconic in my life. All the lyrics, memorized 7 years later.

[Sofvia]

2:12 I got the chills when she said that if we've never found the bones, we wouldn't ever have known they existed.

[KingofTheGojiras]

God this video was one of the things that inspired me to try and pursue paleontology as much as I have thank you guys so much for keeping it here all this time.

[franzjamolin]

I used to listened to this when I was 5 years old now iam 12 and this song just brings back nostalgia

[romeoechofoxtrot]

the Tyrannosaurus Rex roar was a very nice touch

[IronWhip]

I played this video for my preschool class for our dinosaur unit and they absolutely loved it. They stalk about now, like dinosaurs, and use brushes to clean sand off of 'fossils'. They say mysteriously to one another "The deeper the layer, the older the rock". This is absolutely terrific.

[netko]

The most epic part is when Bill Nye says: "65 million years ago..."

Also, if dr. Alice Cooper sounded like that without the autotune, she would be a baritone. That was a G2

[ShadowMario]

Out of all Symphony of Science music videos on this channel, this one is by far my favorite <3

[ToypalsTv]

Great video. Keep up the cool content and make more!

[XxRAPTORxX]

Why are there so much dislikes? This is truely a masterpiece!

[TaurusSaurus]

Man, just looking at this video and the Dino’s in it just shows how much about them has changed. Amazing animals

[Toytle]

This video was my childhood and I’m still learning about these amazing creatures

[AM-vuco]

I listened to this 8 years ago as a child.

[yungpc-]

a song that i was addicted to when i was like 5 after 10 years still love it

[robsaberrations]

One of the most amazing things about the dinosaurs is that, besides being totally awesome they were, like they say in the video, not just "giant lizards" but a very unique class of animals with their own particular biochemistry and remarkable legacy. They may have been warm blooded, and they were the great ancestors of one of the most beautiful and amazing groups of animals in our world today - the birds.