We’re on PATREON! Join the community ►► www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ There’s a lot of confusion out there about what is and isn’t a dinosaur. And you’d be forgiven for being kinda confused. Maybe paleontologists are just messing with us. Or… maybe the question of what is and isn’t a dinosaur goes deeper than we think? Well, like an intrepid fossil hunter, I set out to dig up an answer, and what I found teaches us a lesson about how hard it is to build a picture of the past when you only have a few puzzle pieces, and a lot about why we classify things the way we do. "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" by Dr. Steve Brusatte amzn.to/2Nndyoj "Scrotum Humanum" comes from Brookes, R. (Richard). (1763). A new and accurate system of natural history ... London: Printed for J. Newbery. archive.org/details/newaccuratesyste05broo/page/n409/mode/2up Special thanks to our Brain Trust Patrons: AlecZero Diego Lombeida Dustin Ernesto Silva George Gladding Jay Stephens Marcus Tuepker Megan K Bradshaw Peter Ehrnstrom Ron Kakar vincbis Join us on Patreon! patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart Twitter www.twitter.com/DrJoeHanson www.twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram www.instagram.com/DrJoeHanson www.instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merch store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smart Facebook www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/

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