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Dr. Dave Hone on Lex Fridman: Why T-Rex Never Actually Ran

Locked metatarsal bones and a three-meter tail made power walking faster than running; T-rex tennis ball eyes and nocturnal suggest it hunted in low light.

Dave HoneguestLex Fridmanhost
Sep 4, 20253h 36mWatch on YouTube ↗

CHAPTERS

  1. 0:00 – 1:23

    Episode highlight

  2. 1:23 – 1:56

    Introduction

  3. 1:56 – 25:38

    T-Rex's size & biomechanics

  4. 25:38 – 38:45

    T-Rex's hunting strategies

  5. 38:45 – 59:17

    History of dinosaurs on Earth

  6. 59:17 – 1:12:22

    $31.8 million T-Rex fossil

  7. 1:12:22 – 1:31:12

    T-Rex's skull and bone-crushing bite force

  8. 1:31:12 – 1:49:31

    What Jurassic Park got wrong

  9. 1:49:31 – 2:10:05

    Evolution and sexual selection

  10. 2:10:05 – 2:20:40

    Spinosaurus

  11. 2:20:40 – 2:28:14

    What Jurassic Park got right

  12. 2:28:14 – 2:38:12

    T-Rex's intelligence

  13. 2:38:12 – 2:43:44

    Cannibalism among T-Rex

  14. 2:43:44 – 3:00:54

    Extinction of the dinosaurs

  15. 3:00:54 – 3:17:17

    Dragons

  16. 3:17:17 – 3:28:02

    Birds are dinosaurs

  17. 3:28:02 – 3:36:25

    Future of paleontology

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