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Yes! It's time to dig in for the dinos.
Guy Raz, pass me my hammer.
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I don't know what you've been told but we're in a golden age.
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While we're in the world.
While we're in the world.
While we're in the world.
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Wow! A dinner party!
I've never been to a dinner party before.
Have you, Guy Roz? Well, actually.
I mean, I've been to a dinner and I've been to a party but never a dinner party.
Isn't this just so fun and fancy and cool and fun and fancy?
Uh, yeah, it is, Dennis.
Mindy, uh, do you need any help in the kitchen?
Nope, got everything out of control, Guy Roz.
Just keep mingling.
Huh. Oh, hey there, Mr.
Rosie. Very interesting weather we've been having lately.
Huh? Yeah, some weather.
You know what it is?
It's the wind. Out of all the types of weathers, wind is the worst one.
Makes my cheeks all flappy.
Which one, Fangirling?
Oh, excuse me. Oh, hi, Granny G.
I didn't know you were here too.
I'm not. What? Yes, you are, Geforce.
And where have you been?
Snooping around Mandy's candy castle looking for gumdrops?
You're the one dropping gum's Fangirling.
Oh, pardon. Okay, everyone.
Time for dinner! Hooray!
Dinner at the dinner party!
Now, if everyone could just follow me to the dino room, we can get started.
What? The dino room?
You mean, the dining room?
Yeah, that's what I said.
The dino room. Now, right through these doors.
Come along now. Follow me, everyone.
All right. Surprise!
It's a themed dinner party.
It looks like that restaurant in the mall.
What's it called? The Jungle Cafe or something?
Actually, Dennis, this looks more like the Cretaceous Cafe, as in the late Cretaceous period, 75 million years ago.
Cretaceous. That is very specific.
Pardon. Geforce, will you quit belching?
It's bad manners for a dino party.
I said pardon! That's true.
She did. So, what do you think, Iraz?
Wow. Look at this room, Mindy.
It's like a lush forest.
You've got prehistoric flowering plants and ferns and...
Is that an animatronic dinosaur at the table?
Wow. Is the floor also an erupting volcano?
You know it, Iraz. The floor is lava.
This is amazing. Did you do this all yourself?
Well, Reggie helped.
Reggie, turn off the volcano please.
I need to sit down.
And I need to eat. When are we going to get to the food part of this dinner?
Oh, we'll get to that in just a minute, Thomas Fingerling.
But first, I need all of you to get into your costumes.
Costumes? I'm not dressing up in your clothes.
What kind of a themed dino dinner party would this be if we weren't all dressed up as dinos?
That's a excellent point.
Okay, let's see here, Thomas Fingerling.
You're going to wear this Triceratops costume.
Triceratops. Three is a magic number.
And Dennis, I've got a pterodactyl costume for you.
A flying dino! Actually, the pterodactyl was not a dinosaur.
Oh, it wasn't? No, the pterodactyl was a flying reptile.
Oh, I don't understand.
The pterodactyl was nothing but a try -hard, wannabe snooping sky lizard.
Oh, yeah, I want to be that one.
Here you go. Hooray!
Snooping sky lizard!
Now, Guy Roz, I am going to have you put on this Troodon costume.
Okay. Because the Troodon was known for having a big brain.
Scientists believe that it was one of the smartest dinosaurs.
Oh, okay, well, thank you.
Now, please go put on your costume.
Okay. And last but not least, Grandma G -Force.
I believe you mean Grandma G -Rex.
Excuse me. Nope, sorry, the T -Rex costumes were all sold out.
Ah, lumps. Well, now, extinct, eh?
Well, maybe Grandma G -Force could be an Ankylosaurus.
You know, the ones that looked like armored tanks and had spiked clubs at the ends of their tails.
No! What? Why not? Because my great -great -granny G was an Ankylosaurus, and she was old.
I'm just a teenager.
Pardon me. Well, actually, I was thinking of another dinosaur whose name begins with the letter G.
Oh, the Gallimimus.
No, wait, the Gigantosaurus.
Oh, I bet it was the Gacisaurus.
Right, G -Force? Nope.
I am thinking of the Gorgosaurus.
Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll be the Gorgosaurus.
No, no, no, the Gorgosaurus.
It was a theropod dinosaur who lived during the late Cretaceous period.
And it was a relative of the T -Rex.
But a little smaller.
But also ferocious.
Oh, we're talking two fingered hands with sharp claws for grabbing and tearing up its prey.
Oh, oh, no! And it was bipedal, meaning that it walked on two legs.
Oh, cool. The Gorgosaurus was a carnivorous meat -eating dinosaur who feasted on smaller dinosaurs.
And its arms were a little short for the rest of its body.
Cute. Well, okay, I'll be the Gorgosaurus.
Oh, no, no, no, no, Grandma G -Force, it's not the Gorgosaurus.
Okay, here's your costume.
Oh, fancy and gorgeous.
So Mindy, what are you and Reggie dressing up as?
Well, Reggie is changing into his costume now.
He's going to be a paleontologist.
What? That pigeon's gonna dig us up when we're dead?
Oh, excuse me. Uh, something like that.
I'm pretty sure this is just for pretend.
And I'm going to put on my oviraptor costume here.
Ah, so feathery. The oviraptor was a small ferropod dinosaur, not much bigger than me.
And fossil evidence suggests that it was covered in feathers, had a toothless beak, and a feathered crest upon its head like this.
Wow, that looks great, Mindy.
You look like a cocoa bird.
So, everyone ready to sit down to eat?
Finally. I'm so hungry.
Let's see here. I'm going to start with this.
Actually, what is this?
Old fruit salad? No, sorry, that is a fossilized fruit salad.
Oh. And it looks like we also have three very large tacos.
Oh yeah, those are the triceratacos.
It's a theme. Oh, and what are these little pterodactyl -shaped appetizers?
How? Dennis, the pee is silent.
They're called pterobites.
You get it? Yeah, it tastes pretty pteroble.
We've also got Stegosaurus sliders down there, T -Rex toast next to that.
Down there, we've got paleopopsicles.
Oh, what do we got to drink here?
Oh, that's dino drool.
Oh, come on. It's just fruit punch.
Oh, Mindy, you rascal.
Fruit punch? Tacos?
Ain't any of this stuff made with real dinos?
Well, we do have one real dino on the table.
We do? Where is it I'm going to slay it?
Yep, it's the main course.
And it's right here in the center of the table under that fancy silver domed cover.
Ah, I can't believe it.
A real dino? We're gonna eat a real dinosaur?
I think I know where this is going.
You hear that, G -Force?
Under that there, fancy silver dome is a real dino, and we're gonna eat it!
Granny G, you've been awfully quiet tonight.
I mean, aside from the burping.
Mind your business, boy.
Pardon. Okay, everyone.
Ready for the big reveal?
Yeah. On the count of three.
One, two, three. Huh?
Uh, Mindy? There's nothing there.
Oh, must be one of them invisible dinosaurs.
My dinosaur! It's gone!
It's gotta be around here somewhere.
What did it look like?
I bet I know what it looked like.
That's awfully suspicious.
Yeah! What do you know, Guy Roz?
Well, I bet it looked like a roast chicken.
Guy, don't be silly.
Chickens don't look like dinos.
Actually, Dennis, Guy Roz is right.
Gasp! It's true. It was a chicken.
And that chicken, like all chickens, was a real living dinosaur.
Or at least it was until you put it in the oven and cooked it.
Oh, sorry. What in the world wide web are you talking about?
Yeah! How come chickens get to be dinosaurs, but snooping sky lizard pterodactyls don't?
Well, actually, all birds are, scientifically speaking, considered to be dinosaurs.
But chickens are theropod dinosaurs.
And this means that chickens are more closely related to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
In fact, they're the closest living relative to the T -Rex.
Well, now we have to find that little tiny roasted T -Rex.
Everyone start looking.
Is it over here? Uh, where is it?
Well, it's getting late.
I should probably be going.
I'll see myself out.
What? Grandma G -forest?
Don't leave! You haven't even had dinner yet.
Yeah, and we need you to help us solve the mystery of the missing dino.
Yeah. Maybe it just fell off the platter and rolled under the table.
Yeah! Or maybe it's wearing an invisibility cloak.
Yeah! Or what if somebody snuck into the empty dino room before the party and ate it right off the platter?
No. Or what if we just move along like Donkey Kong?
Wait. Do you all think it's possible that someone would sneak into the dino room before the party and eat the main dish right off the table?
Bones and all? Yes.
Well, I guess we'll never know.
Actually, Grandma G -force, never say never.
What do you mean, Guy -Roz?
Well, remember that scientific study we read in the journal Science Advances?
Oh, the one about how scientists were able to see exactly what a gorgosaurus's last meal was, 75 .3 million years after the gorgosaurus died?
That's the one. Grandma G -force is a gorgosaurus?
Can we get scientists to see what's in her tummy?
No. I bet they find a small -clucking dinosaur.
Boy, just because I'm a gorgosaurus does not make me the chicken gobbler.
Snooping sky lizard.
Okay. Okay. No one is accusing anyone of being the chicken gobbler.
Actually, I would like to accuse G -force of being the chicken gobbler.
How do we know that you're not the chicken gobbler fingerling?
I can't be the chicken gobbler, G -force.
On account of Tommy's tummy is still hungry and rumbly.
There, there, Tommy.
Don't worry. We'll get you some food.
Okay. Now, I want to accuse Grandma G -force of being the chicken gobbler too.
Why? Okay, okay. No one needs to accuse anyone of being the chicken gobbler.
Ah, why not? Because if we learned anything from this study, it's that the truth will always reveal itself, even if it takes 75 million years.
Uh -oh. I mean, oh, wow.
How? Good question, Grandma G -force.
Reggie, why don't you bring down the lights?
Okay, Roz and I have a little story to tell.
We do? We do. Now just follow my lead.
Once upon a time, 75 .3 million years ago, a young teenage gorgosaurus sat by a riverbank, gorging herself on the dino equivalent of a turkey drumstick.
Yum, yum, yum. Get into my tub.
What she didn't know is that this would be the last meal of her entire life.
When I'm done eating this dino, I'm gonna start making plans for my retirement someday.
But she never made those plans because scientists speculate that just as she finished her dino dinner, a Jurassic -sized storm rolled in.
Oh no, help me. Heavy rains and forceful winds caused trees to fall, dirt to fly, and I'm a dead little dino.
But at least I got a full belly.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry. If the gorgosaurus was killed in the storm, would she really be announcing it?
Ooh, good point, Guy Roz.
We don't even know if gorgosaurus could talk.
Our new English. No, no, no.
That's not what I...
Never mind. You can get back to the story.
Thank you. Now, where was I?
I'm a dead little dino.
Oh, that's right. Now, it wasn't long before sediments like mud and sand from the river covered the body of the gorgosaurus.
I am the Earth, and I will gradually cover this dino.
Sprinkle a little. Get a little of this over.
The sediments protected the dino's body and the dinner inside of its belly from decay.
Oh, like a nice cozy blanket of Earth.
Yeah, exactly. And the accumulation of sediments are how some fossils are formed.
Exactly. You see, after a living organism, like the gorgosaurus here, dies, well, if it's not eaten by hungry scavengers, it might become covered in sediment like mud and sand.
And over time, the soft parts of the organism, like the skin and the guts and eyeballs, they all start to decay or rot away.
I'm melting. Melting.
Leaving behind the hard parts like teeth and bones.
I know I ate nothing but skin and bones.
Mandy said no skin.
And now I'm nothing but bones.
And then, minerals from the surrounding sediment start to seep into the teeth and bones.
Oh, no. What's happening to my teeth and bones?
And soon, the organic materials that make up the teeth and bones are replaced by these minerals.
Oh, well, la -di -da.
I still look like my dino bone self, except now I'm made out of minerals.
At this point, the sediment surrounding the teeth and bones starts to harden.
Oh, that's me. Harden.
Harden. Harder. Oh, it's getting heavy down here.
And squiggly too. This heavy squeezing pressure on the mineralized remains of the dino could lead to the formation of a type of fossilized rock.
And then, as the earth moves and shifts over millions of years, whoa.
Hey, hey, hey. I can't help it.
These fossilized rocks start to move and shift closer to the earth's surface.
Actually, this is kind of fun.
Whee! I'm moving. I'm moving on up.
And eventually. Ah!
I made it! Oh. There it was.
Once these fossils have made it to the earth's surface, they sit waiting to be discovered by paleontologists, or even just regulartologists like you and me.
Neat. Well, if it's so neat, how come I never found a fossil?
Yeah! I want to find a fossil of an undiscovered dinosaur, so I can name it the Denisodon.
Well, actually, finding a fossil is a pretty rare event.
Yeah, because of all sorts of environmental conditions, most organisms never even get to become fossils.
And even when they do, it's usually only just bits and pieces.
Ah. Bits and pieces, huh?
Yeah. Think of it like a jigsaw puzzle.
Ooh. I like those. Except most of the pieces are missing or broken and covered in dirt.
Oh, never mind. I don't like those.
But every once in a while, jackpot, an almost complete puzzle is found.
And that brings us back to our story.
It does. I thought it was over.
Not quite. Now it's 75 .3 million years later.
Our young teenage gorgosaurus that once sat by a riverbank eating its final meal is now a series of fossilized bones.
I'm just a lonely series of fossilized bones waiting to be found by some dino digging fool.
That's right. A paleontologist.
I'm a paleontologist.
Yes, I am. Digging and singing with a shovel in my hand.
If I get lucky. I found something.
I found something. What's this?
A discovery of dinosaur fossils.
But this isn't just any dinosaur fossil discovery.
This was the discovery of our old friend, gorgosaurus, who died shortly after eating her last meal.
Batch me. And you might be wondering how we know she died after eating her last meal.
After all, it happened over 75 million years ago.
75 million years? How do we know, Guy?
Well, we know because not only was this dinosaur found with its skull, pelvis, and the left side of its body.
It was found with its dinner still in its belly.
Inside of its belly, scientists found the ripped -off hind legs of two smaller, feathered dinosaurs.
Well, I'll be. That dino was a chicken gobbler.
Not exactly, Thomas Fingerling.
See, while all chickens are dinosaurs, no dinosaurs were chickens.
Yeah, Tommy. Chickens hadn't been invented yet, right, Guy?
Something like that.
Anywho, what's really remarkable about this discovery is that this was the first time a Tyrannosaurus skeleton was ever found with its dinner fully intact in its belly.
Oh, I wonder if our chicken gobbler still has the main course of our dino dinner in her belly.
Well, you gotta be looking at me, Fingerling.
I ain't no chicken gobbler.
Where's my G -Force?
Was that a bone? I don't know.
Is it a bone, Detective Guy Private Eye?
Kind of looks like one.
I'd recognize that bone anywhere.
That there's a femur bone of a certified chicken.
Grandma G -Force. Did you eat the entire chicken bones and all?
I do not know what that is.
Grandma G -Force, we either get the truth now or we get the truth in 75 million years.
Either way, the truth always comes out.
Yeah, it's just a matter of which end?
Ew. Oh, fine. I ate the roast dino off the table when no one was looking and I loved it.
I'm the chicken gobbler.
Well, obviously. G -Force, I was looking forward to that roast dino.
Now, cough it up. Okay.
Oh no. I don't know.
We don't need to barf up the chicken.
Here come the bones.
Oh boy. G -Force, we don't want the bones.
Give us the meat. Life becomes going to be sick.
My dinner party is a dino disaster.
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