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Re: Ideas for Short Dinosaur Presentation
> If you were going to put together a brief presentation on dinosaurs for a
> general audience
_How_ brief? 10, 15, 20 minutes? 45 minutes?
> what would be the main topics that you would want to cover?
Diversity in space and time (emphasize that the Cretaceous alone was longer
than all of the time that has passed since!), basic phylogeny including the
origin of birds, a few points from the recent paper on how sauropods managed to
grow to unparallelled sizes... and some "how we know what we know". Maybe even
explain radiometric dating in a sentence or two.