Rise of the Dinosaurs - Short Wave  ## Metadata - Author: **Short Wave** - Full Title: Rise of the Dinosaurs - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/2402e9ce-70d1-4d93-8faf-89f70b79ae7a ## Highlights - The First Dinosaurs Summary: The first dinosaurs were probably small therapods, again, the small, two legged, chicken like dog sized therpodskay. So how did these tiny, little chicken te rexes become the fearsome creditors that populated the whole earth? I'm putting my tweed jacket on and will play the watson to selina sherlock, because it's time to meet our suspects. Transcript: Speaker 1 But like ther their limbs were underneath the body, so they could probobly lyk gallop and run. So you had this like alisaurus looking skull unlike a four legged galloping organism running at you. O no doubt that would have been pretty scary. Speaker 5 Like a trex horse, like a terex horse. Speaker 3 And compared to those creatures. The dinosaur ancestors running around at this time were kind of wimpy. Speaker 1 Those first dinosaurs were probably small therapods, again, the small, two legged, chicken like dog sized therpodskay, they're the under dogs. Speaker 5 Ind the et reare the under dogs. Speaker 3 So how did these tiny, little chicken te rexes become the fearsome creditors that populated the whole earth? Speaker 2 I'm putting my tweed jacket on and will play the watson to selina sherlock, because it's time to meet our suspects. Speaker 3 So at this time, there was one giant continent, pangea, sitting on titonic plates that were starting to move apart. And this would lead to a series of chaotic, violent, massive volcanic eruptions. Speaker 1 You had this big rift happening, and as a result, you had massive amounts of vulcanism and these major basalt floes in eruptions happening. ([Time 0:04:42](https://share.snipd.com/snip/0df650cb-ba29-4153-a5ca-d4353a0595ea))