This week we travel back to dinosaur times with 65! Join us as we learn about all kinds of prehistoric weirdness, including pack-hunting dinosaurs, Spanish moss, swamp creatures, the big asteroid, and more!

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Emily Osterloff, "How an Asteroid Ended the Age of the Dinosaurs," Natural History Museum, available at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-an-asteroid-caused-extinction-of-dinosaurs.html#:~:text=The%20impact%20site%2C%20known%20as,largest%20crater%20on%20the%20planet. Eric Hand, "Updated: Drilling of Dinosaur-killing Impact Crater Explains Buried Circular Hills," Science, available at https://www.science.org/content/article/updated-drilling-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-explains-buried-circular-hills Image of continents 65 million years ago, available at https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/1044470/view/continents-65-million-years-ago-illustration Tyrannosauroid Fossil Localities Map, available at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tyrannosauroid_fossil_localities_map.png

Natalie Johnson, "Jurassic Park Got It Wrong: UWO Research Indicates Raptors Don't Hunt in Packs," UWO Today, available at https://www.uwosh.edu/today/84696/jurassic-park-got-it-wrong-uwo-research-indicates-raptors-dont-hunt-in-packs/ Cameron Duke, "Tyrannosaurs May Have Hunted Together in Packs Like Wolves," New Scientist, available at https://www.newscientist.com/article/2275060-tyrannosaurs-may-have-hunted-together-in-packs-like-wolves/ Sean Mowbray, "Do We Know if Dinosaurs Were Smart Enough to Hunt in Packs?" Discover Magazine, available at https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/do-we-know-if-dinosaurs-were-smart-enough-to-hunt-in-packs

Daniel Strain, "Paleontologists discover Colorado 'swamp dweller' that lived alongside dinosaurs," https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/10/23/paleontologists-discover-colorado-swamp-dweller-lived-alongside-dinosaurs https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/heleocola-piceanus-colorado Stephen Greb, William A DiMichele, Robert Gastaldo, Cortland Eble, and Scott Wing, "Prehistoric Wetland," Elsevier (2022) https://web.colby.edu/ragastal/files/2022/08/2022_GrebEtAl_PrehistoricWetlands.pdf  Life on Our Planet, "In the Shadow of Giants" Netflix. 

Missouri Botanical Garden, https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=f427  "10 Fascinating Facts About Spanish Moss," Mental Floss (2023), https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67807/10-things-you-should-know-about-spanish-moss  Chelsea Harvey, "The World's Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change," Scientific American (August 10, 2023). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-oldest-moss-outlived-the-dinosaurs-but-it-may-not-survive-climate-change/  https://www.edenproject.com/learn/eden-at-home/a-guide-to-prehistoric-plants Josef Pšenička and Stanislav Opluštil, "The epiphytic plants in the fossil record and its example from in situ tuff from Pennylvanian of Radnice Basin (Czech Republic)," Bulletin of Geosciences 88, no.2 (2013): 401-16. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241660344_The_epiphytic_plants_in_the_fossil_record_and_its_example_from_in_situ_tuff_from_Pennsylvanian_of_Radnice_Basin_Czech_Republic 

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/65  Christy Lemire, "65" https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/65-movie-review-2023  Late Night with Seth Meyers https://youtu.be/tJfmy48AplM?si=kts3zwrzZJBalQji