Adventure in the Land of the Dinosaurs | Educational Videos for Kids | Baba Blast!

Whoa! We're here at Pangaea. Let it go, you dinosaurs! Really cool choice, Blaster. There are so many awesome dinosaurs here, and we're going to get to learn all about how they lived millions of years ago. I know, Blaster. I'm going to tell them. And we get to do some really fun dinosaur activities. Are you going to join us? Awesome. Blaster, they're going to join us today. We're excited to have you. Let's go meet some dinosaurs. Look at this amazing dinosaur. It has frills coming out on either side. What would you do if you woke up and saw this? I would say, okay, walking the other way. Whoa! At first I thought this was a tail of a dinosaur, but it's actually a long neck. It reminds me of a brontosaurus. But this isn't a brontosaurus. Let's read the sign. Come here. This is a diplodocus. Diplodocus. Diplodocus. All right, this is a diplodocus with a really long neck. Let's go learn more about dinosaurs with long necks. Our first dinosaur is the elasmosaurus. The elasmosaurus mostly lived in the open ocean and had a small head on a really long neck. Their necks could be 23 feet long. But even bigger is the neck of our next dinosaur, the brachiosaurus. The brachiosaurus neck could reach 30 feet in length. But that's not all. Its entire body was nearly 100 feet long. But even that doesn't compare to our next dinosaur with a really long neck. Any guesses on what it is? If you guessed brontosaurus, you're right. The brontosaurus neck is 50 feet long. That's as long as one semi-truck trailer or three large SUVs. The brontosaurus lived 150 million years ago. Besides their long necks, do you know what else the brachiosaurus and brontosaurus have in common? They're herbivores, meaning that they ate plants. We're learning a lot about dinosaurs, but I want to show you my absolute favorite dinosaur. Do you know what it is? Okay, I'll give you two hints. One, it's really, really big. And two, when it had babies, you wouldn't want to get in its way. Do you know what it is? No, it's not a tyrannosaurus rex. It's a pterodactyl. These were dinosaurs that could fly. Oh, and it looks like this one just had two babies come out of these eggs. Very cool, mama pterodactyl. Let's go learn more about pterodactyls. You probably know that pterodactyls are one of the dinosaurs that could fly. But did you know that baby pterodactyls had no parental care? They had to take care of themselves as soon as they were born. Luckily, they could escape predators by flying away right after birth. New word alert, new word alert. Do you know the name for a baby pterodactyl? A baby pterodactyl is called a flapling. Now you know that baby pterodactyls are called flaplings. Oh, dinosaurs keep getting cooler and cooler. Oh, a dino activity? I could be down for that. Do you want to come with us? Okay, here we go. Oh, blaster. We have a stream of water in front of us and two bags filled with dirt. What's going on here? Oh, the blaster says that in each one of these bags there are some treasures we get to look for. In this bag, there are a whole bunch of gems and stones and cool-looking rocks. And in this bag are dinosaur fossils. We're going to do this bag first. Here we go. Whoa. All right, we're going to take this and run it in the water and hopefully we got some good gems. Here it goes. Oh, I see one. Do you see them? Wow, they're beautiful. All right. We have this nice yellow one. A great red one. And a blue one, too. Ooh, and a really pretty gold one. Which one is your favorite? The gold, the red, the blue, or the other gold? Wow, this one kind of looks like a dinosaur tooth a little bit. There are a lot of cool gems in there. Now let's go look at the fossils. All right. I can't wait to see what dinosaur fossils we find in this one. Whoa. Here it goes into the water. 3, 2, 1. Ooh, it's really muddy and yucky. Here we go. Ooh, I see them already. Do you? Those look really cool. This one looks really cool. But look at this. A tooth. Who knows what animal it came from. Wow. I'm going to keep that tooth for sure. Oh, here's some more rocks with fossils in them. Look at this one. It kind of looks like a snail. Oh, and another one that looks like this. Oh, and we got really lucky. We have another tooth. This one is kind of like my tooth. But it's not. It's a dino tooth. Blaster, really fun activity. We found some awesome rocks and some very cool dinosaur fossils. Thanks for showing us. All right, time to go find more dinosaurs. Really fun activities, Blaster. Let's keep looking for more dinos. Where to next, Blaster? Oh, this way? Okay, come on. I see a really big dinosaur with a cone shape on the top of its head. Do you know the name of that dinosaur? Blaster, do you know the name? Of course you do. It's a Parasaurolophus. And below the Parasaurolophus are a ton of tiny dinosaurs. Here's one right here. Let's get a closer look. Wow. This is called a Velociraptor. And it could run really, really fast. We have gotten so close to dinosaurs today. I can't believe... I didn't think we were going to get this close. It's okay. It's just Dexter the dinosaur. Hi, Dexter. All right. Dexter used to live 215 million years ago. And if you're familiar with the state of Arizona, that's where he's from, right, Dexter? Oh, yeah. Dexter, show them how big your tail is. Dexter has a huge tail. Whoa. It's even taller than me. And Dexter loves to get back rubs, don't you, Dexter? Oh, there you go. Dexter, thanks for letting us hang out with all your friends today. Oh, and he's a little hopper guy too. Nice job, Dexter. All right, well, we'll watch you run away, Dexter. Bye for now. There he goes. Check him out, look. Bye, Dexter. Dexter was a friendly dinosaur, but now it's time to go meet more dinosaurs. Come on. This dinosaur has bony plates along either side of its back. It's called an amogasaurus, and they use those bony plates to thermoregulate. New word alert, new word alert. Have you ever heard of the word thermoregulate or thermoregulation? That is one way animals control their body temperature. So if this dinosaur got really cold, it might put those plates out in the sun to heat up, and if it was really hot, it might put those plates in the cool air to cool down. Amogasaurus, you have your own air conditioning system right on top of you. Very cool. We'll see you later. Come on, let's go look at more dinosaurs. Oh, one of the most popular dinosaurs. It has three horns on it. What is it? That's right, a triceratops. Here it is. Huge. One, two, three horns. Wow. I love triceratops. Remember the dinosaur scavenger hunt we did by the lake? We met a really big triceratops there. Come on, let's go meet more animals. Whoa, look at that one. There are some big beetles here, too. Those are the biggest bugs I've ever seen. One way scientists know that beetles could grow this large is through fossils. Hey, Blaster, can we go check out some fossils? Cool, Blaster. Real-life fossils. These are awesome. Look at this big shark teeth. It's bigger than my hand. This comes from the megalodon, the biggest shark that ever was. You want to see what they look like? Blaster, show us a megalodon, please. To give you an idea on how big the megalodon was, here's a picture of a great white shark, about 16 feet long. Now here's a picture of the megalodon, 65 feet long. Some scientists believe that the female megalodon was twice as large as the male megalodon. Now, megalodons were known as apex predators of the ocean, meaning they were at the top of the food chain and they weren't preyed upon by other animals. The megalodon even ate dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals. In order to do that, they opened their big mouth, nearly 10 feet wide. Who wants to go swimming with a megalodon? Not me. Whoa, megalodons were huge. What other fossils do we have? Ooh, what about this velociraptor claw? It's pretty small. But the Utahraptor, it had even a bigger claw. Way bigger than the velociraptor claw. Wow. Remember the Triceratops that we've seen? Well, this is what the size of their teeth look like. Pretty big, bigger than my teeth. But they don't compare to the teeth of the Tyrannosaurus rex. It's way bigger than the Triceratops' teeth. Really cool. Now, I know this might be icky, but have you ever wondered what dinosaur poop looks like? Well, we have some here. This is real-life dinosaur poop. Pretty small, huh? All right, Blaster, I'm done holding the dinosaur poop. I need to wash my hands and go to our next dinosaur. I just took a big breath of air that was filled with oxygen. Back when dinosaurs were around, there was a lot of oxygen. Way more than there is today. And that made some animals grow really, really big. Even tiny little scorpions grew up to be the size of this. I would love to learn about other animals that were really big when dinosaurs were around. Okay, so you're probably familiar with a rabbit. Rabbits that live today, the biggest ones, can be about 20 pounds. But a rabbit that lived 3 to 5 million years ago called the Neuralogus rex, it could be as big as 26 pounds. One of my favorite animals is the sloth. Have you ever seen one of these? They move really slow and spend most of their time in trees. But there's a giant sloth that lived 400,000 years ago called the Megatherium. This Megatherium weighed 4 tons, or about how much a small elephant weighs. That's 10 times the size of today's sloth. What animal uses mud, sticks, and wood to build dams and rivers? If you said beaver, you're right. Today's beaver can weigh as much as 40 pounds. But there's even a bigger beaver that lived about a million years ago. Castoroides. This beaver was way bigger than today's beaver. It could weigh up to 275 pounds. I store water inside the two humps on my back. What animal am I? That's right, I'm a camel. Today's camel weighs 1,400 pounds. That's pretty big. But the camel that lived millions of years ago, the Titanotilapus, weighed 5,480 pounds. I bet the Titanotilapus had to drink lots of water. Aren't dinosaurs the absolute coolest? I'm so glad we could learn about all these fascinating creatures that lived on this planet millions of years ago. Thanks for being here, Blaster. Thanks as always. We'll see you at the next one. We hope you had a ba-ba-blast. Bye for now. Ba-blast!