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this is technically episode 2 of the Fossil collection remember you already did a video on Galar's fossils, Dracozolt, Arctozolt, Dracovish & Arctovish
Fun fact! Areodactyl is classified as the "Fossil Pokemon", even though it's the only fossil Pokemon that doesn't actually come from a fossil(you revive it from an amber)
Amber is Fossilized Tree Sap.....hense...Fossil Though off all 3 Kanto Fossils....actually of All the Fossil Pokemon...Aerodactyl is probably the most Scientifically Possible... Fossils aren't really bone...or Shell....there Rock that has replaced what it once was like after Million's of Years, namely no Dna to collect to revive a creature. What Michael Crichton came up with in Jurrassic Park actually makes sense, Collecting blood that is perserved inside dead Mosquitoes trapped in Amber....or atleast if would make sense...if DNA didn't break up after Death. by the time the blood is extracted from the Mosquito (if it hasn't become dust) there would be no DNA to extract.
This was a good one! I can't wait for the Anorith/Armaldo video- love those fossils. Quick suggestion, could you also give little mentions to the other prehistoric Pokémon like Relicanth or Genesect when you get to their gens? Assuming the videos don't get too long beforehand- I don't wanna tell you how to do your job lol
Now that you mention it yeah. theres quite a few "living fossil" pokemon that arent actually "fossil" pokemon. I think for now with this fossil series we'll stick with just the official Fossil pokemon. but then end it with a sort of "Ancient Power Special!" that goes over pokemon like Genesect and Relicanth and how they relate.
Don't forget Yanmega, that thing is based on an Meganeura, the prehistoric giant dragonflies from long before the dinosaurs. It's an honorary fossil pokemon in my eyes.
I also think it’s interesting that (before the Crowned Tundra and whatever’s going on there), Kabuto was the only fossil Pokémon that didn’t actually go extinct, as Pokédex entries stated that they still existed in small numbers and that the revived Kabuto look exactly like the still living ones
@Laura Christoph we just need to stop irresponsible scientists who think slapping any 2 fossils together is fine. And a way should be found to either fix the ones released in Galar or at least provide a measure of comfort to their miserable lives.
@@onepieceking1770 yes, but Kabuto’s different in that according to that entry, they never went extinct in the first place. They’re just so rare it’s easier to revive them than to catch one, and I guess they’re preserved really well since the revived Kabuto look exactly like the still alive populations. (The Pokédex talking about Mega Aerodactyl possibly being Aerodactyl’s true form is evidence that at least some of the fossil Pokémon used to look different, and this is likely the case for most if not all of them with Kabuto being an exception to the rule)
@@SeantheSharkGuy very true but that does beg the question though who exactly is still currently around and who isnt (in terms of the fossils) cus if the point u just made is true (which it is) then that indicates that kabuto's and other fossil pokemon actually r walking about in the world while some r still in fossil form waiting to be awakened into their true forms
I love the fossil mons, my favourite is Armaldo, it's such an homage to the entire Paleozoic era, which apart from being my favourite era rarely gets any respectull representation anywhere. I loved earlier fossil mons due to how they were more paleontology themed than the later ones, except Aerodactyl of course, which is still cool. By the way, there is a Dicynodont named Bulbasaurus phylloxyron, which is totally not a Pokémon reference (phylloxyron means razor leaf in latin). And yeah, "it's a silly name for X in latin" summarizes most scientific names, they are supposed to be simple and descriptive, latin is used just because it is a dead tongue albeit the door to ancient greek and chinese has already been open as well as to mix names.
That's what you took from that comment? There's an actual dicynodont called bulbasaurus and you focus on Armaldo?! It is a pretty damn cool Mon though.
@@insanitygaming1526 Technically it's "Leaf Razor" because of its beak-jaw shape... but it's still fricking incredible. I spent a solid hour just reading about the cute little basal mammal.
Small addition. Pteron means wing in ancient Greek, just like the word helico-pter is based on. Dactyl comes from the Greek word Daktylos which translates to finger. So it's name is wingfinger but Bulbapedia apparently switched up the words
I really love fossil pokemon, the Kanto Fossils are and will always be my favorite, Aerodactyl was one of my favorite beat sticks. Galar was the only one i hesitated to revive, i'm hoping for the Sword and Shield remake, we have a choice of having a competent professor revive the Galar fossils
@@28kingofkings that's the point of them fossils, it is based on mixing up of skeleton of various dinosaur skeletons and calling it a new specie. Lockstin made a vid about it.
The Galar "fossils" aren't my cup of tea, either. Yes, I understand the premise of them being mixed up, yet I HATE them. I find them and the idea of reviving a creature made of incompatible parts both cruel and revolting. I don't agree with opinions justifying their existence as Pokémon. Just remember, thanks to one researcher's incompetence, we players were robbed of FOUR distinct fossilmon lines. (No one at gamefreak is going to ever be like, "oh, btw, here's four new lines of them revived correctly"). Furthermore, to add insult to injury, THE FOSSILS NEVER NEEDED TO BE COMPLETE OR ASSEMBLED TO BE REVIVED. The very idea is contrary to what the Pokémon series had already established, remember? Claw fossil? Sail fossil? Skull fossil? Old Amber? Etc? Each of these were revived using trace bits of DNA to recreate a baby member of the species. Not at all like "assembling a complete skeleton, then zapping it to life" like some kind of necromancer. So if you ask me, that "researcher" mishmashing Galar fossils deserves to be scrutinized for crimes against nature and general incompetence. Others in the field of fossil research have been doing this successfully for years and haven't created perpetually suffering, deformed monstrosities. Every time I look at one of the Galar fossilmons, I swear they are all saying, "please... kill... me...".
Anybody else get their childhood dreams crushed when that official poster came out and Kabuto was a horseshoe crab instead of a trilobite? Horseshoe crabs are awesome, but man, why not BOTH? Also Opabinia Fossil when I want my crane game shrimp thing
I mean, wouldn't it be too similar theme-wise with the Anorith line? That said, a non-fossil Opabinia Pokémon would be cool. Personally, I would prefer an Aegiroclasis-inspired regional variant of Anorith. Maybe evolving into a new form making homage to speculative biology, it would be appropiate.
@@insanitygaming1526 There are a multiple kinds of nerd. I'm the dinosaur dude wherever I go despite only being interested in saurisquian dinosaurs. And the speculative biology group is kind of small but not, it's the branch of science fiction that works with evolutionary biology or biology in general (so alien life, yet to be discovered organism due to preservation bias, what if in the history of life or the creatures living millions of years after the present are the most common ones, but human descendant and genetically engineered creatures are also popular topics lately). It's starting to grow now with the explosion of All Tomorrows albeit it has always been bigger in eastern Europe and Japan (there is a lot of stuff in russian or japanese only, sadly). Aegiroclasis is a cool creature because it is a relative of Anomalocaris which was a filter-feeder but an organism like that was predicted in speculative biology before that (the name of the fictional organism was used for the clade itself instead of the specific organism). So it was predicted by speculative biology, kinda like how some scifi shows predicted tech that we ended up creating but with the fossil record.
Me and my brother always have picked one curtain Pokémon fossil for each game. I had ommastar, and he had kabutops. I always love my boy! We don’t like the big chin flappy guy…
I’m a huge paleo nerd so it’s like I was finishing the facts in my mind before you said them. Really excited for the rest of these videos. Like what you classify some of the parts of the gen 8 fossil Mon and the fossil mvp, bastiodon
Nautiluses are still alive actually. They are living fossils just like horseshoe crabs. I also think there is some nautilus inspiration, which would go hand in hand with Kabuto having both a dead and living fossil as inspiration.
I hope in the next gen or so, I wish to see any fossils such as a Spinosaurus or an obscure ones like the Spectrovenator or Hallucigenia. They could also do fossils during the Ice Age too.
Aerodactly is my favorite of the Gen 1 Fossils, especially with it learning Fire Blast and my fun FireRed run where I also had the Nidos and Rhydon with surf.
Kabuto has four eyes! The bottom eyes help it navigate and scavenge for food, and the top eyes can detect changes in light. When something swims above it casts a shadow and gives the kabuto a heads up to hide!
Mmm, I'm sorry but I've not seen your original comment about birds and dinosaurs. Did it get deleted by an error? I don't know, this has never happened to me.
Huge Eurypterid nerd here, Love the video, but to all who were wondering how big Eurypterids are (their know size wasn't directly stated in the video), The biggest confirmed Eurypterid (I might be wrong) was Pterygotus, confirmed at roughly two meters long. And we have evidence from fossil fragments that the Eurypterid Jaekelopterus could grow close to three meters long. Hope this video gets a few more people interested in the biggest (known) arthropod to have ever existed!
Great video as always Lockstin, very informative! Although, I would like to say that ‘ptera’ actually means wing, not finger; ‘dactyl’ means finger, such as in pterodactylus (wing finger) or in polydactyly (many fingers).
8:18 Cheirurus may be lattin,but the words that make it up are actually greek-cheir is ancient greek for heri (hand) and oura is both ancient and modern greek (tail) Also, 10:42 ,aerodactyl's name origin is also greek-aero meaning air (coming from aeras=air/wind),and pterodactyl (ptero-ftero=feather/wing and dactyl-daktylo=finger)
I'm always sad I don't have access to so many of the sponsorship Items you tell us about. So many are US exclusive and others just don't deliver where I am. But I digress, I can't wait to see the Gen VI video as Tyrunt is my favorite fossil pokemon :D
Im still peeved about the dino-might title since i am a paleo nerd and Non of the gen one pokemon are dinosaurus and only one is an Archosaur. Also, i think birds needed a little mention in the main archosaur groups since many scientists consider the as archosaurs aswell.
10:45 ptera means wing not finger. Figer is dactyl. Pterodactyl means "winged finger". Ptera is found in many groups of animals such like chiroptera (bats), coleoptera (beetles), diptera (flies), hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) , orthoptera (grasshoppers) ect. Dactyl is found in ohter groups, like Artiodactyla, the even toed ungulates (artios=even, dactyla=finger) or Perissodactyla, the odd toed ungalates (perrisos = odd).
If your in the mood for more prehistoric creatures named after Pokémon then may I direct your attention to Bulbasaurus, an genus of dicynodont found in South Africa. The specific name for one species is phylloxyron literally meaning “leaf razor”. When the paleontologists who named it were asked if it was named after Bulbasaur they basically said “maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, you can believe what you want to believe “.
Omanyte and Kabuto being pokemon based on super common fossils makes me think that´s probably also part of the reason why in the Crown Tundra pokedex is stated that they basically became a plague after some of the revived fossils managed to escape/got released into the wild by pokemon trainers.
🤔 Scyther could also just be another case of "convergent evolution" as you described the Trilobites and Horseshoe Crabs to be 🤷♂️. This is a fun video though, i really like how much detail you go into on seemingly all the Pokemon videos. At times it almost seems like they are really part of our world when given so many inspirational references. 😄👍
it's pretty obvious that the eyes on the top of kabuto's head are it's real eyes and the big,red dots under them are just decoys to scare away predators.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real 2 reasons. 1: The fossil used to revive the Pokémon is called the Helix fossil. 2: There was this play through called Twitch Plays Pokémon that was super popular and essentially the worshipped The Helix Fossil in that game.
@@airplanes_aren.t_real To elaborate, the fossil is called the Helix Fossil. There's little else to add to this aspect. So let's go to the second point. "Twitch Plays Pokemon" was one of the first and most-popular "Live-streams" hosted in the early days of streaming site Twitch. The conceit was that the host established a comment-to-input bot for their ROM of a Gen 1 Pokemon game. This meant if you typed "A" as your only comment, the bot would translate your comment into a press of the A button and thus immediately press the A button (which is used to select options). For further clarification, the possible commands were: Up, Down, Left, Right, A ('accept'), B ('cancel'), and Start ('pause'/'menu'). Because every viewer would be watching and responding simultaneously, every action performed was often done a dozen times in a row and other actions lagged behind more-recent actions. The result of this was that the Menu was frequently entered ("Start" any odd number of times in a row), the Item menu specifically was entered ("A"), and the first/second item in the Item Menu ("A" or "Down"+"A") was selected. The Helix Fossil is obtained in Mount Moon, the first real "cave" of the game. And because it's logged as a "Key Item" it's one of the few items that can't be randomly used or thrown away. Meaning it's almost always at the top of the Item Menu. This meant the "Start/A/A" cycle that happened every like 5 minutes was always selecting the "Helix Fossil". This led to the running joke among the fandom/viewers that The Player Character was "Praying to Lord Helix" not unlike those "Jesus, take the wheel" memes that were popular around that time.
11:00: THANK YOU, Someone who got that right without needing me to correct them in the comments, my inner dino-dork is so sick of telling people that over and over again, so thank you so very much for doing your basic Google search before writing the script. *Tear of joy goes down left cheek.*
Ive actually learned that before. I was mildly confused but I believe its because they Pterosaurs have some kind of hole in there bones that dinosaurs don't have...Im glad I knew that fact before he put in the joke about it.
Unlike other commonly mistaken "not dinosaurs", Pterosaurs are actually really closely related to dinosaurs. They are both in a group of reptiles known as the Archosaurs. This group of diapsid reptiles was very prevalent during the Triassic. They diverged into two major subgroups, the pseudosuchia and the ornithodria, and are identified by differences in their ankle joints. The pseudosuchia were made up of animals covered in scutes, and ranged from bipedal carnivores to armored herbivores, and of course the true crocodilians. The ornithodria had different traits to the pseudosuchia, most notably their hollow bones and air sacs (a trait shared by both dinosaurs and pterosaurs). Pterosaurs branched off from the lineage that would go on to become dinosaurs right before they developed their specialized pelvis structure. So they lack the unifying trait that all true dinosaurs possessed, but are very closely related.
I am so happy you started this project!! I love how in-depth you always go and thank you so much for all the work you do to bring us quality infotainment!! Fossils are my favorite lol And you always have hilarious sponsor plugs. 🤣 AND SOMEONE GET NURSE JOY IN HERE FOR THOSE FEELINGS cause Ye Gods, Lockstin! That was so cold they're gonna end up with freezer burn 🥶
Fossils are probably my favorite genre of pkmen besides Ghost type Pokemon, and I'm kinda saddened that they are just sorta delighted to Pokedex spots. We should have a rock gum leader that just uses these boys
Yeah, honestly is kind of surprising that there isn't an extinct/ancient themed rock-type gym leader considering the huge theme of the type. Probably because fossil mons are mid to late game mons and rock type leaders are early game gyms.
You kept going on about the tails matching Kabutops hands. I think you forget Kabutops appears to have a tail itself. So the tails, I don't feel, belong to the scythes.
Kabuto is also the name of a excellent Kamen Rider season, largely based on insects. The lead is a Beetle and the stag Beetle gets a important job too. Isn't Kabuto also a name used for insects? I know Japan loves beetles.
Trick question: What's the first Pokémon in the Dex order to be based on a dinosaur? Answer: Pidgey. Birds are actually dinosaurs, as when they evolved they never stopped being dinosaurs, and Bulbasaur is a frog, not a reptile.
. . . . .being a decendent of something is not the same as being a thing, or a lot of people in germany would qualify as roman or people all over eurasia woud be Genghis Khan
@@SingingSealRiana Except birds are dinosaurs in the same way humans are mammals, this is how taxonomy works. "Genghis Khan" is the name of a specific individual, so it's not inherited by definition. "Roman" is an identity label, so it's only carried on if the individuals want. There's a lot of equivocation here.
@@SingingSealRiana uhm... No. You misunderstand how genetics works. Being a descendant of Gengis Khan makes you Mongol, not Gengis himself, as much as you are not your parents, but you are the same ethnicity as them. If you saw a lizard, a crocodile and a duck, you'd likely call the first two as reptiles, but not the duck; though crocs and birds are more closely related to each other than any other reptile group.
@@CGaboL It's also interesting to point out that humans are not "fish", because "fish" is a label that purely refers to basic looks, not to ancestry. Salmos and lampreys are more distantly related than humans and salmos. And yet everyone would call those two "fish". But there are still defining features that set apart humans and salmos from lampreys, like that both humans and salmos have four limbs and lampreys don't have any, because these two's ancestors split apart from lampreys' before developing four limbs.
Aside from some misguided pokedex entries, I really love how gamefreak handles fossil Pokémon. They didn’t go straight for the super popular ones, like the T. Rex, and even when they did they stuffed it full of feathers and made it elementally weak to its counterpart, a relatively obscure sauropod. Here’s to more of that!
I brought that exact "pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs" argument at my local game store. Turns out one of the players studied paleontology and straight up disagreed. Not because it was scientifically wrong, but because public consensus was so strongly in favor of calling those kinds of animals dinosaurs, it was more important to not confuse people when communicating instead of being perfectly accurate.
Taxonomy and paleontology nerd here, gotta step in real quick. Technically speaking, horseshoe crabs aren't arachnids, they're Xiphosurans, which are closest related to arachnids. It's an easy mistake to make considering the only modern Xiphosurans are horseshoe crabs and Xiphosurans are most closely related to arachnids. However, it would be like saying a hyena is a type of mongoose; they're very closely related to each other, but they're still independent groups.
I have a rule that if possible I always have to use a fossil Pokemon of available. My other rule is that I always have to use a poison type (Ivr had both rules for years, don't remember how I came up with the rules, but the poison rule was in place well before fairies)
The fossil pokemon where always my favorite always wanted to see more of them, as well if possible their original typing and not just a revived fossil.
@duddude321 Bulbasaurus Phylloxyron is a synapsid, mammalian ancestors. Funny because that would mean bulbasaur is technically closer to pikach and say charmander despite being a "frog".:P
@@insanitygaming1526 that's the one missed the last few gens...well after platinum to sword&shield and still have trouble remembering the information of many of those even just the names sometimes 😅
@@LostSoulNexus wishiwashi becomes its school form and looks like a shark it is in sword and shield also It wouldn't be in platinum it came out in sun and moon Edit: for the school form a bunch come together and make the shark shape
