Hi, welcome to the Skeleton Crew & today we’re not talking about Acrocanthosaurus, but instead it’s a Q&A where we discover more & more about these lunatics that are also Paleontologists
I know what changed the way I changed how I talked in the online paleosphere was that I started having a paleontologist following me, and I had that moment of going "I have a professional following me, who I've listened to complain about this exact stuff I've done before. I need to clean up my act"
Give Acro Me give consume Acro me Consume Acro give me Consume Acro Give me consume Acro give me consume Acro give me Consume Acro give me you! Translation: “I was excited for the Acrocanthosaurus video. Where is it? When is it?”
I think the thing with parasite elimination is that most people don’t understand how ubiquitous parasitic animals are. Like mosquitos in many ways can define habitats because they only require stagnant water and can make babies from the same things that eat them. Tapeworms are in the guts of every large mammal in the world. There’s no telling the havoc that would be caused by eliminating them. Also a lot of the time eradication is just more alluring that more realistic options. Like the Guinea worm. It is easily removed with the use of water filters because it is spread by plankton. So now these people still have to drink poop water but they won’t get this one specific parasite. I feel like it’s more empathetic all around to try to distribute water filters.
5:38 I’m now expecting the Skeleton Crew Movie releasing on Halloween. It’s a horror movie where you are all stuck in a Natural History Museam surrounded by a bunch of grass and then forest with only one road in for out and you are all locked inside with no power but Alex is the horror monster and just does this for the whole movie. Obviously titled, The Mongering
Tales of Kaimere is a very good fantasy spec evo/storytelling project taking place in an alternative world connected to earth populated by earth fauna harvested and derived from previously harvested animals. It has a bit of thought put into military applications of prehistoric fauna (or, well, fauna derived from prehistoric fauna) as it is firmly pre industrial, pre gunpowder technologically (mostly). Probably my favorite example of this is usage by steppe nomads of a tamed species of giant Chalicothere called the Ghlanos. Males can bond with domestic horse herds, and thus they can be readily trained to some extent. In war, the Ghlanos follow along their calvary unit and act as living siege towers in a way similar to war elephants... except war elephants can't pull down defensive walls with giant clawed arms. The entire project is definitely worth checking out, a lot of neat and very original concepts.
1:35:37 I think an important thing is to think more about the difference between invasive, non-native, and naturalized. Invasives should be eradicated in places they don’t belong or fit into the native ecosystem. Non-natives and naturalized species should at least be left alone as even if they are not native, they aren’t negatively affecting where they are introduced into. The question itself is pretty interesting though.
I would love to ride into war on a T. rex in samurai armor basically like the ones from Kyoryu I also want to be the paleo zoo’s Tyrannosaur Whisperer so basically be so close with them that I could do something like hold a baby T. rex in front of its parents without fear of being killed and OMG did that question make me want to petition Nigel Marvin into making a 2025 version of Prehistoric Park
Good luck on the vet team James: you don’t know the amount of literal 💩 your gonna deal with, also animals tend to HATE vet staff, on sight! this comes from lived experience
