How the Tyrannosaurs Ruled the World - with David Hone 

Putting a giant Tyrannosaur head in front of you facing the audience while doing your lecture is quite a power move :P

I really wish I could have studied paleontology. I grew up in a rough area , and labor is all I can do . But I know dinosaurs have been my love all my life .

From one instructor to another, this was very well presented and kept me engaged from the beginning to the end. Well done

As a guy who has loved T. rex my entire life, this lecture is terrific. Super interesting and well presented.

"perhaps not a giant chicken, but certainly fluffy" -David Hone, describing a tyrannosaurus

"Was T-Rex a scavenger?" Actually, that is a strange question, since most animals are opportunistic feeders. It would be very unwise, for any animal, to leave good food behind and only hunt live animals. Most, if not all animals, will eat the food, when it is presented to them, without having to hunt or search for it. T-Rex is big, fast, has a huge mouth, a tremendous bite force, excellent smell and 3D vision. Sounds like a hunter to me. Scavenging is just another method to get food.

Not sure why this suddenly popped up in my recommended two years after being posted, but I'm glad it did! What a great presentation. Great speaker, and really well-done editing that kept it engaging the whole time. The hour flew by. Subbed, and a bit annoyed that RU-vid hasn't recommended this channel to me until now. I've watched and am subbed to quite a few science-based channels.

As someone who can't afford to go to school for paleontology and I didn't do so hot in high school, I absolutely loved this! Videos like this help educate those of us who can't get a hold of it otherwise. Kept my interest the whole time and I learned a lot. Tyrannosaurus Rex has always been my favorite dinosaur and boy did this give me a lot of info! Honestly surprised he didn't touch on sense of smell? Amazing educational video though thank you for sharing!

I'm so glad the algorithm randomly recommended this video to me in 2021! This presentation was absolutely fantastic, thanks for sharing so much knowledge. Much love from Brazil :)

I'm 37 and I have the same facination as when I was 7 years old. I have many different dinosaur bone at home, and I use them to teach people who never seen one. The story of life is impressive !! 👍👀🖒

This is the best lecture on Tyrannosaurs that I have seen on RU-vid!.... excellent

My Great Uncle, Joseph Burr Tyrrell discovered the "Albertasaurus" and that Museum in Drumheller, Alberta is named after him!!!!

What a brilliant speaker you are. Enjoyed every moment and learned a lot at the same time. An hour that just flew away.

really well filmed. appreciate the multiple cameras so we can bounce between shots when he starts walking around the skull. lovely stuff

That was the fastest hour long presentation I've literally ever heard. I want more.

I wasn't a dinosaur person an hour ago, David's content/presentation was brilliant. 10/10

Excellent lecture. I can recommend his superb book, also called "The Tyrannosaur Chronicles." A fascinating, compelling read.

This is a stunning presentation. David Hone's passion for the subject translates beautifully into the way he presents this lecture. Absolute fantastic. Thank You, David.

I HAVE BEEN FACINATED WITH DINOS FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE I`M 78 NOW THIS IS THE BEST PRESENTATION I HAVE EVER SEEN THANK YOU FOR INFORMING US ON THE TRUE ASPECTS OF DINOS.

Always enjoy listening to a great teacher. The skill of explaining theories and current thinking in a concise and clear way is a great skill. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I always loved dinosaurs as a kid, and I was definitely one of the ones who were taken by "T-Rex obsession".

When I was 10 years old, my dino mania began. This was some 15 years before Jurassic Park. My favourite to be the Allosaur. These animals have always kept on amazing me. Great talk. Thanks

One of my favorite lecture of all time. Really drills down into what makes Tyrannosaurs some of the greatest dinosaurs to ever live. And although this is 3 years old at the point of posting this, but there is something currently disputed about it. Current consensus of feathers on Tyrannosaurus is that it's probably the case that juvenile Tyrannosaurus would have had an insulating coat of feathers, but it would have lost them partially or entirely over time. Although skin impressions of Tyrannosaurus have been rare and their coverage small, all of the impressions have been scaly. There has been bits of skin all over the head and small patches on the neck, the hips, the tail, and even the feet of adult Tyrannosaurus but each impression showed scales. There has been very little coverage as a whole, but the spread of scales across the body argue that rather than putting feathers where they aren't based on their ancestors, it would be more appropriate to assume the entirety of Tyrannosaurus was scaly. I love feathered Tyrannosaurs, with Nanuqsaurus being a favorite of mine. It was an Alaskan Tyrannosaur entirely covered in feathers; but the science supports a scaly Tyrannosaurus. Also, it's likely Tyrannosaurus has an incredible sense of smell, maybe one of the best of any animal. They possessed olfactory bulbs the size of grapefruit, which high estimates show it could have smelled carcasses up to 40 km away with the acuity of 100 bloodhounds. But that is still not proven. Regardless, it had the best sense of smell of any known dinosaur. Additionally, measurements of their brain case show an incredibly large brain relative to their enormous size and suggest intelligence comparable to a chimpanzee. Intelligence in animals can be generalize by brain to body size, as the bigger the body the more brain needs to be used to maintain and control it. Tyrannosaurus has a brain bigger than our own, albeit in a body 100x more massive. But considering the lack of brains of other dinosaurs, that is still impressive. Those would've been a good talking point in the lecture I would think. Tyrannosaurus wasn't just a brute of unrivaled strength and size, but was surprisingly keen in senses and brainy compared to just about any other large dinosaur.

Really enjoyed that. Dr Hone has the knack of making a subject really interesting and totally engrossing.

Excellent talk. Think of just how tense the nights would be knowing this super-predator was out there. Its gaze focusing on you would be the most terrifying thing to see, because at that moment it knows you spotted it, and it will now be coming at you at full tilt. You cannot outrun it, you cannot outfight it, and you will not be able to hide. You have to get underground or underwater in the next few seconds or you are dead.

Thank you very much for making this aavailable to everyone involved!

That was really enjoyable and fascinating, I've just bought his book, "the Tyrannosaur chronicles" I'm absolutely fascinated by these things and have been all my life and I'm 57yrs old now! I love how it's all becoming clearer bit by bit how these magnificent animals lived and behaved, thank you David 👍

Fascinating lecture! That hour just whizzed by. Learned a few more things about Tyrannosaurs, and Dr. Hone is a fantastic speaker!

That was a fantastic video. Very informative and I love the different camera angles. It had my attention throughout the entire duration.

Definitely one of the best lectures I've ever listened to , absolutely fascinating , keep up the good work ,thank you so much !

Excellent presentation! I learned a huge amount and enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you!

Initially I was searching for CGI’s of Dinosaurs when I came across this. My first thought was “Oh a (long) lecture” but like many RI lectures it pulled me in. David Hone provided an informative & entertaining talk on Tyrannosaurs & was engaging with his well researched talk. Give it a viewing. You’re unlikely to regret it.

This was INSANELY good. Makes you want to learn more about them as well which is great

38:34 The explanation of the upper teeth stripping flesh from bone and how those , relatively small teeth on a huge animal worked was so well explained..... Kudos.

This was an absolutely fascinating talk. I learnt a lot. Thank you for uploading this! I have just purchased the book shown at the end to learn more.

So mind boggling that these things existed. Makes one wonder what else exists in our universe.

Amazing lecture

Great lecture! I have been a dino lover since childhood, and I will never lose my fascination with them 🦖

Why cant teachers do this? I watched for an hour and it felt like no time had passed! Very enjoyable and very informitive.

For anyone who doesn't know, the main guy who was making the "T Rex were scavengers" argument also openly disliked T Rex. The reason being that his favorite dinosaur was actually the american iguanadon (I think it has a different name now, but I forget it), but when he went out on expeditions to find it, he couldn't find any, and he just *kept finding T Rex fossils.* So he got a little petty and started using his doctorate to push the idea that T Rex was a big ugly lazy scavenger, despite the fact that he doesn't study the animal.

I prefer a nice warm pizza but if I come across old pizza sitting in the break room, I’ll eat it.

just shows when a dr of some particular subject, expounds on the subject he or she loves, you get that dynamic understanding beyond academic understanding, but an illumination, of deeper thinking we humans are capable of. some expound on uninteresting subjects, but in this case, very enlightening. thank you sir for understanding our condition.

Fascinating from beginning to end. A truly wonderful lecture! This is the ultimate Tyrannosaur lecture.

rewatched this so many times. great lecture, and fascinating topic. thanks dr hone :)

Thank you so much for this lecture it was very informative

I've been in love with Dinosaurs since I was a 4 year old girl. This talk was wonderful! It made my inner child happy.

Thank you for really interesting and engaging lecture! Your passion and enthusiasm is contagious. It would have been great to see the lecture live, but i'll take this!

This was great!! This guy, David Hone, is a wonderful speaker and really held my attention throughout the entire video! I only planned on watching snippets of this, but once it started, I felt compelled to watch and listen to every minute of it! What an interesting video!!

and somewhere i can hear jack horner say " it was a scavenger"

These big fellows are so popular, it almost feels like people try to knock them down a peg sometimes. "They were so big and slow!" "They were stupid!" "They never hunted live prey!" "They were practically blind!" and on, and on... This lecture, among several others on youtube alone, prove all of that wrong. I know it's cool to hate what's mainstream. But these big freakin' animals are so much more than their street cred of cool alone could ever bring. You gotta give it up for the king.

Fascinating. Thank you RI and Dr Hone.

Incredible presentation, blew through nearly an hour, this guy is a great speaker.

This video on Tyrannosaurus will spawn even more research on the specimens :D Thank you for the talk.

Thank you for sharing this knowledge David Hone. What an awesome presentation.

Simply amazing! This is ,for my view, the best lecture about an animal that has fashionated me all my life. I am 71 years old. thank you so much, I not only enjoyed it, I loved it!

This is a superb presentation! Enjoyed every moment of it!

Thank you sir, for providing your viewers with a very fine lecture. Without doubt, the best that I have ever had the pleasure to learn so much from. Excellent.

An excellent lecture on the T Rex. I learned nothing i didn't already know, but it's never a bad thing wasting an hour hearing about T REX. An incredible animal

I can listen to this all day, please do or upload more. Thanks

A brilliant presentation and presenter. yer seriously one of the best on youtube, could listen and trust you with anything

A great illumination of how life drove evolution. Not just physical environment, but biological environment.

Watching this made me buy Dr Hone's book. Its a fantastic read.

My inner child was grinning ear to ear for this talk. Great talk!

Great presentation. Thank you for posting!

My 4.5 year old son absolutely loves dinosaurs and the YT suggested videos sent me here. Glad I clicked the link, very interesting lecture.

I watched this a long time ago then it popped back up in my recommended videos today!

Wonderful! I'm going to find more of your work as it's so fascinating.

David, I listened to your book on audible and I LOVED IT!! I hope to one day listen to one of your seminars and meet you in person. Thank you for your love and passion for your work!

Thank you for the talk, sir. This was a lot of fun and supplied a lot of tasty crunchy food for my imagination. When I was a kid, I used to adore scaly scary dinosaurs, but I could never actually imagine them living, breathing, hunting and roaming in the wild. Your talk provided a glimpse into that. Thank you very much, once again.

This paleontologist is a phenomenal speaker.

More of David Hone, please! Could listen to him lecture for hours…

This was really interesting and Well done. Kept me engaged the whole time and very informative and gives you reasons on his reasoning throughout the presentation.

I've loved dinosaurs since i was 5 years old, thanks a lot!!

I was interested in this lecture the entire time I can’t even believe I was watching this for an hour completely engaged

As a 25 year old about to be married and with a child, I have sat down for a long time and decided if I wanted to go back to school and pursue my dream as a geologist and paleontologist and I’ve finally decided to chase my dream, I’m looking to hopefully in the next couple years obtain my associates and bachelors and work at the Fernbank museum in Atlanta Georgia and also volunteer while attending college to get as much experience as possible. In the future I hope to fully push for a masters and PhD

An excellent lecture. Informative, entertaining, fascinating.

I find it interesting that alkost every lecture on these animals on youtube gives a completely different idea about what they are ( hunters or scavengers, or mixed) and how fast they were. Some say very slow because of some feet impressions and weight of then some say very fast due to bone structure. I am not sure what to believe but I am fascinated anyway...Thank you for all this amazing work!

Really genuinely interesting and informative presentation on the T-Rex.

I watch hundreds of YT vids about science, space and tech... This is the most fascinating vid I've seen in years!

This is an excellent video by a brilliant speaker. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you.

Sir! This is brilliant! I love the T-Rex ever since I saw the skull in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 1967. I was 8 years old. Still have the small T-Rex metal die cast model my mother bought for me there. Thanks for "restoring" my Rexie as the king! I am from Sweden.

Bought the book after watching this. I still wonder: why is the conclusion about T-Rex being active predator + scavenger just now a reasonable one instead of all the time before? Or is it just the media platform used? Videos here on YT seem to either propose one or the other possibility but never both. The signs were all there. Why is the interpretation of all the fossils so different compared to years ago? Paleontolgy is so fascinating. You show the same data to 5 different people and you'll get 5 different interpretations.

This was a great, information-dense presentation. I didn't mean to watch the whole thing, but I couldn't break away. Thanks!

What a great lecture.

Aren't just the characteristics of good eye sight and fast long distance running indicative of predation as the major source of food?

Mr.Hone, I just finished reading your marvelous book The Tyrannosaur Chronicles, a few days ago. Thoroughly enjoyed it and found it truly edifying. Thank you.

Absolutely amazing video! Loved every minute

Great lecture! Another corker discovery on the RI channel! :D ....I love how with his sleeves rolled up and keeping his elbows at his side as he gesticulates, he occasionally kinda comes off as 'a bit T-Rex' himself XD

This is the best video I have ever seen. The shear power of this animal if mind blowing. Speed, strength, vision everything you need to create an apex predator. I love this creature 10 times as much as I did.

Always engaging. Thank you for sharing your insights on the mighty Tyrannosaurs!

Fascinating talk. Thank you!!

I went to Chicago just to see SUE. Impressive. Also items fromKing Tut's tomb (but that's another lecture!).

Enjoyed the lecture. Thank you Ri! David Hone is fantastic. I also loved reading his book, The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

amazing presentation, thank you

An excellent presentation. His style, and delivery is engaging. Not dry and monotonous like many.

It would have been great if he discussed whether Tyrannosaurs lived solitary lives or in family groups.

":...a very selective feeder..." That means it was NOT a scavenger primarily. Now, like any apex predator, like a lion, it might steal a kill from a smaller predator, but that is not scavenging. I believe scavengers would not be such picky eaters - they will eat whatever is left. Also, if it was primarily a scavenger -- what would it need speed for? Why would it need great eyes?? No, I think it was a hunter. Moreover, it was a hunter that ran its prey to ground, that is, NOT an ambush predator. More like wolves, than a cat.

I only just found this when I was perusing the RI channel. Fascinating and beautifully presented! Thank you!

Wonderful talk. Thanks for providing it.

Excellent talk and kudos for not "dumbing it down" for the very young audience.