Paleo What If? What Would Make the BEST Stem Mammal House Pet?

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Intro 0:00
What is Speculative Biology? 2:01
Dicynodont? 4:38
Gorgonopsid? 7:20
Therocephalian? 9:25
Conclusion 12:17
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As much as I love talking about Paleontology I have been itching to get into some of the more fringe Biology topics for quite a while now! So when I recently received a message from one of my patrons asking me about a topic that would require me to delve into the subject of Speculative Biology, I figured it would be the perfect excuse to dive head first into this rabbit hole of a topic!
I was going to need some help though, so I contacted Keenan Taylor, a long time friend of the channel who is one of the best scientific illustrators and worldbuilders I know. He helped me brainstorm this topic as well as sketch out some of the speculative stem mammals for this project!
Special thanks to Ellie Wallace for giving me this prompt for my first speculative biology video! Check out her work here! Thanks again! The website is www.ev-wallace.com/welcome
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@varicosevaynes Год назад

One time I actually had a dream I had a small gorgonops as a guard dog. He seemed to love me but literally anybody who wasn’t me he would try to aggressively kill any chance he got 🗿

@ravenouself4181 Год назад

My dog might be 99% Gorgonops

@DrepaChorusTCG Год назад

how the first human to tame a wolf felt

@silver_kitten Год назад

@@DrepaChorusTCG 11/13 comment

@brodyhess5553 Год назад

Hell ya lol . Gorgonopsid stories rule !

@coconutcore Год назад

Seems like a very analysable dream somehow. …though…like…in the psychological sense. You won’t find “gorgonops” on a dream symbolism website.

@TalesofKaimere Год назад

Thanks for the shoutout! Definitely appreciate it, and was stoked to work on this with you. Cheers!

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

🍻😎 Glad to help out man! You've been a friend to the channel way back when I was a nobody! ....like six months ago...👀 So this is the least I could do! I hope we can do more work together in the future!

@apexnext Год назад

Thanks for the breakdown Keenan. I've only heard *Paleo Analysis* mention your work, it's fun to hear you describe it too. ❤️ Your world is so fascinating! 😁 P.S. Y'all have such magnificent beards! 😎👍

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

@@apexnext nobody has actually seen my beard since 2019... I might have shaved it off, or I might look like Chewbacca at this point... Or anything in between... 👀

@martingil1190 Год назад

Ur ig is dope

@tyrannosaurusman1015 Год назад

@@PaleoAnalysis I have a very interesting question What if Pterosaurs never died out in the KPG mass extinction event what if they somehow survived the extinction while dinosaurs and marine reptiles did not what would our world be like if pterosaurs roamed the Cenozoic era?

@erichtomanek4739 Год назад

Another factor in domestication is if the stem mammal lives in packs. That's what made the wolf so easy to domesticate. An interesting time in Earth's history for an alternative evolution is the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. What would evolve in those mighty Antarctic forests of Nothofagus and Auracaria (spelling)? Another excellent video!

@MaaZeus Год назад

I was about to mention this. Wolfs are pack animals and work as groups, team work. Part of the domestication is making them see us as part of the pack. We have also domesticated cats but... good luck hunting with one. 😁

@HereticalKitsune Год назад

@@MaaZeus Or did they domesticate us? But agreed, I was about to write the exact same thing as well.

@MrTwostring Год назад

Oops - I just made the same comment. I tried to check if anybody beat me to it. I guess I didn't look closely enough.

@norarivkis2513 Год назад

They don't necessarily have to be pack animals (hence felines), but the reason we normally domesticate mammals is that parental care of the young is crucial for allowing us to bond with them. If we start by hand-raising babies of whatever species we're using, then they'll treat us like they'd treat their mother if they're naturally from a species where mothers take active care of their offspring in the first place. And most of the time, we can expand on that tendency until the newly domesticated species simply continues loving us throughout its lifetime, from a basis of loving us during its infancy. But species which aren't raised with parental care have a much more difficult time bonding closely enough for domestication with us. We've quasi-domesticated some types of birds, but those also do parental care, even if not by feeding them with milk. We can live with snakes and turtles, but they don't precisely love us. A snake is likely to think we're warm and nice to hang from, like a sun-heated tree, and a turtle is likely to think that we're the thing that brings the food. But that's pretty much as far as either kind of reptile goes in the direction of love. Even when we keep them as pets, we don't domesticate them per se... we just pop them into tanks the way they are and accept that they'll behave naturally. It's just that small turtles or non-venomous snakes of a reasonable size are manageable even without domestication, so we get away with it.

@baum8981 Год назад

The crossover between this channel and clints reptiles was something I wasnt aware that I needed to see it. Id love it if it happened at some point

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

Fun fact: he and I are actually subscribed to each other so hopefully he sees this and that can become reality!

@noelmcgrath1801 Год назад

As a book writer I find speculative biology a fascinating concept. I'd love to see a domestication topic from every period, just like your Complete History of the Earth Series.

@TalesofKaimere Год назад

Seconded! That would be a super fun sequel series.

@1Ring42 Год назад

I third this so hard

@Zeed_316 Год назад

Can't wait to see which Cambrian fauna would make the best house pet.

@1Ring42 Год назад

Or Devonian even.

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Definitely has a ring to it, doesn't it. It could be all kinds of domesticated animal as well, not just pets - what would make a good riding/ pack animal, what would just be good eating, the possibilities are endless.

@MarshyoftheBlobs Год назад

I've been a fan for awhile but then you made that Clint reference I knew you are truly a man of good taste

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Agreed, I couldn't believe it when Clint showed up, one of my favourite channels!

@nanorider426 Год назад

I would love a "What If" series here on this channel. I love speculative biology and have done all my life almost as much as alien life on other planets. Please keep doing these videos!

@LDSG_A_Team Год назад

Part of me is super happy to have discovered this channel as early as I did, and part of me is annoyed because now I have to wait for each new video to come out, instead of being able to binge-watch years and years worth of content already made XD Daggummit sir, why you gotta make such consistently great videos?

@apexnext Год назад

Same! I am used to binging channels too. 😁

@GeheimesT Год назад

How about a speculative evolution project, where the permian-triassic extinction never happened. That would be interesting I think

@whitewampa2910 Год назад

was NOT expecting a Clint Laidlaw reference, so that was neat

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

Fun fact: He and I are actually subbed to each other so I hope he sees this!

@mechaswool Год назад

I'd be super down for videos about speculative biology. It always impresses me to see what people can come up with.

@reidmortensen2629 Год назад

There are several people who keep reptiles in the classical “we share workload and food” dynamic. There’s a fella who runs a pest control business with a medium sized monitor lizard.

@pridelander06 Год назад

So cool! Ellie, if you're out there, I hope you share your book/get it published someday! It sounds fascinating!

@VOMITQUEEN Год назад

I agree!!

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Aw, thanks so much - it's still in the drafting stage at the moment, but I'll try and get it finished asap 🙂

@pridelander06 Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 Can't wait! 😁

@Od_Ka Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 it would be great to know where to find a book when it’s finished. Good luck with it🦾

@apexnext Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 thanks for giving Steve (Paleo Analysis) this amazing idea! 😁👍 One of his best videos ever. ❤️❤️ It's really cool that artists can almost inspire each other. I am not a writer myself, yet as the video went on I couldn't help but think _I bet Ellie is getting tons of ideas for pets!_ I could see a protagonist/antagonist finding a way to train the *venom* one, dun dun dunnnnn. 😎

@stephenlamb4212 Год назад

Good video, just one point to add is that one way Dictodonts could be domesticated for a service similar to many terriers is for their digging. As many species were known for their borrowing ability and while they wouldn’t be good in the hunting department. If they could bred to say seek out unground sources of water in a desert environment or plant roots that are hard to get at. That could be almost as useful to a hunter gather depending on the circumstances and is something I’m using in my own fantasy book

@KhantheCloudy55 Год назад

That's a great idea Stephen

@stephenlamb4212 Год назад

@@KhantheCloudy55 thank you glad you think so

@stefanostokatlidis4861 11 месяцев назад

Can you use a rabbit for digging? Probably not. So probably not even this.

@stephenlamb4212 11 месяцев назад

@@stefanostokatlidis4861 true it depends on intelligence level. Carnivores are generally more intelligent than their prey but it’s not a completely set rule such as the case for pigs and elephants. I don’t know of any studies that have gone into proto mammal intelligence and ultimately in a work of fiction the rules can be bent slightly so long as some realism is kept. Pigs have been trained to dig up truffles and rats have been trained to find land minds. So in a fantasy universe where a small dictodont is given terrier level intelligence then they could be trained to dig stuff up if not by hunter gathers then by other groups later down the line

@stefanostokatlidis4861 11 месяцев назад

@@stephenlamb4212 also, it depends on why they dig. Do they dig to find food or do they dig for shelter? Rabbits dig only for shelter, and they are going to start digging when they are left alone for some time. Pigs dig only to get food, so they are easier to train for this. I think that those ancient mammals were digging for shelter.

@Pedrosa2541 Год назад

If you gonna do a series about Speculative Biology, you MUST talk about Man after Man.

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

...Oof... 👀

@Pedrosa2541 Год назад

@Paleo Analysis It's just so good, dougal Dixon itself hates this book and want it forgotten given how unscientific are the deformed abominations described there. So, it's a good video about how NOT to do speculative biology. You have for example: - Human civilizations making infertile round tumors with giant yellow eyes who communicate through eyelashes to work as slaves fixing spaceships, instead of using probes or humans in spacesuits, absolutely chad move. - You have Tundra Dwellers, who are nothing more than giant obese disgusting humanoids with wrinkles and who shouldn't be able to walk given square/cubic law having their blood sucked by smaller black man parasites. - You have Desert Dwellers, who are radically gender dysmorphics, with men being black hairy man with ugly mustaches and women being melted small blobs deaf and blind who communicate by telephaty (something that there is no base in science). It wouldn't work given that humans are mammals, and this kind of females would not be able to give birth to their male youngs, but who cares? It is just so much material!

@amberbydreamsart5467 Год назад

Loved this! I like the little detail of making the mini versions more infant-like - a little detail of what domestication does to appearance that I find fascinating. The fact that for whatever genetic reason domestication leads to piebalding too... genetics are crazy. good stuff

@afz902k Год назад

Cool! How about a smaller permian stem mammal that could hang around us acting disinterested or curious and help get rid of small pests plaguing our grain supplies?

@augustusvillanueva2008 Год назад

That brings up another question, what plants would we be able to eat and domesticate?

@afz902k Год назад

@@augustusvillanueva2008 awesome question

@rac1equalsbestgame853 Год назад

So aka cat analogues

@Jpteryx Год назад

Great ideas! Though there were also smaller gorgonopsids, like Gorgonops and Dinogorgon, and even tiny gorgonopsids like Nochnitsa.

@pengumpkin7993 Год назад

A question I have always thought about is 'what if Trilobites survived to the modern day?' I think something like it could be good for a video, or maybe part of a larger video looking at various organisms from the oceans of the time and how their survival could have created very different ecosystems in the modern day.

@CanaleAV Год назад

They would be delicious...

@coryfice1881 Год назад

I imagine a trilobite would taste like a horseshoe crab.

@CraigSpry Год назад

My 9 year old loved this video, he likes the Permian period. He was wondering what fish we'd eat if we existed in the Devonian or what bugs we'd eat if we lived in the carboniferous. He really likes this channel.

@TJF588 Год назад

Now I'm thinking of the giant "pill bug" from _The Emperor's New Groove_ (a crustacean, but still, it BIG).

@stefanostokatlidis4861 11 месяцев назад

We would be happy all the time if we were in the Carboniferous.

@entertain5205 9 месяцев назад

Adorable family

@wheresmywrench3219 Год назад

This channel is truly refreshing, actually going out of his way to look at our opinions and questions and matching it with very entertainment and educational info. Also what other channel makes new series that are actually good.

@adamthespinygiant Год назад

Instead of a synapsid, I actually had a dream last night about having a pet Spinosaurus as a fishing buddy.

@michaelcamp2870 Год назад

I had a really weird dream involving two Spinosaurus -- one adult, and one juvenile. It was about how they were extant until the mid 1900's when they were ultimately all hunted by humans. Lots of weird details I'm leaving out, but yeah haha. The fishing buddy idea sounds much more pleasant :)

@someguycalledCh0wdah Год назад

@@michaelcamp2870 dude write that down as a short story or something, I'd read that

@michaelcamp2870 Год назад

@@someguycalledCh0wdah Okay, I’ll do that! 🤣 I didn’t expect this comment to get any attention

@someguycalledCh0wdah Год назад

@@michaelcamp2870 you had a cool idea and it's my job, as somebody who is not a dick, to let you know that it was a cool idea

@adamthespinygiant Год назад

@@michaelcamp2870 and please let it have a happy ending this time… #SpinyDidNothingWrong #SpinyIsAGoodBoy

@michaelmisanik9787 Год назад

This is awesome, I really hope this video does do well because spec evolution is an amazing topic. I’ve been writing a few stories involving spec evo. And thanks to creators such as Dougal Dixon, Tales of Kaimere, and the common descent podcast. All have helped me a lot with one of my books in particular called “ Aotearoa the lost continent” a spec evo / alternate history guidebook where New Zealand is a continent the size of India. I’ve had a lot of fun writing it and hope to publish it soon. Again I really hope that you continue doing more spec evo videos. And if you need some out of the box ideas I got a few that might be pretty good. Maybe one cool idea for a spec evo video would be what if New Zealand was a continent again in the modern day and what strange and unique creature would call it hope. In my book it is not as big as Zealandia but around 75% the size.

@augustusvillanueva2008 Год назад

Would you be converting all the water it would be displacing into the mass of the continent because otherwise all the costs and islands will get flooded?

@michaelmisanik9787 Год назад

@@augustusvillanueva2008 Yes I would convert the water into the continental mass as well as there being more ice caps across the world including on Aotearoa.

@peytonsmith9979 Год назад

I love your videos and i think you might be my favorite youtuber at this point

@geckotheben447 Год назад

I'm a farmer / Rancher and this video kind of makes me wonder what other animals from various time periods Would wind up in similar rolls to animals we have now, if you're at the same time period As was discussed in this video I can imagine quite a few animals that would not have an equivalent, a few examples of roles would be like how goats were domesticated primarily for milk production, sheep were domesticated than selectively bred to have wool, (unless I remember wrong they mostly had long hair originally) pigs were primarily domesticated for meat, and cattle horses and donkeys were primarily domesticated for labor and fertilizer, with cattle finding a few other uses later

@DinosaurianDude Год назад

Don't forget to take their diet into the equation: pigs, chickens and dogs are great at consuming human food scraps and other waste. Goats and sheep great at feeding of the coarsest of vegetation, and cattle snd horses feed on grass where crops don't grow. Then there's cats who came to domesticated themselves from catching the many rodents attracted to crop storages.

@geckotheben447 Год назад

@@DinosaurianDude yep, I completely forgot about cats and chickens for some reason, chickens in particular are good for processing both waste food and garden waste into fertilizer and into food in the form of meat and eggs, they can also scavenge for alot of there diet

@theajshortman Год назад

I love a bit of speculative biology! Love to hear more about what would have happened if the great dying just didn't happen... Great video as always. X

@garethtudor836 Год назад

I first heard of Keenan while watching a speculative evolution video by Dr Polaris. Now he pops up again, this time giving Steve help with a brilliant video. That's one of the things I love about RU-vid - the community that can grow around subject matter like this. Oh, and a massive thank you to Ellie for kicking this into motion

@mutterboutasaurus235 Год назад

As someone dabbling with their own fantasy-story-but-with-elements-of-speculative-evolution project, this video was right up my alley and I am super glad you decided to make it! I also would love to see similar content from you in the future. I wish Ellie Wallace the best of luck with their book, the concept for the setting sounds fascinating and, should it get finished, I would love to give it a read.

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Thanks so much, I'd love to send you a copy once it's done (or writing buddy maybe if we're doing similar projects - feel free to give me a message via my website (in the video description) if you're interested.) 🙂

@mutterboutasaurus235 Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 I can only apologise for the belated reply, I am very shy and I was very much not expecting a reply from the author herself! I must admit, my own story is only in a very rough concept state at the moment - a few maps, some sketches, a rough plot outline and a whole lot of worldbuilding ideas just waiting for the chance to be properly written down. I'm in the process of moving house so there's not been a whole lot of time to do much with it. But I very much appreciate your offer and will have to take you up on it, thank you! I shall have to get in better contact once I'm done hiding under my duvet. 👍If nothing else, it'll be lovely to share thoughts and get those creative juices flowing!

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

@@mutterboutasaurus235 that's great, I'll look forward to hearing from you when you're ready :-)

@WilliamFe Год назад

I do find speculative biology quite interesting. If you do more videos on the topic, I would love to see a video on 'If the Triassic Jurassic Extinction never happened', and see the Mesozoic be an age of crocodiles instead of dinosaurs, obviously sharing the world with giant sauropods, which would be the only dinosaur group to get to large sizes, and dicynodonts.

@duck2468 7 месяцев назад

This video definitely deserves more attention, would love to see a Paleo What If series

@anonopossum Год назад

i hope you do more speculative biology content, it's really fun

@Nigel_BC Год назад

I’m always happy to consume more speculative evolution content! I’ve been watching Keenan’s Channel since he had like four videos out and I would love to see more collaborations with you two!

@Alein116 Год назад

Any speculative evolution video is an instant click from me! I like think about what earths biodiversity would be like if certain extinctions never happened like the great dying or the Cambrian crash.

@mrs.perini223 Год назад

I love your channel, it is so hard to find information about non-dinosaur animals that isn't couched in a lot of heavy scientific jargon. Thank you. I want to give a suggestion, a video on Macrauchenia, because it is so weird and awesome.

@EndreaiYT Год назад

This video was actually really informative 💀 Definitely one of the best

@MasterMalrubius Год назад

"their bloodline abruptly ended with them". I actually did laugh out loud at that.

@captainstroon1555 Год назад

I love how spec evo slowly makes its way into the mainstream fiction niche. As a big spec evo fan, artist and aspiring author myself, would also really enjoy more spec evo content from you.

@TailedThief Год назад

You should do these Speculative Biology videos just because you find it this much fun! Creators being excited about what they do excites me as well, lol, and I'd watch it all.

@TailedThief Год назад

Also, part of why I love paleontology so much, is just learning more about creatures that once were and totally could exist today, from a biological standpoint, but don't unfortunately. If speculation is rooted in biology, it kind pf gives it the exact same level of wonder that got me into paleontology in the first place, so yes! This sounds like a really fun topic, and could spark creativity in a lot of people. I'd love to see content eith Speculative Biology, especially from your channel, because I just enjoy you specifically as a creator a lot.

@EvilSnips Год назад

I'm working on a similar Sci-Fi novel as the one mentioned at the beginning! Super excited for this topic, and if the novelist ends up publishing their work, please let us know!

@markhewett9307 Год назад

1: YES, we would love more spec bio videos 2: What's the name of the book?

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Thanks for the interest! The working Title is Song of the Caphte - one of the non-human races in the book, although that might change once its fully drafted

@markhewett9307 Год назад

Nice, thanks for responding, can't wait till it comes out. BTW, can we have any info about the Caphte, or is that for the novel to reveal?

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

@@markhewett9307 Kind of, they're basically sentient reptiles that inhabited the continent the novel is set on before humans came along. They're now restricted to haven islands significantly offshore (which have their own paleozoic fauna set).

@markhewett9307 Год назад

ok, nice, thanks for responding

@augustusvillanueva2008 Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 biped, quadruped or biquad(can freely move between bipedal and quadrupedal movement)?

@susansokoloski2233 Год назад

What a fun episode! Thanks 👏👍🏼🙂

@ImThylacine Год назад

Obviously the answer is the Sniffer 🙃 But, in all seriousness, this is a super cool video! I absolutely love speculative biology (and Kaimere), too. I don’t have many ideas for other videos, but honestly, just looking at other time periods and asking the same question - what would people domesticate - would be fun!

@mehodrums Год назад

This episode brought me right back to our childhood. Great video my bro!

@Jeapify Год назад

"Because their bloodlines probably abruptly ended with them." I'm just thinking of Siegfried and Roy for some reason.

@KorbentMarksman Год назад

Hey, you should get Ellie Wallace to share updates on her project too! I really like the sound of it.

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Thanks so much for the interest, I'll make sure to keep you posted 🙂

@IgnisSauros Год назад

Love the video dude, definitely follow your passion and make more of these! I personally can't wait to see the awesome things you come up with!

@d.ag.b1135 Год назад

I loved this and hope you do more, I like the art you made to go with your predictions!

@georgegonzalez-rivas3787 Год назад

When I was a kid, I read books by Robert Faraday that involved time travel for the two teenage boy protagonists. The first one involved their trying to take this 'dinosaur' back to his home. (The traveling sideshow was owned by this guy who had the time traveling device, yadda yadda, and he brought back specimens like this to display in the menagerie.) From (dim) memory, the creature was a Cygnognathus (+/- some spelling). Cyg seemed to fill the spot you're addressing here and your video just catapulted me back to grade school where I was reading these with a flashlight under the blanket. So thanks for that. FYI, they didn't go back nearly far enough in time to return Cyg... but he did defeat the totem wolf of the tribe they were dealing with and was adopted as the 'mascot'? So he was more or less re-homed.

@reclusa1379 Год назад

Paleo What-If is a great title! really enjoyed this one. Thank you.

@jrmckim Год назад

So happy at the love you're getting lately! You definitely deserve it

@franciscahazlet4021 Год назад

This was a fantastic and interesting adventure you took us on. It was great to speculate on things and have fun. Thanks for changing up the content this time and will be nice to go along on another well thought out adventure again in the future too. Well done sir. Be blessed.

@spiderhssstt Год назад

What a great video! Thank you and for introducing us to you friends channel.😊

@adrianj9695 Год назад

This was fun! Thank you for sharing this.

@artiomvv569 Год назад

Lystrosaurus would be a good pet, maybe even be used as livestock since they were so common. The pig of the triassic

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

I was kind of thinking of them as like sheep but without the wool - still good eating though.

@hellowhatsup1364 Год назад

Banger of a video. I love these hypothetical videos! Please do more!

@bethanysmith5856 Год назад

I found you due to the various history videos I'll watch from time to time and Curious Archive. You go into speculative history and you won't ever loose me as a subscriber.

@adarliah9071 Год назад

Awesome video! Much love and thank you.

@amanderps970 Год назад

This is a wonderful idea! I Hope that you will be able to continue this series.

@jonny45k44 Год назад

Love these type of videos and would love to see more!

@LillyP-xs5qe Год назад

Biggest issue is the reason humans and wolfs got together in the first place (it's unsure who domesticated who) is the super similar social stracture, human and wolf familys have super similar social stracture, we got together because wolfs can easily fit as human kids and humans be wolf parents, without that social structure I don't think anything will happen

@PaleoAnalysis Год назад

But seeing as there's evidence to suggest what type of social behavior Therocephalians had, there's really no way of saying one way or another if they would fit that aspect. However, in the absence of concrete evidence I would propose the circumstantial evidence that the Therocephalians would hypothetically be the most likely carnivores to exhibit behavior akin to canine social groups because that type of behavior is more commonly shown in smaller carnivores because they can gain the most benefit from living together in both hunting and protection, without having to worry about feeding the mouths of multiple large individuals. In the end, it would really depend on how much mammal like behavior they show compared to reptilian behavior. Which we can obviously only guess at. So best to just enjoy the hypothetical ride.

@LillyP-xs5qe Год назад

@@PaleoAnalysis indeed social behaviour doesn't fossilize well, though I wouldn't use size to determine likelihood of social behaviour, felines are all solitary hunters except lions who are one of the largest members of the family, and while wolfs have super complex family stracture, other canines have vastly different social structures, from foxes, to jakels, African wild dogs, etc. Plus you might have animals with social structure of crows, where they are extremely social as juveniles but stick to breeding pairs as adults. Would be interesting to see a video talking about fossil support for specific social behaviours and stractures, I'm extremely interested in the latest developments regarding the non avian dinosaurs and how the highly complex mating rituals the avian dinosaurs show today might been shared with their non avian relatives, something about a T. Rex doing a mating dance like the bird of paradise just amuse me to no end

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

@@PaleoAnalysis Agreed - also from what I've seen from my reptile research some reptiles do exhibit social behaviour, its rare and rather basic at times but its there (monkeytail skinks for example shouldn't be kept alone because they pine when they don't have a group to interact with), so I don't think social behaviour among stem mammals is such a huge stretch, particularly pack behaviour in medium sized carnivores.

@wendy-1250 Год назад

I love this kind of topic, would definitely apriciate more of it.

@mel0dymak3r Год назад

very cool to see speculative biology on this channel! here's to hoping you do more

@thaliazelmer2327 Год назад

This was such a fun speculative investigation! More Please!

@SHDUStudios Год назад

If you’re into fantasy, it’d be really cool to think about how various fantasy races (elves, dwarves, etc) could realistically evolve.

@zramirez5471 Год назад

First of all, OMG your friend is a fantasy dwarf that is a fantasy author!!! But seriously, this is one of the best videos I've ever seen on this kind of topic; the only thing you missed was the need for the tiny gorgonopsid to have a heirarchical social structure - ie the difference between horses and donkeys. Still, however, FANTASTIC!!!

@mctielpresidente Год назад

I would love to see more of these speculative outlooks!

@wendywhite4537 Год назад

This was awesome! Thank you.

@adrianaramos4888 Год назад

Love speculative evolution and hope to see more!

@violentcat345 Год назад

You literally had me with the Clint's reptiles reference in the title, I actually thought Clint was breaking out into the juicy paleo stuff lol!

@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH Год назад

Bless the Analyst Bless your Helpers

@1RoundInTheChamber Год назад

Can't get enough of speculative biology content. I don't think the particular idea I've been looking for is exactly your channel's wheelhouse, (and probably gets into some touchy subject matter besides) but something that's interested me for a while is what human history would look like if different human species that once existed in our world persisted and continued to exist alongside homo sapiens.

@DFX2KX Год назад

This is why speculative biology is so neat. It lets you explore the underlying mechanisms that actually drive evolution.

@sandvichguy8868 Год назад

Awesome video! I personally want to add something that could also be of great importance to domestication hypotheticals and that is social behavior. One of the reasons humans and dogs got along so well is because we're both social animals who need the company of others for survival. We naturally found kinship with wolves who would play, hunt, and organize themselves into a hierarchy like we did. And while evidence for social behavior in extinct animals is very hard to determine, I would think it still important to consider when imagining worlds where humans domesticate long dead creatures from another time.

@AstaraelDarkrahBlack Год назад

I love this kind of content and would love to see more.

@sauraplay2095 Год назад

Great video as always!

@theglanconer6463 Год назад

Hell yeah, brilliant topic. More please !

@sephirothjc Год назад

Great video, very informative in a fun way.

@papuan369 Год назад

excellent video idea, its fun to get lost in the thought of what ifs at times

@JezaPyrite Год назад

I really enjoyed this. Would love to see more

@OlyChickenGuy 5 месяцев назад

This video has been haunting my recommended feed for at least a month. I just found your channel with your History of Earth series (and I love it), and I much appreciate your channelling of Clint through this video. However... I blame you for my brain's current obsession with the word "temnospondyl" and making it into my current ear worm (as well as a horror version of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies). PS- Between you and Clint specifying what is and is not a dinosaur I've learned that Dimetrodon is my favourite prehistoric mammal.

@deadfrog4929 Год назад

This field is really important because it lets us build frameworks for what we are yet to discover

@serbsi2922 Год назад

Hey- LOVE that you took a fa request and mad a whole video out of it. We both know however that without pack dynamics, that no matter the animal size we ain't domesticating it. I also know you are doing your best to fulfill unreasonable requirements, and don't blame you. 10/10 video. Her novel is silly

@NoArtisticLimitation Год назад

More, please! I love spec bio!

@EJinSkyrim Год назад

Ellie, get ye writing!! Because I want to read it. And KEENAN!! I'm pretty sure I found Keenan Taylor's channel through this one originally and I have been smitten with spec-evo ever since. Love to see the crossover! He inspired me to noodle around with synapsids, myself, actually. (And... Jurassic and Eocene fauna...) Aaaaa that transition into the crossover was stunningly smooth! Just... suddenly Keenan Art. Beautiful!

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

I'm on it!

@kathleenedwards8472 Год назад

This was so fun! Thank you.

@silver_phoenix_rising2553 Год назад

Thank you for doing this video. And, yes, please make more videos like this. I love Speculative Evolution (it's been a hobby of mine since I was a kid dreaming up Dino civilizations)! :)

@venn2001ad Год назад

Please do more videos like this. It was very enjoyable. I also like the "Paleo What If" title for a series too.

@LDSG_A_Team Год назад

Okay this one was neat! I might sub to the patreon just so I can go on a rant about some of the creatures I have made in my worlds. :)

@kevinbee25 Год назад

Excellent and interesting video

@lexibyday9504 Год назад

I'm terrible at speculative biology/evolution but I came up with so many speculative evolution stories I wanted to write. One was imagined as an unoficial prequel to Dinotopia. A mysterious event was making alimals from the past go unextinct on the island creating a place where every period of hystory was existing side by side. The homanids on the island found a symbiosis with the dinosaurs and taught dinosaur children allong side their own. The species all evolved together and created a mixed species city run by giants and maintained by people similar to humans.

@joshuapasquale11 Год назад

Paleo what ifs sounds like a great series

@lucymendes2512 Год назад

I loved that "the future is wild" show when I was younger - just had a little flashback 😅

@caseyleichter2309 Год назад

I would love to see more spec biology videos from you; it is a big area of interest for me.

@mareofmaers3590 Год назад

I am so sorry I only see this now, I utterly *adore* this kind of content! As a fantasy writer, I'm always looking for inspiration and I love seeing other people's work. So please, please keep this up!

@Denneth_D. Год назад

I feel like mentioning one of my worldbuilding endeavours of a ring world seeded with fauna from the Paleozoic It’s been sitting around with no progress for a month from how ambitious it is I do have a timeline of events like the construction of the ring to the first seeding to the final harvest of paleofauna from the late Triassic, and the moment where a probe made by far future humanity Sorry if that was structured badly (punctuation never heard of her :3)

@elliewallace6370 Год назад

Sounds like a fascinating world :-)

@Denneth_D. Год назад

@@elliewallace6370 thanks for the compliment

@Glibglabglob Год назад

I would 100% watch speculative biology on your channel, as long as you still keep your paleobiology content :)

@gtbkts Год назад

Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!

@miquelescribanoivars5049 Год назад

I had this idea about a sitcom set in a distant future were nearly all extinct lifeforms have been recreated and the main characters were resurrected early hominids. One of the characters had a Thrinaxodon pet that is basically like mixing the worst characteristics of a beardie, a tortoise, a lap dog and a cat.

@jmayhew87 Год назад

Would love to see more of this kind of vid

@GoodieWhiteHat 11 месяцев назад

Yay! I was going for therapsids! Forgot about the venom thing though. That was rather fun. “Paleo what if” sounds interesting. My speculative ‘what if’ is in thinking about what would happen if the evolution of directional movement didn’t become predatory but utilised the chloroplast factories in a more aggressive way to become mobile creatures rather than, or as well as, plants. Imagine the light catching structures!