Paleontologist Reacts to Utahraptors In Games! - The UtahRaptor Project 

Thank you again to Jim and Scott for taking time out of their day and talking to me about this project and John for organising the whole thing. Sorry If the audio isn't crystal clear I had a little problem with one of the mics, which I should have caught. "Next time it'll be flawless!" I had so much fun talking to these guys and I can't wait to see the progress they make with this amazing project.Also don't forget to help support them and find out more here : www.gofundme.com/utahraptor

Can I just say... paleontologist are the most chill people I have ever met. They remind me of cheerful gnomes.

Anyone who thinks a feathered dinosaur isn't scary never met an angry mother emu. She was on the other side of a fence, so I wasn't in danger, but man did I feel fear.

''Feathered Dinos are not scary'' And runs away screaming from an angry Goose

“Feathers are a pain in the backside to animate” *slowly turns to look at the argentavis*

Thank you so much for coming to Utah and featuring the Utahraptor Project. I donate my time working on the web content and graphics for the team, and we're so grateful for the interest and support from the gaming community.

He seems like that kind of guy you can sit with and just talk for hours.

Ark: so you say animating feathers is hard 2 seconds later Ark: i present to you valguero with the new 100% feathered raptor

"Animating Feathers/Hair is pain in the @ss." Ark players: *Sweats in Yutyrannus*

i like this guy's attitude, he clearly enjoys and is enthusiastic about his profession. god bless him and the awesome work he does.

James, in case you weren't aware, you just helped out the _Utahraptor_ project a whole lot more. There have been way more donations and support for it within the last couple of hours thanks to you!

This made me cry seeing all the stuff in the back. I have a dream to be a paleontologist but I can’t afford or do college. So videos that help me learn are my closest thing. Thank you.

11:34 XD the guy in the back looks so disgusted with every single one

I'm actually slightly impressed with Jim's observations on the difficulty of creating a fully feathered game model... and he's absolutely right, too.

The fact that he pointed out how Theropods couldn't turn their wrists down made me happy. It seems to be such a little-known fact.

This dude’s joy and passion for dinosaurs was absolutely infectious. Great interview subject! When he described a Utahraptor attacking, it felt like the scene in Jurassic Park at the beginning when Alan Grant scares the kid, but this guy’s overall vibe was much more Ian Malcolm! Exuberant joy and sarcasm/humor.

12:40 hahaha that expression of the guy in the back like “I can’t believe this idiots create such things this days” LOL

Who's here because they love dinosaurs? *I raise my hand*

Damn he is lovely guy. I bet he makes the whole work shift one big laugh.

If I was rich I would fund the hell outta this and make sure that EVERYONE gives this man 100% percent credit for, not just the Utah raptor but for, all his discoveries. But that's just me if I had enough $$ to do so...

22:27 Spinosaurus fan: "Reality is often disappointing"

To those who think that a feathered raptor isn't scary: Go find a cassowary and square up with it. Shouldn't be a problem, it's covered in feathers and much much smaller than something like a Utahraptor. Heck I doubt they'd keep their cool against an accurately sized velociraptor.

So much respect for these guys... I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was little and my dreams never came true. But this is amazing!

the 2 paleontologists are so cool!! i wish Hollywood & gamedevs would consult them more for accuracy.

guy in the back: "they call those "raptors"??? .... whatever dude..."

Man I love everytime Scott reacted to the Utahraptors in games he was like "dafuq?"

They all went extinct because of falling from a 1 ft ledge drop.

Well at least they showed mercy on Ark xD as a animation artist myself feathers are super difficult to animate but they're doing such a good job with the animation i think they can upgrade the model.

Jim: my raptors bigger than Spielberg’s Indoraptor: *hold my genetic modifications*

Loved the interview bro! Glad I finally got around to watching it!

Remember that there are people who think fossils arent real...

I'm coming back to this in 2020 and Jim truly is the man. Makes me so happy to see him being so passionate.

James: ".....dinosaur club..." Me:"DINOSAUR CLUB!?! Sign me up!!"

Wow. Unbelievable. I mean seriously, I thought you just sat around playing games or takin' a walk in the park in a t- rex suit all day. Crazy to see you actually in a lab of some sort talking with a legit palaeontologist, one that named a famous dinosaur! You really outdone yourself, man, you should be proud.

What an incredible personality. Such a good mood in this video all around.

This guys so chill, why am I just now seeing this!? Love the video.

It’s 2020 and I still love it. Wish we could rewind to here again

so donated to this. Thank you for letting us know about it!

you know these claws were dulled by time under the ground! See how sharp they look now and imagine how sharp they were Then

19:00 When you wake up but you realize that you didn’t set your alarm

Does anyone else remember that episode of Far Cry Primal where an eagle stole a goat from beaver, and then dropped it from about 50 feet high? Edit: It didn't steal the goat, Beaver just randomly spotted it in the sky.

I gotta be honest.that moustache is amazing

I love how happy and charismatic this guy is

I love the work that GB dose for us (viewers) when i get mad you and a few other youtubers make me happy so thank you

17:00 holy shit something super obvious just occurred to me. Feathers would work GREAT for camouflage in undergrowth and whatnot. Scales might be reflective, but feathers, unless glossy black like a crow's, are not

I love how we're constantly learning stuff, as a 90s child dinosaurs seemed to change every month... even animals we have today we're still learning, I'm so glad my little nephew show me ur channel cause he loves the gaming and I get to nerd out too....

This is wonderful! I paint at the Museum of Ancient Life pretty regularly and it's a ton of fun. I miss having the Utah Raptor block over there but excited to see more happen with it. Thank you for doing this video!

I love James's vids I have been watching him for 6 years now so I think his videos gets even better and funnier than the last vids day by day WELL DONE JAMES!!!

I love the Museum of Ancient Life the exhibits are just amazingly set up in my opinion. It's the best museum of Utah. I should know because, I live in Utah.

I once got to go into the lab area of the Academy of natural science museum in Philedelphia for my 5th birthday and got my picture taken stand next to a fossilized bone from a Paralititan, a massive Sauropod from Egypt before it was a desert. Now I'm in college and I took a paleontology course. To my surprise, my professor was on the team that found that same Paralititan!

For anyone who hasnt read it, Raptor red is a fantastic read! It has really interesting background info on jurassic park, and the discovery of utahraptors and how they shaped the movie.

6:25 "and look at how the nerves goes through the b o n e r " xD

28:49 The way they ran out of there you would swear what one of them fossils came to life!

Thought this was a random video on RU-vid, till I saw James....

This video has popped up in my recommended ever since it was released so I'm finally watching it

James reminds me a lot of my old milling teacher. Laid back, easygoing, extremely knowledgeable on his field, food connoisseur ;), passionate about his work, and just an absolute joy to be around. That teacher is one of the best people i've ever had the pleasure of meeting, so i'm serious when i say that James looks like such a great guy to work with. :)

2:07 Who needs a karambit when you got a dinosaur claw. Eat your heart out, CS:GO.

The feathered Novaraptor is definitely the most accurate of the bunch, right down to having the primary wing feathers attached to the second finger. The Jurassic World the Game one has a tragopan wattle! I find that hilarious for some reason XD

Me reacting to an ARK Raptor: *HOLY SH-*

Took me a sec to realize that this is the gaming beaver🤣😂😂🤣

Should've showed him pictures from Saurian! Would've been so cool too since Saurians goal is to be as perfectly accurate as possible

Bald

His imagination is amazing. The way he described his idea of a Utah raptor would be absolutely awesome in a movie. That really captured my imagination.

I loooooovvee Raptors since I'm a child. You are so lucky to get to see that and talk to Jim in person. Pure envy from my side here.

Oh my god I want one of those claws! :0

It’s so sad how paleontologists r never well funded he said it himself the process is slow and can take ages and he’ll never be able to see his discovery be fully unveiled

Much more interesting than I thought it would be, thank you!

What a good interview man i loved it

I dig the use of Chaos Continues music.

My gosh. TheGamingBeaver should have a series called TheEducatingBeaver. This was very informative and interesting. Kinda encourages viewers to be paleantologists, I know I want to be one hahaha.

This is a wonderful video. Thanks for the fun :)

Great interview and incredible description of this thing attacking with pseudo eyes on its feathers. I could really visualize that.

Thought this was just some random video so I went on it because it looked interesting, I saw it said the video was by gaming beaver and I said well I guess it gets even better 🤣🤘

i remembered reading about the discovery of the Utahraptor's death trap a few years ago. it was an amazing news for the paleontology world as once it is excavated and researched, it could open so many new knowledge about utahraptors and dromaeosaurs in general! so glad to see people are funding the research and i cannot wait to see what we can discover from this amazing set of fossils.

This guy is a wealth of knowledge, so down to earth too.

This is such a fun video! ❤

What a positive uplifting and very interesting interview! Cool dudes, I wish them only the best! God bless

Yey, The Utahraptor project Rocks!!!!

This was so much fun to watch!!

Its so good to see how much this man loves his job.

I love this. Being a Paleontologist was my dream. But sadly there was no colleges close to me that offered it. And I could not afford to travel to the places that did. Thank you for sharing this with use.

After saw those claws, guess tigers, lions, bears cannot scare you anymore. Whole claw can slice a human body.

I've loved dinosaurs and fossils since i was a little kid, this was awesome! So cool

Raptors are my favorite! They're so beautiful!

Scott takes a look at the Ark raptor with the look of "Scott is not impressed" before walking back to his work.

Sweet interview, I love how cool that guy is about the videogames

Totally digging the Jurassic Park II game music in the background about halfway through. My brother and I used to play that game all the time when we were growing up.

12:00 Yea lets not put even more stress on my PC. Running 30FPS as it is.

17:30 that reminded me when Alan gave that speech to the kid on the digsite haha

This was an amazing interview with amazing people.

This was so cool I would love to see more videos like this

Compliments from the Kingdom of the Netherlands for this great video!

as a dinosaur nerd I give you the badge of *SCIENCE!* approval

In defence of the Jurassic Park franchise, when the book and movie first came out it was very accurate with what science knew at the time, and changed the view of many people on dinosaurs like the t-rex posture and the inteligence. But as science marched on, they had an established image they could hardly move away from. I still wish they would add more feathers and all. But yeah when it came out it was as accurate as could be in a movie

I live in Utah and when we were building our house we were digging for the basement and we found about the top third of the piece of the Utah raptors left site of the snout don’t believe me ask them

i love that guy, he is so chill.

Fantastic video! These are exactly the kind of videos people need to see! Great work dude (and mega jealous you actually got to chat to Jim Kirkland)

Good to see finally see what you were doing with paleontologists, Also, 2 things, I saw those 2 JP T-rex toys on your insta post, Secondly, I know why your in California currently, BIS spilled the news about the JWE event, can't wait to see that one!

So didnt know this was your vid until I heard your voice and it made me happy

This was awesome!