Maybe it's stupid but I'm really touched by this discovery and feel really sorry for the poor animal, he will be always rembered in pop culture as the bad egg eating dino while he really was the best dad a dino could dream of. Respect for the Ovi!
In the Dinotopia series of books, James Gurney depicts Oviraptors as being particularly good egg caretakers, and in the context of that fictional world they are called Ovinutrix- Egg nurse
These are literally my favorite dinosaurs. You know that "weird horse girl" in middle school. That was me but the weird dino guy. My grandparents had many emus and one ostrich, probably why I love the oviraptor so much.
I loved dinosaurs myself. Dinosaurs and space. Still one of the best Sunday activities I can think of, pj's, hot chocolate and watching a documentary about space or dinosaurs.
Reminds me of that reddit story where a random woman steals a baby from its father by taking it into her arms then screaming that he is trying to kidnap it.
We should definitely keep the egg part of the name. Apparently ovinutrix (egg nurse) and ovipater (egg father) have already been suggested. I'll add ovicustos (egg guardian) and ovivigilans (egg watcher).
I think the name is fine as is. Raptor has gone on to gain a new meaning in the field of paleontology: small to medium sized fast theropods. In this way, it's more of a reference to its discovery than its behavior.
I like the idea of the father Ovi taking over once the eggs was laid. But i coulnt help but entertain the thought of the parents taking turns guarding and keeping the eggs for extended periods, like emperor penguins
Manuel Ucañán not necessarily. This is just proof it cared for its young, it does not mean it wasn't an egg thief. Dinosaur Planet (2003) portrays Oviraptor better than this video, as it is shown to care for its young as well as be an egg thief.
@@Ugly_German_Truths At the time "terrible" was more often synonymous with "great" than it is now, so they would have understood it meant "very large lizard".
It's "terrible" in the victorian-ear meaning, that is, terrifying, monstruous. The meaning of "terrible" changed and nowadays it generally means "very bad", "incompetent" but that's relatively new.
Oviraptor was always my favorite dinosaur as a kid, and I appreciate it just as much now. I begged for an Oviraptor toy all the time, and finally got one when I was like 11. I still have it around, but it's in storage now. Love that thing, although I could use one with more updated feathering.
That would be patrisaurus, rather. Pater is the nominative, and species names are usually made by taking the genitive (for example ovi in ovisaurus is the genitive of ovum).
ovicustos = egg guardian probably better, with ovicustodis as possessive. custos has these sense of guardian, watchman, sentry, guard. (As in the saying "Qui custodes ipsos custodiet," "Who watches the watchers [themselves]," all too apt nowadays)
As always pbs eons continues to amaze me by their wonderful content , I love how they mix science with entertainment and finally their own touch of comedy
"Father" in Mongolian is "aav." If you you wanted to keep it fairly close to the original, it could be Aaviraptor, or perhaps Aaviovis, meaning "Father of raptors" and "Egg father" respectively.
Not really, most have fantastic names that suit them. The ones I can think of with unfair names are Oviraptor here and Basilosaurus, which was a whale and not a reptile.
City Patty is my favorite dinosaur. She's a junior at NYU and her nest is a fourth-floor walkup, but it's cozy and she decorates it with christmas lights all year long.
And where your "n" is supposed to come from? What you wrote would mean "lizard-boat-father" and "boat of the father". I would be Patravisaurus or Patravis, respectively.
I've been watching PBS eons for about a year now. I haven't seen a single bad video or video that didn't capture my interest very well. Please keep up the awesome work.
the scientific name that is latin for "good father lizard" is Bonum patrem lacerta, which is a long scientific name, and another short scientific name of Oviraptor is Bonusaura lacertrem.
It started as a wink and then about a million years ago the kitty cats came along with their Science and they invented The Nap and that took on a life of its own until it became a deep, long sleep. End of story.
I realy like this channel when i was a kind in the mid 90´s i read a lot about dinosaurs and other ancient species. And its realy nice to see how much our knowledge has improved since then^^
I've always appreciated the variety of palaeoart used in these educational videos to illustrate the animals behaviour, alongside more scientific photos of skeletons etc. And this time the selection has some good going for it, but honestly, showing several depictions of featherless Oviraptor is just not what science hypothesises to be extremely probable. Besides, being so closely related to birds , the 'good fathers' definitely needed some form of integument to make the brooding efficient. I would suggest that next time you recount the history of palaeontology, you use depictions in a before-after fashion, to contrast with modern ideas. Keep it up!
If that happens they need to give Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Struthiomimus feathers, depict Iguanodon and Parasaurolophus with beaks and able to switch between walking on two legs and four legs, give Carnotaurus the correct size or replace it with an actually large predator (like Giganotosaurus), and replace the lemurs with a mammal that actually existed in the Mesozoic Era (like Purgatorius). And maybe their can be no talking at all in the rebooted film, not that talking animals are bad but it might be a nice change of pace, plus movies and tv shows like Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and Primal have shown that music, sound, and imagery speak louder than words.
amandiovosaurus- in latin amandi ovo means egg loving, and to keep up with tradition saurus which means lizard in greek. So its new name means egg loving lizard.
My childhood dinosaur books from the 1990's still talked about the Oviraptor as being an egg thief. I bet they didn't catch up quickly with the newest findings.
"Renaming" _Oviraptor_ would be invalid under the standard rules of taxonomic nomenclature. The first published name sticks, except in the rare (but it has happened) when a previously used name is applied to a new genus (family, order, whatever) by an author unaware that the name has already been used. Another situation arose when an author described _Eohippus_ (dawn horse), unaware that the species had already been described and published as _Hyracotherium_ (hyrax critter).
Please discuss Darwinius (the Ida debacle from 2009) while also discussing strepsirrhine evolution in Africa and how modern strepsirrhines (toothcombed primates or lemuriforms) evolved. In other words, don't just talk about evolution of anthropoids. In other words, please tell the full story of early primate evolution and how all of us got to where we are.
I use these videos as part of my kid's "world history" It would be super helpful if video descriptions gave info on what time period(s) are covered in each video.
When i think of Oviraptors and think of their feathers, head crests and beaks I tend to think of Cassowaries. I have a feeling theres a chance Cassowaries are directly descended from Oviraptors
Oviraptor to young: I am your father. Young: No! That's not true! That's impossible! Oviraptor: Search your full bellies and remarkably warm nest...you know it to be true Young: Nooooo! Nooooooo!
OVIRAPTOR: one of the very first dions I heard of as a kid. It's a pity that everything I learned was wrong, so soon out of the gate. P.S. Roy Chapman Andrews is often cited as one of the precursors & inspirations for Indiana Jones.
There's evidence to suggest it was an omnivore. Most oviraptorids probably ate plant matter, small animals, insects/invertebrates, and maybe even eggs occasionally (meaning the whole "egg thief" thing could still kinda be accurate, just not as much as we thought).
Fascinating stuff about the dinosaurs! I'm reminded of the fact that in birds, it is the egg from the mother - not the sperm of the father - that determines the gender of the offspring. Some have wondered if this was true of some of the dinosaurs as well.
I would rename oviraptor as Pateroaves (father bird). This would fill the three criterias: caring parent, male, and more birdlike than reptilelike. I think it sounds good as well. :)
It likely varied as well. Most still believe that sauropods were very R centered. Mostly because eggs constrains the size of their young so using a K type would mean protecting them for a very, very long time. Mammals can get around that via pregnancy which allows the young of even large animals to be born fairly developed. Milk is also super easy to digest and super nutritious so it allows a lot of calories to go in without yet needing a very developed digestive system.
Very hard, unfortunately. With science, the binomial nomenclature of an organism is pretty much with it for life, with only a few exceptions (mistaken identity, the name turning out to have already been taken, etc.), none of which, to my knowledge, apply to Oviraptor. This is why, for example, the ancient whale Basilosaurus is stuck with a name that claims it's a reptile despite being a mammal.
