Honorary mentions I can think of at the top of my head: -Deinocheirus: A “duck-bear” larger than a bull African elephant. -Concavenator: A carnosaur, it had a sail kinda resembling a shark’s dorsal fin. -Jakapil: One of the most mysterious dinosaurs that is possibly basal to Ankylosaurs and Stegosaurs. -Qinornis: Possibly the only example of a non-avian dinosaur from the Cenozoic. -Pegomastax: If you’ve played Ark Survival, you know this little stinker better than anyone.
Hate to burst your bubble, but jurassic park added those and the venom for the wow factor. In real life, they were much bigger and the main feature (of which it was named for) was its two facial crests. Though, if you want a frilled reptile, Australia has a lizard for you
@@Redpandaman36 "they were much bigger" oh god are people STILL bitching about it being small? the reason it was small in the movie is because it was a baby, in modern jp media the dilophosaurus is shown to be as large as the """""accurate""""" version
@@DominustyrannusHorridus cause skin and feathers arent the same, feathers are something you might not care about loosing, especially if it is only decorative but skin can cause bleeding if damage and wouldn't be something good for decoration
Hi there, I'm the artist who drew the thumbnail. It comes from a shitty Jurassic Park fan project from a couple years back. It's not supposed to be accurate, and I'd argue it really has no place on a factual video about palaeontology. That aside, I was neither credited nor asked whether it could be used, so I'd very much appreciate if you either credited me for it (I went by Palaeontologica at the time), or changed the thumbnail. Thanks! Edit: Thank you for changing the thumbnail!
@@samuelgarza2994 Sorry! Did try to post a link last night, but apparently RU-vid's spam filter got it. You can find the original on the Jurassic Park Fanon wiki under "Incisivosaurus (Desolation)". Again, it's for a really old fan project that kinda sucked, lol.
@@samuelgarza2994 Apologies if I accidentally replied to you three times - YT keeps deleting my comments for some reason. The original can be found if you look up "Incisivosaurus (Desolation)" on Google.
@@samuelgarza2994 as one of paleo’s buddies, he wanted me to tell you (and I quote) "the original image was part of a crappy, underdeveloped JP fan project which is on the Jurassic Park fanon wiki, you can find it if you look up 'Incisivosaurus (Desolation)' on google"
I love how nature is rarely ever constrained by a lack of imagination. Like, set rules might exist, but even those are malleable, and they'll still do some pretty extraordinary stuff within those confines.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="150">02:30</a> Still living Aye Ayes got fingers as freaky if you look them up, fullfilling the exact same foraging purpose
And with this video you can also shake the reality of any dino enthusiast on every continent: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fe75Gnv28sU.htmlsi=06cdjzWlqNw2UgV2
Hello there, I am the artist of the renewed thumbnail you put on, that shows three Yutyrannus siblings. It would be nice if you somehow credit me, I don't mind if you use it as a thumbnail whether I was asked or not. Hopefully you understand. I have been watching your vids for awhile before I found this, so it was pretty interesting to see the thumbnail coming from my artwork. Thanks!
@@dvb8637that’s because there have been two thumbnails- the first one was Jurassic park fan art, which the artist requested be removed, and the thumbnail that this commenter is talking about is the second, current thumbnail. Not bots, just two different people with the same request
Slight criticism, the discovery of Yi qi indicates that Scansoriopterygidae as a group may all have membranes between its fingers, which aren’t visible on the other fossil dues to preservation bias. So while Epidexipteryx would still be a climber, it might not have used its fingers like an Aye Aye would, instead it might’ve glided or even flown from tree to tree.
While we don’t have a clear definitive family tree of Scansoriopterigids, it is possible that wing membranes were a more derived trait of the family. It’s entirely possible that only later or more members of the family had wing membranes while others had lacked much of if not didn’t have them entirely.
It brings me back to yesterday. I watched all the parts in a compilation video and just finished them yesterday, after not having seen any of them since the early days of RU-vid. What are the odds?
It's crazy to think we only know of 700 species of dinosaurs. Considering they existed for 150 million years, how many must we be missing? Possibly including many entire groups. I mean, consider that there are something like 5000 species of mammals alive right now. That means there should have been at least that many dinosaurs at any given time,,over 150 million years. So we have to be talking 100s of thousands of species, if not millions. Yet we only know of 700. That's insane.
He means 700 genera. It's actually a major problem, with the word species and genus used interchangeably. (For a quick explanation, a species is an almost genetically identical organisms able to reproduce to create fertile ofspring, while genus is a group of species with slight (relatively) morphological differences. Think of big cats, how they're all under the genus pantera but are different species). We know over 1k dino species for sure, but your point still does raise the question of how much we still don't know, and likley never will, about these creatures
Its interesting that 99% of what people dig up is a match to a species we already know of however complete fossil finds are extremely rare so people might just be matching a new species together with one that's already known. Conversely nano t rex could just be a juvenile t rex for example so there may be less species. Think of how many unique ecosystems like Madagascar there were on some of these islands off pangea and now they're at the bottom of the ocean there's probably thousands of species in the ocean we are not able to ever find.
@AldousHuxley7 that simply isn't true. Most species are only known from a single specimen. The exceptions tend to be situations where we find whole groups of animals that died together. Such as families, or in places like the tar pits where tons of animals got together. There are a few species like t rax that are very well represented, but it was also one of the longest lived and most successful creatures around. There is also the size bias that exists. Larger animals fossilized much easier. So we tend to see a lot more of them. Also, certain times tend to allow fossilization to occur more easily, further making it so we get specific ones more often. But again, most species are know from one fossil. Or maybe even just a few bones. We aren't just finding the same thing all the time.
@AldousHuxley7 as for nano tryranous, last I knew the general concensus was indeed that it was just a juvenile t Rex. It was by no means settled, but that was where most experts were leaning. Been a while, so could have changed. And with dinosaurs, there are probably millions of species we can never know of because all their bones were in places that are now under water. Or were destroyed with plate tectonics and the like. That is very much true.
The Brachiosaurus has always been my favorite one- I have no idea why, maybe because it’s kinda cute, or the fact it doesn’t eat meat, but I love them.
Imagine how exciting it must have been working in the galactic corporate bioengineering laboratories at the time, creating such creatures in competition with other companies!
There’s probably so many other dinosaurs out there that have not been discovered yet I can’t wait for all the interesting names that are given to them lol
I love seeing these speculative illustrations and animations. I can easily imagine our long-fingered arboreal fellow climbing around, and that chunky aquatic one looks like a precursor to the snapping turtle. So cool! ❤
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="93">1:33</a> At the sight of incredibly tiny arms attached to a big creature, I will never suppress my innate laughter. Look at those tiny things wave around. 🤣😂
That one with the long fingers reminds me of the Aye-Aye. That weird lemur from Madagascar with the extremely long digit that is used for digging out wood boring insects.
The diversity and uniqueness of dinosaurs never cease to amaze! It's fascinating to learn about these lesser-known species with their bizarre adaptations, from tiny arms to freakishly long fingers. The obscure dinosaurs highlighted here remind us that there’s always more to discover in paleontology.
So, Cretaceous China was basically the Australia of the Mesozoic. That's what I'm getting from this when there's dinosaurs with Freddy Krueger fingers, a nail for a hand, a snapping turtle ankylosaur, a shoulder dragon related to the Freddy Krueger dino, a Spongebob toothed oviraptor, and a big feathery cousin of T-rex and Ceratosaurus.
I have always been a little puzzled about the "tiny arms makes a dino into a wimp" routine. Sharks, crocodilians, piranhas, anacondas, to name just a few, have no arms at all and I've heard they are rather effective at eating anything they want.
Some honorable mentions include,heterodontosaurus:an ornisthiscian from the Jurassic I mean just look at its teeth and a lot of reconstructions give them feathers,masiakasaurus:it’s foward facing teeth are the reason it’s here it also possibly had 4 fingers last one actually,Kosmoceratops it’s a ceratopsian with more than 10 horns and its horns spread to the side instead of forwards actually one more that’s not a dinosaur,longisquama and also sharovipteryx the first one Is basically spinosaurus turned into a lizard but remove all the flesh and slap some skin on the bone and sharovipteryx just just look at it it’s a lizard with a skirt bruh
Everytime someone says that dinosaurs were the weirdest animals this planet has had, you gotta show them EVERY SINGLE INSECT. Damn near all of em are really weird and specialized to smth, same with every Arachnid, Crustecean, Mollusk, Echinoderm, and more.
I want to correct the info on Epidexipteryx. As it's close relatives Yi Qi and Ambopteryx were discovered with wing membranes, the original reconstruction of it with giant monster hands *is* objectively false. Based on new studies- the Epidexipteryx specimen discovered was a juvenile, and the structure that would become the wrist bone had not hardened into something that could fossilize. It is also the least preserved specimen of the three species, with little concrete proof it had no wing membrane. You even use a size chart from Wikipedia that displays it with a wing membrane! It doesn't look great for a video that was released yesterday to be showcasing false information that has been settled since, well, Yi Qi's discovery. Ambopteryx used to have the same misinformation surrounding it, and we've finally moved on. Epidexipteryx deserves the same kindness.
Concerning Epidexipteryx, I think you got the function of the teeth and fingers backwards. Just like the Aye-Aye now it likely gnawed at tree bark with its teeth and used the long fingers to pick out grubs.
