Please, please, PLEASE do a tier list series of Triassic critters! And on the subject of Primeval, I used to watch it with an ex's kids. Never missed an episode
Love this channel so much there’s crazy information I had no idea. I got into this cause I was interested in the changes of geography of the Earth through tens to hundreds of million years ago.
Man this was thoroughly excellent. Loved every second. Your formatting and execution is always great but this one stood out. I can see it being great for biology teachers turning on for the first part of class as a great introduction to gliding. Knocked it out of the park! Laughed out loud at the ‘not you’ part. Keep killing it man!
Yes to ongoing Triassic list. Great video I’d love to hear more about difference in feathered and Nonfeathered dinos. Also love the humor you are adding very funny 👍
You wanna know why I like you and what you do, you’re a thinker. It at least seems to me your pushing ideas and questioning the “why” even though there’s a common consensus already. You’re not repeating facts your breaking things down and reassessing the possibilities for yourself. Thank you for sharing these perspectives and why we should look closer and think a little differently.
I know I said I'm not a fan of top 5 videos, but you proved me wrong! I love how you discussed all these animals in depth. An ongoing Triassic tier list will be awesome.
Bro, I gotta tell you... You've come a long way from that annoying kid I grew to care about. I'm so damn proud of you, Big things coming man, Only up from here...
got bored and decided to google gliding animals to see if there currently is anything similar to sharo. so far the closest i can find are the following: Malayan flying frog: a treefrog that has long relatively flat hind legs, webbed toes (but not really finger?), and an almost-tail that is a flattened square. Flying Geckos: tend to have slightly longer hind limbs and are webbed ALL over (likely closest we can get to sharo right now) it's a stretch, but why not: flying squid: their fins are at the "front" while gliding and are much smaller than the membrane from the tentacles. aka, has longer rear membrane. flying ants (depends on type): there are several type of "flying" ants that glide back to the tree if they fall to avoid falling to the forest floor. some seem to completely flatten their bodies (with really stubby legs), others are semi-flattened but have longer legs (with general long rear ones) which are spread out to help control their glide. (said leggy ones are really the only way they are similar to sharo, but they are really too small to count) An interesting pattern (at least with the arboreal ones, silly squid) is that it seems that they all have some way to climb the tree WITHOUT relying on their grip. Tree frogs like using their not-glue, geckos just static cling, and the ants are just small enough that they barely need any grip to climb things. So the thing that might be keeping this from being adapted as much might have to do with it impeding climbing ability? idk, just an idea
WOW! As soon as you started describing Epidexipteryx my first thought was the Aye-Aye.. But I thought.... "Nah...." And then you mentioned the Aye-Aye. Me.... Sits back, patting myself on the shoulder for being a little bit smarter than I gave myself credit for.... 😂😁😂😁😂
Great list! Really highlights the diversity of animals that have adapted to this lifestyle. Btw I probably have to watch Primeval, because it seems that a good number of people like it and apparantly I'm part of that demographic group that as you mentioned should be familiar with it.
The colugos (flying lemurs) are not lemurs, in fact they are not primates at all. They are the closest relatives to primates, but they aren't ones. Basically almost there but not completely. Just wanted to point that out
Please do an ongoing Triassic weirdo list the Triassic is just so cool to me, the beginning of Dinos, all animals were fighting for dominance evolution was booming just a great time
Would you make a video about chalicotheriidae? Super underrated, some of the weirdest ungulates to ever exist. Appreciate everything you do man, thank you.
Honestly i think sharovipterix may have been the efficient glider , it just makes sense to me , and also that set up may have been hard to evolve : you need an animal with long legs getting on trees and not losing it's long legs , Gliding animals tend to evolve in forests where the acidic soil prevents fossilization , so there may have been all sorts of gliders that we may never see
This is the first video I have seen from this channel but, it's good quality and interesting topics so far. Thanks for new source of knowledge and entertainment my friend
It's funny...I just recently found Primeval on Tubi, a free app, and am on like episode 8. It bugged me that Rex seemed to have the extra limbs that his wings suggested. It's very cool to find out he's just an exaggerated representation of a real paleocritter
The last one may be more efficient in gliding with those back leg wings. But walking and climbing with them would be a real challenge. Making it overall a worse strategy.
Sharovipteryx seems to me to be like grasshopper in terms of darting off: It crossed my mind that Shaviropteryx could have just used legs to jump high just like grasshopper and used membrane to glide. Grasshoppers sometimes use wings after taking a leap to cover vastly more area than they would just jumping. (At least) On the surface it looks like a good gues for Sharovipteryx use of those long legs.
Would you consider squirrels to be gliders? Squirrels have a low enough terminal velocity where they can’t be seriously injured from a fall, but they don’t have membranes to give them much mobility in the air.
is funny that some of these animals are the closest thing to dragons (or those birds things inside the earth in that kong vs godzilla movie) we got (as far as we know) but man we got cheated and did not have giant Draco lizards or birds with dragon wings
Bruh flying frogs are right there. They have larger back "wings" than frount "wings", and it works reasonably well than them. They're not as specialized as a sharovipterix with the full leg petagium, but its pretty close
"Good god, it's related to Tanystropheus!" It's fucking WHAT!? The aquatic thing with 12 - 13 extrmeley elongated neck vertebrae that looked like a plesiosaur but wasn't, THAT Tanystropheus?!
Are you familiar with Aron Ra? He has an excellent 50-part series on the systematic classification of life beginning at the beginning and ending with homo sapiens sapiens
Looking at hypuronector, I thought it was going to be theorized that they glide/spin around like maple/helicopter seeds 😅 the tail does bear a strong resemblance to those seeds
i like to think someone found a rhamphorhyncid or scansoriopterid fossil... yeah i dont know how to spell either of those, but i like to think someone discovered one in the middle ages and went... 'chicken dragon'? And thats where cockatrices come from. Cos Yi Qui is pretty much a cockatrice
Sharovipteryx: Although the flying wing design is the best flying design, it has decisive disadvantages as a design for animals. You cannot land in a controlled manner with wings on the hind legs. Because the heart is located above the thighs, they will suffer from a lack of oxygen during prolonged exercise. A long neck is a better design because liquid is easier to pump up than to suck up from below (>10m is not even possible). The chest is also ideal for mounting flight muscles while creating a large moment of force. The distance from the organs to the muscles is also smaller for the provision of oxygen and sugars. Even human pilots are not able to fly this model flying beast safely due to the limited flight envelope although this model has 100% better flight efficiency.
“Remember Rex?” Has memories tumble from the closet at the back of my brain like the fucking kratt brothers opened it And that zaboomaphoo bit came back out with it for some reason
