Trunked Sauropods - Contradictions and Comparisons 

Uh actually I think some sauropods have the trait of spike on their neck...I think it is Amargasaurus

Bajadsaurus

black falcon Ah, spikes on the underside of their necks. For territorial/mating disputes. Just slamming each other with sharp nodules (sharp osteoderms?) until one goes "aight ima head out".

@@dboot8886 To be fair you just said spikes on their necks.

maximaldinotrap Yeah I got loosey goosey with my wording.

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Trunked Sauropods: *Actually aren’t real*

Trunked Sauropods: *doesn't exist*

*SQUISH*

if you think thats bad, wait for trunked sauropod furries

Good ol' TSM

I want to like this but it’s at 69 so I can’t

welp it's at 70 likes now. Damn it

Andy from Parks & Recreation

I'll be waiting for your albums and music.

Im looking at the head of Brachiosaurus now, doesn't its skull look like there's space for some sort of fleshy sack maybe for resonating sounds?

Maybe they had long tongue like grafts to rech higher branches.

That's been proven to be wrong also.

@@sizematters3923 Im sure your not getting that from nowhere but some elaboration would be appreciated,

@@Sara3346 Nope. That's prior fantasy bs.

Ariel Nunez fr

Ariel Nunez if u say so

I imagine them as gigantic land-bound geese

It doesn’t matter what they are “better off” looking! We are talking about facts not what would look cooler! It isn’t anybody’s choice to make dinosaur look a certain way.

My comment acknowledges the fact that sauropods couldn’t have trunks on their faces.

There's this mammal in ice age that looks like a fat giraffe with tapir-length trunk.

Carlo Riel Mendez Really?

@@carlorielmendez6505 paraceratherium.

Absolutely. You got it exactly right.

@@eduardofreitas8336 Wrong animal. Macrauchenia.

Rhino milk is better then green milk

Where else does milk come from?

Where else does milk come from?

Or the long necked trunked mammals from the Ice Age series.

@@kennethsatria6607 macrauchenia, those animals were so cool I wish they have survived into the modern day.

Did you listen to the conclusion of the video? This is not a debunking. This is how science works.

Well, one still can imagine something like that. İ'd personally imagine it as an alien megafauna. 😘

@@emrecan7316 I were thinking the same thing. Long neck trunked "animals" in fictional world, it would be extremely cool.

Indeed.

Looks like a Macrauchenia.

@@batspidey7611 Which, coincidentally, is now thought to be unlikely to have had trunks, either. :-P

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Nate Klein I’m aware it doesn’t have a trunk.

@Juicelad What The Extinction is a Eopie? JK Its The Macrocinia Looking Thing in Tatu in. (I Have No Idea How To Spell it)

That can't be done in a single video. It's THAT bad. But it's on my list in any case...

wh-why did you capitalise every word *except* the one word that was supposed to be capitalised

Just imagine having a body plan where basically the front half of your 30m hulk is a crane supporting a giant vacuum cleaner, but having the equivalent of one of those grabby claw things taped to the extreme front of it. It's like you either just inhale food with unilateral branch stripping and grazing putting it directly into the mouth, or use a trunk that adds a step to the process so you get an extra meter of reach but go at half the speed *if that,* carefully plucking a bushel of greens and putting it in your mouth and doing that over and over

The nasal cavity on the scull is much like a modern trunked animal is. Pay attention.

@@fredmench4552 I don't see it at all. Note the bone running up the center and its convex shape. Trunked mammals have a pretty substantial hole where that is, the entire nasal structure forming a prominent tunnel up to that point, with a jagged lip. There's not much of a similarity other than that the naris is farther up and back on the head from where the soft-tissue nose would intuitively be, but basically no semblance in the nasal cavity itself, even less so considering the lack of osteological correlates for the extensive musculature even a small trunk would require, as the video mentioned. Additionally, while not entirely waterproof as it doesn't account for vestigial features, I would again like to point out that a trunk, unless ludicrously long, would be useless on the Sauropod bodyplan and feeding strategy, and therefore makes little enough sense to be open to other explanations even if there were more evidence like the aforementioned muscle attachments it lacks, such as just having a relatively complex nose for respiratory, sensory, or display purposes. The arrangement of Sauropod skulls is certainly unconventional and a lot of ideas as to why that is have been put out there, but a trunk in particular seems like too much with too little direct evidence through bone structure and too little logical reason for it to be there. I guess you could say a trunk is kind of reaching.

I would love to see something like that!

Lena Søndergaard *shrugs in litopterna*

The same reason a giraffe has a prehensile, extra long tongue? To strip the trees of leaves?

@@Avatar_Brandy But the giraffe's tongue strips the leaves and pulls the food directly into the giraffe's mouth. That tongue is also extremely tough and evolved as a response to defensive adaptations of it's food sources, such as thorns. A trunk is a delicate, slow addition that would reduce the efficiency of eating. Sauropods could just strip a branch of its leaves based on their teeth, no need to add an extra step that would slow down the rate of caloric intake.

@@Avatar_Brandy Then the sauropod should just have a really good tongue.

Oh and I just about forgot, Long live Ornithoscelida!

Thank you! I always like making videos like these, as it really opens your eyes to anatomical details and allows for a greater understanding of how science as a whole functions. :)

That doesn't seem outlandish. Turtle like beaks make sense for what type of animal they are and what environments they lived in. The trunks however make no sense.

@@diegobrando3409 Still I'm gonna miss my lipped sauropods.😔

@@dynamoterror18 I miss him as much as I do shrek.

@@diegobrando3409 don't most turtles live in shallow waters and oceans when they have a beak? I'm pretty sure sauropods didn't swim

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 I don't really see any link between the beak and the fact than an animal is aquatic or not ^^' But yeah, most turtles live in water (260 vs 70 terrestrials and 7 marines)... but is it relevant as all turtles have a beak? ^^

Well to be fair what's supported by evidence is what we should be obliged to go with, but fortunately this is not one of those things.

Thankfully there is no evidence for trunks and mostly evidence against weirdness like that.

King Ammonite trunks are weird to you? Wtf?

@@maniacram maniacram confirmed for Pachyderm.

Northropi trunks are cute

I know a kid with a long neck and a long nose

So you can give yourself a colonic I guess..

Yes, that's useless if you are a long necked animal

my ex can answer that for you

To grab things

It's funny reading this from a dude with a gorillaz profile pic😂

Ok

Snoutist.

DeathbyPixels damn dude let the people enjoy stuff while recognizing what’s fact

Far more likely that macraucheniidae was more akin to the Saiga in nose features than a full on tapir-style trunk.

@@Nala15-Artist Quite, they found far more similarities with moose, for instance, than they did with trunked families like elephants and tapirs. Most artistic representations I've seen of them since the study show macraucheniidae with more camel-shaped faces. Only thing is that's going to take a long time to shift perception on because macrauchenia and co have been depicted as trunked for over a century...

*Dougal Dixon: Suppose that you were sitting down at this table. The napkins are in front of you, which napkin would you take? The one on your ‘left’? Or the one on your ‘right’? The one on your left side? Or the one on your right side? Usually you would take the one on your left side. That is ‘correct’ too. But in a larger sense on society, that is wrong. Perhaps I could even substitute ‘society’ with the ‘Universe’. The correct answer is that ‘It is determined by the one who takes his or her own napkin first.’ …Yes? If the first one takes the napkin to their right, then there’s no choice but for others to also take the ‘right’ napkin. The same goes for the left. Everyone else will take the napkin to their left, because they have no other option. This is ‘society’… Who are the ones that determine the price of land first? There must have been someone who determined the value of money, first. The size of the rails on a train track? The magnitude of electricity? Laws and Regulations? Who was the first to determine these things? Did we all do it, because this is a Republic? Or was it Arbitrary? NO! The one who took the napkin first determined all of these things! The rules of this world are determined by that same principle of ‘right or left?’! In a Society like this table, a state of equilibrium, once one makes the first move, everyone must follow! In every era, this World has been operating by this napkin principle. And the one who ‘takes the napkin first’ must be someone who is respected by all. It’s not that anyone can fulfill this role… Those that are despotic or unworthy will be scorned. And those are the ‘losers’. In the case of this table, the ‘eldest’ or the ‘Master of the party’ will take the napkin first… Because everyone ‘respects’ those individuals.

*Nightmarish flashback to Man After Man ensues

Adrian Nelson Seasons Greasons

Unexpected JoJo refrences be like:

*Lumber intensifies*

Estás anclado en el pasado, deberías abrir la mente y estar abierto a nuevas experiencias e ideas, por cosas como esas te extinguiste hace millones de años. Renovarse o morir! (Ni puta idea de como se escribe esto en inglés, lo siento).

King Ammonite I think that ichthyosaurs were probably terrifying looking like really scary looking I call them Horror Dolphins

Hoop Doodle They have scaleless blunbber, just like dolphins

@@diegocaceresmarquez5007 Sorry, I don't speak burrito.

@@diegocaceresmarquez5007 ay do babes

There are a lot of reconstructions that do things like that. Saurian's (scrapped) Alamosaurus, while sorta crazy in overall body colors, had a big blue nose bulb thing, and a lot of reconstructions in the video appear to fill that space in in one way or another. One of the episodes of "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong," if I may shill for that series, also brought up how the forehead nostrils have fallen out of favor and it's generally agreed that a fleshy nose was present ahead of the naris.

@Richard Collins we don't need him he is so stupid the only think he knows about dinosaurs is their taste

Thank you! I'm glad you got something out of it.

Mind tricks don't work on him. Only money.

Nothing sort of a perfectly preserved sauropod. Or the unlikely discovery of molke membe

@@Zakimals i was just making a funny joke

@@Zakimals r/wooosh

Yes

Just search whales with trunks. Ben g Thomas did a video on it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaracetus

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a junk for every trunk! -bernie 2020

@Jacob Buller Could I touch it?

My trunk is thicker

bees make honey *I make cummy*

Yes, i guess

Very true.

Gotta milk that space manatee.