WTH is Smok wawelski?! 

My eyes read Smok wawelski but my brain said Mike Wazowski

To be more accurate, the name is pronounced more like "smoke vaveleski" The W's in Polish are pronounced like V's in English. And the O would be pronounced more like the O in Oak, than the O in Hot.

As a Polish geology/biology student (0:14 is exactly the place where I walk though every day!) I am so delighted that the news about Smok is spreading worldwide thanks to you. . A few years ago a paleontology museum in Lisowice, where Smok was found was so much underrated that in order to enter it I had to call the owner of the building to unlock the basement floor, where the museum is located :(.

Thanks for the awesome info. As a kid growing up in Poland Ive heard the tale many times, so cool to see it "come to life". There's a fire breathing smok statue outside of Wawel. Apparently now the fire is activated via sms.

Maybe the most interesting Archosaur from Poland. Swedish scientists where i live were also involved in the study that described Smok coprolites and it's bone crushing abilities.

As a pole who's planning to study palaeontology I am THRILLED to see a video covering Smok wawelski. I hope to learn more about it & other polish prehistoric animals when I get to college :D

The place where where they found it is actually folded right know and it's not changing any soon. Anyway I'm happy that you're talking about Smok and Lisowicia, me and my friend are going to visit Lisowice, a place where they found both of them soon

My mind went where you eventually did...Smok may well be the end a whole different archosaur line. Ankles will probably settle things for most, someday, but maybe they won't (or should not). Time will tell

Excellent presentation! This amazing critter Smok really puts the Polish city of Lisowice on the map! I have known about the synapsid Lisowicia for some time now. Question: How closely related are the Smok and the Teleocrater? Probably not related but I just thought I would ask. Thanks in advance!

SMOK WALAWESSI I CANT

That is one very special animal, thanks for showing it off - My guess is that sometime in the future the Polish Geology Society will find a few more fossils and we will all be saying that's perfectly obvious , for the records and for after new finding occurs - I had no idea what it was

Sounds like Smok is a Dinosauromorph, probably from a linage that was close to the split. That said, it could also be from a another linage of Archosaurs that we didn't know about previously.

I love that we’re still discovering new animals that gives us a deeper understanding about their world. So cool.

Yes, it's pronounced VaVelski with heavy Vs :) And I love that you did an episode about our very important legend, one of my favorites from childhood, except I felt sorry for the dragon :,)

Noah to the dinosaurs and pseudosuchians: what the hell is this?? (Referring to Smok)

Much thanks for keeping intros and outros brief w/ just the vanity card...well done...!

Thanks Raptor Chatter. ❤. Another fascinating fossil mystery and a really interesting animal. Smok!❤

Smok may be cool, but don't let him distract you from the fact that the Polish name for beaver is Bóbr, which is the quaintest name for anything ever.

It do be Smok

Must find the ankle!

the dragon called Smok? nice name, sounding a bit familiar....... oh.... sht.... Smaug.

My city 🦖🤙

I am pretty sure 'smok wawelski' is some kind of code for smoking weed.

Isn't Smok Wawelski that the green dude from monsters Inc?

To be fair tho, the lack of a post front is a dinosaur synapnomorphy

I do understand that this man's interest is in dinosaurs. His knowledge is precious. I hope that he adds his knowledge of how muscles, cartilage and bones will be added to the understanding of how humans evolved.

Maybe it’s a third line that never came to be

I thought it was the name of a polish ice hockey star.

Pozdro z Polski🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

gosh.... is it a missing link of some sort?

Ok hear me out. I feel like we're dealing with a platypus situation here where the animal looks like it has features of several different animals but is actually its own thing in a whole family, like how platypus are mammals they're just in their own little family of mammals, the monotremes.

The fox of dinosaurs and crocodilian

I am thinking an archosaur with convergent features relating to environmental pressures

The evulution always find a way for its sucsesses. - SMOK is a proof of that. - Remember the Triassic was a long period of time, and all in all we have few fossils from this time. - Try to imagine how many lifeforms hat lived through tis long period of time.

Nice video!👍

You know, I always wondered...Evolution is kind of a generational thing, although extinction events do accelerate it. But we've gotta find some transitional fossils that just aren't easily placed or defined. It'll be interesting to see how this and maybe other discoveries progress in time.

Everytime you said Smok, I heard Spock. 🖖

Ah, my country!

QUESTION if you don't mind. Is it possible that theropod dinosaurs and pseudosuchians exhibited distinct morphologies in the articulation between the posterior skull and the first cervical vertebra? For instance, pseudosuchians might have had a more obtuse ‘angle of attack,’ allowing for a greater upward gaze compared to theropods. Hypothetically, which of these groups could angle their necks downward and then elevate them by approximately 90 degrees to align their skulls parallel to the ground? It seems unlikely that both groups would develop identical behaviors and, consequently, analogous skeletal structures. Consider how birds exhibit head-tossing as part of their courtship rituals, which suggests a correlation between behavior and flexibility in their necks. It’s a leap of imagination, but the capacity for certain behaviors likely influences an organism’s anatomical design. It appears improbable for both groups to exhibit precisely the same behaviors for any given reason.

Sounds like barnacles and Darwin all over again.

Pseudodinosaurosuchian

Polska górą!!!!

I really think smok is a third group seperate to psudosuchians and arcosaurs that could totally be called draconians (if the name isn't taken) because smok was a dragon like super predator that only would have gotten more unstopable as it evolved. The problem with being a super predator is you end up sending yourself extinct by being too eficient at killing your own food source, much like humans are doing today. So, in short, the reason we don't have dragons is because the first of them was already too powerful.

One person suggested that Smok was a natural hybrid.

I think there is a letter missing in the title.

wawalessy

I think it looks more like a dinosaur. Probably close relative of Herrerasaurus.

How can it have no ankles?

POLSKAAAAAAAA

Can it be both at the same time?

is smok

Wow no wonder the poles though it wad a dragon .that dinosaur us basicly a dragon

This has to be a separate lineage like turtles. How could it be either a dinosaur or crocodiliform?

The pseudo-est of suchians.

An escaped research animal from the alien research post that engineered the dinosaurs. 😉

Convergent Evolution anyone ?

A more correct way, the most accurate way I could come up with to pronounce the name would be smuk vavelskee. As a polish person I cringe every time you try to say it (lol not your fault) so I tried to come up with the best way to type out the pronounciation for an english-speaking person. I think although this pronounciation looks weird, is near impossible to butcher. You can always just make google translate say it for you.

Make up your mind crazy pseudonymasaurus

W is pronounced like V (polish spelling is interesting)

(This is a joke) Maybe smok was the result of a crocodile and a dinosaur hooking up lol XD

it's pronounced more like vavelsky in polish v is w, and w is ł

Stop saying I mean so much. Say what you mean......

I love eating dinosaurs