My man, you laughing at the "best Halloween decoration of all time" makes me laugh so hard as well. Like my god! That person seems to have NEVER seen a cat XD. You are great and you have a new viewer out of me. You have a great laugh.
It reminds me of the Lion of Gripsholm Castle in Sweden. It was a taxidermy job of a lion owned by an 18th century king where the taxidermist never saw a live lion and it was amazingly awful.
I've seen a few skeletal monsters in fiction which are similar to this idea The few coming to mind are; a dragon made of human skeletons... how it gets the skeletons is probably worse than you think A scorpion-like creature made out of the bones of a wolf and several other undetermined animals (the head was still a wolf skull. That's how I remember the wolf) And a "demon" that looked like a t-rex with a styracosaurus skull (though the skull still had t-rex teeth)
@@ThylineTheGay it magically pulls the skeletons out of people without breaking the skin leaving the person a still living sack of flesh and organs. Yes, I did say still living
That cat reminded me of the cats in medieval paintings, where it was always a question of “Have you ever seen a cat before?” and the artist’s like “Yea, totally”
Really interesting idea, because crocodiles can actually walk with their legs under their body, in a not-completelly-sprawled position, just like most mammals, and unlike most reptiles and lizards. The other kind of non-extinct animal who does that is birds, but all birds are bípeds, so it's harder to see the resemblance. So give your coworker some credit. They had good observations, even if their results were "a little" off due to an incomplete research....
Imagine someone selling halloween octopus sceletons....and it's just a beak. Like imagine someone visits you on halloween and sees the toy sckeletons: oh a cat...a bat...a dog...and a.... b e a k???
If your kid is super interested in animals, there's a good chance they're going to get curious about biology. And they WILL point out what's wrong when given the chance. Source: I was into dinosaurs specifically when I was 6 and I got super sick of Kangaroo Rex toys.
I'm like, severely against teaching children lies about real world. Santa Claus and other obviously ridiculous stuff is 100% made up, but deliberately teaching something wrong about existing things? Jail for 1000 years
The bird skeleton is honestly the worst one because I feel like chicken skeletons are the skeleton your average person is most exposed to of literally any animal, most people probably have more practical experience with chicken bones than they have with their own skeletons.
Agreed, so I feel like most people would understand that it was a bird skeleton if you did a relatively accurate bird skeleton. Ironically with the snake skeleton, that one's one of the easiest and most recognizable skeletons because it doesn't have any large features that get lost when skeletonized. If only they knew snakes had skeletons...
I’m actually a big fan of these anatomically inaccurate skeleton decorations, because they all almost invariably look like Someone squash and stretched a human skeleton to fit the visual profile of an animal, like an anatomical diagram of someone who studied human skeletons extensively but has never even seen any other kind of skeleton. Something about that gives them a really interesting aesthetic.
I was hoping the horrifying octopus "skeleton" I saw today would be in this, or the butterfly. The octopus's head was a ribcage (internal screaming) and the butterfly had a ribcage, two boned feet and the wings were all boned. Truly horrifying.
Though I agree, I have actually seen those and bought both. I love collecting skeleton Halloween animals, I just sort of see them as in their own existence of "Halloween skeleton monsters"
I'm impressed the snake skeleton you found was even that accurate. The only spoopy snake skeletons I've seen look like someone slapped a fanged tyrannosaurus skull on the end of an oversized string of tailbones.
I wonder if that guy in the store though that snakes were some kind of worms. Otherwise I don't have any explanation why would he think that they don't have a skeleton. I guess not everyone understands animals, but it's always either frustrating or hilarious when I hear stuff like that. I still remember when I was 5 years old trying to argue with my kindergarten teacher who was claiming that lions are the ones with stripes and tigers were the ones with manes. It's pretty weird given that there are lions on our national coat of arms.
@@Andrey.Ivanov That doesn't seem right. Any adult should know the difference between a lion and a tiger. Maybe the teacher thought they'd have some fun by messing with a kid? Yeah, I also wonder how he got to the conclusion that snakes don't have skeletons. Could be that he thought they were giant worms, or maybe he heard somewhere that sharks don't have skeletons, and extrapolated that only animals with legs have skeletons?
Isn’t it obvious? 💀 The inaccurate skeletons are a result necromancers putting bones together to make their skeleton army more recognizable to the average mortal. They didn’t anticipate to have an expert biologist call them out for their treachery!
I'm no zoologist, but I have to say the skeleton decorations have always made me laugh. ESPECIALLY the ones that have the fleshy parts of the body, like dog ears, as part of the skull. The skeleton spider almost made me pee myself laughing.
With the snake, I can almost forgive them for making it that way, as it needs to be sturdy enough to withstand frequent handling. Thin, delicate ribs and skull bones would fall apart, although the skull still could have been more realistic. But the others are so bad they're hilarious!
Can you imagine what it would be like if spiders had skeletons that massive and rigid? How would they breathe ? or even move, nevermind stick to surfaces. It's almost fascinating
@@Eisenwulf666 spiders have exoskeletons which means their bones are larger and on the outside. What you mean is if spiders had instead smaller skeletons inside them instead of the big one outside
@@overlorddante Okay the spider kind of makes sense. Customer : We need a spider skeleton. Skeleton designer: But spiders don't have skeletons. Customer: I know but spiders are Halloweenie and skeletons are Halloweenie can't you come up with something? Skeleton designer: Alright I'll see what I can do. But a octopus skeleton, why bother?
I would buy those in a heartbeat! The birds would scare no one. The cats and dogs would be great but guests would be uncertain of what they're looking at, and the Octopus skeletons everyone keeps mentioning in the other comments would literally just be the beak. My Halloween party would bore everyone to tears, but I would have SO MUCH FUN talking about the animals! ... Oh! Snake skeletons. SO MANY SNAKE SKELETONS! Everyone will unlearn this silly misunderstanding into oblivion.
@@juliomartinez3429 Why not make a zombie octopus? That might be spoopy. And hey, I think replica posable animal skeletons could actually be big money.
I have a spider skelleton from Walmart named Steve. He has four eyes, short stubby fangs, no pedipalps, and his legs are attached to his butt rib cage. But my favorite part about him is that he's got two weird bone things on the side of his head that sorta look like a second pair of fangs, but like, horiztonal. He's so ridiculous looking I love him.
"Tired of pesky kids taking too much candy from the bowl you set out? Try our real Gaboon viper Halloween decor to make sure they don't take any at all!"
I actually started crying the instant he revealed the ‘cat’s face. Nothing could have prepared me for that. Also, that Pirates of the Caribbean reference at the end =*-*=
Yeah... I eat chicken wings all the time (is my favourite piece at family BBQs) and one glance at it shows me how wrong that skeleton was. If anything, learning how to take the biggest amount of meat of the bones while eating chicken wings gave me a good idea of the anatomy of it.
There are moments in Clint's Reptile video that I'll chuckle or give a pretty good laugh, but this is definitely the first time I belly laughed so loudly I scared both my dogs. When I saw the look on that second cat's face I LOST IT. I ended up learning a lot in this video though.
I regularly buy those and call them "my bored necromancer" collection. I mean what is a necromancer supposed to do with thier big pile of un-used bones not magically fuse the bones into un natural animal forms.
Well sometimes when you’re bringing back skeletons as soldiers you tend to end up with lots of little spare bones, so I thought “why the hell not?” And made myself a little skelly spider, his name is Fred.
"Sir, I finished that scared cat Halloween decoration ya asked for!" "Did you include everything on the list?" "Yes, sir! Arched back, floofed up tail, flat feet, big buck teeth, derpy eyes...."
Aw man I freakin LOVE these anatomically incorrect skeleton decorations, to me the incorrect nature makes it even MORE spooky >< they're so silly I think the most horrendous one I've ever seen was an octopus skeleton. It had a full skull sort of like a squished-in human skull with no nasal cavity and vertebrae as tentacles. Effervescent.
I saw an image of a pumpkin skeleton on sale. I don't think I will be able to find anything to top that, except maybe seeing those in person, which I would then definetly buy.
You just have to consider how dumb the average person is and then realise that half will be more dumb than that. Really it shows just how badly educated some people are.
“Why thank you Jack, not you, we call the Monkey Jack” That’s it Clint, you’ve earned my patreon, not just because of how awesome you are but because damn I want to support the possibility of more references from great movies 😂
I teach a wildlife ecology class at a camp where schools in my area often go on field trips and I never realized how many people, chaperones/adults included, don’t know that snakes have bones. It’s always fun explaining that to them when they shout out snakes when we ask about invertebrates.
I read your comment as snake don't have bones and I was confused as through out my life I heard they have backbone. Quick search they are of phylum chordates.
I have always taken Halloween figures and created a story that they are spirits mimicking what they believe to be the animal shapes, but not necessarily accurately so, to give those who view them that much more of a creepy vibe. Yeah, I chuckle at the inaccuracies too
I have owned and raised horses for my entire life and something we say in the horse industry is you never stop learning and today I learned something new. I did not know that the word for how a horse walks is called digitigrade. Thanks Clint!!! Als I found you from Snake Discovery your super cool.
"Snakes don't have skeletons." Seriously? Okay, even for the sake of argument. Even IF snakes didn't have skeletons, that has never stopped manufacturers before! Octopuses, insects, spiders, stuff like that, you can find decorations of all of them. So why wouldn't there be a faux skeleton? I mean, it is kind of a moot point, since apparently everyone but that guy knows snakes have bones, but still. This argument falls apart for so many reasons. Anyway, this was a great video! I don't think I've seen anyone do another one like it, so I hope it gets a lot of traction.
This is awesome! My family is constantly getting on to me for "ruining Halloween decorations" because I get upset about inaccuracies. Glad there is SOMEONE out there who understands me.
Imagine doing a worse job making a fake animal skeleton then the guy who gave the tarantula a ribcage. Like you somehow managed to get less accurate then a skeleton that straight up doesn't exist.
Finally, someone made such video. I'm both biologist and artist (also got into taxidermy lately) and seeing decorations like these always was a nightmare fuel for me. This vid was painful to watch but also hilarious, absent snake skeletons and cat face were noice. Thanks for your work Clint!
The pterosaur wing thing is super important to their locomotion, because it let them walk on their hands and tuck their wing up. Which means that they could actually pull off some impressive activity on the ground. Which is probably why birds ended up monopolizing the smaller flying niches and pterosaurs ended up being giants that walked around on all fours eating large prey. They were able to have higher take off weights than birds.
While birds surely provided a lot if competition for the small flyer niches it should also be noted that unlike them pterosaurs were able to fly soon after hatching. That means that they probably were quite independent from a young age and occupied small flyer niches for a part of their lives gradually shifting towards the gigantic dimension like Quetzalcoatlus. So that can also be an explanation why there were mostly big pterosaurs left in the end of the Cretaceous. It's kinda like the adult T.rex being an apex predator and juvenile T.rex serving as a middle sized predator
@@Andrey.Ivanov yeah, but even assuming that, all of the pterosaurs that were small as adults were extinct, and the overall diversity of pterosaurs was still restricted to ones that grew to be large adults.
@@42ZaphodB42 in a sense. Birds and pterosaurs coexisted with birds eventually out competing them in the niches for smaller size, so towards the end of their reign it was mostly only larger species still around. There are some birds that have reached impressive sizes that are now extinct, however non remotely as large as the largest pterosaurs, mainly because birds have a size limitation meeting extra muscle taking off with their hind legs while pterosaurs use the same muscles for flight pushing off the ground using their wings.
I brought up this video, and got a *look* from my partner - "Zoologist reacts to Horrible Halloween Decorations" aka what it's like grocery shopping with any zoologist in October. We learned something about avian muscular anatomy today, because of your comment on muscle attachment! Subsequently, we have some opinions on fantasy winged human musculature.
Honestly, I think some of those skeletons are pretty cool, at least from a purely artistic perspective. They're not accurate at all, yeah, but they're not anatomy models, they're Halloween decorations. The bird and spider in particular look like skeletal monsters trying to imitate animals, rather than skeletons of the animals themselves, which is a fun concept to me.
Yes, this exactly- I've always imagined these as the necromancer or animating force taking a collection of bones and shapes them into a mockery of living creatures. The 'worst' ones like the invertebrates and the chimeric frankencreatures are, IMO, the best ones.
they're clearly not anatomically accurate but that's not the point. when someone makes a spider or octopus skeleton they don't want to create something sensible, but something interesting and fun. the wrong skeletons of vertebrates are a bit less justifiable, though I do find artistic liberties like the bone ears quite endearing too.
The spider I get, but I don't understand why you'd make a monster bird skeleton. Turning non--endo-skeletal things into endo-skeletons feels like a form of art though.
I feel like if they put more work into making them more accurate they could’ve been more “scary”. Everyday people don’t know the skeletal anatomy of several animals, and seeing something you’re not used to when it’s supposed to be recognizable can be unsettling, which is one of the reasons why skeletons can be scary to people, aside it representing death.
I love that the inaccuracy of the first one is that it even exists in the first place XD The employee telling you snakes don't have skeletons is comedy gold. It would be misinformation regardless of who the customer was, but the fact that he unknowingly said this to a literal expert is just too much. What a funny story to be able to tell!
I learned several things today: Spiders have skeletons Snakes do not Bats have very very long legs Birds have finger bones going down there ulna and no radius Cats ears are made of bone and they have rat teeth and jointed like an atat and walk on the sole of there feet Sternum, keel? Thats not important XD Quality biology there
I don't know if that makes it better or worse but I think they might be putting the ears on purpose in order for customers to recognize what the product represents. I think so because everybody has seen human skulls atleast on a picture and knows that there are no external ears on it, so why would there be in other mammals. So either they are doing it on purpose or are extremely stupid.
I work at Spirit halloween and we have an OCTOPUS skeleton and I have had an actual conversation with a customer (grown man) who didn’t realize why that was so hilarious. We also have a shark skull. I also have a collection of all the terrible skeletons because they make me laugh The snake skeleton at Spirit is really ridiculous(because it also has two heads) but I love it so much
i'm at the part with the ears right now and it reminds me of an urban legend: apparently once you remove the head, tail and feet off a mammal, it becomes incredibly difficult to tell the what it is, which lead to stories of people selling dead cats (skinned and with their tails, heads and feet removed) claiming them to be rabbits instead.
14:51 If it wasn't for the long back legs I think this "cat" would have been more accurate if it was labeled as marsupial lion instead. I couldn't stop laughing when you showed the face.
I have that exact "bird" skeleton and a spider "skeleton" as Halloween decorations and I got them because they are so incredibly wrong that it's hilarious. I laugh every time i see them. they're so bad that it's good.
When you said you had to get rid of the pteranodon toy because it was unacceptable, I felt it in my soul. Good to know there are other parents like me out there.
I'm pretty sure Clint did a great job of replacing the one toy with another toy more correct - or took him to see the bones of a "real" one. I'm pretty sure his kids have wonderful imaginations and senses of humor - did you miss him laughing at that cat's face? I'm also pretty sure his kids learn the appropriate names of bones when they're learning about them.
I have been wondering when someone would talk about all the inaccuracies of Halloween skeletons Did not know people believe snakes don't have skeletons This was a great video and I thank you for that.
I will say, I think a lot of the mistakes they did was for for some reason, the ears on the cat could help in distinguishing it from a dog skeleton, meanwhile I can imagine the spider skeleton being made for the sole reason of "It looks freaky"
The timing between my horrified face after seeing the cats face and your laughter was so great that I almost thought you were laughing at my expression. Me: 😱 Clint: 😂🤣 Perfect
15:00 bro he look like one of those medieval paintings where a guy has to draw an animal he's never seen before and only heard the description eighth-hand in a loud party
I had to pause and take a deep breath when I watched Clint say that the guy at the store said snakes don't have skeletons. Why do these people exist in the world.. Loved this video!! ❤️
Your first part made me want one of those eccentric taxidermists to make a spider out of rabbit bones. Also, gotta love how some won't make snake skeleton ornaments, thinking snakes don't have bones, but have no problem putting bones in a spider of all things.
I think you and I are kindred spirits because every halloween I have to bear the burden of looking at these monstrosities and be the only one who knows....
