Killer vid, as always! Gave me a good chance to work on my Latin ;) Keep 'em coming. If I may make a request at the risk of over-expanding your parameters, don't be afraid to enter into Synapsid territory. I would Love some content of your style going thru some Gorgonopsids and Dicynodonts. A diictodon and/or cynodont video would be freaking amazing. Just a suggestion. I'm a big fan, and I think you'd do a great job!
Thanks. I have received a request to make a video about the Permian diictodon Bulbasaurus, which I plan to do eventually. I may do a few more synapsid videos in the future, though most will still be about archosaurs and their relatives.
I had the exact same thought! They could be brothers in spirit XD Probably just some righteous convergent evolution happening. But yeah, they could take each others' place in class and the teacher totally wouldn't notice
These would be an interesting species to have around nowadays. It would be cool to see them out in the wild. Though I think they would be a great hit in aquarium keepers.
It seems like this body plan has been convergently successful several times in Earth’s history, so as odd as it seems to contemporary eyes, it may be more odd that no creature alive today resembles it
About 6 months ago I got a framed, beautiful, 16-inch specimen with a fairly rare lateral presentation (as opposed to ventral or dorsal like you see in most specimens), and you can even see the neck break which was probably how it died ......now here's the crazy part .... I got it at a church sale for $25.
Thanks for the video, always interesting to hear about the strange diversity of the mesozoic world. i look forward to more videos on choristoderes! I heard some survived into the eocene, didn't realise they were so different.
Another great paleo docu - thanks a lot! BTW when the photo in 2:18 came up, this nearly made my eyes pop! Was it really excavated this way or had it been put together to give us something like a paleontological presentation board, showing various plants and animals of a long gone eco system? If this should be authentic, I guess, I will have to ponder even the existence of Santa Claus again ;-)
I am not positive but it could be authentic. A lot of fossils in the region were quickly buried by volcanic ashfall, which is why they are so well preserved.
@@chimerasuchus Many thanks for your fast response! Regarding Santa Claus, I came to the conclusion that, off course, he does exist - cause he's not a person, but an idea, and if your kids are old enough, you can tell them, like, "This time, I was Santa for you and later in life, you can become Santa for your own children." Wish you happy holidays
Something like that scene have been known to happen from sudden events like an underwater mudslide or volcanic eruptions dumping a ton of ash in the area basically trapping anything in the way almost preserving a single frame of what was living at that moment to be held in place until something dug it up. It could be staged but there have been other amazing scenes frozen in time by such events so it really could end up being whatever you want to believe unless you can get confirmation from whoever found it. It's a part of why i think alot of people love paleontology, alot of things are still open to interpretation and enjoyed by imagination. 😄👍
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Synapsids can, arguably, be said to have internal soft-shelled eggs. The membrane that breaks when ‘the water breaks’ is analogous to eggshells.
Always found choristoderes to be fascinating, thanks for this.
Another informative video. Would love to see a video on Mononykus or it's relatives. Thanks!
Thank you for teaching about and introducing me to hyphalosaurs.
Killer vid, as always! Gave me a good chance to work on my Latin ;)
Keep 'em coming. If I may make a request at the risk of over-expanding your parameters, don't be afraid to enter into Synapsid territory. I would Love some content of your style going thru some Gorgonopsids and Dicynodonts. A diictodon and/or cynodont video would be freaking amazing. Just a suggestion. I'm a big fan, and I think you'd do a great job!
Thanks. I have received a request to make a video about the Permian diictodon Bulbasaurus, which I plan to do eventually. I may do a few more synapsid videos in the future, though most will still be about archosaurs and their relatives.
Never heard of this reptile it looks like Tanystropheus of Triassic but from Cretaceous
I had the exact same thought! They could be brothers in spirit XD Probably just some righteous convergent evolution happening. But yeah, they could take each others' place in class and the teacher totally wouldn't notice
@@artiefufkin88 Except Tanystropheus only had 12-13 neck vertebrae. That'd be hard to tell on a living specimen, though.
These would be an interesting species to have around nowadays. It would be cool to see them out in the wild. Though I think they would be a great hit in aquarium keepers.
Wow another obscure group of reptiles, even more obscure than the already obscure groups covered on this channel!
Freshwater aquatic species are so overlooked.
It seems like this body plan has been convergently successful several times in Earth’s history, so as odd as it seems to contemporary eyes, it may be more odd that no creature alive today resembles it
About 6 months ago I got a framed, beautiful, 16-inch specimen with a fairly rare lateral presentation (as opposed to ventral or dorsal like you see in most specimens), and you can even see the neck break which was probably how it died ......now here's the crazy part .... I got it at a church sale for $25.
I always wondered if dinos were born with genetic mutations such as two heads or multiple limbs. This just answered my question
I had never heard of these cousins to Champsosaurus! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the video, always interesting to hear about the strange diversity of the mesozoic world. i look forward to more videos on choristoderes! I heard some survived into the eocene, didn't realise they were so different.
Super awesome the two headed fossil!!!
Another great paleo docu - thanks a lot! BTW when the photo in 2:18 came up, this nearly made my eyes pop! Was it really excavated this way or had it been put together to give us something like a paleontological presentation board, showing various plants and animals of a long gone eco system? If this should be authentic, I guess, I will have to ponder even the existence of Santa Claus again ;-)
I am not positive but it could be authentic. A lot of fossils in the region were quickly buried by volcanic ashfall, which is why they are so well preserved.
@@chimerasuchus Many thanks for your fast response! Regarding Santa Claus, I came to the conclusion that, off course, he does exist - cause he's not a person, but an idea, and if your kids are old enough, you can tell them, like, "This time, I was Santa for you and later in life, you can become Santa for your own children." Wish you happy holidays
Something like that scene have been known to happen from sudden events like an underwater mudslide or volcanic eruptions dumping a ton of ash in the area basically trapping anything in the way almost preserving a single frame of what was living at that moment to be held in place until something dug it up.
It could be staged but there have been other amazing scenes frozen in time by such events so it really could end up being whatever you want to believe unless you can get confirmation from whoever found it. It's a part of why i think alot of people love paleontology, alot of things are still open to interpretation and enjoyed by imagination.
😄👍
So non ovarian birth reptiles existed long before proto mososaurus? Thats amazing
They are so cute.
thanks for the vids.
greetings bibia
Interesting video
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For some reason, modern ecosystems mostly don’t have deep freshwater reptiles.
Good show
would love to have one as a pet, although I'm sure it would need a massive aquarium!
that picture at 6:00 is so dope. what is the artist?
Andrey Atuchin. The credit is given on the corner of the image.
Nice
I want one 🥺
Also the First animal to be discovered to have a genetic altering
Looks like a small Chinese dragon.
maybe it evolved from a snake, it has snake like features
Interesting to a point, but the narration, the voice, is really annoying. Too effeminate for a man.
His voice is fine, stop projecting your own insecurities on others, it makes you look like a small man.
I'm not going to be binge-watching this channel. One video once in awhile is about all I can take.
How do you even know they're a man, and more importantly why does it matter? 🤔