Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations 2023

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    What do zoologists think of your animal-themed Halloween decorations? They're terrible! What do they get wrong? And what do they get right? Clint takes a look at some horrifyingly inaccurate skeleton decorations to see what we can learn from these anatomically incorrect abominations.
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  • @ClintsReptiles
    @ClintsReptiles  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

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    • @CarsonSmith-jg8gt
      @CarsonSmith-jg8gt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      can you do a video on best aquatic lizards please

    • @scarlettrazor5374
      @scarlettrazor5374 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should watch velocipastor

    • @lockjaw7437
      @lockjaw7437 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      We can call the cat Clifton

    • @Chimerathedragon
      @Chimerathedragon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "Octopus Skeletons"
      I read in the Halloween Isle, However all that was in front of me was a box of Beaks.
      This concludes my two sentence horror story I hope you all enjoy

    • @matthewpitre8159
      @matthewpitre8159 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You should call the cat pretty kitty because it would be ironic because it's obviously not pretty it's Cringingly frightening!

  • @chadgorosaurus4898
    @chadgorosaurus4898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1384

    It's so ironic how the second most accurate skeleton was a skeleton of a mythical creature.

    • @danielwesley5051
      @danielwesley5051 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      Ah yes, a mythical creature. I, as a fellow flightless, four limbed mammal, am amused by the completely fictional skeleton of the mighty dragon.

    • @mikeoxsmal69
      @mikeoxsmal69 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danielwesley5051I have 6 limbs weakling, get on my level

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      It's probably because the artists are actually vested in doing research because they have to make those somewhat convincing, while regular animal skeletons only have to resemble the living prototype which actually leads them astray even further.

    • @revolvingworld2676
      @revolvingworld2676 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@DzinkyDzink
      I honestly assumed they were made that way on purpose. They take massive liberties so kids can actually recognize the animal

    • @isadoraalvarez9767
      @isadoraalvarez9767 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      That person really liked skeletons and really likes dragons or there’s no way they would have gotten it that right

  • @bendeywendy8065
    @bendeywendy8065 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +827

    I've finally worked out the "spider skeleton" decorations. They aren't the skeletons OF spiders. They are spiders MADE OF bones! Like, reanimated bones from graveyards, formed into a creepy spider shape

    • @orionmclaughlin5680
      @orionmclaughlin5680 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

      Necromancer theory

    • @f.u.m.o.5669
      @f.u.m.o.5669 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      Bone spider lore

    • @Lodurrson
      @Lodurrson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      The Necro wizard Balthazaar animated them to fight his enemies

    • @justanothermook6348
      @justanothermook6348 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      bogleech. in his halloween bestiary (speculative monsters based on halloween decorations like this) speculated that spider skeletons. or any arthropod skeletons. are in fact the spirits of arthropods possessing vertebrate bones. mixing. matching. and contorting whatever they find into whatever form they need. so thus spiders with human finger bones for legs and ribcage-like builds for abdomens. among all sorts of other abberations.

    • @orionmclaughlin5680
      @orionmclaughlin5680 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@justanothermook6348 but where did the Octopus get the bone suckers?

  • @azurehanyo
    @azurehanyo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2163

    I hope awful Halloween animal skeletons continue to be manufactured solely for the continuation of this series.

    • @Kevintherhea188
      @Kevintherhea188 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Clint's the only thing stopping the companies that make theese from shutting down🗣🗣

    • @AntiSocialPinecone
      @AntiSocialPinecone 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Probably

    • @Rakunz419
      @Rakunz419 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      The Halloween industrial complex is real!

    • @kennyferrick1240
      @kennyferrick1240 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I don't think they'll stop anytime soon 😂.

    • @KingDrakoTyrell
      @KingDrakoTyrell 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      they ain’t stopping bro 😂
      I saw a baby vampire last time I was at target
      With a deep voice too 💀

  • @ProcyonPal
    @ProcyonPal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +427

    I'm 80% certain that the "butterfly" skeleton is actually a fossilized baby Mothman.

    • @ImTired17
      @ImTired17 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      As Mothman himself, I can confirm this. That was my son, he died an untimely tragic death 😔

    • @reeddunnagan
      @reeddunnagan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@ImTired17sorry to hear that

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nah thats explains about internal skeleton that even butterfly dont have

    • @violetsilentmoon
      @violetsilentmoon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep

    • @sunsetgamer1464
      @sunsetgamer1464 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You poor thing! If you need a distraction, dogs are needed

  • @scramblerbricks7293
    @scramblerbricks7293 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1158

    That butterfly skeleton is definitely a moth man skeleton, they must have just got them mixed up

    • @ratwasnotbad4230
      @ratwasnotbad4230 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      Rare baby mothman specimen! Cover it in some dirt and dim lighting, and we could have a conspiracy video on our hands. /j

    • @dplocksmith91
      @dplocksmith91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Shhhh...don't let them know we exist! We've already had our cover blown by Local58!

    • @chadgorosaurus4898
      @chadgorosaurus4898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The government is trying to hide the existence of mothman. They called that skeleton a "butterfly skeleton" to push everyone off the trail to the conclusion.

    • @ILuvAyeAye
      @ILuvAyeAye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      YES! And I must own one.

    • @YochevedDesigns
      @YochevedDesigns 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      MOTHERA!!!!

  • @thatonepossum5766
    @thatonepossum5766 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Ya know, if you really think about it, these incorrect skeletons are _more_ spooky than correct skeletons. Because some of them would probably be disturbingly grotesque if they were live animals.

    • @JaafHar
      @JaafHar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      True

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      And whoever or whatever "made" them must've had a lot of small dead animals around to take apart and reassemble in grotesquely different shapes.
      A witch with a raven is one thing. A witch with a cat skeleton isn't much spookier. But a witch with a spider made of rabbit bones is horrifying.

  • @Ms.Pronounced_Name
    @Ms.Pronounced_Name 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +283

    I suspect the awesomely-accurate Frog skeleton may have been made through the astounding cost saving process of simply casting/3D-scanning a real frog skeleton, then letting an artist make some adjustments (like the eyes)

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      And for toad skeleton too. Thus explain about the presence of bumps on the skeleton, despite on actual toad this bumps only exists in skin surface

  • @NekoNyoko
    @NekoNyoko 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +413

    I love that cat so much! It looks like it was made by someone who has never seen a cat before.

    • @mariepindstruplinde1671
      @mariepindstruplinde1671 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Maybe it is made by someone seeing that taxidermied lion from the 17th century

    • @thatonepossum5766
      @thatonepossum5766 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Maybe they used a medieval cat painting as a reference. xD

    • @shroomyk
      @shroomyk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mariepindstruplinde1671 Oh my god. I had to look it up. It's wonderfully atrocious.

    • @kinashy8863
      @kinashy8863 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It looks like a taxidermy made by someone who has never seen a cat before

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Because inaccuracy is more fun

  • @katarinawikholm5873
    @katarinawikholm5873 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +400

    Makes me want to hunt down more weird skeletons for next year

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      Please do!

    • @Vbuck_samuel
      @Vbuck_samuel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@ClintsReptilesyou should get an armadillo and make a video about them

    • @jebVlogs556
      @jebVlogs556 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@ClintsReptiles my broski, hi clint.. when you showed us the cobra skeleton.. i only thought of two giant snakes.. "dragon wars" movie featured the giant basilisk with the hooded face and correct skeleton system and the twin giant cobras from the movie "gods of egypt" who chased down the main female/male protagnist.. out of a thousand snake movies, they got it right.. on your off time google the images and/or watch the movie they are actually decent,i gave them both a solid B+

    • @kennyferrick1240
      @kennyferrick1240 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ClintsReptiles I found a skeleton fly! And a skeleton beetle. Which I of course bought them. And there's a duck skeleton I've found, gonna buy it!

    • @areallyshortbrontothere
      @areallyshortbrontothere 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@kennyferrick1240dangit I was gonna say that bc I found one too!

  • @elleofmusic
    @elleofmusic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    ..gotta admit, that new skeleton octopus is kinda adorable in a mildly horrifying way. I'm reminded of Sid's baby doll/metal crab from Toy Story. And you should call that cat Scrungley 😂

    • @maryt.3273
      @maryt.3273 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      "Scrungley" gets my vote as well! "Scrungled" is my and my sister's favorite term for something that is just ... not right and messed up in a weird way, so "Scrungley" perfectly fits the cat!

    • @ArtByKarenEHaley
      @ArtByKarenEHaley 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Scrungley is the perfect name for his whacky looking squirrel cat

    • @RealElongatedMuskrat
      @RealElongatedMuskrat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@maryt.3273 haha my mom and I use it to describe how our dog looks when he gets his face all smooshed up as he's napping. He'll wake up all wrinkly and bleary eyed like he doesn't know what century he's in. Scrungly boy 😂

    • @maryt.3273
      @maryt.3273 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@RealElongatedMuskrat In fairness, that is also how I react to waking up from a face-smooshing nap 😂

    • @Rhaenarys
      @Rhaenarys 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They reminded me of the baby alien from Men in Black lol.

  • @gauchegreyhound
    @gauchegreyhound 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +471

    I can almost guarantee the artists *did* look at the skeletons in question, since artists extensively study anatomy, but if they produced an accurate product, would get told by corporate, "What is that?! Customers won't recognize that as a bird skeleton! Who would buy that?" or "too expensive to manufacture! Use less bones!" and they'd have to go back and make something stupid that "looks" like that animal to laypeople.
    Don't blame the artists, man! 😂

    • @Melisski
      @Melisski 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      This is definitely what happens when the marketing department gets involved in any kind of design process. lol

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      I work with artists and they actually have me evaluate to see if they missed or misinterpreted anatomy in amount that somebody who's really familiar with the animal would find offensive. Specifically I'm looking at the diagnostic characteristics, the characteristics that really make that animal identifiable as that animal. It's a fine balance between artistic license and making sure that the animal reads as the correct animal and doesn't have anything that is really stand out incorrect. Biologists are going to notice things that many artists will end up missing. There's a difference between specifically studying one species for a long time to master drawing it and producing a lot of commercial art quickly. Not every artist actually has somebody to consult with to see if they've hit the broad strokes that are going to really stand out to people who are familiar. So it's not just a matter of corporate it's also just a matter of time. There is also of course the narratives that these things are actually made by necromancers putting together human bones which changes things a bit when you do an evaluation. And those cases if I were to be asked to consult on a project like this I would be looking to make sure that the individual bones looked realistic and the overall appearance was recognizable rather than the correct anatomy for the animal it was mimicking.

    • @UnwieldilyElephant
      @UnwieldilyElephant 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      no.

    • @LoarvicLoarvic
      @LoarvicLoarvic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@darcieclements4880yes, but bony feathers...bony feathers...

    • @gauchegreyhound
      @gauchegreyhound 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @darcieclements4880 fair enough. But you're only hired to consult by people who actually care if the final product is accurate or not lol.
      I guess what I mean isn't that every artist will naturally nail the anatomy of every species without help, but that any professional artist could do better than this if they were actually encouraged to be accurate & given the time to research.
      I assume the toy company makes their artists crank out designs as fast as possible and probably discourages accuracy if it means it's more expensive to manufacture or doesn't look as "cool" as skeleton octopus 😆

  • @RaptorJesus
    @RaptorJesus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    Maybe it's just me, but I love the idea that dragons have hard ears that are mistaken for another set of horns.

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      True. The artist had obviously seen a real dragon.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Bone ears would be a cool adaptation

    • @douglasphillips5870
      @douglasphillips5870 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      What if they are in fact another set of horns that are only located next to the ears?

    • @Luigicat11
      @Luigicat11 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Maybe they were adapted from horns? Reptiles don't typically have external ears, so maybe it made do with the external structures its body already had to convergently evolve them.

    • @nicholaslienandjaja1815
      @nicholaslienandjaja1815 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Looks like the skeleton of a mountain dragon from Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real/The Last Dragon.

  • @SpaceEndeavour
    @SpaceEndeavour 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    That cat looks like a medieval painting of a cat. I can' t imagine it being called anything besides Gustav

    • @Okbuddypal
      @Okbuddypal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Looks like a Bartholomew to me

  • @HoboBrute
    @HoboBrute 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    Clint, have you considered that the terrible butterfly skeleton is actually an exceptionally good mothman skeleton?

  • @solarlevitas
    @solarlevitas 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    every year around this time I'm reminded that a crossover between clint's reptiles and your dinosaurs are wrong would be incredible

    • @shigeminotoge4514
      @shigeminotoge4514 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      as an avid viewer of both of these channels, I concur, enthusiastically so.

  • @morganw.4711
    @morganw.4711 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    “Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia” is an excellent goblin sentiment. Clint makes me grin all the way through this video. This is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! ADDENDUM: I’m pretty sure the point of reference for the butterfly skeleton was the Pokémon Butterfree.

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    You should do a phylogenetic video on cats from the terrifying tiger to our beloved house cat as a Halloween special!

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Oh yeah that would be a pretty easy one to do too cuz it's not too expensive. He could actually get in depth a little bit better with some of the different species.

  • @SonicBoone56
    @SonicBoone56 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    I loved how you held up nothing for the worst snake skeleton.

    • @evandenis5488
      @evandenis5488 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      However bad those other skeletons are - they're better than nothing!

  • @thosebloodybadgers8499
    @thosebloodybadgers8499 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    Clint: "I would like for avian wing skeletons and sternums to be portrayed properly!"
    *The monkey's paw curls*

    • @MetaGiga
      @MetaGiga 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The next one he receives in the mail will be accurate all right
      There’s going to be some scratches coming from inside of the box

  • @BlackDouglas1000
    @BlackDouglas1000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    The cat's name is Screeeeech.
    The butterfly is not a butterfly but an infant Mothman, well known extraterrestrials that don't develop for limbs until their 13th year.
    The dragon skeleton is from the first dragons discovered on the planet Pern. They were later genetically altered to be much larger.
    I am pleased to clear these things up for you.

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Awww, a fire lizard!

    • @serena1906
      @serena1906 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much

    • @nicholaslienandjaja1815
      @nicholaslienandjaja1815 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now all we need is a dragon skeleton that looks like Ridley.

  • @mumzly1
    @mumzly1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Clint's annoyance from some of these skeletons is amazing. This series is great and needs to continue with future Halloweens.

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Has Clint ever considered a necromancer's area of effect death magic that is active at all times and impedes him from seeing living butterfly because it dies and rots if he gets too close? He goes on and on about these decorations not being anatomically correct, yet the way he describes sorcerers of the undead isn't scientifically accurate necromancy.

  • @TheNightmareRider
    @TheNightmareRider 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Okay, but legit, I would *love* to see more speculative evolution videos from this channel! Imagine if someone who knows their stuff as much as Clint was in charge of writing a natural history of dragons and their relating clades? That would be the definition of awesome!

  • @BakerCoffeeMaker
    @BakerCoffeeMaker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    I’ve come to look forward to this so much each year!

    • @82566
      @82566 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Me too , & btw love Sophia Patrillo 😉

  • @corvinredacted
    @corvinredacted 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I would love to see Clint do a similar reaction to AI generated images of animals! I stumble across them all the time while doing Google searches. At first, there's just something uncanny about a certain image, but then you start to notice the backward-facing rear feet and unnatural scale pattern of a lizard or binocular vision on a pigeon.
    I'd love to see Clint's initial reaction to seeing some of those images. Maybe even the crew could put in some really bad ones, and Clint has to guess what it was supposed to be. I think it would be super fun and a great chance to teach about animal physiology!

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      That's a very good idea!

    • @corvinredacted
      @corvinredacted 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@ClintsReptiles I'd be thrilled if you decided to do it! Much love to you all. Thanks for what you do- I strongly believe it's a force for positive change!

  • @carrieseymour5197
    @carrieseymour5197 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Are we sure these are bone ears? They do superficially resemble the fleshy external ears of many mammals, but it's not that unusual for horned animals to have multiple pairs of horns. I can only speculate about the reason for the unusual shape of the horn core on the smaller pair in this case, maybe that groove up the middle was associated with some kind of display structure, like inflatable air sacs?

  • @katej2284
    @katej2284 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I think in defence of the 'butterfly', it's basically just a really teeny mothman and actually kinda cute 😄

  • @CrzzyCat
    @CrzzyCat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    After seeing some of those skeletons, i assure you, necromancers can do WAYY better 😭😭😭

  • @BenChurchill76
    @BenChurchill76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I love that no matter how many times you see that cat, you can't help but laugh at it, and your laughter is infectious.

  • @brandonbutler334
    @brandonbutler334 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I can't wait for Clint to review my skeleton some future Halloween! Gotta see how accurate I am!

    • @NicholasMarshall
      @NicholasMarshall 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Found the necromancer!

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "He's got the sloped forehead and reduced braincase of a proto human. Frankly I am astounded he knew how to communicate to his human handler to post his comment. Clearly this person had a small brain and did not possess the intellectual capacity of a real human." Heh kidding.

  • @skylaroconnor2903
    @skylaroconnor2903 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The breakdown of the dragon skeleton had me grinning like a fool 😁

  • @elissashuman7232
    @elissashuman7232 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I would love to see Clint release anatomically accurate animal skeleton figurines

  • @SteelFoot90
    @SteelFoot90 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I love these videos. Been happy every October they've come out. They've got "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong" vibes. Though you're a lot more tolerant of inaccuracies. Thanks Clint!

  • @Kris_Lighthawk
    @Kris_Lighthawk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    It is actually fairly common for butterflys to have only 4 functional (and clearly visible) legs, with one pair of legs being small, reduced or even vestigial and such hard to see and not used as legs.
    Only 2 legs is of course not a thing

  • @GarysTandAExotics
    @GarysTandAExotics 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Clint I can honestly say I have seen an uprising in inaccurate skeletons since you made the first video. 😂. The species list keeps growing every year. I think at this point its all for you. 😂

  • @TigerStyleFanMIZ
    @TigerStyleFanMIZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Before I was a subscriber I saw a tarantula "skeleton" at a local store. I was appalled! I was absolutely delighted when TH-cam recommended the original "Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations" a couple years later. My delight increased when you started the video with a spider "skeleton".
    Now I want to make a list of all the "skeletons" in your first 3 videos to have the next time I'm perusing Halloween decorations.

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My understanding is that these bone creations are actually all made from parts of human skeletons that some crazy necromancer has reconfigured together into the rough form of animals and then enchanted. That's my favorite like version of the explanation of like all bone weird anatomy critters. If I didn't have this I think I probably would have lost my mind over a decade ago and these things first started appearing, lol. I actually have enough friends that do museum specimen preparation that will when things go wrong with the preparation do things like this for art that it seems fairly plausible to me.

  • @rjoerg79
    @rjoerg79 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I've been looking forward to this all year!! Thanks Clint.

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Me too! Thank you for watching!

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes I look forward to it the moment that the previous years won ends. I get a kick out of seeing these every year in the store and even before Clint was making these videos I was going over the anatomy with my friends for fun at the store. I love these videos.

  • @OlyChickenGuy
    @OlyChickenGuy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I freaking love this series, and I'm so very glad that the "cat" has become a running gag.

  • @remuladgryta
    @remuladgryta 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Clearly, the necromancer gave the skeleton octopus molars instead of suckers!

    • @ArtByKarenEHaley
      @ArtByKarenEHaley 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Eeeeeeew haha that's hilarious and disgusting

  • @tigergumby
    @tigergumby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    IT'S FINALLY HERE! I wait for this video series every single year! They're probably my favorite thing on TH-cam!

  • @lachouette_et_le_phoque
    @lachouette_et_le_phoque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I got the same dragon skeleton recently! I remember taking a look and thinking they did a decent job at solving the problem of having to connect 6 limbs to a body that should only have four. It looks like the front legs are attached directly to the ribcage with a hip like joint, rather than to the shoulder blades, and the wings are connected to the shoulder blades. No idea whether that would work in practice, and it certainly doesn't seem like something that would evolve from 4-legged animals, but I thought it was a good idea.

  • @benjaminvleugels5609
    @benjaminvleugels5609 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Man I'm always surprised at how hard i need to laugh at the cat it always gets me i just can't look at it

  • @lauraokelly2644
    @lauraokelly2644 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Yay! It's not really the Halloween season without Clint's take on the decorations. The cat is At At.

  • @manthemanlyman
    @manthemanlyman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hey man I’m so excited to come to your facility on Thursday! You have been such a big inspiration for me and many more. I started watching your videos around the start of Covid and they really helped me through those tough times.
    Happy grand opening and thank you for inspiring and helping so many people!

  • @rylieread1865
    @rylieread1865 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    OMG!! I have the dragon from the thumbnail! I was working as a cashier at a grocery store two years ago, and a family came through my line and decided they didn't want him because he was missing a foot. I'm such a sucker for dragons and underdogs, so I bought him. His name is Bartok the Tenacious, and he's been with me ever since, even through 2022 in which I lived in 3 states and 4 houses/apartments. I did have to glue his remaining front foot on because those suckers truly love to pop off. But i love him 🧡🧡

    • @claran3616
      @claran3616 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would die for Bartok the Tenacious.

  • @mr8029
    @mr8029 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Butterfly skeleton is adorable!! Like something from an old fantasy film for children

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Okay I think I missed the announcement of when you got the biology PhD, congrats. I never continued with titles after the baseline and I just kept studying it all on my own, but I also totally respect and understand the interest for professional educators continuing to go up the ranks, so grats on the PhD, sorry I missed the announcement. Seems like at that level you should really consider starting to do some research papers. I have piles and piles of research that need to be turned into papers but since my day job as an engineer is also pretty taxing I haven't ever gotten around to put in the papers together. I really do encourage you to consider you know actually writing up some papers because goodness gracious we need some really good ones done for so many species the research publication is so far behind. I know that you're focus is primarily on the TH-cam videos and the education as a professor but I would love to you know see if you would do some papers and if you need any data I'd certainly be up for helping with that part. I've always been really good at collecting data it's just actually submitting things to journals I suck at, lol. I'm sure there's probably plenty of others that are in a similar boat so maybe look around and see if you could get in on some of that because certainly PhD level experience with understanding the whole process of submitting papers would be awesome for a lot of people who have been continuing to do science but have been out of school for a couple of decades without submitting papers. Heck you could even do some videos on how to go about doing it that'd be cool.

  • @lucas10104
    @lucas10104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I saw a pretty normal “snake” skeleton for sale this year. Immediately thought about one of the previous years, where someone insisted to you that there weren’t any snake skeletons because they don’t have bones. I wonder what they think now? And I wonder if someone in the fake skeleton business saw that video?

  • @angustheterrible3149
    @angustheterrible3149 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In my experience regarding the production of toys and novelty items, costs are cut by companies through the re-use of molds and parts to assemble something new. People in production are not so much asked to look at an actual skeleton. It's more like they are asked to look at the existing parts, see what they can create with the molds the company has, and add the bare minimum of new parts to cut costs. It also has to do with how advanced their mold process is, and whether or not they are using computer modeling.
    This would explain the disparity between accurate aspects and inaccurate aspects. Not that they aren't getting the skeletons horribly wrong to begin with in many cases, but as a toy collector, I am always informing myself as to where companies cut costs in the production of certain figures, and I'm willing to bet these halloween decoration companies do the same.
    The more accurate ones are likely ones where the artist actually was asked to design something from scratch, rather than designing around the reuse of existing parts and molds.

  • @VeronicaLeigh79
    @VeronicaLeigh79 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yay!!! My ridiculous butterfly alien made the cut!!! 💀👽🦋

  • @Rizzbulla
    @Rizzbulla 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I feel like Clint is underappreciated, certified legend. Also, awesome sponsor.

  • @derp_dragons
    @derp_dragons 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    22:56 - "he's also empty inside" - relatable
    Ahhh I love this time of year and the annual Halloween decoration skeleton feature is one of my highlights. 💚

  • @susanmartin3762
    @susanmartin3762 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hi Clint! Great video! When you said, "Hyoid bone , it reminded me about something I learned watching "Forensic Files". A broken or crushed Hyoid bone tells the detectives their victim had been strangled. Like you said, it's situated at the root of the tongue in front of our neck and the larynx. Ta-Da!!🎈✨️🎉 Now y'all can go about your day feeling safe 😊and satisfied🎉

  • @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
    @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I saw "skeleton" spiders in real life in a cheap nick nack shop a few days ago! I laughed out loud, it's so ridiculous!

  • @J3s5y
    @J3s5y 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Would love your take on those Peruvian alien mummies! 😂

  • @Buzzumbud
    @Buzzumbud 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I just watched the one from a couple years ago! I can't believe you uploaded this literally 2 hours after I watched it!

  • @aidenwallin3523
    @aidenwallin3523 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The "butterfly" skeleton at 21:34 is probably based off of "butterfree" (the pokemon). It has the two large hind legs and the huge eyes, but it's missing the front legs/arms/hands, and the wings are made of bone.

    • @ArtByKarenEHaley
      @ArtByKarenEHaley 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I thought I'd seen that face on a butterfly before, you're right! It's not an earth butterfly at all, but one from
      The World of Pokemon

  • @anothersquid
    @anothersquid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Many new parrot owners learn the hard way about how long a parrot neck actually is.

  • @SpookyDollLady
    @SpookyDollLady 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I look forward to these videos every year! I also have a small collection of "anatomically silly" skeletons that I add to every year. This year I'm holding out for the Spirit Halloween snail skeleton. 🤣

  • @myragroenewegen5426
    @myragroenewegen5426 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Imagine those boned butterflies hurling through the air toward unsuspecting flowers. I think our favorite kitty may have been knocked out by one.

  • @abbym9954
    @abbym9954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have been looking forward to this video for months. I propose "Punchline" as the name for the black cat- because as soon as it appears, everyone starts laughing!

  • @RangerHouston
    @RangerHouston 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I squealed like a lil girl when I saw this notification. These are always a hoot!

  • @mistingwolf
    @mistingwolf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "It's almost like it isn't that hard!" This had me laughing. Great job to the person who was able to use Google to reference a frog skeleton.

  • @Xakriuth
    @Xakriuth 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Looooove these skeleton videos. Animal anatomy fascinates me!

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Aw no mention about the hummingbird feet. I feel like this was a missed opportunity. Maybe next year. I'm thinking both the history of when people thought that hummingbirds didn't have feet as well as like the special locking mechanics and other nifty features

  • @dier7144
    @dier7144 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Part of me feels bad laughing at the uneducated people who created those terribly inaccurate Halloween decorations but at the same time the other side of me finds it way too funny to not laugh at

    • @VictoriaEMeredith
      @VictoriaEMeredith 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’m imagining some artist looking at a real skeleton and going, “Well, THAT’S not creepy enough. Let me see what I can do….”

  • @giwilreker
    @giwilreker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think kitty needs to be called Greebo (bad ass cat from Terry Pratchett's Discworld)

  • @Melisski
    @Melisski 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love the opportunities for teaching actual animal facts and anatomy this series allows.

  • @LavaDonuts
    @LavaDonuts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can name the cat "Thackery" or "Binx" after the cat in Hocus Pocus or "Marsden" after the cat's voice actor

  • @HeartFarts
    @HeartFarts 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just got a polar bear bracelet from Fahlo, I've been wanting one for so long so thank you for the discount!!

  • @m0thernature730
    @m0thernature730 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Year three of waiting for an artist to make a snake skeleton with two lower jaws. I’m not asking for much. It can even be thick. I just want to see the freaky split jaw.

  • @bobmorgan476
    @bobmorgan476 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That impossible spider skeleton you hold up at 0:20 has been an awesome decoration in my fish tank for years. I filled its abdomen with melted marbles to keep it from floating, and to look like internal organs within the “ribs”.

  • @AuroraExotics
    @AuroraExotics 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've had the dragon skeleton sitting on one of my snake cages for a few years! When I first found it I geeked out over the keeled sternum too! Definitely one of the best animal skeleton decorations out there. Great vid as always!

  • @theformalfern
    @theformalfern 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bro the thumbnail 💀butter flys do not have bones they have a exo-skeleton I count a exo-skeleton as armor

  • @thespinodino
    @thespinodino 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With the elongated cheek spikes, we might as well call it Tryracopentasaurotops.

  • @SuperSonicSauropod2401
    @SuperSonicSauropod2401 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You should name the cat Gilbert or Guss. He looks like a Gilbert or Guss.

  • @happyhippoeaters4261
    @happyhippoeaters4261 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Their ears are developed from their horns. And actually don't have any scales or even flesh on them, as they are horns that have made an extended tube around their ear holes.

  • @yungmalaria
    @yungmalaria 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This immediately reminded me of this piece of decor I saw a pet store recently of skeletal cricket, of all things.

  • @gregchezick7757
    @gregchezick7757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The cat's name should be Abyss, because he sure stares back.

  • @sleepydragon1975
    @sleepydragon1975 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Scraggletoof (yes with an F) for your kitty!

  • @my_granny
    @my_granny 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think the kitty should be named Catsquatch :)

  • @LoarvicLoarvic
    @LoarvicLoarvic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    21:33
    That's no butterfly, that's a pixie!

  • @emom358
    @emom358 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Be careful dissing necromancers, many of them have short fuses. At least a few of have a sense of humour. 😂 I love watching you geek out over these Samhain decorations. 😂

  • @chendzeeali6545
    @chendzeeali6545 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    (Best Read with a Southern Lawyer accent) Clint. The so called... ahem... butterfly skeleton. Is, CLEARLY, not a butterfly. Ahem... cough cough. What you have there, Sir, is... Ahem. A classic Mothman Skeleton. You are forgiven for your ignorance. :) Such a fun video :) I love these.

  • @SenselessUsername
    @SenselessUsername 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I forgive boney ears on the basis of cartilage; I accept cartilage in anatomical skeletons. E.g. in Dutch cartilage literally translated to "crunch bone". [And Mrs. 2headed cobra had a shark's vertebral column I guess?]

  • @cookie856
    @cookie856 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At least the dragon has an excuse of NOT being a mammal for the ear thingie XD
    Also... *Look at dragon's categorisation, which sometimes count griffins because six limbs* Yeah, if they got it wrong they may have angry complains about the skeleton.
    PS: this include the "Game of Thrones dragons are wyverns because they don't have arms" debate

  • @londoncintron680
    @londoncintron680 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The butterfly skeleton looks more like a bony Mothra more than anything else

  • @kingwolf3044
    @kingwolf3044 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wouldn’t it be funny if paleontologists tryed to reconstruct these things. Like I know that these are mostly just the reverse process of the old shrink wrap technique but we’ve come a long way since then. And there’s a few differences that shrink wrapping would create.

  • @bronhaller
    @bronhaller 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm impressed that you called that first skeleton a hummingbird - I couldn't identify it as such!

  • @CleonEbonpaw
    @CleonEbonpaw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Had to create an account just to say I saw that Halloween Cat and immediately thought "That's not a cat, that's an Aye-Aye."
    It's definitely a Daubentonia madagascariensis, the rodent-like teeth are a dead giveaway. They got the feet wrong though!

  • @AndrianTimeswift
    @AndrianTimeswift 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So, your discussion of the dragon's bone ears got me thinking and... I realized that if any animal is going to evolve bone ears... it's probably humans. Humans have immobile cartilaginous pinnae, and as we know, cartilage can calcify into bone. I have no idea what selective pressures would select for ossified pinnae, but if anyone's going to get them, it's us.

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was in the Tractors Supply in town recently and saw a chicken skeleton decoration, only the tail feathers had bones. I think it's probably part of the joke. They know it's not the way it really is, therefore makes it kinda funny

  • @RabblesTheBinx
    @RabblesTheBinx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh, I wanna see Clint react to Pokémon. I think some of them, like Butterfree, would make him tear his hair out.
    Also, I think that dragon was just a baby. The one in the mountain by my house is much larger.

  • @balazsvarga1823
    @balazsvarga1823 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want that cat squirrel hybrid. It is like something out of Lovecraft's novels, lording over the other teratological nightmares.

  • @susanowen1709
    @susanowen1709 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your enthusiasm for both the surprisingly good and astoundingly horrendous is wonderful. You throw in so many fascinating details about the different animals, too. And congrats on your lucky find of a real dragon skeleton! A rare thing indeed. PS, I think you should name the cat Fry Pan, because he looks like he's been smacked in the face with one.

  • @timphillips9954
    @timphillips9954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nice to see a Welsh dragon. Wales the home of halloween.

  • @1D991
    @1D991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maybe that "butterfly" is actually a baby Mothman, and the artist knows something we don't 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @Mew2Man
    @Mew2Man 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The dragon, falfalcorsetail, and mermaid from last year are my favorite honestly. Clint's out here letting us know the real from the really remarkable! Maybe there's more of these kinds of skeletons out there left to cover than the run-of-the-mill kind?

    • @nicholaslienandjaja1815
      @nicholaslienandjaja1815 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would like to see a chimera skeleton or a gargoyle skeleton in the future.

  • @felipetuson
    @felipetuson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm confused about the butterfly, you mentioned it was a crustacean, but my understanding is that they are lepidoptera... As something changed in the clades?