Microraptor and the Very Bird Like Dinosaurs

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  • @Boom-hw8ku
    @Boom-hw8ku 4 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    The tooth study on Sinornithosaurus does not share any characteristics of other Sinornithosaurus specimens, so it has been sadly ruled out, very interesting concept however

    • @theomnissiah-9120
      @theomnissiah-9120 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It could have had a septic bite though

    • @ExtremeMadnessX
      @ExtremeMadnessX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theomnissiah-9120 To slow kill for such a animal.

    • @Kasmodamous
      @Kasmodamous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A venomous dinosaur sounds like something that would be in jurrasic park

    • @CoffeeBeaversEditz
      @CoffeeBeaversEditz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe babys don't have venom

    • @CoffeeBeaversEditz
      @CoffeeBeaversEditz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But adults do so they take down bigger pret

  • @kmolnardaniel
    @kmolnardaniel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    It would be cool if you would do a video about the history of birds. I never totally understood how they evolved, what was their oldest relatives.

    • @1ntense796
      @1ntense796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don't think paleontologists do either. From what I understand there are still a bunch of missing links in the fossil record.

    • @ishrendon6435
      @ishrendon6435 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No one knows yet

  • @altaccount9903
    @altaccount9903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    But wasn't venomous sinornithosaurus hypothesis has been disproven??

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I discovered your site by accident the day before yesterday while looking up some stuff about dinosaurs and have been glued to it since. Imagine my surprise and delight when I found out that you covered many other species as well. I think I have spent about 30 of the last 36 hours here! The presentations are so interesting and complete and the number of species is phenomenal. You have gotten yourself a new Patreon. Even though I can't put a large amount every month I am doing what I can and maybe - if I ever get back to work! - I'll be able to do more. Thanks again.

  • @stlo0309
    @stlo0309 4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    Is your profession related to these subjects or its just a hobby? Great video as always!

    • @yerokaasregor
      @yerokaasregor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      If he was a teacher, I would want to go back to school just to be in his class😅

    • @Hat-
      @Hat- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      YerokA ASregor Same

    • @JohnJohansen2
      @JohnJohansen2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Spare time investigation can really be enough.
      If you're dedicated and really spend the time, for several years.
      I know, though not from paleontology.
      You should try. 🙂

    • @derelbenkoenig
      @derelbenkoenig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well they do have a patreon that they mention, so they at least make some money from these videos

    • @user-uu1nw1bl9j
      @user-uu1nw1bl9j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I think he is either studying paleontology or has a profession in it, since in that case he has uni to give him access to all these papers.

  • @andycharliecovers
    @andycharliecovers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    You should do an episode about Hoatzins, the closest bird to a dinosaur alive today

    • @foxhound963
      @foxhound963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I skeptically looked that up and holy shit what an amazing animal. A bird with f-ing fingers!

    • @Maxolotl124
      @Maxolotl124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I mean, in terms of appearance and presence of fingers, you could argue that, but they certainly aren't the most closely related

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Maxolotl124 Yeah the Hoatzin is a member of the Neoaves the same group of KPg survivors which diversified into nearly every living bird group including songbirds parrots, terrorbirds, falcons, penguins, swifts, hummingbirds, accipiters(hawks and eagles) and owls among many others. I think it has been argued however according to fossils and genetics that they might be the most basal or first to have diverged among the neoaves not long after the Kpg extinction so it might mean that the ancestor of all neoavian birds had functional claws.
      Of course the neoaves like surviving placental mammal groups underwent a rapid radiation into a wide array of body forms and shapes so it is hard to say what exactly they looked like but presumably the features possessed by those survivors descendants would have had some representative presence.
      What is particularly interesting to me is that the Neoaves appear to be the only group among the 3 surviving lineages of birds that underwent this kind of explosive diversification of forms and niches the other two groups the Galloanserae or fowl birds basically stuck to their same ecological niche as before the K-Pg extinction while the last group the Paleognathae with a few exceptions seems to have gone on to evolve into large flightless birds. Basically why did only one major group of birds experience this rapid radiation? was it something to do with them likely being a generalist versus a lucky specialist? Or may it have been that the Neoaves were just first to diversify outcompeting any of the other bird groups attempting to fill new niches?

    • @JellyAntz
      @JellyAntz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      *enter cassowary*

    • @ratreptile
      @ratreptile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You should all look at videos of road runners. Those things are micro raptors.

  • @terdragontra8900
    @terdragontra8900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Microraptor is definitely my favorite dinosaur, I want a pet one that will perch on my shoulder

  • @undertyped1
    @undertyped1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    These ark mmo guides of your's have been great, but i'd love more info on the microraptors hp and dps.

    • @ferro9926
      @ferro9926 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Both stats are low, however, their speed is unrivaled as it scales exponentially with each point you put into speed, just don't go over 400% as it'll voom out of render distance

    • @tnapeepeelu
      @tnapeepeelu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tier Zoo is a good one, he will tell all about the stats of tuese,

  • @williamst.romain7393
    @williamst.romain7393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I'm assuming the 'Ken Ham' of your patrons is using his name as a joke.

    • @brainmind4070
      @brainmind4070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      William St.Romain Well, religious people can be all kinds of twisted, so neither possibility would surprise me.

    • @vaszgul736
      @vaszgul736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know I also did a complete 180 when I heard ken ham

    • @arturoverde3807
      @arturoverde3807 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      William St.Romain l have wondered on that prospect too..🇪🇸

    • @FossilF
      @FossilF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would assume so. Or just another guy of the same name.

    • @eVill420
      @eVill420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@brainmind4070 all kinds of people are twisted.

  • @zs9652
    @zs9652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    It is hilarious that one of your supporters goes by the name of Ken Ham lol.

  • @ryo0ka936
    @ryo0ka936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Bird evolution is my favorite topic. Thanks for the video :) I especially enjoy the theory that their flight capability stemmed from “running up a tree”, for juveniles to escape to the high ground from predators. I sometimes sleep thinking about it.

  • @leoornstein3963
    @leoornstein3963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This video is great, I have never known that the raptors family envolve backward from normal depiction, you have never ceased to amaze me.

    • @Sawrattan
      @Sawrattan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It reminds me of axolotls which seem to have evolved backwards from normal amphibians to fully aquatic amphibians.

    • @pierre-samuelroux9364
      @pierre-samuelroux9364 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean backwards??If microraptor did then it would be terrestrial

    • @pierre-samuelroux9364
      @pierre-samuelroux9364 ปีที่แล้ว

      We can't evolve backwards btw only adapt and change

    • @leoornstein3963
      @leoornstein3963 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pierre-samuelroux9364 I am sorry, my word choices were poor. What I meant was I thought the dromaeosaurid evolved from small, mainly terrestrial ancestors then evolved power flight later on and not from fight-capable ancestors then to become mainly terrestrial animals later on in their evolution.

    • @pierre-samuelroux9364
      @pierre-samuelroux9364 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leoornstein3963 and not all dormaeosaurids flied only microraptor did

  • @gustavgnoettgen
    @gustavgnoettgen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Imagine forests full of trees full of 'rodents', mostly safe from the ground.
    The appearing of small gliding and flying predators must have been a big change.

  • @jannish.2807
    @jannish.2807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I am honestly surprised that I did not stumble on your channel sooner. The information presented is amazing and even when I think that I have a somewhat good overview of a topic, I still learn so much more that just makes my jaw drop. Truly amazing videos!

  • @GreysToons
    @GreysToons 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Never heard of Mahakala before, Nobu Tamura’s reconstruction is adorable! Wonderful video, as usual.

    • @turkoositerapsidi
      @turkoositerapsidi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mahakala, the name is so funny. I just laughed in my mind. Im not anglo, in my language that is hilarious.

    • @bidishadey3815
      @bidishadey3815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TurkoosiTerapsidi I am not sure if the name comes from Sanskrit or not, but if it is, it means deep time, or great time, eternity.
      Edit: Just checked, it does come from Sanskrit.

  • @joakos1122
    @joakos1122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I think the enlarged flight muscles would have been used for wing assisted incline running up trees instead of flapping flight

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      possibly though remember that its body isn't really well adapted for running as the foot wings would interfere with their ability to run so I don't think this is all that likely though it can't be ruled out
      Also from what I have read while many species of microraptors fail to meet flight thresholds many members of the microraptor group particularly later ones seem to have developed more well defined muscles analogous to birds flight muscles with wing loading and muscle strengths well in the range to support powered flight. In fact I remember reading about comparative analysis studies and modeling suggesting powered flight evolved at least 2 or 3 separate times among the feathered dinosaurs. So it seems probable based off more recent research that flight did arise within the microraptor line but it did so *independently* of birds. There are a number of ancestral shared characteristics that probably predisposed the evolution of flight in the larger clade and incline running seems a pretty good possibility for one of these adaptations so I don't think these are mutually exclusive ideas.
      evolutionarily
      separately
      experiment

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No you don't. You read that on the wiki of avian dinosaurs and the evolution of flight

    • @pierre-samuelroux9364
      @pierre-samuelroux9364 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@GullibleTargethe cans think what he wants bruh

  • @OfAllThingzFooty
    @OfAllThingzFooty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love your content brother. Hope this channel grows bigger and bigger. Keep em coming!

  • @Leatherargento
    @Leatherargento ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh, cool! I always wondered whether the shine or gleam or refraction of light of these guys' feathers was just made up for the artists' renditions. I love that they really were evidenceably iridescent!

  • @Stratigic_Cheese_Reserve
    @Stratigic_Cheese_Reserve 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love that one of your Patreon Supporters chose the sobriquet Ken Ham.

  • @mondriaa
    @mondriaa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    wait Ken Ham, that is weird or some nice trolling there by who ever is behind it

    • @nathanvanpelt7216
      @nathanvanpelt7216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      lol, was thinking the same thing! this comment should be #1.
      must be trolling 😂

    • @Pssybart
      @Pssybart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Haha, those are my thoughts. Must be another Ken Ham. Wouldn't it be funny if he actually had a Patron named Jesus Christ?

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He needs a Kirk Cameron patron.

  • @ArtificialMayo
    @ArtificialMayo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow! I can't believe birds developed so early in time. I wonder when they developed song!

    • @serpentinewolf7085
      @serpentinewolf7085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recommend looking up what velociraptors and tyrannosaurus sounded like. They didn’t actually have voice boxes so the new depictions of the noises they made are terrifying.

    • @TheRaoulsdaddy
      @TheRaoulsdaddy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seems song was developed in Australian birds first.

  • @Vicariously...I
    @Vicariously...I 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would love a shirt with the new, neon red "Mothlight" logo on it, maybe a small one on the front and a big one on the back. A black or charcoal gray shirt with that on it would be sick.

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The small teeth in the front of sinothosaurus' mouth may have been used for grooming similar to, ironically, mammals that have similar smaller incisors used for the same purpose. Cats or even lorises have these small teeth that comb their fur. The bigger teeth may have been equivalent to canines, again, similar to mammals that have similar arranged teeth.

  • @gav1230
    @gav1230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should make a video on the dinosaurs which have been discovered to have bat like wings :)

  • @ronanm4418
    @ronanm4418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, beautifully produced

  • @ariochiv
    @ariochiv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The concept of raptors descending from flighted/gliding ancestors certainly makes sense; otherwise, the winglike arms are somewhat difficult to explain.

    • @richardblazer8070
      @richardblazer8070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wings can also be used for steering while running, this is commonly seen in ostriches. It also allows them to insulate their nest more efficiently.

    • @archive2500
      @archive2500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The only thing that is difficult to explain for me is choosing whether it is for gliding, warming eggs during incubation, steering while running, or the most obvious, courtship display or combination of any of the four.

  • @bestversion8159
    @bestversion8159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another stellar video. Thanks man!

  • @pumpernickelplace
    @pumpernickelplace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Lol glad to see Ken Ham has changed his ways ;) 🙃 I do kinda miss the fantasy of humans and dinosaurs living together from the creationism books of my indoctrinated youth

    • @Ginjitzu
      @Ginjitzu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      May never have happened in the past, but with genetic engineering, it may yet happen in the future. Let's hope future _gene zoos_ have better safety management than Dr John Hammond though.

  • @FA-ft9sq
    @FA-ft9sq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I thought most paleontologist nowadays don't distinguish between dinosaurs and birds anymore. Birds, and even modern ones, are dinosaurs.
    Aves are just the more derived form of dinosaurs.

    • @imperatorchadicvsmaximvs7141
      @imperatorchadicvsmaximvs7141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      your correct, birds are considered part of dinosauria

    • @redshurikenrlsh1951
      @redshurikenrlsh1951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      All birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds.

    • @tunafishnow9042
      @tunafishnow9042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imagine if trex was capable of flying, a terrifying thought

    • @ratreptile
      @ratreptile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@tunafishnow9042 That would be a real life dragon but without the fire breathing.

    • @andrew7955
      @andrew7955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah they don't, but the debate is now around where exactly they fit into the phylogenetic tree of dinosauria

  • @arthurdent6828
    @arthurdent6828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Ahh, good old Ken Ham. The man with the intelligence of a Ham Sandwich..

    • @potaterjim
      @potaterjim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I had no idea who he was until today
      Somewhere out there is a literal themepark to backwards thinking
      That's sad

    • @grantbartley483
      @grantbartley483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You ought to make a distinction between people being unintelligent and people being wrong. I think Ken Ham is very intelligent. I also think he's wrong,

    • @arturoverde3807
      @arturoverde3807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arthur Dent no no no...he’s not that clever ! 🇪🇸

    • @nickzaytz5712
      @nickzaytz5712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@grantbartley483 weird statement - intelligent person learn and read and have at least common sense - this idiot didn't just have wrong complex scientific calculations, he read the piece of literature, about fictional events, written by people, and thinks it was real!)
      U don't need science to know that Hogwarts and Mordor are not real...

    • @grantbartley483
      @grantbartley483 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nickzaytz5712 What's hogwarts got to do with anything? If you jump to bad analogies to make bad arguments that too is unintelligent. Guess what I think of you.

  • @IICJZII
    @IICJZII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The videos on this channel just keep getting better. I had a quick question though. I seem to remember reading about that some feather pigmentation studies were actually incorrect or at least inconclusive. Unfortunately can't remember the paper. Is it known for certain that microraptors feathers were in fact black?

  • @temujin5743
    @temujin5743 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did'nt I discovered you before, your videos are amazing!

  • @glenngilbert7389
    @glenngilbert7389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent as usual

  • @alioramus1637
    @alioramus1637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite microraptorian is hesperonychus.

  • @robertgotschall1246
    @robertgotschall1246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder if the leg feathers might not have been used to make up for their lack of tail feathers like in modern birds. I'd think the boney tail would have stabilized them whether gliding or flying but would have restricted agility.

  • @thomascorbett2936
    @thomascorbett2936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting, a lot of information .

  • @presidenttogekiss635
    @presidenttogekiss635 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The image of the Feathered winged dino eating an animal that looks like a modern canary is very striking to me, because it looks so anachronistic, even if I know it's true.

  • @theomnissiah-9120
    @theomnissiah-9120 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it just me or are the microraptors adorable

  • @Hihelloto
    @Hihelloto 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    YES

  • @thevenbede767
    @thevenbede767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ken Ham!? As in the ark guy!?

  • @csweezey18
    @csweezey18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    8:44
    Wait, Ken Ham? Isn't he a young-Earth creationist?
    I'm very confused...

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You don't think it's more likely that there is more than one person named Ken Ham?

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@greensteve9307 If anyone else was named Ken Ham, they'd probably change their name immediately to avoid being associated with Ken Ham.

    • @darth856
      @darth856 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm assuming that the patron in question is using his name as a joke

    • @xoxb2
      @xoxb2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not everybody is American. Here in the UK, where this video guy is from, we neither know nor care who this Ham person is. It appears to be religious, which again we don't really do, so neither are we freaked out by people who are into it, if you see what I mean!

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@xoxb2 ok brit

  • @WondrousEarth
    @WondrousEarth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this excellent and fascinating video. I would like to share it with a friend who does not have English as her primary language, would you please provide Subtitles, if possible.

  • @Theincredibledrummer
    @Theincredibledrummer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's a nice looking Lucarino

  • @luisvalentin361
    @luisvalentin361 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video, very interesting

  • @alexanderwiggin846
    @alexanderwiggin846 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Birds are dinosaurs

  • @RealHypocrisy
    @RealHypocrisy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ken Ham, the creationist contributed to your patreon? intruiging.

  • @crimsonwings4542
    @crimsonwings4542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A supporter named Ken Ham?? Surely a prank.

  • @Flufux
    @Flufux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Didn't these videos used to have music?

  • @Knifeys
    @Knifeys 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    to do a full 'jurassic park' on any, absoloutly any, ancient animal would be amazing lol

  • @LBerti96
    @LBerti96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    haha amazing that one of your supporters called themselves Ken Ham xD
    What a savage

  • @Sawrattan
    @Sawrattan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love when different offshoots co-exist (don't know the scientific term)... like ape-men and homo sapiens... modern cats and sabre-tooth cats... birds and bird-like dinosaurs.

  • @fnglert
    @fnglert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Would love to have one of these as pet.

  • @gustavgnoettgen
    @gustavgnoettgen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how we can reconstruct details of the life of long gone species by logical deduction. Of course, nothing is written in stone... Lol.
    But some things _are_ written in stone indeed.

  • @JoeJoeTheCapybara
    @JoeJoeTheCapybara 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video! Venomous Bird Dinos for the win!

    • @altaccount9903
      @altaccount9903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Although it has been disproven.

  • @hyuggie
    @hyuggie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    you make great videos. i'll gladly subscribe

  • @treverelliott1124
    @treverelliott1124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would it hop around like other birds when their on the ground?

  • @sampagano205
    @sampagano205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I dislike how controversial the "Dromaeosaurs are flightless birds" hypothesis is, because even though the BAND crowd gloms onto this, it doesn't help their case and it is itself not really that big of a change from the current taxonomy.

  • @fairweathertrains3029
    @fairweathertrains3029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ark players seeing the title of this video: **REEEEEEEEEE**

  • @elielizondo9369
    @elielizondo9369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an ark player I can confirm that we say FFFFUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK when a microraptor stuns us an a alpha rex is behind our raptor

  • @hiiiii5_405
    @hiiiii5_405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:30 naruto run

  • @AyubuKK
    @AyubuKK 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very fascinating

  • @Quazex
    @Quazex 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a microraptor therian so I think this video is poggers

  • @christopheb9221
    @christopheb9221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i thought i saw something were on NOVA that microraptor held its legs vertical cuz they did a model test that it wouldnt glide well if its legs were bent horizontal.

  • @caljdp860
    @caljdp860 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ark players thinking they know everything about dinosaurs like the micro raptor watching this video 👁👄👁

  • @cursedalien
    @cursedalien 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If dromaeosaurs really were just weird birds, then the comparison between them and extant birds of prey would be even more applicable than it already is.

  • @sophiagnetneva6861
    @sophiagnetneva6861 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    flying creatures are amazing

  • @thesarkive7746
    @thesarkive7746 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    that was an interesting ending

  • @rickcharlespersonal
    @rickcharlespersonal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you read that KEN HAM is one of your supporters, I did a double take. XD

  • @theurbangoose9962
    @theurbangoose9962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Micro raptor, the 4 winged crow

  • @RandomEvoTimes
    @RandomEvoTimes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I’m a microraptor!

  • @vipertwenty249
    @vipertwenty249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The possibly venom injecting teeth could have slipped out of their sockets if there was an adaptation to reduce the likelihood of damage during injection - a built in degree of flexibility and/or the venom glands - or even particularly nasty bacteria (as in the Komodo Dragon) eating away at the socket for a short period after death. Whilst the idea that it may have been venomous may indeed be wrong - just assuming it to be wrong because the teeth have slipped out after death seems a bigger sweeping assumption than considering reasons _why_ the teeth seem to have a tendancy to go adrift after death.

  • @brandyfuller2455
    @brandyfuller2455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time I hear you say Ken Ham I have to do a double take lol

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very cool

  • @pw6447
    @pw6447 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Venomous birds. Feathered servant indeed.

  • @Francois2144
    @Francois2144 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for doing this video. I enjoyed it. China has so much secrets with its diversity of strange dinosaur life unlike anywhere else in the world. China is known as a hotspot country for paleontologists, becoz so many weird and wonders have been discovered there.

  • @kevinrhodes5497
    @kevinrhodes5497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you make a video about the zhongjianosaurus

  • @AnkanBob
    @AnkanBob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:13 when you hit the shrooms too hard

  • @張於哥
    @張於哥 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Birds are also dinosaurs, dude.

    • @naufallin907
      @naufallin907 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The dude don't get the point.... 😂😂

  • @ekszentrik
    @ekszentrik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think we shouldn't make the definition of "bird" more complicated than it needs to be: Birds refers to the earliest bird (and all descendants) that had neither teeth nor a tail.

    • @MacZephyrZ
      @MacZephyrZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All birds have tails, they're just often shaped differently then in some of their dinosaur ancestors. There's also other complications, like how some early birds seem to have been born with teeth but lost them as they matured.

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool stuff

  • @thelaughinghyenas8465
    @thelaughinghyenas8465 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Second, Super Cool! I really like your Vids.

  • @TheGuardingDark_
    @TheGuardingDark_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Bird like dinosaurs.”
    Hmm yes, this floor is certainly made of floor.

  • @lilypadplatypus
    @lilypadplatypus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you to whoever signed up for Moth’s Patreon as Ken Ham 👌🏼😂

  • @richardzeitz54
    @richardzeitz54 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for all your hard work and excellent presentation! I've one criticism: when you describe microraptor and it's close relatives "... an evolutionary experiment ...," which I know you know isn't correct because evolution has no goals and is not directed. Obviously it's just a manner of speaking but because of the great deal of confusion re. evolution in some parts of society, it's best to avoid misleading language. Wow, I wish there were more TH-camrs about whom the worst I could say is please use more accurate language! I really enjoy your work!

  • @odotus
    @odotus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh i hate that things, back there they like to hope on you an stun u out of ur triceratops or pteranodon, but u can tame it with rare flowers :3

  • @matthewbrown8679
    @matthewbrown8679 ปีที่แล้ว

    I find it hard to imagine that they took on the handicap of leg-wings without getting powered flight out of it.

  • @1567stardust
    @1567stardust 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    🤩 what a beautiful Dino

  • @GregoryJohnson-l1g
    @GregoryJohnson-l1g 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lmao one of the patrons is named Ken Ham, thats hilarious

  • @malapm7718
    @malapm7718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My pigeon has feather's all over its leg even in its toes

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would have been a interesting time

  • @outandabout259
    @outandabout259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Mahakala"... What a name for a dinosaur! In finnish, "maha" means stomach and "kala" means fish, ao "mahakala" is stomach fish 😂

  • @ice9snowflake187
    @ice9snowflake187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    a biplane bird

  • @wandersgion4989
    @wandersgion4989 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Changyu Raptor sounds like a knockoff gaming keyboard.

  • @nakulankurmullam2982
    @nakulankurmullam2982 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here before 100k

  • @Iowa599
    @Iowa599 ปีที่แล้ว

    If the bones were hollow, were they really hollow & there a vacuum it them?

    • @spatrk6634
      @spatrk6634 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no. they are not vacuum. they are all filled with air sacks and connected to respiratory system
      it helps them to reduce weight. it helped large theropod dinosaurs to be very big, and it helps in flight in birds.

  • @carlpeters6675
    @carlpeters6675 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What the hell! Let's just give wings to all dinosaurs! Diplodocus, stegosaurus...

  • @seed.visuals
    @seed.visuals 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:47 - floppa

  • @jyotirawat7802
    @jyotirawat7802 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot to tell how irritating they are when you are going through the red woods

  • @suneaglemcneely
    @suneaglemcneely 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They could fold their wings and dive like a hawk

  • @florix7889
    @florix7889 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    So life evolved flight indepandantly another time ? It's a huge thing but you don't even mention it