Ha, this series isn't cancelled. It just takes a very long time to make with only 2 people and the level of animation and research that gets put into it.
@@TmRnBn Also, in scrabble, last time I checked, you can only have a maximum of 7 letters per turn, so such a large word would take multiple turns to make, and likely the individual to start it will not be the one to finish it.
The prime example of an allosaurus's tough life is the fossil that has been nick-named "Big Al". It is almost perfectly preserved and shows signs of something like 30 injuries, including a severely broken and infected middle toe. The people who created the "Walking With" series created a spin-off documentary dedicated entirely to what Big Al's life might have been, followed by a making of where they explore the palaeontology of Allosaur's in general.
I remember there was this online simulation based off of that Big Al spin-off documentary, and you had to start as a baby Big Al, and could only go after animals like lizards or frogs otherwise you’d get brutally killed. Maybe it was because I was young when I played it, but it was so easy to die lol
To be honest, I've always thought of T. rex as the default therapod. When I was younger, I always imagined Carnotaurus as a T. rex with horns, and Allosaurus as a more leanly-built T. rex.
Yeah, me too. I also was shocked when I recently found out on the internet, that T rex wasn't even a Carnosaurus, it was "just" a huge Coelurosaurus, meaning it was more closely related to a chicken than to an Allosaurus (which made me like T rex even more). Also it is cool to see, how in the Dominion prologue T rex is depicted with feathers and looking bird-like and extremely cool and the Giga (as a Carnosaurus) is very dragon-like.
I noticed in the tricolor flag in the background, there's silhouettes of every Mesozoic animal that appeared on the show. Blue is Cretaceous, Red is Jurassic and Green is Triassic.
pretty strange, because in the international chronostratigraphic chart, the cretaceous is coloured green, jurassic blue and triassic not red but purple
Vulcano Probably limited to the flag they could find for the set. I’m sure the specific colors used are not meant to conflict with the chronostratigraphic chart.
I remember seeing these amazing dinosaur models in Wal-mart one time. They were super accurate and beautifully made. And several parts of their bodies moved. I wanted at least one so bad but I couldn't afford it. When I came back about a month later with enough money they were all gone. I was so pissed.
Those look pretty similar to Allosaurus though, at least the heads certainly do (head design is remarkably consistent among allosaurids). Also both of them have existed in the public consciousness for a very brief time, so high quality toys of them are rare to non-existent.
They aren't allosaurids though, they are both In the Carcharidontosauridae family along with Mapusaurus and Tyrannotitan. They also both live in the Cretaceous period not the Jurassic and live on two different continents.
AvPGaming 002 I say they are very much popular enough in the world of paleontology. Just the fact that they're both bigger than T. rex has got them both a lot of work done on them from paleontologists.
They are both popular in paleontology/paleoart terms, but not known too much by general audiences. Plus the fact that A. fragilis gets conflated with Tyrannosaurus by inaccurate pictures that draw it as large/husky as a T-Tex makes the Shark-Toothed Lizard even more difficult for a general audience to distinguish. A Ceratosaurus is easy for a general audience to distinguish from Allosaurus, plus it would be interesting to see how the host distinguishes it from the later abelisaurids like Carnotaurus (which he just did).
“Yup, modern archaeologists thrive on destruction; the more fire and earthquakes, well, the better.” - Simon Whistler Apparently the same applies to palaeontologists.
I'm glad you guys are back. I have always loved your seemingly unscripted rambles, it really feels like Steve knows and loves what he is talking about by heart. I hope you guys keep on doing more of these! As a paleoartist I find your videos refreshing!
The Primal Earth -Dinosaurs, science, and more! Great! Hope it reaches them in time! (Although considering the amount of time in between episodes, I think we're good)
A Riccio I know I saw logan on Friday and am seeing it again soon, but I'd say that spiderman homecoming, guardian of the galaxy vol. 2 or Star Wars 8 would be the most hyped film of the year
I just watch this series over and over and over waiting for the next one. XD it’s like YDAW fills the same role as all the Dino documentaries I watched on repeat as a kid.
I just discovered your remarkable program this morning, and you are AMAZING. Your exploration of one of my favorite dinos was without a doubt the most educational and illuminating things I've ever seen about Allosaurus, and if all my college professors were as interesting as you, I probably wouldn't have flunked out of school.
I would guess that so many dino toys have tails on the ground is for balance, unlike a real dino, the plastic or rubber is a constant weight, try to get one to balance on 2 feet consistently in manufacture. Try it with making a Plasticine model. (or should that be Pleistocene)
I agree, the tail on the ground thing is mostly an easy way for the toy manufacturer to get the toy to stand. They can probably get it to balance on two feet alone but I think that it would take a bit more R&D than they'd be willing to spend time and money on and I imagine that most of the kids that would buy these toys wouldn't want to spend the time to carefully balance them to stand, not to mention that the slightest bump on the table/shelf they're standing on would knock them over.
To be honest, I'd prefer to either have a base, or just have it a tripod by balancing on it's arm, but the best-case scenario is just to have it balance (maybe with a detachable base to help, just in case).
Yeah I don't think ARK's depiction dinosaurs and other animals are trying to be accurate. I mean the Mammoth's tusks are covered in thorns and split into 2 at the end.
Id be okay with that as much as i love playing the game. But there needs to be a warning so people know you arent hating on the game simply being more historically accurate
What do you think of the idea that the Allosaurus may have "grazed" its prey? I read somewhere recently that it may have been possible due to the large gape of the jaw and the musculature of the neck that an Allosaurus could have walked upside a large sauropod and hacked out a chunk of flesh and carried on, leaving the sauropod a few pounds lighter but alive.
I mean, I'm no biologist or paleontologist, but that sounds really likely. Especially if Allosaurus is more of a solitary animal as is suggested in the video, then there's no way that they'd be able to process all of the Diplodocus meat, even though they have to expend immense amounts of energy to take it down. Grazing seems more cost efficient, the only thing it doesn't explain is the stress fractures and other life stressors seen it its feet and arms.
That sound really really unlikely. It is a big animal it cant live by scraps and each one of those would be extremely dangerous the sauropod won't be standing there.
I love these videos so much. The more you learn about these animals the more interesting they become. That's true with most all things in science but this is what I love. I wish I had a Hadrosaurus foulkii toy to send in so you could talk about that species and the history behind one of the most important dinosaur fossils ever found. I even got to see the reel thing in the collections of the Academy of Sciences in Philly!
I love this show. My sister made me a stegosaurus doll that is super cute, but super incorrect after watching your videos :D Glad there is a new one out. Wish I could have sent in my stegosaurus before you covered them. It's one of a kind, home made. My sister is a seamstress :)
Please keep making these! I think this deserves its own channel. I'd be happy to support something like this on Patreon. You don't need to have all this cool animation every time. Don't get me wrong. I really do love how these videos look! You could make some simpler ones about other dinosaur related stuff too. Just a thought. Thanks for the content guys!
This is an amazingly well put together episode. My favorite episode so far. The animation has improved. And the visuals really help in understanding The connections and flow of the episode was a ride from start to finish.
I love this series so much! I hope you do an episode on pretty much any Azhdarchidae family member eventually. I don't know much about dinosaurs and they are my favorite out of all the dinosaurs I've seen so far.
you've certainly made them a lot more fascinating than they had been for me previously... I know you're probably pressed for time as it is, but let me put an idea that you might consider: bonebed sites like the one you describe here.. there are hundreds of them, each with their own story to tell, and it would be interesting to do a video similar to the ending of this one on the "choicer" ones... Still hoping for a vid on Leopluridon (i know, not a dinosaur) or maybe on one cambrian fauna (also not dinosaurs)....Ananomalocaris I find utterly fascinating.... Regardless of what you choose, i'll be watching! I've enjoyed all your series so far....
bravo...justm. bravo. guys I adore this series and considered the carnotaurus episode to be amaIng but thus is above and beyond the single best video I have seen on youtube. from the information and the presenter seriously stepping up their game something considerable and the animation..oh my god you guys have outdone yourselves!!thank you so much for making this!
Great video as always, animations were fantastic! Also, fascinating explanation for all those fossils. Makes me wonder what other kinds of life dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures lived that we may never know about.
I just saw my first Allosaurus specimen a few weeks ago at University of Wyoming, they have a gorgeous skeleton on display next to their Apatosaurus. I thought the flat head was a distortion that happened during fossilization but no, apparently Allosaurus just had a weird skinny head! It's a very interestingly proportioned creature with those longer-than-most arms and long skinny skull.
love it! the visual aids where great and the lifestyle lessons where very interesting. i wouldn't mind just a "dino did you know" style series, disregard the toys.
I think the Allosaurus might jump and bite a larger prey in areas where it could grab and slice and tear to iniciate a lot of bleeding to weaken the prey hitting over and over until it collapes instead of grabbing and holding on. Just my thoughts.
I keep thinking of a pack of wolves. Lots of small, fast bites targeting limbs over a long chase to take down large prey. The deep S-curve on the neck could facilitate fast strikes that keep you just out of range of kicks and other defenses.
Or even both. As the image shows one grabbing onto the neck of a sauropod, it might hitch a ride for a moment, getting a quick bite for now, and a freshly injured target for later. That goes on for a while until the massive animal finally collapses and that specific allosaurus has to defend it's catch.
Another great episode! It's always fascinating learning new details on dinosaurs. I especially love the animations showcasing the change between the toy/outdated depictions and the current ones.
Boy oh boy do I have a bunch of ideas to illustrate (and I still owe you guys that carnotaurus ;) ). Also* the unpublished SVP description of of the artery that supplied blood to that region in the lacrimal only stated it was possibly the support for a display structure. Nothing affirmative. So anything goes for now, until the paper (hopefully) is published. Keep up the great work, chaps!
Grant Scarboro if you saw the colouring book episode Steven stated that avian dinosaurs aren't in the lines of the show. Still an interesting suggestion and very cool animals
1. Allie hugs prey 2. Allie sets jaws in prey, not as hatchet blow, but biting in, perhaps selecting a specific location to get maximum bite impact. 3a) Allie uses powerful neck motion to worry jaws methodically in struggling prey OR 3b) Bite is the anchor point for the powerful hind legs to rake the prey instead, like a cat.
You're my new favorite GeeK. You must move into the house next door so I can shoot the dinosaur bull with you. Brilliant deductive reasoning, great discussion of predator prey predation progression, fantastic. God I love this stuff. 35years ago I use to get samples from gravel pits, and mines in Colorado in the Morrison Shield. I was never so excited. I felt like Lewis Leakey. Today there's so so much more we know, new technologies, to test, and scan, and more data thanks to the web. The human brain still holds sway on the theories of how they survived, and how the different species hung out. Thanks so much. Thank goodness not everyone is an anti science bozo. It's lonely being a person of reason in this world of fantasy land and fake news propaganda.
I always love your intros man. You give it such a lovely lighthearted attitude. My son isn't around anymore and I accept that now but feel him laugh when I watch your goofy intros
Great video, thank you so much for your work!! It is absolutely amazing to learn about the real -life detective work that paleontology gives us. That study of a single water hole could yield up so much information on a snapshot of animals from 150 million years ago. It just boggles the mind. What an awesome creature Allosaurus was. And there's still so much to learn.
Your videos are so interesting, I keep going in thinking, I am not watching half an hour of a guy talk about allosaurus. But here we are, it was all gravy!
I need a book of quotes from this show, "it can control the flipity flop of its tail" and "it's I'm about to hug something pose might be accurate" being the top ones. I think you guys need to get this show on like animal planet or something, so funny and informative as well as being made by like 2 guys, favorite thing on TH-cam. Keep it up guys!
Guys amazing work on this one! I just hope the increased animation wont make the process too much slower. :T Any idea where on the internet there would be the best and most up to date resources on dinosaurs? Thanks for doing such a good work on my favorite and keep up the good work!
Wow! You actually drew a picture (or did a paper cut-out) of an Allosauros vomiting! I've never seen that before, but it actually illustrated your point quite well. Allosauros is one of my favorites, too!
Big al 2 will be permanently on display at the university of Zurich (entrance free!) from the 19th of March onwards! I was present for its remount and it looks fantastic! :)
This is just my theory but with its mouth, I don't think it's using it similar to that of a Hatchet. Instead they probably are similar to wild dogs and that they use it to either quickly tear small chunks of its prey while still alive and then do some more tearing when the prey's finally dead. I mean they have more of a Saw like teeth. If they're similar indeed to Wild Dogs, that would be scary. Maybe a. They take quick nibbles on a living prey and also let it get tired. They would probably scare the prey, try to slowly get behind it and then take a quick bite on its tail muscles and so on. b. They probably use those hug hands to wrestle and unbalance they're prey. This could work really really well with smaller theropods. Also, they might be into resting their weight on smaller dinosaurs while hugging em, could be true as well with juvenile sauropods. Essentially, hug on smaller prey, wrestle and unbalance them, tire them out by resting their weight on em. If they get away chase em, circle around em, take some quick nibbles on the tail, hands, neck, and then move away a bit. Tire them out and give em a thousand cuts. They're probably into eating their prey while they're still alive. Lastly c. Maybe they can produce enough tears/cuts to impale a prey. Some animals of today, like wild dogs and hyenas, can bite on a prey's stomache and create an opening enough for the prey's guts to go out and dangle, almost disemboweling it 😰🤮. Maybe Allosaurus can do that too.
As a guy involved in molding figures in plastic for a living, I suggest that some of your disagreements with limb posing are not due to the manufacturers chosing a different theory, so much as choosing a pose that gives less production problems. One of the standard solutions for quadrapeds is a right and a left half, plus a plug that consists of the belly and the closest quadrant of each leg. If the legs splay apart, the plug is easier to remove and the mold lasts longer. If the 'fingers' splay apart the mold parts that separate them are more subtantial, sturdier, durable. There is a temptation to choose poses that are unlikely, but possible, and result in a more durable mold.
Just got home from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It was a trip I wanted to go on since I was 11, I am now 38 (in a week). Dreams can come true! My kids loved it almost as much as I did :)
Anyone want to send Steve a toy Psittacosaurus or Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus. My instinct is that they are not very popular as toys, but they both have great educational potential, when it comes to appearance, behaviour, phylogeny, and scientific history
I've had tendon avulsion. OUCH INDEED. For months. What an interesting series! Glad I found it! I would have never thought as a kid complaining about these inaccuracies that I'd see someone someday on the internet calling them on their shit! Therapod fistbump!
Thanks god I thought you guys got cancelled. Love it as always
Ha, this series isn't cancelled. It just takes a very long time to make with only 2 people and the level of animation and research that gets put into it.
+thegeekgroup The animation was amazing this episode! Love the series, guys
Pretty sure you didn't mean it but just had to say it: the music is reminding me of Super Paper Mario. This is a good thing. :D
This is one of my favorite series of videos! I can't give much but I just subbed to you guys on Patreon.
Well thank you! Glad you enjoy it so much! :)
"never play scrabble with a biologist" wise words indeed
or any scientist in general
Me: sonytarunasurs
Scientist: Tyrannosaurus?
Me : HOLY GUACAMOLE HOW
However, many scrabble aficionados use their specific dictionary and will not accept words from the real (science) world.
@@TmRnBn Also, in scrabble, last time I checked, you can only have a maximum of 7 letters per turn, so such a large word would take multiple turns to make, and likely the individual to start it will not be the one to finish it.
Lol
The prime example of an allosaurus's tough life is the fossil that has been nick-named "Big Al". It is almost perfectly preserved and shows signs of something like 30 injuries, including a severely broken and infected middle toe. The people who created the "Walking With" series created a spin-off documentary dedicated entirely to what Big Al's life might have been, followed by a making of where they explore the palaeontology of Allosaur's in general.
I haven't personally been able to see his skeleton but I hope to one day
Also broken jaw where his jaw got destroyed yet still lived to adulthood
@@MarouaneTF is Broken Jaw like a real specimen of Allosaurus though? I can't see it in the internet
i have never emotionally recovered from that episode of wwd
I remember there was this online simulation based off of that Big Al spin-off documentary, and you had to start as a baby Big Al, and could only go after animals like lizards or frogs otherwise you’d get brutally killed. Maybe it was because I was young when I played it, but it was so easy to die lol
I find it hilarious that an animal whose name literally means “different reptile” has become such a catch-all “default” generic theropod.
All-o-saurus
Now we know bro really WAS built different
"It's so much more than 'that one that isn't t-rex'" YESSS! As a HUGE allosaurus fan I cannot agree more!
I feel the same about Carnotaurus. Such a unique animal
When you're a fan of a dead animal
@@abrahamlincoln9160 ..You're a fan of a dead animal too
@@abrahamlincoln9160 who said I'm dead
@@yohanathandowns9057 slim leg sausage
To be honest, I've always thought of T. rex as the default therapod. When I was younger, I always imagined Carnotaurus as a T. rex with horns, and Allosaurus as a more leanly-built T. rex.
Yeah, me too. I also was shocked when I recently found out on the internet, that T rex wasn't even a Carnosaurus, it was "just" a huge Coelurosaurus, meaning it was more closely related to a chicken than to an Allosaurus (which made me like T rex even more).
Also it is cool to see, how in the Dominion prologue T rex is depicted with feathers and looking bird-like and extremely cool and the Giga (as a Carnosaurus) is very dragon-like.
I noticed in the tricolor flag in the background, there's silhouettes of every Mesozoic animal that appeared on the show. Blue is Cretaceous, Red is Jurassic and Green is Triassic.
pretty strange, because in the international chronostratigraphic chart, the cretaceous is coloured green, jurassic blue and triassic not red but purple
Damn so that's what it is!!!! I kept wondering which gender/orientation flag it could be 🤦🏻
Vulcano
Probably limited to the flag they could find for the set. I’m sure the specific colors used are not meant to conflict with the chronostratigraphic chart.
I saw that but didn’t realize what the colors meant, thank you
@@cerberaodollam Dinosaur Pride flag
Huggable Allosaurus!
I love the animation style, how the dinosaur reacts to being made anatomically accurate. It's so adorable!
Looks painful
Awww Allosaurus was a hugger
The hug of death.
The hugger of death.
that will kill you...
*getting torn apart*
Aww good allosaurus
*bleeding everywhere*
Good boi
@@wickedhouston5538 doesn't seem like the case in the isle
I remember seeing these amazing dinosaur models in Wal-mart one time. They were super accurate and beautifully made. And several parts of their bodies moved. I wanted at least one so bad but I couldn't afford it. When I came back about a month later with enough money they were all gone. I was so pissed.
An episode on Carcharodontosaurus or Giganotosaurus would be awesome, but I don't know if anyone would have a toy of them.
i think they are not popular enough like t-rex or allosaurus
Those look pretty similar to Allosaurus though, at least the heads certainly do (head design is remarkably consistent among allosaurids). Also both of them have existed in the public consciousness for a very brief time, so high quality toys of them are rare to non-existent.
They aren't allosaurids though, they are both In the Carcharidontosauridae family along with Mapusaurus and Tyrannotitan. They also both live in the Cretaceous period not the Jurassic and live on two different continents.
AvPGaming 002 I say they are very much popular enough in the world of paleontology. Just the fact that they're both bigger than T. rex has got them both a lot of work done on them from paleontologists.
They are both popular in paleontology/paleoart terms, but not known too much by general audiences. Plus the fact that A. fragilis gets conflated with Tyrannosaurus by inaccurate pictures that draw it as large/husky as a T-Tex makes the Shark-Toothed Lizard even more difficult for a general audience to distinguish. A Ceratosaurus is easy for a general audience to distinguish from Allosaurus, plus it would be interesting to see how the host distinguishes it from the later abelisaurids like Carnotaurus (which he just did).
Drought. Good news for paleontologists and bad news for Allosaurus.
A drought is when there is a shortage of water
“Yup, modern archaeologists thrive on destruction; the more fire and earthquakes, well, the better.” - Simon Whistler
Apparently the same applies to palaeontologists.
I'm glad you guys are back. I have always loved your seemingly unscripted rambles, it really feels like Steve knows and loves what he is talking about by heart. I hope you guys keep on doing more of these! As a paleoartist I find your videos refreshing!
Paleoartist?
Zombeef he makes art about prehistoric fauna and flora duh :D
Dr sattler I assume , oh wait she was a paliobotanist
*botanist
His long disappointed pauses were so funny
Can someone please send these amazing people a ceratosaurus?
I'm rooting around in my old toy bin rn!
i just sent them one lat wendsday!
The Primal Earth -Dinosaurs, science, and more! Great! Hope it reaches them in time! (Although considering the amount of time in between episodes, I think we're good)
RIP Big Al!
Long live Stumpy!!
Wait he died!? Noooooo
F
The Poke'Saurus ;-;
It's crazy to think that we lived closer towards the T-Rex than the T-Rex live to the stegosaurus
Do ceratosaurus please, I feel like it is super underrated and is always overlooked by allosaurus.
Yeah same with Torvosaurus
I gotta say I love the YDAW series I can't tell you how often I re-re-re-rewatch episodes
The most hyped film of 2017 is out
what is it?
AvPGaming 002 This
A Riccio I know I saw logan on Friday and am seeing it again soon, but I'd say that spiderman homecoming, guardian of the galaxy vol. 2 or Star Wars 8 would be the most hyped film of the year
Trystan Nield k
A Riccio 10/10
I agree.
"a tendon rips off a bit of bone...ow" very ow indeed! I had that on my knee as a kid (soccer accident).
I love the new movement in the animations!
Same.
I just watch this series over and over and over waiting for the next one. XD it’s like YDAW fills the same role as all the Dino documentaries I watched on repeat as a kid.
25:14 Cerato: I NEED AN ADULT Allo: I am an adult....
I need a different adult. lol
Allo : My name literally means different...
Nihar Gawand
Cerato, “Well then.............. shoot”
As someone who lives near the modern upthrusting of the Morrison(on the east side of it, anyway,)...
It's still that damn arid.
The time you take to do the research and animation really shows. This is a fantastic series.
I just discovered your remarkable program this morning, and you are AMAZING. Your exploration of one of my favorite dinos was without a doubt the most educational and illuminating things I've ever seen about Allosaurus, and if all my college professors were as interesting as you, I probably wouldn't have flunked out of school.
I would guess that so many dino toys have tails on the ground is for balance, unlike a real dino, the plastic or rubber is a constant weight, try to get one to balance on 2 feet consistently in manufacture.
Try it with making a Plasticine model. (or should that be Pleistocene)
That pun physically hurt, I'll have you know.
Ohhhh lord that was a terrible pun. Never stop.
I agree, the tail on the ground thing is mostly an easy way for the toy manufacturer to get the toy to stand. They can probably get it to balance on two feet alone but I think that it would take a bit more R&D than they'd be willing to spend time and money on and I imagine that most of the kids that would buy these toys wouldn't want to spend the time to carefully balance them to stand, not to mention that the slightest bump on the table/shelf they're standing on would knock them over.
I just stuck their feet in the carpet so they would "stand less stupid". XD There is always a way!
To be honest, I'd prefer to either have a base, or just have it a tripod by balancing on it's arm, but the best-case scenario is just to have it balance (maybe with a detachable base to help, just in case).
Can you do a YDAW segment on the "ARK: Survival Evolved" game? They have many inaccuracies and I'd like to see you tackle such a popular game.
TheGuyThatAteTheHat yea
I totally agree!! I would love to hear your thought on the game.
Second this. Still popular, would be very interested in this
Yeah I don't think ARK's depiction dinosaurs and other animals are trying to be accurate. I mean the Mammoth's tusks are covered in thorns and split into 2 at the end.
Id be okay with that as much as i love playing the game. But there needs to be a warning so people know you arent hating on the game simply being more historically accurate
What do you think of the idea that the Allosaurus may have "grazed" its prey? I read somewhere recently that it may have been possible due to the large gape of the jaw and the musculature of the neck that an Allosaurus could have walked upside a large sauropod and hacked out a chunk of flesh and carried on, leaving the sauropod a few pounds lighter but alive.
Pretty sure mapusaurus was thought to do that to Argentinasaurus as well
I mean, I'm no biologist or paleontologist, but that sounds really likely. Especially if Allosaurus is more of a solitary animal as is suggested in the video, then there's no way that they'd be able to process all of the Diplodocus meat, even though they have to expend immense amounts of energy to take it down. Grazing seems more cost efficient, the only thing it doesn't explain is the stress fractures and other life stressors seen it its feet and arms.
That sound really really unlikely. It is a big animal it cant live by scraps and each one of those would be extremely dangerous the sauropod won't be standing there.
That is how cookie cutter sharks eat, I think that it would be high risk though, an allosaurus would not be able to sneak up on another Dino easily.
I love this show, it's so funny and I learn lots. I'd like to see Baryonyx or Utahraptor which is my fave. Looking forward to more!
The "I'm-about-to-hug-something pose" sounds so cute
I really like and admire how you put in actual sources and credit them along with providing links for us to see them.
"No living creature uses it's head as a hatchet"
How about woodpeckers? Well, not a HATCHET but still.
You kindve just answered your own question
I think that's a very different sort of motion to what is hypothesized for the allosaurus. More like a jackhammer than a hatchet.
You just made my day
Not a whole lot of animals have a bite force weaker than an animal a tenth of their size, either
Seriemas and terror birds use something like a hatchet bite but since they’re birds, I’d just say pecking.
The old Carnegie Collection Allosaurus'! I have them both, such nostalgia!
BionicleSaurus omg it's you!!i love your videos!
Good to see ya bionicle.
Hi bro
Goodness graces
I love these videos so much. The more you learn about these animals the more interesting they become. That's true with most all things in science but this is what I love. I wish I had a Hadrosaurus foulkii toy to send in so you could talk about that species and the history behind one of the most important dinosaur fossils ever found. I even got to see the reel thing in the collections of the Academy of Sciences in Philly!
I love this show. My sister made me a stegosaurus doll that is super cute, but super incorrect after watching your videos :D
Glad there is a new one out. Wish I could have sent in my stegosaurus before you covered them. It's one of a kind, home made. My sister is a seamstress :)
Please keep making these! I think this deserves its own channel. I'd be happy to support something like this on Patreon. You don't need to have all this cool animation every time. Don't get me wrong. I really do love how these videos look! You could make some simpler ones about other dinosaur related stuff too. Just a thought. Thanks for the content guys!
There IS a whole channel! Check it out: www.youtube.com/@YourDinosaursAreWrong
I love how.... animated, the animation is becoming!
This is an amazingly well put together episode. My favorite episode so far.
The animation has improved. And the visuals really help in understanding
The connections and flow of the episode was a ride from start to finish.
you have no ideas how much I love this series! I could listen to Steve break dinosaurs dwn all day! and I have lol
You know it gets technical when you hear about dinosaurs being able to control the flippedyflop of their tails... 🦕
allos are def my favorite
I love this series so much! I hope you do an episode on pretty much any Azhdarchidae family member eventually. I don't know much about dinosaurs and they are my favorite out of all the dinosaurs I've seen so far.
Can You do Cryolophosaurus ellioti, it's my favorite dinosaur because of its uniqueness and that it is the only theropod discovered in Antarctica
Richard Nixon if he could find a toy or someone send him a toy
It's my second favorite dinosaur
My first is baryonyx
In Antarctica? Now you piqued my interest.
dalton411970 there was no ice back then
Richard Nixon How did they even discover fossils in Antarctica? I thought it was a heavily protected zone.
you've certainly made them a lot more fascinating than they had been for me previously... I know you're probably pressed for time as it is, but let me put an idea that you might consider: bonebed sites like the one you describe here.. there are hundreds of them, each with their own story to tell, and it would be interesting to do a video similar to the ending of this one on the "choicer" ones...
Still hoping for a vid on Leopluridon (i know, not a dinosaur) or maybe on one cambrian fauna (also not dinosaurs)....Ananomalocaris I find utterly fascinating....
Regardless of what you choose, i'll be watching! I've enjoyed all your series so far....
bravo...justm. bravo. guys I adore this series and considered the carnotaurus episode to be amaIng but thus is above and beyond the single best video I have seen on youtube. from the information and the presenter seriously stepping up their game something considerable and the animation..oh my god you guys have outdone yourselves!!thank you so much for making this!
Great video as always, animations were fantastic! Also, fascinating explanation for all those fossils. Makes me wonder what other kinds of life dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures lived that we may never know about.
I just saw my first Allosaurus specimen a few weeks ago at University of Wyoming, they have a gorgeous skeleton on display next to their Apatosaurus. I thought the flat head was a distortion that happened during fossilization but no, apparently Allosaurus just had a weird skinny head! It's a very interestingly proportioned creature with those longer-than-most arms and long skinny skull.
love it! the visual aids where great and the lifestyle lessons where very interesting. i wouldn't mind just a "dino did you know" style series, disregard the toys.
I think the Allosaurus might jump and bite a larger prey in areas where it could grab and slice and tear to iniciate a lot of bleeding to weaken the prey hitting over and over until it collapes instead of grabbing and holding on. Just my thoughts.
I keep thinking of a pack of wolves. Lots of small, fast bites targeting limbs over a long chase to take down large prey. The deep S-curve on the neck could facilitate fast strikes that keep you just out of range of kicks and other defenses.
Or even both. As the image shows one grabbing onto the neck of a sauropod, it might hitch a ride for a moment, getting a quick bite for now, and a freshly injured target for later.
That goes on for a while until the massive animal finally collapses and that specific allosaurus has to defend it's catch.
I really want that skull. How much was it? Are they still being sold?
I 3D printed that here at our makerspace; the files in the link are CC0, and can be worked with using Blender, which is open-source.
Steven Bellettini Just checked my comment. Thanks so much for you reply!
Another great episode! It's always fascinating learning new details on dinosaurs. I especially love the animations showcasing the change between the toy/outdated depictions and the current ones.
Speaking of "Allosaurus peers," I'd love to see comments on both Ceratosaurus and Torvosaurus.
I'm not sure how many Torvosaurus toys there are out there.
I had to watch this one again.
Thank you for sharing this information so well.
Cheers my friend
Thank you! :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Please, do Triassic dinosaurs. And sorry for taking so long with those drawings, I'm in a new school and it is taking pretty much all my time...
I used to have a Herrerasaurus toy, maybe I can find it somehow in the Clutter Room of my house...
Katya T. Super awesome!
Awesome. I love how you describe the environment at the time of that formation.
I am going to send in Ceratosaurus, Saurolophus, and an Ankylosaurid.
This is honestly some of my favorite content on youtube.
OMG I was just thinking about YDAW when looking at my allosaurus papo toy ! True story ! :D
This is a great video. Loving the detail you've gone to in this.
I'd like to see an episode on a hadrosaur like edmontosaurus or corythosaurus
Animals with long, strong necks twist a lot too. I’m thinking allosaurus was a savage, the messiest of the carnivores
Could you explain the ecology ( habitat, prey, hunting style) of more theropods, if possible. Thanks.
keep it coming don't discontinue this series
i LOVE THE ANIMATION
Boy oh boy do I have a bunch of ideas to illustrate (and I still owe you guys that carnotaurus ;) ). Also* the unpublished SVP description of of the artery that supplied blood to that region in the lacrimal only stated it was possibly the support for a display structure. Nothing affirmative. So anything goes for now, until the paper (hopefully) is published. Keep up the great work, chaps!
I know it just happened a few hours ago, but if/when you have time, could you please talk about the whole Ornithoscelida thing?
REALLY love this episode, you basically made me learn some interesting facts/speculation on _Allosaurus_, specifically its extreme ecosystem!
Terror Birds FTW!!! They're dinosaurs too! :v)
Grant Scarboro if you saw the colouring book episode Steven stated that avian dinosaurs aren't in the lines of the show. Still an interesting suggestion and very cool animals
Agreed
Okay. What I don't get there, though is that it's an extinct avian dinosaur.
Grant Scarboro
Terror birds were herbivores
Jeremy Leer No offense, but I think you actually mean a different large, flightless bird, Gastornis, there.
Love this channel, props on having a Therizinosaurus in the background!
Yey, another episode!
Patience rules!
Jeffrey Gao nope.
yes
"Never play Scrabble with a biologist"
Can you guys please do giganotosaurus or another carcharadontosauridae
Never stop making these, chaps! They keep getting better and better, keep up the amazing work.
I wouldve send in one of my Quetzal toys. But I don't have the momey to ship it...
i think i can't even send one, even tho i would like to know something i never knew about my dino toys....
Someone sent in a _Quetzalcoatlus_, so don't sweat it!
1. Allie hugs prey
2. Allie sets jaws in prey, not as hatchet blow, but biting in, perhaps selecting a specific location to get maximum bite impact.
3a) Allie uses powerful neck motion to worry jaws methodically in struggling prey OR
3b) Bite is the anchor point for the powerful hind legs to rake the prey instead, like a cat.
Yay my favorite dinosaurs!
also you have heard of a bear hug. What about a dinosaur hug!
When he talked about the ripping carcasses and turning its head upside down at 19:55 reminded me of how a vultures rips the carcass
You're my new favorite GeeK. You must move into the house next door so I can shoot the dinosaur bull with you. Brilliant deductive reasoning, great discussion of predator prey predation progression, fantastic. God I love this stuff. 35years ago I use to get samples from gravel pits, and mines in Colorado in the Morrison Shield. I was never so excited. I felt like Lewis Leakey. Today there's so so much more we know, new technologies, to test, and scan, and more data thanks to the web. The human brain still holds sway on the theories of how they survived, and how the different species hung out. Thanks so much. Thank goodness not everyone is an anti science bozo. It's lonely being a person of reason in this world of fantasy land and fake news propaganda.
I always love your intros man. You give it such a lovely lighthearted attitude. My son isn't around anymore and I accept that now but feel him laugh when I watch your goofy intros
He would be proud of you talking about him here. TH-cam comments can be merciless, yet here you are. Fistbumb bro
Finally!
Great video, thank you so much for your work!! It is absolutely amazing to learn about the real -life detective work that paleontology gives us. That study of a single water hole could yield up so much information on a snapshot of animals from 150 million years ago. It just boggles the mind. What an awesome creature Allosaurus was. And there's still so much to learn.
the entrance gags are so cute. I love him getting mildly startled by child pranks
Your videos are so interesting, I keep going in thinking, I am not watching half an hour of a guy talk about allosaurus. But here we are, it was all gravy!
I need a book of quotes from this show, "it can control the flipity flop of its tail" and "it's I'm about to hug something pose might be accurate" being the top ones. I think you guys need to get this show on like animal planet or something, so funny and informative as well as being made by like 2 guys, favorite thing on TH-cam. Keep it up guys!
I've been looking for a series like this since the beginning of TH-cam. Excellent work all round. Well Done!
As a suggestion, an episode focusing on ancient reptilian predators of the sea such as the Mososaurus and Elasmasaurus, would be fairly interesting.
Guys amazing work on this one! I just hope the increased animation wont make the process too much slower. :T Any idea where on the internet there would be the best and most up to date resources on dinosaurs? Thanks for doing such a good work on my favorite and keep up the good work!
I like how he says peers. Like the theropods would meet after school to hang out as friends.
Wow! You actually drew a picture (or did a paper cut-out) of an Allosauros vomiting! I've never seen that before, but it actually illustrated your point quite well. Allosauros is one of my favorites, too!
Big al 2 will be permanently on display at the university of Zurich (entrance free!) from the 19th of March onwards! I was present for its remount and it looks fantastic! :)
This is just my theory but with its mouth, I don't think it's using it similar to that of a Hatchet. Instead they probably are similar to wild dogs and that they use it to either quickly tear small chunks of its prey while still alive and then do some more tearing when the prey's finally dead. I mean they have more of a Saw like teeth. If they're similar indeed to Wild Dogs, that would be scary.
Maybe a. They take quick nibbles on a living prey and also let it get tired. They would probably scare the prey, try to slowly get behind it and then take a quick bite on its tail muscles and so on.
b. They probably use those hug hands to wrestle and unbalance they're prey. This could work really really well with smaller theropods. Also, they might be into resting their weight on smaller dinosaurs while hugging em, could be true as well with juvenile sauropods. Essentially, hug on smaller prey, wrestle and unbalance them, tire them out by resting their weight on em. If they get away chase em, circle around em, take some quick nibbles on the tail, hands, neck, and then move away a bit. Tire them out and give em a thousand cuts.
They're probably into eating their prey while they're still alive.
Lastly c. Maybe they can produce enough tears/cuts to impale a prey. Some animals of today, like wild dogs and hyenas, can bite on a prey's stomache and create an opening enough for the prey's guts to go out and dangle, almost disemboweling it 😰🤮.
Maybe Allosaurus can do that too.
Dinosaur quizzes: if you like hugs, and are most likely to initiate them, then you are probably a allosaurus
As a guy involved in molding figures in plastic for a living, I suggest that some of your disagreements with limb posing are not due to the manufacturers chosing a different theory, so much as choosing a pose that gives less production problems. One of the standard solutions for quadrapeds is a right and a left half, plus a plug that consists of the belly and the closest quadrant of each leg. If the legs splay apart, the plug is easier to remove and the mold lasts longer. If the 'fingers' splay apart the mold parts that separate them are more subtantial, sturdier, durable. There is a temptation to choose poses that are unlikely, but possible, and result in a more durable mold.
The part where he pulls the toys out of the slinkies kinda satisfied me
Idk why, it just did
I loved this so much! Thank you for sharing this information with us!
Just got home from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It was a trip I wanted to go on since I was 11, I am now 38 (in a week). Dreams can come true! My kids loved it almost as much as I did :)
Anyone want to send Steve a toy Psittacosaurus or Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus. My instinct is that they are not very popular as toys, but they both have great educational potential, when it comes to appearance, behaviour, phylogeny, and scientific history
I've had tendon avulsion. OUCH INDEED. For months. What an interesting series! Glad I found it! I would have never thought as a kid complaining about these inaccuracies that I'd see someone someday on the internet calling them on their shit! Therapod fistbump!
Dude, I literally have BOTH those allosaurus toys! The green one is older - like, much, MUCH older.