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Triceratops I think it's a little more common than quote one of those long neck dinosaurs because they're so many of those long neck dinosaurs you know it's kind of broken up between the species but yeah I'd say that's one of the more popular ones too
We watched, re-watched, edited, watched again, this video, over and over. and only a few minutes after it's posted do I realized I called the fossil pokemon "legendary" pokemon at the end. How? haha
My greatest sadness about Tyrantrum was learning that it had Strong Jaw but they didn't make a biting-style move of Rock or Dragon type, so it was using Dragon Claw with its bitty arms for its STAB.
I mean those arms were the same length of ours with more than 2x the muscle mass, I think they could do some damage with dragon energy embedded into them lol
random design trivia: the designer of the Aurorus line, Hitoshi Ariga, has stated that the reason he chose Amargasaurus as a base design for Aurorus is because he "wanted to differentiate it from other long necked dinosaur like mons such as Lapras, Meganium or Deino". the more you know!
Oh that's super cool, and makes more sense now, otherwise I was like "why didn't they do a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus" but yeah it is a well designed Pokemon, and that certainly makes it stand out and be special.
@@idiotgoddess2114 1) that's why i said "dinosaur-like" instead of straight up dinosaurs, 2) that's the exact quote Ariga said on his Twitter; he specifically mentioned Lapras, Meganium and Deino as examples of long necked dinosaur-ish mons that he wanted Aurorus to be distinct from
@@idiotgoddess2114 It is, I mean I guessed the Queen aspects before since it seems more feminine and is the counter part like Sinnoh and Unova's fossils but I didn't understand the why, the in depth reasoning and LORE behind it. It truly is a regal and beautiful Pokemon, to anyone saying oh new Pokemon look bad... I point thee towards this.
Fun Fact: Despite a T-Rex's arms being very small for its body size, they were still as long as the average adult man's arms, except with twice the muscle mass. So yeah, imagine Dwayne Johnson's biceps, inflate them to twice their size, and you have a T-Rex's arms.
Which is why I’m always annoyed at people asking why T. rex arms are so small and people then answering about how unneeded they are, when the important question is “why the heck this man curling so much iron?” If it has THAT much muscle behind it, clearly Rexy is using them for something
Thank you. Herbivore doesn’t inherently mean weak; many of them are either surprisingly fast and evasive, or can threaten their predators. Look at most herbivorous dinosaurs!
The Snow Queen is a Danish story, not Swedish. It was created by Hans Christian Andersen, a famous Danish author. Just thought I'd throw that in there :P My young dinosaur fanatic self has emerged and loooove these two pokémon :D As a Scandinavian I found the inspiration of Aurorus really bloody amazing
It's still amazing, how much one learns from these videos. First, from the video.... and secondary; from the comment section! To repay for your part in it Teaching me. I'll attempt to repay you with my own tibit of knowledge. Did you know we have found Red blood cells of a *_dinosaur?_* Separately other finds of brains, organs, and even feathers or a entire head included with feathers of a tiny dinosaur stuck in time within amber? And two other larger specimens of T-Rex than Sue now.
A video about the ancient power mons, Yanmega, Tangrowth, and Mamoswine, sounds pretty interesting especially for a mon like Tangrowth where I feel there's something more to it than just being a shaggy caveman
The fact of being fossils inspired by a king and a queen make even more sense in France: during the revolution they eliminated the royals, so now they are just fossils
As a huge dinosaur fan, this series has already become my favorite series out of your video library. Please keep these going! And please do other non-fossilmon based on prehistoric creatures!
@@reshannicolson-singh4252 i would stick to the DS era games, FF fontiers was a bit of a let down when it focused more on the racing part than the dinofights.
@@necrocomicon8 you are so right, I un-ironically like the theme song though. It gets you in the mood to do some adventuring. Then they put a child in the drivers seat.
I have found myself more than once in the Crown Tundra's snowy area where Aurorus lives just sitting and watching it walk around. It is an absolutely gorgeous design. Easily my favourite fossil-mon.
In the anime Aurorus was depicted as being the same size as an Amargasaurus. In fact it is the only sauropod pokemon to be at that size. So you can chalk that up to Gamefreak not having a good sense of scale. In that same episode within X and Y it was shown that they do have the ability to freely change the color of their sails with them turning blue when the pokemon are unwell.
GameFreak with the first gens had no idea how the size would actually be on the mons. The designers just slapped some numbers on them they thought would work. The anime itself has had very sketchy and loose interpretation of size as well early on. Trying to pass off a Dragonite at Bill's lighthouse being freaking gigantic when during the first movie one is near the size of Jesse and James. Since the early years they've gotten better at keeping a consistent size and are more aware at what the realistic proportions would be. On a fun extra note, there was recently a promotion at a Japanese museum that had mockups of fossil pokemon with their real world counterparts. Should be some videos floating around here of it.
@@TheFluBugZ the gaint Dragonite was treated as an anomaly and not the normal. Just another mystery in the world of pokemon. I don't know how you didn't catch that.
@@andresmarrero8666 Because that was ages ago when I last saw it. Now that you've brought that up it does make sense in context of what the episode was trying to get across that there are all kinds of strange mysteries with pokemon.
You also saw that in the games. When happy (e.g. being pet), they’re green. When angry (e.g. attacking), they’re red. When upset (e.g. fainting), they’re blue
I am absolutely down for more paleontology Pokémon content. As a certified paleo nerd who also liked Pokémon, this is probably my favorite video you’ve made so far. Keep it up, man!
When you were talking about how powerful sauropods are, I couldn't help but think back to that one episode of Primal: The Mad Sauropod. That episode has cemented in my mind just how terrifying those things could be.
Your fun fact about the German name for Aurorus got me excited for a possible series where you highlight some of the best and most creative non-English/Japanese Pokémon names!
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyrantrum Head Smash vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Aurorus: 678-800 (150.6 - 177.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO 252+ Atk Choice Band Tyrantrum Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Aurorus: 724-856 (160.8 - 190.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO Yeah it can very easily
Also the typing is better and it packs more of a punch, sure aurora veil or rock polish/specs is not too bad on Aurorus but it rarely gets chances to come out and usually other ice types outclass it, so often Aurorus is in PU, while Tyrantrum is in RU or NU
In-game stats also say that getting tackled by Oddish hurts more than by Onix and that Purugly moves faster than Latios. I don't think they make good base for lore arguments
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt not in game stats. In game lore such as pokedex, which is often wrong, in the same way you could say Pigeot is fast according to the dex, but there are many mons that outspeed it. In terms of game stats - onix has a significantly better attack stat than oddish.
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt true. the process of designing the Pokémon, making dex entries and giving them their respecitive typings and stats are a few different processes done by different people/groups at Game Freak. Lugia has a psychic type cause this type was (and still is but not as much as back them) seen as a very powerful type. This Pokémon as well could've been a dragon or water type. At least it doesn't have a 4x weakness to anything like it's counterpart Ho-oh. Other example is Charizard not having the dragon type for the sake of not making it unfairly strong and in advantage over the other sttarters.
Well, this assumes that the tyrantrum and Aurourus lines existed at the same time, the cave/mine where you find the poke paleontologist who gives you the fossils clearly goes threw multiple strata, so Aurourus going extinct during the poke Jurassic, and the Tyrantrum waling on top of it's fossils during the poke cretaceous is a real possibility.
@@reksew987 the dex references tons of things because it’s written with current knowledge. It’s also wrong in a ton of cases. Soooo that’s not good enough imo
29:36 now I kinda understand why Team Flare wanted to steal the fossils in pokemon x and y : it's because they were trying to get a lot of money from them, either by simply selling them or by doing auctions. It all makes sense now
I think Tyrantrum would win, even though Aurorus can use Ice type moves and Earth Power against its Dragon type, they do have poor defenses due to typing and the former hits hard with attacks that Aurorus is weak to.
@@echidnaralsei1473 Wonder that about Aurorus since it was found in ice. Then again, maybe it got scared and froze itself like an Opposum being stunned goes go sleep/gets knocked out.
In game, 100% tyrantrum wins. In lore, not at all. Aurorus has pokedex entries that say it can create walls of ice to block attacks, let alone freeze its enemies solid. By the time Tyrantrum (a physical attacker) even gets to aurorus through ice walls it would be frozen solid by super effective ice attacks by that point.
I'd love it if you did a video on Fossil Fighters, discussing the inspirations for the vivosaurs! I love hearing you talk about fossils and monsters from other series!
17:50 Fun Fact: the English word Tyrant and it’s derivatives are derived from the Latin word Tyrannous, which just means King. Specifically, a king that had come into the role through their works (meaning they were chosen by the people if their wasn’t an heir or they committed a coup or something to that effect), as opposed to one who had inherited the role from the previous king, which was referred to as Rex. So technically, Tyrannosaurus Rex actually means King Lizard King. Lol.
@@jaschabull2365 I mean, kind of. Keep in mind that while the play is one of the oldest and most complete versions we still have of that story, it was technically an adaptation of an existing myth that was likely already well known at the time, so while some details may have been unique to that version, the audience probably already knew the twist anyway.
did you know, the behemoth described in the Bible's book of Job, most closely fits the description of a sauropod? so if you take that description found in Job as any indicator, tail slap would be a huge damage dealing move. i do love when mythology and ancient tales line up with descriptions of dinosaurs.
Tyrantrum is definitely my favorite dragon type (aside from Flygon). It looks so badass and it’s a really good Pokémon to have on your team. Plus who doesn’t want to have a T-Rex as a party member?
Wait..... is this the first region without *official* Fossil pokemon?! Instead I mean... I guess technically the thing of the past pokemon are technically? But they never became Fossils we find to revive so... yeah.
Tyrantrum is my Favorite Dragon type. On another note: I’m so….SO HAPPY that you mentioned Sue in the video. She’s a favorite at the Field Museum here in Chicago.
If they ever brought Mega-Evolution back or gave fossil Pokemon regional variants, I would love to see Aurorus swap out the Rock type for Electric. It does know Thunder Wave as a level-up move.
Troodon isn't real dinosaur species anymore after 2019 or 2020. Because all they could find was a teeth and nothing more than at. So they stopped calling troodon a species of dinosaur. Other than that you facts are good.
Actually, fun fact, the “main” species of Triceratops has almost as cool a name as T Rex…Triceratops Horridus. I’d almost argue Brontosaurus (now that it’s almost likely a thing again) also is in that camp with: Brontosaurus Excelsus
To be fair, Tyrantrum is also very weak to Ice… but the more obvious and hilarious joke to me is that it means that Draco Meteor is Super Effective against it Just… all the War flashback memes going on in its head when that move happens
3:21 Actually, the sail hypothesis for Amargasaurus has been considered a possibility again based on a recent paper earlier this year. 3:41 The sails on its back aren't sails. that's the thickness of their vertebrae. Amargasaurus belongs to the family Dicraeosauridae, a group of Diplodocoid Sauropods known for having relatively short necks, but long neural spines for thicker muscle attachments. This could mean that the possibile sails ran down from the neck to the middle of the back where the last biffurcated vertebrae was before it transitioned to the thicker, more ridge. 3:59 Amargasaurus has a close relative recently discovered called Bajadasaurus. it's similar to the former in that it has those large spikes on the neck, but the difference is that they point forward instead of being swept back. 12:14 We don't know about Pachyrhinosaurus having feathery coats. While it's possible that Ceratopsian (horned dinosaurs) had feathers, the plumage was sparse and mainly found along the back and tail. In a recent discovery from 2012 (still undescribed), a mummy named Lane had skin impressions which displayed the possibility of quills similar to earlier forms like Psittacosaurus. The feathered Pachyrhinosaurus trope is one that popped up in 2012. The idea is that this genus (there are currently three accepted species) lived in the northern regions, which snowed year round and had evolved in a way similar to wooly animals like Coelodonta and Mammoths - developing a coat of thick feathers to provide as insulation. It's plausible for this adaptation to occur, though there's no concrete evidence to prove it. 12:49 I think you're referring to Leallynasaura, which was a distant cousin from Australia that likely experienced cold. Hypsilophodon was found in the Wessex Formation of England, which during its time was part of a European chain of islands. The environment was a semi-arid environment covered in shrubs and and trees. Also it wasn't subjected to being so close to the poles and seasonal extremes. 20:30 Fun Fact: Tyrannosaurus and it's relatives had the best depth perception of any predatory Theropods - almost similar to humans. Other species had very limited binocular vision, with Allosaurus only seeing about 20 degrees and Velociraptor having 60 degrees. Also, because of how large its optic nerve was, a T. rex is estimated to be able to track a target nearly four miles away. 22:22 In a 2015 study, it's proposed that a T. rex was able to straight up decapitate a Triceratops skull in order to get at the meat from behind the neck. Also, based on Tarbosaurus tooth marks (an Asian relative), it was likely able to gently scrape meat clean off the bone. 24:21 Your success rate was 33.3%. 24:33 Oooh! Yeah, we don't talk about that one. So, that was based on a 2017 paper by Steve Brusatte, whose become a bit of a rock star (no pun intended) in the Paleontology scene. The issue was that he was measuring the EQ (encephalization quotient) between T. rex and a chimp. For those that don't know, the EQ is the ratio between the mass of the brain vs. body in order to determine possible cognitive levels. Sounds good on paper... until you realize different clades involve different calculations. An equation for a mammal doesn't work for a reptile or a bird. Niw to be fair, T. rex is a relatively smart animal compared to other large Theropods and gators. But being equivalent to a chimp? Not even close. Since then, Brusatte has apologized over this error last year. 27:43 Okay, as an aside, I just realized how much Sue was in that story.🤣 28:59 I think you meant "Troglodyte". 30:02 As a Paleontologist, I despise the Fossil Trade, wherher it's the black market or on the "up and up", with Stan (and to me, just as importantly, the most complete Deinonychus fossil known) being the most livid purchase. Still, it had a silver lining as it turned out that the fossil was transferred to a museum being developed in Abu Dhabi. It was once thought that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the guy who bought the tyrant (as many celebs ought to do. Nick Cage illegally purchased a Tarbosaurus in a bid to outdo Leonardo di Caprio's Mosasaurus). Of course, it turned out to not be the case and he claimed to have way more respect for thr science than other rich people. 32:27 They're not cheeks. It's likely that he's talking about the antorbital fenestra, which is a hole found between the eye socket and nostril of Archosauria. This hole was used to help lighten the head and was covered by skin and muscle. Birds still have it, many pterosaurs had it, but crocs lost it over their evolutionary history. 33:19 Small arms have been a contentious issue in the realm of dinosaur paleobiology. We see the trait appear in numerous lineages over the span of the Mesozoic. When it comes to Tyrannosaurids, it's even stranger. Generally, there are two standards - the arms are small, but still have functionality for hunting (as seen in Allosaurus and its relatives) or have degenerated into vestiges (like with Carnotaurus and its kin). For T. rex, the arms still were functional, albeit to a lesser extent. They were packed full of muscle, but very little range of motion. Either way, the general trend is that as a predator grows, the head becomes the primary killing tool while the arms shrink over time. This is likely possible for T. rex. Keep in mind that this animal came from a lineage of small, fast moving opportunists that had long, functional arms. Of course, there's always exceptions to this rule as the Megaraptorans exist. These were a clads of killers frim the Southern continents that grew to impressive sizes, but had surprisingly long, muscular arms tipped with giant talons. For a long time, nobody knew what they were. Allosauroids? A clan of their own Coelurosaurian club? Weird Tyrannosauroid offshoots? Well do to the recent discovery of a terror names Maip, it's been determined that these animals were a sister taxa to Tyrannosaurs. ...Oh right, short arms. So there's an idea floating around within the past month that the reason for short arms in Tyrannosaurus stems from the mitigation of injury. Essentially, over their evolution, T. rex arms grew smaller overtime to avoid being damaged/destroyed in fights with prey, rivals, or accidentally getting rippes off in group feedings. 35:05 Keep in mind that Yutytannus is in a basal position in the tyrant family tree - having evolved closer to a feathered ancestor. Also worth noting is that it came from a more temperate climate that would've dropped down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit regularly. T. rex, on the other hand, was a spring chicken that lived in swamps and forests closer to Louisiana bayous. Also, it was 6000 kilograms heavier, meaning that it would've likely suffocated and overheated if it had as extensive of a coat as its predecessor. 37:07 I mean, it could be a bird. That's just a bird. Even with bat wings. Which was a thing. Yi and Ambopteryx.🤷🏿♂️
Actually Sue and Scotty are bigger than any Giganotosaurus fossil found so far, however only 32 vs the hundred of T-Rex fossils have been found of Giga, and I think only 3 of them are relatively complete. There's also the fact that dinosaurs while bird like could've also been like reptiles, reptiles, amphibians, and fish will grow throughout their lives non stop until death. Also fun fact the Giga had a set of teeth that were like cleavors, butcher knives meant for tearing flesh off the bone in 1 swift movement and ease vs the T-Rex the strongest bite force of ANY LAND ANIMAL were meant for bone crunching. This is why scientists are so split in the middle, was the world's most effective land killer or was it a scavenger, personally I think both, like a wolf or hyena, nothing stopping them from hunting, but they wouldn't pass up a free meal either. Same with were dinosaurs more bird or more reptile, I think... kind of both, a well mixed combination, the missing link if you were, that could separate them from either. I LOVE THE T-REX OH MY GOSH HE'S GOING INTO THE NUMBERS OF THE BITE FORCE! Also while Scotty is bigger Sue certainly is more famous, and is a little more complete, Scotty only at like 60% and Sue at 90% roughly, so even then it still is unknown if for certain Scotty was bigger and is highly backed and forthed with THE NERDS as you put it lol. They are by extension also the oldest T-Rex's estimated to have lived possibly to 28 years old, putting more evidence on that some dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus Rex, didn't stop growing like reptiles until they died. Ok last comment, I've left too many and many of them so long I just LOVE THESE DINOSAURS AND POKEMON, Tyrantrum is tied with Pyroar for my 3rd favorite Pokemon, both having my favorite types dragon and fire, only beat out by Hydreigon and... if I said my favorite I'd probably be shamed, it's a popular Pokemon... ok Charizard, but it's not because oooh big fire dragon, it's got sentimental value, I connect with it on a deeper level than most people, it wasn't even my 1st starter that goes to Typhlosion. Anyone questioning me I'd be happy to share my valiant tale of triumph. Anyways this video I've been so excited and happy for the longest time, whether Lockstin got stuff right or wrong I was so thrilled to see it, and he did a lot of good research into these Pokemon some of which I didn't even know... mostly about Auroras, but still, this was a fun and amazing video.
I’d argue the highly developed hearing AND depth perception make it very unlikely it was _primarily_ a scavenger: not only are there not really many animals that big in their ecosystem today that are scavengers first, but having high intelligence + all of their senses being well developed suggests a FAR more demanding lifestyle, once where they would need to pinpoint a target, and be able to quickly “Mk 1 eyeball” the range to a target as they went in to tear them apart with their jaws. Yeah, scavengers ain’t stupid, but you don’t really need advanced hearing or eyesight to find a carcass. This guy was either dealing with SERIOUS competition, or SERIOUS defense, and went all in to just nuke things
Rex was definitely a hunter. Great binocular vision, massive bite force and evidence such as a broken off tooth found in a healed over bone in an Edmontosaur all lends credence to it being a hunter. The scavenger "theory" has only really been pushed by Jack Horner who is an infamous contrarian who openly admits that he doesn't like Rex (seriously, he's said so on video) and allegedly only says it was a scavenger to get attention. All of this being said, a Rex would not turn down a free meal in a carcass like you said, just like any carnivore alive today.
@@yorecf9641 I know right, there's no way it was just a scavenger with how it was built. I wouldn't deny it could scavenge, look at wolves or hyenas, in the wild the strong survive you take any meal you can get, but it was 100% a hunter. I didn't know it was Jack Horner though... no wonder why Jurassic Park has so many wrong facts, and that's stupid to blind yourself just because you hate something, and why, what does he have against the T-Rex? Just because it's so popular?
@@IgnatiusBlaze4 he said that he prefers duck-billed hadrosaurs. Whether it’s because he’s always found them more interesting or he’s just tired of T Rex (I believe he’s found around a dozen mostly complete skeletons and did it in about a decade) I couldn’t tell you. I don’t want to take away from how much archeology has benefitted from his discoveries and his contrarian theories are sometimes plausible (such as his belief that Stygimoloch and Dracorex are juvenile Pachycephalosaurus) but his hubris and apparent need to go against the grain seems to often get the better of him.
In Sword and Shield, when I saw a Tyrantrum charging towards me in Crown Tundra, my heart skipped a beat. I may or may not have broken my own heart when I knocked it out immediately after.
Impressive work as always Lockstin. I always do and always will appreciate the effort you put into the research you do. Much love, and best of luck in future.
Amaura's cry is my favourite in all of Pokemon. I had no idea that it was based on sounds auroras make though, or that auroras made any sound at all. That makes me love it even more.
Aurorus is hands-down my favorite Fossilmon and Ice type Pokémon. One reason why is because of the time my Aurorus in my playthrough of Y tanked TWO consecutive Flash Cannon hits, and still came out as the victor of that battle
Why do we have to put our hands down? Why do you think everyone else will try to change your opinion? Why is what aurorus did possible? Why am i replying to a 6 month old comment? Why do i keep asking why? Why do i exist? Why do i keep asking questions? Why the hell are my questions longer than the comment I’m replying to? Why do i have so many questions?
*Fun Fact:* The first thoroughly analyzed fragment of a T. rex was some vertebra in 1892, done by Edward Drinker Cope. He named the specimen Manospondylus gigas which means "giant porous vertebra,” and imagined it as a ceratopsian. The holotype of the rex was examined in Montana in 1902 and given the name Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and interpreted theropod instead. It wasn’t until Henry Fairfield Osborn named the second skeletal holotype in 1905, even though he named the first holotype in 1902. But since the name of T. rex appeared earlier in his work, the name was used by the public. And because of the previous specimens of “Dynamosaurus” and “Manospondylus” were later found to be the same species, it was the name Tyrannosaurus rex that was kept as the preferred name.
Fossil Pokemon are my favorite “catagory” of Pokemon, so I love these videos that you explain their lore and real-life counterparts. It makes me love these ‘mons more!
... Shocking case of Poke love "that's the last bath I'll take with Tentacool"... I... only words I can think of is... oh kay then... oh I came up with more, and I've seen enough anime to know where this is going.
T. Rex, while not the longest nor the tallest land carnivore... was *easily* the most powerful. Pound for pound, T. Rex was a behemoth of a Therapod. While being roughly the same size as other large carnivores, it was way more massive, being essentially pure muscle while others like Charcharadontosaurus and Giganotasaurus were far more sleek and lightweight. The reason we know so much of T. Rex, is because newer people would see all the data we have, and take the easy route of studying it. They'd find more data, and then more new people would see all the data and find even more! It's an exponential growth of study. TL;DR- he big, he chonky, and it's eyes/nose/ears were some of the best the animal kingdom has ever seen.
@@unclebaba3463 Spinosaurus has been speculated to be quadrupedal, since primarily its tail would've been far too heavy to hold itself up without falling backwards The average for Tyrannosaurus is roughly 9 or so tonnes iirc, Spinosaurus averaging around 7?
T. Rex was likely the bulkiest of the large therapods, Acrocanthosaurus could be close if you consider it to have a meaty hump and not a thin spine. Other Apex predators were generally slimmer, but had the advantage of generally less dangerous prey. They were probably biting/slashing large sauropods and waiting for them to bleed out, whereas T. Rex might 1v1 fight a Triceratops. Spinosaurus being a quadrupedal isn't something that's really considered anymore. Most agreeing its the first largely aquatic dinosaur, and its tail being actually very thin helped it with the weight issues :) And no Megalosaurus didn't have a stronger bite than T. Rex. Tyrannosaurus has the strongest bite of any language carnivore in Earth's history :)
This region easily had my most favorite fossil Pokemon ever. I've always wanted a T Rex Pokemon and sauropods in general are my favorite dinosaurs. I always try to fit them in a team whenever I have the chance to do so. My only gripe is that Aurorus has a very weird stat spread, so it's very pretty hard to use (especially given it's typing).
Funny how the majority are ready to grill Aurorus for being inferior to Tyrantrum, but the instant they hear that Cradily would beat Armaldo's ass, they go into denial lol
Speaking of stegosaurus, is it just me or does Lugia sort of look like one? I mean, think about it, really think about it, if you replaced its wings with some legs, and shortened the neck, doesn't it look like a cartoon stegosaurus?
Tyrantrum is my absolute favorite Pokemon of all time. Using the "royal" theming to also give it a bony crest as a nod to Cryolophosaurus is so clever and seeing protofeathers on a pop culture Rex is very much appreciated! The fact that it has decent stats also helps!
I just realized another brilliant thing about it, maybe intentional, maybe not It’s an ancient king, but in France. And we all know what happened to French kings. _they went extinct_
A more recent hypothesis put forward for the _T. rex_ short arm length is that they may have been social or semi-social hunters, and that having shorter forelimbs meant they were less likely to be accidentally bitten off by another rex. Ultimately concluding that it's from natural selection. Interesting to think that what may have once started as brachial dysplasia became the species norm.
33:10 I wonder if the t-Rex had more time to evolve maybe they would have lost their arms in total , like how whales lost their back legs but the leg bones are still in the body !
Correction. You said that The Snow Queen was a Swedish fairytale but it was written by the danish auther H.C. Andersen. Danes and swedes probably has the longest ongoing rivalry in the whole world.
So happy to see someone else geeking out about SUE! I've been lucky to see them many, many times and they are incredible in-person. Here's another fun fact about that skull: it had to be painstakingly reconstructed from hundreds of fragments due to being crushed under other stones. Looking at it up close is something else. I'd love to see you continue this series with the prehistoric-inspired 'mon!
Aurorus is my favorite pokemon and was my primary team member in my first playthrough of X. I named him Comet because comets are icy rocks, which I thought fit really well with its design. 🌌
You pointed out that Stegosaurus was one of the most famous dinosaurs earlier in the video and Stegosaurus fossils have been found in the Iberian Peninsula, so maybe we'll see a Stegosaurus Fossil Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet.
Great video! However, I’d like to point out: you said that “The Snow Queen” was swedish. This is false. It was written by Hans Christian Andersen, the danish author of “The Little Mermaid”, “The Emperors new Clothes” and many more including “The Snow Queen” Us smaller countries take a lot of pride in our relatively few contributions to the world at large, so it becomes a pet peeve when these things get attributed to other nations
If Tyrantrum gets a regional form plus evolution it can become a Electric/Dragon it would get more feathers that contain electricity that would make Tyrantrum more epic then it normally is there is a reason why I like Tyrantrum it's one of my favorite dragon types of Gen 6.
4:52 Hey, I know where this bit comes from "A Shocking Case of Poke-love: That's the last time I'll bathe with my Tentacool" ~ Source; Pokemon Adventures Red/Blue/Green & Yellow
@@DeeRose54, well, actually, Amargasarus' very first description described it having horns, and for more recent times, I searched "amargasaurus paleoart" in Google, the first result dated from 2013, so the horn theory, on top of making more sense, was already resurected in the begining of the 2010s.
A fun lil fact about the Rex, because it had such a cute and sensitive hearing the tree didn't roar because if it did, it would go deaf from its own noises so instead it made low frequency noises you'd feel more than here. There's a few recreations on TH-cam that are really good
If you do look at other Pokemon that "seem" like Fossil Pokemon, you can't forget about Relicanth, who is stated in its Dex entries to be a living fossil.
8.3 million for the greatest fossil find ever is not too shabby, just sucks that it even had to come to that. Thankfully Sue will always be on display and she's given us so much knowledge! I hate that some fossils end up in private collections never to be seen or studied!
This wasn't brought up in the Tyrantrum section so i was wondering if you heard about the possible discovery of two other Tyranosaurus species: Tyranosaurus Imperator and Regina (Tyrant Lizard Emperor and Queen respectively)
@@EG-hy9mv i think it's being frowned upon because the proof is kind of thin atm, but i think they're working on trying to find more proof. still, thought it might be worth pointing out (maybe with an asterisk)
Yes! Definitely more vids about this stuff. I love what you guys do and really appreciate all what you’ve done to further our knowledge of PKMN. I would really like to express that I appreciate all the hard work you guys put into bringing us something new, and interesting, but most of all enjoyable. The Pokémon community is the best community. We all work together and as a community put our heads together to discover, decipher, and/or Learn all these things about our beloved series. And the community NEEDS Lockstin & Gnoggin for to lose you guys would be like losing our library of PKMN knowledge to a fire. So keep on doing what you’re doing and keep reminding us to use our Gnoggin.
Tyrantrum isn’t a T. rex watch the dex guys It existed a few million years apart from the T. rex in the same time period as the giganotosaurus/cryolophosaurus which is millions of years apart from the era the T. rex lived in The dex goes into a lot of research about it watch their video
I mean considering it has the same morphology as a T. Rex and none of the fossil Pokémon lived at the same time as their counterparts I think the Pokémon company just came up with a funky number to say the ancient Pokémon lived
This series makes me really REALLY want to do a Fossil Pokémon only run sometime. I love so pretty much all of the fossil Pokémon so it’ll be hard to choose just six, but I’m thinking I’d definitely need Aurorus. They’re just so darn pretty! I know Sword and Shield has all the fossils I’d ever need but I don’t think I could stand playing through that story for the fifth time. Here’s hoping Scarlet and Violet has them all available!
The Gen 6 fossil Pokemon are definitely my favorite. They complement each other and gave us two dual typings we haven't seen before... plus... they get access to some really great moves!
The feathers on T Rex answer can also be solved by looking at elephants. They only have small thin sparse hairs due to their size and the environment. They don't need a thick coat in a savannah, so neither does T Rex.
Fun fact, the colors of the sails on both Amaura and Aurorus do change colors in the orignal X and Y games. They only do it in Pokemon amie, though, which, if you didn't spend gross amounts of hours feeding them poke puffs and playing minigames, most players probably would never see. If you pet Aurorus and make it happy, the sails turn green, so it shows it's mood of happiness. If you tap it aggressively or drop a poke puff in front of it instead of feeding it when it's at maximum hunger, the sails will turn red, indicating anger. I think they can also ripple blue meaning sad as a reaction to poking it sometimes. Might fact check me on the blue color there.
As an aspiring palaeontologist, I can tell you you got the majority of those names correct, and you were solid on your facts. Still adore this series, and it's even started me guessing if gen 9 gives us new fossil mon. Sadly, though, I still haven't got my desire for a literally massive giganotosaurus Mon. And I mean competitor with the whale Mons big
Yeah Amaura got those anime eyes lol ... I'd say Brachiosaurus is most identifiable long neck... but I suppose that's mostly due to Jurassic Park HOWEVER same could be said of the T-Rex. While it was certainly popular before that's when it got BIG, otherwise Stegosaurus was on the same level of popularity. Granted I think it pulls from several sauropods, much like Bastiodon pulling from multiple ceratopsians but primarily the Chasmosaurus. Like the whip tail I'd say is more reminiscent of a Diplodocus (which either you mispronounced, or I have been since I was like 5 from Walking with Dinosaurs... hmmm if it's me that'd be like a Mandela effect, interesting... Oh doesn't matter to me either way, not trying to sound rude, just intrigues me), but you do mention that and they are related to each other, another example of gamfreak just taking parts from multiple sources to make one whole encompassing thing... which I kind of love, well most of the time, here's it's fine even if I don't get the Brachiosaurus my favorite herbivorous dinosaur. With that being said... I suppose Tyrantrum means we're unlikely to get too many other big theropods like Allosaurus because they "look the same", Tyrantrum the all encompassing big carnivore dinosaur. Spinosaurus probably distinguished enough, maybe the Carnotaurus? I doubt Gamefreak would give Allosaurus a shot though, despite it being the Jurassic equivalent to the T-Rex (equivalence, doesn't mean the same) with a rivalry against the Stegosaurus while T-Rex had the Triceratops in the Cretaceous period. Both sets of legendary Dinosaurs with legendary rivalries of predator vs prey... but we won't ever get to see them in Pokemon.
This video format was very interesting and I really enjoyed how you branched off to talk about other subjects such as Sue that although not Pokémon related, you made very captivating to the audience and helped us learn new information that typically wouldn’t of been known.
20:45 Wow! That picture of a T. Rex skull is the one that’s on display at my university’s geology museum! I recognize the diorama in the back. Cool stuff!
I wanted to be a Paleontologist since I was like 5, so this is by far my favorite series you've done yet. I always love your deep dives. Please continue it, because spreading knowledge on prehistory is always appreciated
Yeah! The fact Fossils of dinosaur bones have rings in them similar to trees allowing us to age their lives is amazing! Or the fact we litterly found Red blood cells of a dinosaur.
I'd love to hear more about the non-fossil Dinosaur-mon. It's my personal belief that Venusaur, possibly the whole Bulbasaur line, is inspired by Jurassic Park using frog DNA to complete their dinosaurs, which is why it has frog-like characteristics.
The gen 6 fossil Pokémon are my most favorite fossil Pokémon by far! Thanks for covering them and paying special attention to paleontology discussions. I think the most recent hypothesis on if Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers or not has left off at the idea that due to their large size and mass, having feathers as adults would cause them to overheat. Similar to how adult elephants don’t have a lot of hair covering their bodies. At most, trex could’ve had sparse feathers here and there, or none at all. The babies were much more likely to have down feathers.
If Tyrantrum is supposed to be a king and Aurorus a queen, the title of this is basically: “TYRANTRUM BEATS HIS WIFE!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!!???!! 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨”
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Triceratops I think it's a little more common than quote one of those long neck dinosaurs because they're so many of those long neck dinosaurs you know it's kind of broken up between the species but yeah I'd say that's one of the more popular ones too
We watched, re-watched, edited, watched again, this video, over and over. and only a few minutes after it's posted do I realized I called the fossil pokemon "legendary" pokemon at the end.
How? haha
when i was a child i tougt Groudon and kyorge where legendary Fossil pokemons
I mean, they are pretty dang legendary
Also may wanna work on how to say diplodocus a bit.
@@somarushinde1704 in Gen 3 it does look like they're fossilized before awakening
i noticed that too lmao
My greatest sadness about Tyrantrum was learning that it had Strong Jaw but they didn't make a biting-style move of Rock or Dragon type, so it was using Dragon Claw with its bitty arms for its STAB.
Imagine if they made a dragon type Hp draining bite move: Ravage. Devouring their life force like the horrifying beast it is
A rock type bite move would make sense, I mean come on theres psychic fangs
I mean those arms were the same length of ours with more than 2x the muscle mass, I think they could do some damage with dragon energy embedded into them lol
Solution: Black Glasses Tyrantrum with Strong Jaw.
TERASTALIZED DARK TYPE STRONG JAW TYRANTRUM BABY LETS GOOOOO
random design trivia: the designer of the Aurorus line, Hitoshi Ariga, has stated that the reason he chose Amargasaurus as a base design for Aurorus is because he "wanted to differentiate it from other long necked dinosaur like mons such as Lapras, Meganium or Deino". the more you know!
Not to be that person, but Plesiosaurs were not actually dinosaurs
Oh that's super cool, and makes more sense now, otherwise I was like "why didn't they do a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus" but yeah it is a well designed Pokemon, and that certainly makes it stand out and be special.
@@idiotgoddess2114 1) that's why i said "dinosaur-like" instead of straight up dinosaurs, 2) that's the exact quote Ariga said on his Twitter; he specifically mentioned Lapras, Meganium and Deino as examples of long necked dinosaur-ish mons that he wanted Aurorus to be distinct from
@@IgnatiusBlaze4 Also one of the more regal designs, too
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It is, I mean I guessed the Queen aspects before since it seems more feminine and is the counter part like Sinnoh and Unova's fossils but I didn't understand the why, the in depth reasoning and LORE behind it. It truly is a regal and beautiful Pokemon, to anyone saying oh new Pokemon look bad... I point thee towards this.
Lockstin: "The French Revolution."
Historians: "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
Fun Fact: Despite a T-Rex's arms being very small for its body size, they were still as long as the average adult man's arms, except with twice the muscle mass. So yeah, imagine Dwayne Johnson's biceps, inflate them to twice their size, and you have a T-Rex's arms.
Which is why I’m always annoyed at people asking why T. rex arms are so small and people then answering about how unneeded they are, when the important question is “why the heck this man curling so much iron?” If it has THAT much muscle behind it, clearly Rexy is using them for something
@@spindash64 Exactly, they still use them for standing up and other tasks when they can.
there a theory that they dont have tiny arms at all but its been assembled wrong and they should be more like ostrich wings
@@unrealraven I mean if Chickens got wings than so does T-Rex
>average adult man
>Dwayne Johnson
umm...
It’s ironic that the Amaura line is seen as caring/motherly when most sauropods weren’t caring parents, while theropods like Tyrunt were
That was disproved. Look into the "egg stealer" dinosaur.
@@barrybend7189 You mean Oviraptor, the dinosaur famously mistaken for stealing a clutch of eggs that have since proven to be its own?
@@aidanconnor2274 after that revelation nest fossils have been reexamined and most follow the same behavior.
@@barrybend7189 What same behavior, brooding or egg-theft?
@@aidanconnor2274 brooding and more avian nesting behavior.
Herbivores can be pretty damned dangerous. Just ask anyone who's worked on a ranch or dealt with wild hippo.
Laughs in basically any animal people find cute
Hippos are the deadliest animals in Afica. They are not to be messed with.
Thank you. Herbivore doesn’t inherently mean weak; many of them are either surprisingly fast and evasive, or can threaten their predators. Look at most herbivorous dinosaurs!
Never underestimate steak or pork. They will destroy you if need be.
Yeah especially back in the Dino times like with ankylosaurus one tail whack and it could fracture a T. rex skull
The Snow Queen is a Danish story, not Swedish. It was created by Hans Christian Andersen, a famous Danish author. Just thought I'd throw that in there :P
My young dinosaur fanatic self has emerged and loooove these two pokémon :D As a Scandinavian I found the inspiration of Aurorus really bloody amazing
It's still amazing, how much one learns from these videos.
First, from the video.... and secondary; from the comment section!
To repay for your part in it Teaching me. I'll attempt to repay you with my own tibit of knowledge.
Did you know we have found Red blood cells of a *_dinosaur?_* Separately other finds of brains, organs, and even feathers or a entire head included with feathers of a tiny dinosaur stuck in time within amber? And two other larger specimens of T-Rex than Sue now.
A video about the ancient power mons, Yanmega, Tangrowth, and Mamoswine, sounds pretty interesting especially for a mon like Tangrowth where I feel there's something more to it than just being a shaggy caveman
I can see it
A compiled video for all the non-fossil Pokémon that can learn Ancient Power.
The fact of being fossils inspired by a king and a queen make even more sense in France: during the revolution they eliminated the royals, so now they are just fossils
As a huge dinosaur fan, this series has already become my favorite series out of your video library. Please keep these going! And please do other non-fossilmon based on prehistoric creatures!
Yes, we want more please
you should play fossil fighters, it is amazing. it's like a dinosaur Pokémon, but unique enough to be its own thing.
@@necrocomicon8 thanks for the recommendation, I’ll definitely have to check it out!
@@reshannicolson-singh4252 i would stick to the DS era games, FF fontiers was a bit of a let down when it focused more on the racing part than the dinofights.
@@necrocomicon8 you are so right, I un-ironically like the theme song though. It gets you in the mood to do some adventuring. Then they put a child in the drivers seat.
I have found myself more than once in the Crown Tundra's snowy area where Aurorus lives just sitting and watching it walk around. It is an absolutely gorgeous design. Easily my favourite fossil-mon.
In the anime Aurorus was depicted as being the same size as an Amargasaurus. In fact it is the only sauropod pokemon to be at that size. So you can chalk that up to Gamefreak not having a good sense of scale. In that same episode within X and Y it was shown that they do have the ability to freely change the color of their sails with them turning blue when the pokemon are unwell.
I mean considering the heaviest pokemon weigh about as much as a walrus, I'd say yeah scaling doesnt really compare
GameFreak with the first gens had no idea how the size would actually be on the mons. The designers just slapped some numbers on them they thought would work. The anime itself has had very sketchy and loose interpretation of size as well early on. Trying to pass off a Dragonite at Bill's lighthouse being freaking gigantic when during the first movie one is near the size of Jesse and James. Since the early years they've gotten better at keeping a consistent size and are more aware at what the realistic proportions would be.
On a fun extra note, there was recently a promotion at a Japanese museum that had mockups of fossil pokemon with their real world counterparts. Should be some videos floating around here of it.
@@TheFluBugZ the gaint Dragonite was treated as an anomaly and not the normal. Just another mystery in the world of pokemon. I don't know how you didn't catch that.
@@andresmarrero8666 Because that was ages ago when I last saw it. Now that you've brought that up it does make sense in context of what the episode was trying to get across that there are all kinds of strange mysteries with pokemon.
You also saw that in the games. When happy (e.g. being pet), they’re green. When angry (e.g. attacking), they’re red. When upset (e.g. fainting), they’re blue
I am absolutely down for more paleontology Pokémon content. As a certified paleo nerd who also liked Pokémon, this is probably my favorite video you’ve made so far. Keep it up, man!
When you were talking about how powerful sauropods are, I couldn't help but think back to that one episode of Primal: The Mad Sauropod. That episode has cemented in my mind just how terrifying those things could be.
Yeah, that was one hell of a nightmare.(P.S. the "correct "episode name was The Plague of Madness)
Thankfully sauropods are theororised to only have been able to move at like 7 mph if im not mistaken
They were not designed to run but watching it stamped like that was terrifying
Me too
I mean, they really are. They’re massive, they move in herds, and they could probably uproot trees just by hitting them with their tail.
Your fun fact about the German name for Aurorus got me excited for a possible series where you highlight some of the best and most creative non-English/Japanese Pokémon names!
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyrantrum Head Smash vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Aurorus: 678-800 (150.6 - 177.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Tyrantrum Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Aurorus: 724-856 (160.8 - 190.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Yeah it can very easily
And it is naturally faster than Aurorus; base 71 vs 58
Also the typing is better and it packs more of a punch, sure aurora veil or rock polish/specs is not too bad on Aurorus but it rarely gets chances to come out and usually other ice types outclass it, so often Aurorus is in PU, while Tyrantrum is in RU or NU
In-game stats also say that getting tackled by Oddish hurts more than by Onix and that Purugly moves faster than Latios. I don't think they make good base for lore arguments
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt not in game stats. In game lore such as pokedex, which is often wrong, in the same way you could say Pigeot is fast according to the dex, but there are many mons that outspeed it. In terms of game stats - onix has a significantly better attack stat than oddish.
@@DanielPereira-ey9nt true. the process of designing the Pokémon, making dex entries and giving them their respecitive typings and stats are a few different processes done by different people/groups at Game Freak.
Lugia has a psychic type cause this type was (and still is but not as much as back them) seen as a very powerful type. This Pokémon as well could've been a dragon or water type. At least it doesn't have a 4x weakness to anything like it's counterpart Ho-oh.
Other example is Charizard not having the dragon type for the sake of not making it unfairly strong and in advantage over the other sttarters.
I was so invested in Lockstin talking about dinosaurs I forgot about Pokémon
I like how they made Tyrantrum red. Reminds me of how the T-Rex is usually red in the Power Ranger Series.
It’s more brownish to me
Brown is my favorite shade of red
my Tyrantrums will forever be named Jason now
Its brownish red. Its crimson
Fun fact! Rexy from the original Jurassic Park novel was described as being reddish in color as well!
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This should be interesting
Also Aurorus is probably a contender for my favorite fossil pokemon don’t @ me
Well, this assumes that the tyrantrum and Aurourus lines existed at the same time, the cave/mine where you find the poke paleontologist who gives you the fossils clearly goes threw multiple strata, so Aurourus going extinct during the poke Jurassic, and the Tyrantrum waling on top of it's fossils during the poke cretaceous is a real possibility.
Kinda weird that Amaura’s dex entry would specifically mention Tyrantrum if they lived in different times.
@@reksew987 the dex references tons of things because it’s written with current knowledge. It’s also wrong in a ton of cases. Soooo that’s not good enough imo
Amargasaurus lived in the late cretacous so I find this unlikely but it's an interesting idea.
@@JacobPDeIiNoNi early cretaceous actually
@@ervinwilliams9807 Yeah that's true my bad, but still it wouldn't have been in the Jurassic
29:36 now I kinda understand why Team Flare wanted to steal the fossils in pokemon x and y : it's because they were trying to get a lot of money from them, either by simply selling them or by doing auctions. It all makes sense now
I think Tyrantrum would win, even though Aurorus can use Ice type moves and Earth Power against its Dragon type, they do have poor defenses due to typing and the former hits hard with attacks that Aurorus is weak to.
Plus Tyrantrum is faster and has Rock STAB moves that can beat Aurorus.
Lore and BSTs don't always align. Like how Pidgeot is very fast, but its BST doesn't reflect that.
We're they actually rock types to begin with, or they only became rock type cause the pokemon were resurrected from a chunk of rock?
@@echidnaralsei1473 Wonder that about Aurorus since it was found in ice. Then again, maybe it got scared and froze itself like an Opposum being stunned goes go sleep/gets knocked out.
In game, 100% tyrantrum wins. In lore, not at all. Aurorus has pokedex entries that say it can create walls of ice to block attacks, let alone freeze its enemies solid. By the time Tyrantrum (a physical attacker) even gets to aurorus through ice walls it would be frozen solid by super effective ice attacks by that point.
I'd love it if you did a video on Fossil Fighters, discussing the inspirations for the vivosaurs! I love hearing you talk about fossils and monsters from other series!
17:50 Fun Fact: the English word Tyrant and it’s derivatives are derived from the Latin word Tyrannous, which just means King. Specifically, a king that had come into the role through their works (meaning they were chosen by the people if their wasn’t an heir or they committed a coup or something to that effect), as opposed to one who had inherited the role from the previous king, which was referred to as Rex. So technically, Tyrannosaurus Rex actually means King Lizard King. Lol.
So it’s the Reptilian King of Kings, the Second Coming of the Jesus Christ Lizard
King Lizard Squared.
King Dragon sends his regards.
Huh. So when the play, Oedipus Tyrannus was renamed to Oedipus Rex, the title was turned into a spoiler?
@@jaschabull2365 I mean, kind of. Keep in mind that while the play is one of the oldest and most complete versions we still have of that story, it was technically an adaptation of an existing myth that was likely already well known at the time, so while some details may have been unique to that version, the audience probably already knew the twist anyway.
did you know, the behemoth described in the Bible's book of Job, most closely fits the description of a sauropod? so if you take that description found in Job as any indicator, tail slap would be a huge damage dealing move. i do love when mythology and ancient tales line up with descriptions of dinosaurs.
Tyrantrum is definitely my favorite dragon type (aside from Flygon). It looks so badass and it’s a really good Pokémon to have on your team. Plus who doesn’t want to have a T-Rex as a party member?
These were the best fossils yet! I hope we get new fossils in Scarlet and Violet!
nope
Wait..... is this the first region without *official* Fossil pokemon?!
Instead I mean... I guess technically the thing of the past pokemon are technically? But they never became Fossils we find to revive so... yeah.
@@moonlight0402 Baxcalibur has dinosaur origins at least lol
Tyrantrum is my Favorite Dragon type.
On another note: I’m so….SO HAPPY that you mentioned Sue in the video. She’s a favorite at the Field Museum here in Chicago.
I was surprised at first that Aurora and Aurorus didn’t get the fairy type due to the influence of the Northern Lights .
maybe it actually was fairy back when it was alive but due to the fossil revival process it traded its fairy type for rock
If they ever brought Mega-Evolution back or gave fossil Pokemon regional variants, I would love to see Aurorus swap out the Rock type for Electric. It does know Thunder Wave as a level-up move.
Electric can work as auroras are made from electric protons and electrons, and are in an electromagnetic field.
A Lot of Things know Thunder wave.
What about electric-fairy
@@goli8699 Well Aurorus could learn it through leveling-up compared to many other non-electric types who know the move through TM.
For me personally I think it'll be better if it was a dragon and ice type since dinosaurs are typically compared to dragons
Troodon isn't real dinosaur species anymore after 2019 or 2020. Because all they could find was a teeth and nothing more than at. So they stopped calling troodon a species of dinosaur. Other than that you facts are good.
Troodon can be used as a common name for Stenonycosaurus, though. I do like to use it in that manner, personally.
Actually, fun fact, the “main” species of Triceratops has almost as cool a name as T Rex…Triceratops Horridus. I’d almost argue Brontosaurus (now that it’s almost likely a thing again) also is in that camp with: Brontosaurus Excelsus
Excel paper
Excel-WHAT?
Excelsior
@@noivernblast3366 SUS. AMONGUS
“Excelsus” LIVE IN IGNORANCE AND PURCHASE YOUR HAPPINESS
Wait, the former *wasn't* meant to defeat the latter? One is a hard-hitting Rock type and the other is an Ice type; and Rock doesn't resist itself.
To be fair, Tyrantrum is also very weak to Ice… but the more obvious and hilarious joke to me is that it means that Draco Meteor is Super Effective against it
Just… all the War flashback memes going on in its head when that move happens
3:21 Actually, the sail hypothesis for Amargasaurus has been considered a possibility again based on a recent paper earlier this year.
3:41 The sails on its back aren't sails. that's the thickness of their vertebrae. Amargasaurus belongs to the family Dicraeosauridae, a group of Diplodocoid Sauropods known for having relatively short necks, but long neural spines for thicker muscle attachments. This could mean that the possibile sails ran down from the neck to the middle of the back where the last biffurcated vertebrae was before it transitioned to the thicker, more ridge.
3:59 Amargasaurus has a close relative recently discovered called Bajadasaurus. it's similar to the former in that it has those large spikes on the neck, but the difference is that they point forward instead of being swept back.
12:14 We don't know about Pachyrhinosaurus having feathery coats. While it's possible that Ceratopsian (horned dinosaurs) had feathers, the plumage was sparse and mainly found along the back and tail. In a recent discovery from 2012 (still undescribed), a mummy named Lane had skin impressions which displayed the possibility of quills similar to earlier forms like Psittacosaurus.
The feathered Pachyrhinosaurus trope is one that popped up in 2012. The idea is that this genus (there are currently three accepted species) lived in the northern regions, which snowed year round and had evolved in a way similar to wooly animals like Coelodonta and Mammoths - developing a coat of thick feathers to provide as insulation. It's plausible for this adaptation to occur, though there's no concrete evidence to prove it.
12:49 I think you're referring to Leallynasaura, which was a distant cousin from Australia that likely experienced cold. Hypsilophodon was found in the Wessex Formation of England, which during its time was part of a European chain of islands. The environment was a semi-arid environment covered in shrubs and and trees. Also it wasn't subjected to being so close to the poles and seasonal extremes.
20:30 Fun Fact: Tyrannosaurus and it's relatives had the best depth perception of any predatory Theropods - almost similar to humans. Other species had very limited binocular vision, with Allosaurus only seeing about 20 degrees and Velociraptor having 60 degrees. Also, because of how large its optic nerve was, a T. rex is estimated to be able to track a target nearly four miles away.
22:22 In a 2015 study, it's proposed that a T. rex was able to straight up decapitate a Triceratops skull in order to get at the meat from behind the neck. Also, based on Tarbosaurus tooth marks (an Asian relative), it was likely able to gently scrape meat clean off the bone.
24:21 Your success rate was 33.3%.
24:33 Oooh! Yeah, we don't talk about that one. So, that was based on a 2017 paper by Steve Brusatte, whose become a bit of a rock star (no pun intended) in the Paleontology scene. The issue was that he was measuring the EQ (encephalization quotient) between T. rex and a chimp. For those that don't know, the EQ is the ratio between the mass of the brain vs. body in order to determine possible cognitive levels. Sounds good on paper... until you realize different clades involve different calculations. An equation for a mammal doesn't work for a reptile or a bird. Niw to be fair, T. rex is a relatively smart animal compared to other large Theropods and gators. But being equivalent to a chimp? Not even close. Since then, Brusatte has apologized over this error last year.
27:43 Okay, as an aside, I just realized how much Sue was in that story.🤣
28:59 I think you meant "Troglodyte".
30:02 As a Paleontologist, I despise the Fossil Trade, wherher it's the black market or on the "up and up", with Stan (and to me, just as importantly, the most complete Deinonychus fossil known) being the most livid purchase. Still, it had a silver lining as it turned out that the fossil was transferred to a museum being developed in Abu Dhabi. It was once thought that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the guy who bought the tyrant (as many celebs ought to do. Nick Cage illegally purchased a Tarbosaurus in a bid to outdo Leonardo di Caprio's Mosasaurus). Of course, it turned out to not be the case and he claimed to have way more respect for thr science than other rich people.
32:27 They're not cheeks. It's likely that he's talking about the antorbital fenestra, which is a hole found between the eye socket and nostril of Archosauria. This hole was used to help lighten the head and was covered by skin and muscle. Birds still have it, many pterosaurs had it, but crocs lost it over their evolutionary history.
33:19 Small arms have been a contentious issue in the realm of dinosaur paleobiology. We see the trait appear in numerous lineages over the span of the Mesozoic. When it comes to Tyrannosaurids, it's even stranger. Generally, there are two standards - the arms are small, but still have functionality for hunting (as seen in Allosaurus and its relatives) or have degenerated into vestiges (like with Carnotaurus and its kin). For T. rex, the arms still were functional, albeit to a lesser extent. They were packed full of muscle, but very little range of motion.
Either way, the general trend is that as a predator grows, the head becomes the primary killing tool while the arms shrink over time. This is likely possible for T. rex. Keep in mind that this animal came from a lineage of small, fast moving opportunists that had long, functional arms. Of course, there's always exceptions to this rule as the Megaraptorans exist. These were a clads of killers frim the Southern continents that grew to impressive sizes, but had surprisingly long, muscular arms tipped with giant talons. For a long time, nobody knew what they were. Allosauroids? A clan of their own Coelurosaurian club? Weird Tyrannosauroid offshoots? Well do to the recent discovery of a terror names Maip, it's been determined that these animals were a sister taxa to Tyrannosaurs.
...Oh right, short arms. So there's an idea floating around within the past month that the reason for short arms in Tyrannosaurus stems from the mitigation of injury. Essentially, over their evolution, T. rex arms grew smaller overtime to avoid being damaged/destroyed in fights with prey, rivals, or accidentally getting rippes off in group feedings.
35:05 Keep in mind that Yutytannus is in a basal position in the tyrant family tree - having evolved closer to a feathered ancestor. Also worth noting is that it came from a more temperate climate that would've dropped down to 50 degrees Fahrenheit regularly. T. rex, on the other hand, was a spring chicken that lived in swamps and forests closer to Louisiana bayous. Also, it was 6000 kilograms heavier, meaning that it would've likely suffocated and overheated if it had as extensive of a coat as its predecessor.
37:07 I mean, it could be a bird. That's just a bird. Even with bat wings. Which was a thing. Yi and Ambopteryx.🤷🏿♂️
Wow, that was very detailed and informative. And no condescension whatsoever
It's information like this that makes me love dinosaurs. There's always something new to you every year with new discoveries and studies
Wow we got a mf dinosaurologist over here
@@silverpumpkin1529 Paleontologist, not dinosaurologist
@@darwisysaardin6368 i know a dinosaurologist when i see one
Actually Sue and Scotty are bigger than any Giganotosaurus fossil found so far, however only 32 vs the hundred of T-Rex fossils have been found of Giga, and I think only 3 of them are relatively complete. There's also the fact that dinosaurs while bird like could've also been like reptiles, reptiles, amphibians, and fish will grow throughout their lives non stop until death. Also fun fact the Giga had a set of teeth that were like cleavors, butcher knives meant for tearing flesh off the bone in 1 swift movement and ease vs the T-Rex the strongest bite force of ANY LAND ANIMAL were meant for bone crunching. This is why scientists are so split in the middle, was the world's most effective land killer or was it a scavenger, personally I think both, like a wolf or hyena, nothing stopping them from hunting, but they wouldn't pass up a free meal either. Same with were dinosaurs more bird or more reptile, I think... kind of both, a well mixed combination, the missing link if you were, that could separate them from either.
I LOVE THE T-REX OH MY GOSH HE'S GOING INTO THE NUMBERS OF THE BITE FORCE! Also while Scotty is bigger Sue certainly is more famous, and is a little more complete, Scotty only at like 60% and Sue at 90% roughly, so even then it still is unknown if for certain Scotty was bigger and is highly backed and forthed with THE NERDS as you put it lol. They are by extension also the oldest T-Rex's estimated to have lived possibly to 28 years old, putting more evidence on that some dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus Rex, didn't stop growing like reptiles until they died.
Ok last comment, I've left too many and many of them so long I just LOVE THESE DINOSAURS AND POKEMON, Tyrantrum is tied with Pyroar for my 3rd favorite Pokemon, both having my favorite types dragon and fire, only beat out by Hydreigon and... if I said my favorite I'd probably be shamed, it's a popular Pokemon... ok Charizard, but it's not because oooh big fire dragon, it's got sentimental value, I connect with it on a deeper level than most people, it wasn't even my 1st starter that goes to Typhlosion. Anyone questioning me I'd be happy to share my valiant tale of triumph. Anyways this video I've been so excited and happy for the longest time, whether Lockstin got stuff right or wrong I was so thrilled to see it, and he did a lot of good research into these Pokemon some of which I didn't even know... mostly about Auroras, but still, this was a fun and amazing video.
I’d argue the highly developed hearing AND depth perception make it very unlikely it was _primarily_ a scavenger: not only are there not really many animals that big in their ecosystem today that are scavengers first, but having high intelligence + all of their senses being well developed suggests a FAR more demanding lifestyle, once where they would need to pinpoint a target, and be able to quickly “Mk 1 eyeball” the range to a target as they went in to tear them apart with their jaws. Yeah, scavengers ain’t stupid, but you don’t really need advanced hearing or eyesight to find a carcass. This guy was either dealing with SERIOUS competition, or SERIOUS defense, and went all in to just nuke things
Rex was definitely a hunter. Great binocular vision, massive bite force and evidence such as a broken off tooth found in a healed over bone in an Edmontosaur all lends credence to it being a hunter. The scavenger "theory" has only really been pushed by Jack Horner who is an infamous contrarian who openly admits that he doesn't like Rex (seriously, he's said so on video) and allegedly only says it was a scavenger to get attention. All of this being said, a Rex would not turn down a free meal in a carcass like you said, just like any carnivore alive today.
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I know right, there's no way it was just a scavenger with how it was built. I wouldn't deny it could scavenge, look at wolves or hyenas, in the wild the strong survive you take any meal you can get, but it was 100% a hunter. I didn't know it was Jack Horner though... no wonder why Jurassic Park has so many wrong facts, and that's stupid to blind yourself just because you hate something, and why, what does he have against the T-Rex? Just because it's so popular?
@@IgnatiusBlaze4 he said that he prefers duck-billed hadrosaurs. Whether it’s because he’s always found them more interesting or he’s just tired of T Rex (I believe he’s found around a dozen mostly complete skeletons and did it in about a decade) I couldn’t tell you. I don’t want to take away from how much archeology has benefitted from his discoveries and his contrarian theories are sometimes plausible (such as his belief that Stygimoloch and Dracorex are juvenile Pachycephalosaurus) but his hubris and apparent need to go against the grain seems to often get the better of him.
YES MORE DINOSAUR MON VIDEOS LETS GOOOOO I FREAKIN LOVE TYRANTRUM
I thought you said “Dinosaur Mom video” and was very confused for a second
tyrantrum ROCKS
@@OmegaQuinn Dinosaur moms are cool too
In Sword and Shield, when I saw a Tyrantrum charging towards me in Crown Tundra, my heart skipped a beat. I may or may not have broken my own heart when I knocked it out immediately after.
@@Jormyyy I mean Aurorous is basically a Dino mommy
14:08 is the best part!
Impressive work as always Lockstin. I always do and always will appreciate the effort you put into the research you do. Much love, and best of luck in future.
Amaura's cry is my favourite in all of Pokemon. I had no idea that it was based on sounds auroras make though, or that auroras made any sound at all. That makes me love it even more.
Glaceon is another one of my fav cries
Aurorus is hands-down my favorite Fossilmon and Ice type Pokémon. One reason why is because of the time my Aurorus in my playthrough of Y tanked TWO consecutive Flash Cannon hits, and still came out as the victor of that battle
HOLY POO
Or should I say HOLY CANNON
Why do we have to put our hands down? Why do you think everyone else will try to change your opinion? Why is what aurorus did possible? Why am i replying to a 6 month old comment? Why do i keep asking why? Why do i exist? Why do i keep asking questions? Why the hell are my questions longer than the comment I’m replying to? Why do i have so many questions?
@@LowQualityCarbink You alright?
I feel bad for you
*Fun Fact:* The first thoroughly analyzed fragment of a T. rex was some vertebra in 1892, done by Edward Drinker Cope. He named the specimen Manospondylus gigas which means "giant porous vertebra,” and imagined it as a ceratopsian. The holotype of the rex was examined in Montana in 1902 and given the name Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and interpreted theropod instead. It wasn’t until Henry Fairfield Osborn named the second skeletal holotype in 1905, even though he named the first holotype in 1902. But since the name of T. rex appeared earlier in his work, the name was used by the public. And because of the previous specimens of “Dynamosaurus” and “Manospondylus” were later found to be the same species, it was the name Tyrannosaurus rex that was kept as the preferred name.
Yo lockstin ive gotta say: these highly edited, well researched videos are a big inspiration for me. great work man : )
Fossil Pokemon are my favorite “catagory” of Pokemon, so I love these videos that you explain their lore and real-life counterparts. It makes me love these ‘mons more!
I like Fossil Pokemon too, but nothing will ever top the Vivosaurs from Fossil Fighters.
I would love to see a continuation of this series looking at the pokemon inspired by ancient life but not classified as Fossil Pokemon
... Shocking case of Poke love "that's the last bath I'll take with Tentacool"... I... only words I can think of is... oh kay then... oh I came up with more, and I've seen enough anime to know where this is going.
T. Rex, while not the longest nor the tallest land carnivore... was *easily* the most powerful.
Pound for pound, T. Rex was a behemoth of a Therapod. While being roughly the same size as other large carnivores, it was way more massive, being essentially pure muscle while others like Charcharadontosaurus and Giganotasaurus were far more sleek and lightweight.
The reason we know so much of T. Rex, is because newer people would see all the data we have, and take the easy route of studying it. They'd find more data, and then more new people would see all the data and find even more!
It's an exponential growth of study.
TL;DR- he big, he chonky, and it's eyes/nose/ears were some of the best the animal kingdom has ever seen.
T.rex was the heaviest and the most muscular tho
@@rayyanahsan2628 I would argue spinosaurus was heavier
@@unclebaba3463 Spinosaurus has been speculated to be quadrupedal, since primarily its tail would've been far too heavy to hold itself up without falling backwards
The average for Tyrannosaurus is roughly 9 or so tonnes iirc, Spinosaurus averaging around 7?
Megalosaurus bites harder though
T. Rex was likely the bulkiest of the large therapods, Acrocanthosaurus could be close if you consider it to have a meaty hump and not a thin spine. Other Apex predators were generally slimmer, but had the advantage of generally less dangerous prey. They were probably biting/slashing large sauropods and waiting for them to bleed out, whereas T. Rex might 1v1 fight a Triceratops.
Spinosaurus being a quadrupedal isn't something that's really considered anymore. Most agreeing its the first largely aquatic dinosaur, and its tail being actually very thin helped it with the weight issues :)
And no Megalosaurus didn't have a stronger bite than T. Rex. Tyrannosaurus has the strongest bite of any language carnivore in Earth's history :)
This region easily had my most favorite fossil Pokemon ever. I've always wanted a T Rex Pokemon and sauropods in general are my favorite dinosaurs. I always try to fit them in a team whenever I have the chance to do so.
My only gripe is that Aurorus has a very weird stat spread, so it's very pretty hard to use (especially given it's typing).
Funny how the majority are ready to grill Aurorus for being inferior to Tyrantrum, but the instant they hear that Cradily would beat Armaldo's ass, they go into denial lol
They can't accept that the "cool edgy looking" pokémon is weaker and/or "inferior" to the "cute looking" one
find it weird how you said people hate cradily though when it’s debatably more edgy than Armaldo
I love Cradily so I'm happy about this
Speaking of stegosaurus, is it just me or does Lugia sort of look like one? I mean, think about it, really think about it, if you replaced its wings with some legs, and shortened the neck, doesn't it look like a cartoon stegosaurus?
Tyrantrum is my absolute favorite Pokemon of all time. Using the "royal" theming to also give it a bony crest as a nod to Cryolophosaurus is so clever and seeing protofeathers on a pop culture Rex is very much appreciated! The fact that it has decent stats also helps!
I just realized another brilliant thing about it, maybe intentional, maybe not
It’s an ancient king, but in France. And we all know what happened to French kings. _they went extinct_
A more recent hypothesis put forward for the _T. rex_ short arm length is that they may have been social or semi-social hunters, and that having shorter forelimbs meant they were less likely to be accidentally bitten off by another rex. Ultimately concluding that it's from natural selection. Interesting to think that what may have once started as brachial dysplasia became the species norm.
14:59 wow I didn't even know that aurora *australis* were a thing, it's crazy how many things we can learn with with you and pokemon
They beat each other.
Tyrunts Rock typing beats Amauras Ice
Amaura’s Ice typing beats Tyrunts Dragon
One is faster
But Amaura’s type is worse overall. Ice/rock is awful.
39:07 I'm from sweden!🤩
Imagine a whole game that's nothing but fossil Pokemon, well stop imagining because that already exists and it's called Fossil Fighters
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I wonder if the t-Rex had more time to evolve maybe they would have lost their arms in total , like how whales lost their back legs but the leg bones are still in the body !
I personally love Velociraptors the most. I blame seeing the first Jurassic Park in theaters for that. XD
Same here! Wish they’d make a raptor fossilmon.
@@reshannicolson-singh4252 Omg! That would be so cool!
We almost got one an electric one just gotta find the rest of it and don't take it to Galar
@@pinksamm 😂 I don’t know if I want to count that. I feel like they could do better.
Saurophaganax has a cooler name, it means “lord of the lizard eaters”.
Correction. You said that The Snow Queen was a Swedish fairytale but it was written by the danish auther H.C. Andersen. Danes and swedes probably has the longest ongoing rivalry in the whole world.
2:07 "how could I even forget that Alamosaurus?" bravo. bravo.
So happy to see someone else geeking out about SUE! I've been lucky to see them many, many times and they are incredible in-person. Here's another fun fact about that skull: it had to be painstakingly reconstructed from hundreds of fragments due to being crushed under other stones. Looking at it up close is something else.
I'd love to see you continue this series with the prehistoric-inspired 'mon!
Aurorus is my favorite pokemon and was my primary team member in my first playthrough of X. I named him Comet because comets are icy rocks, which I thought fit really well with its design. 🌌
You pointed out that Stegosaurus was one of the most famous dinosaurs earlier in the video and Stegosaurus fossils have been found in the Iberian Peninsula, so maybe we'll see a Stegosaurus Fossil Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet.
Great video!
However, I’d like to point out: you said that “The Snow Queen” was swedish. This is false.
It was written by Hans Christian Andersen, the danish author of “The Little Mermaid”, “The Emperors new Clothes” and many more including “The Snow Queen”
Us smaller countries take a lot of pride in our relatively few contributions to the world at large, so it becomes a pet peeve when these things get attributed to other nations
If Tyrantrum gets a regional form plus evolution it can become a Electric/Dragon it would get more feathers that contain electricity that would make Tyrantrum more epic then it normally is there is a reason why I like Tyrantrum it's one of my favorite dragon types of Gen 6.
Fulgur Anjanath
Love Fulger Ajanath in Monster Hunter Stories 2 its definitely my favorite subspecies.
4:52
Hey, I know where this bit comes from
"A Shocking Case of Poke-love: That's the last time I'll bathe with my Tentacool" ~ Source; Pokemon Adventures Red/Blue/Green & Yellow
A sailed amargasaur and a feathered _T. rex_ ? That generation's fossils where pretty "Well tried, but actually, no.".
I believe they were pretty accurate at the time of release. The non-sailed thing was pretty recent
@@DeeRose54, well, actually, Amargasarus' very first description described it having horns, and for more recent times, I searched "amargasaurus paleoart" in Google, the first result dated from 2013, so the horn theory, on top of making more sense, was already resurected in the begining of the 2010s.
16:07 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐
I still love Tyrantrum to this day. The moment Tyrunt was revealed when I first started my Pokémon journey back in 2013, I knew I had to get him.
Lockstin: Jurassic park was wrong!!
Me, an intellectual: DINOSAUR TRAINNNNNN
A fun lil fact about the Rex, because it had such a cute and sensitive hearing the tree didn't roar because if it did, it would go deaf from its own noises so instead it made low frequency noises you'd feel more than here. There's a few recreations on TH-cam that are really good
I've seen those. Just about triggers flight-or- fight response, which makes you think.
@@rmathewes exactly it's freaky how the low tones make you feel a bit scared XD
If you do look at other Pokemon that "seem" like Fossil Pokemon, you can't forget about Relicanth, who is stated in its Dex entries to be a living fossil.
I like the Gen 6 legendary Pokemon, but more on topic, I also like the fossils
8.3 million for the greatest fossil find ever is not too shabby, just sucks that it even had to come to that. Thankfully Sue will always be on display and she's given us so much knowledge! I hate that some fossils end up in private collections never to be seen or studied!
This wasn't brought up in the Tyrantrum section so i was wondering if you heard about the possible discovery of two other Tyranosaurus species: Tyranosaurus Imperator and Regina (Tyrant Lizard Emperor and Queen respectively)
Isnt that paper kinda frowned upon(for lack of a better term) for some scientific reasoning that I cant remember off the top of my head?
@@EG-hy9mv i think it's being frowned upon because the proof is kind of thin atm, but i think they're working on trying to find more proof. still, thought it might be worth pointing out (maybe with an asterisk)
Yes! Definitely more vids about this stuff. I love what you guys do and really appreciate all what you’ve done to further our knowledge of PKMN. I would really like to express that I appreciate all the hard work you guys put into bringing us something new, and interesting, but most of all enjoyable. The Pokémon community is the best community. We all work together and as a community put our heads together to discover, decipher, and/or Learn all these things about our beloved series. And the community NEEDS Lockstin & Gnoggin for to lose you guys would be like losing our library of PKMN knowledge to a fire. So keep on doing what you’re doing and keep reminding us to use our Gnoggin.
Tyrantrum isn’t a T. rex watch the dex guys
It existed a few million years apart from the T. rex in the same time period as the giganotosaurus/cryolophosaurus which is millions of years apart from the era the T. rex lived in
The dex goes into a lot of research about it watch their video
I mean considering it has the same morphology as a T. Rex and none of the fossil Pokémon lived at the same time as their counterparts I think the Pokémon company just came up with a funky number to say the ancient Pokémon lived
@@bestboi7729 fair I guess but still watch the Rex’s video on tyrantrum it’s an oldy but a goody
This series makes me really REALLY want to do a Fossil Pokémon only run sometime. I love so pretty much all of the fossil Pokémon so it’ll be hard to choose just six, but I’m thinking I’d definitely need Aurorus. They’re just so darn pretty! I know Sword and Shield has all the fossils I’d ever need but I don’t think I could stand playing through that story for the fifth time. Here’s hoping Scarlet and Violet has them all available!
The Gen 6 fossil Pokemon are definitely my favorite. They complement each other and gave us two dual typings we haven't seen before... plus... they get access to some really great moves!
The story of the snow queen is written by Hans Christian Anderson, a Danish writer rather than a Swedish one.
The feathers on T Rex answer can also be solved by looking at elephants. They only have small thin sparse hairs due to their size and the environment. They don't need a thick coat in a savannah, so neither does T Rex.
Aurora Borealis at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the
country localized entirely within your kitchen?
yes.
May i see it?
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I fell in love with the X & Y fossil 'mons the moment I saw them. Such cool designs.
I love the way the editor puts in the video: video editor puts silly headlines in the video while lockstin continues to talk nonsense🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would love to hear about mons like Mamoswine, Raikou, and Dreepy!
He did a video on Dragapult if that counts. It covers all of them
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It felt more about the Britain inspirations than the ancient history inspirations
@@hondaaccord1399 you right, but I think that’s probably the majority of where that influence comes from. Idk tho
Fun fact, the colors of the sails on both Amaura and Aurorus do change colors in the orignal X and Y games. They only do it in Pokemon amie, though, which, if you didn't spend gross amounts of hours feeding them poke puffs and playing minigames, most players probably would never see. If you pet Aurorus and make it happy, the sails turn green, so it shows it's mood of happiness. If you tap it aggressively or drop a poke puff in front of it instead of feeding it when it's at maximum hunger, the sails will turn red, indicating anger. I think they can also ripple blue meaning sad as a reaction to poking it sometimes. Might fact check me on the blue color there.
As an aspiring palaeontologist, I can tell you you got the majority of those names correct, and you were solid on your facts. Still adore this series, and it's even started me guessing if gen 9 gives us new fossil mon.
Sadly, though, I still haven't got my desire for a literally massive giganotosaurus Mon. And I mean competitor with the whale Mons big
Yeah Amaura got those anime eyes lol
... I'd say Brachiosaurus is most identifiable long neck... but I suppose that's mostly due to Jurassic Park HOWEVER same could be said of the T-Rex. While it was certainly popular before that's when it got BIG, otherwise Stegosaurus was on the same level of popularity. Granted I think it pulls from several sauropods, much like Bastiodon pulling from multiple ceratopsians but primarily the Chasmosaurus. Like the whip tail I'd say is more reminiscent of a Diplodocus (which either you mispronounced, or I have been since I was like 5 from Walking with Dinosaurs... hmmm if it's me that'd be like a Mandela effect, interesting... Oh doesn't matter to me either way, not trying to sound rude, just intrigues me), but you do mention that and they are related to each other, another example of gamfreak just taking parts from multiple sources to make one whole encompassing thing... which I kind of love, well most of the time, here's it's fine even if I don't get the Brachiosaurus my favorite herbivorous dinosaur.
With that being said... I suppose Tyrantrum means we're unlikely to get too many other big theropods like Allosaurus because they "look the same", Tyrantrum the all encompassing big carnivore dinosaur. Spinosaurus probably distinguished enough, maybe the Carnotaurus? I doubt Gamefreak would give Allosaurus a shot though, despite it being the Jurassic equivalent to the T-Rex (equivalence, doesn't mean the same) with a rivalry against the Stegosaurus while T-Rex had the Triceratops in the Cretaceous period. Both sets of legendary Dinosaurs with legendary rivalries of predator vs prey... but we won't ever get to see them in Pokemon.
This video format was very interesting and I really enjoyed how you branched off to talk about other subjects such as Sue that although not Pokémon related, you made very captivating to the audience and helped us learn new information that typically wouldn’t of been known.
20:45 Wow! That picture of a T. Rex skull is the one that’s on display at my university’s geology museum! I recognize the diorama in the back. Cool stuff!
I wanted to be a Paleontologist since I was like 5, so this is by far my favorite series you've done yet. I always love your deep dives. Please continue it, because spreading knowledge on prehistory is always appreciated
Yeah!
The fact Fossils of dinosaur bones have rings in them similar to trees allowing us to age their lives is amazing! Or the fact we litterly found Red blood cells of a dinosaur.
Triceratops horridus actually does come to mind as both the first dinosaur i think of, and an exact species
I'd love to hear more about the non-fossil Dinosaur-mon. It's my personal belief that Venusaur, possibly the whole Bulbasaur line, is inspired by Jurassic Park using frog DNA to complete their dinosaurs, which is why it has frog-like characteristics.
40:12 I do love the gen six legendary pokemon.
The gen 6 fossil Pokémon are my most favorite fossil Pokémon by far! Thanks for covering them and paying special attention to paleontology discussions. I think the most recent hypothesis on if Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers or not has left off at the idea that due to their large size and mass, having feathers as adults would cause them to overheat. Similar to how adult elephants don’t have a lot of hair covering their bodies. At most, trex could’ve had sparse feathers here and there, or none at all. The babies were much more likely to have down feathers.
If Tyrantrum is supposed to be a king and Aurorus a queen, the title of this is basically: “TYRANTRUM BEATS HIS WIFE!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!!???!! 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨”
The giga is slightly taller then the Rex, but built thinner, and therefore by mass, smaller.
I love that lockstin respected Sue's pronouns.