Iguanodon: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

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  • / ydaw -- Iguanodon's been with us for nearly as long as paleontology itself. Consequently, the way we reconstruct this animal has changed over and over, right down to the present day.
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    Contents:
    00:00 Opening
    01:29 Overview
    02:54 Early Ideas
    10:11 Mastication Implications
    15:20 Spiky Sloth-Lizard
    24:08 Waterhouse-Hawkins
    34:07 Bernissart I
    43:30 20th Century Forelimbs
    50:11 Bernissart II
    55:58 Conclusion
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    Sources & Links:
    Follow the link below for the full list, as it's far too big to fit into the description this time!
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    Photo Credits:
    Eastern Great Egret Photo by Basile Morin
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    Saltwater Crocodile Photo by AngMoKio
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    Cincinnati Paramylodon Skull Photo by James St. John
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    Iguanodon museum mount hands photo by Ballista
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    Iguanodon in the glass case at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences by Fernando Losada Rodríguez (aka Drow male)
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    Vue de la salle des dinosaures, muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique by Benoît Prieur
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    I. bernissartensis et I. atherfieldensis by Bernard J. Noël
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    Crystal Palace Iguanodon’s Head in Profile by Flickr user Kevan
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    Crystal Palace Iguanodons by Flickr user Jim Linwood
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    Mantellisaurus Skin Impression by NHMdinolabs
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    Rhinoceros Iguana Photo by LordToran
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    California Condors Photo by Scott Lee
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    Plate of the Saull Specimen, unknown engraver
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    Hadrosaurus mount photo
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    Mary Ann Mantell portrait
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    Gideon Mantell portrait
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    Mantell’s Iguanodon teeth drawing
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    Hawkins’ Sydenham Studio Illustration
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    Dinner Party in the Crystal Palace Iguanodon Illustration
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    Bernissart Iguanodon Illustration by Gustave Lavalette
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    Bernissart Iguanodon Illustration #2 by Gustave Lavalette
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ความคิดเห็น • 899

  • @YourDinosaursAreWrong
    @YourDinosaursAreWrong  2 ปีที่แล้ว +262

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    • @tturi2
      @tturi2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This was a great episode

    • @DINO_X65
      @DINO_X65 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The intro was first class, also, could you please do an episode on the Tyrannosaurus, I know that you guys did one on the skeleton a few years ago, but this time, maybe on the actual animal. I know you must have other things planned because I know how much research goes into episodes, since that tour of the studio that you guys did a while back, so just a request.

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was an awesome episode!

    • @tscream80
      @tscream80 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DINO_X65 That's a dinosaur that I'm sure they get a lot of requests for, but they've mentioned they have no plans to cover... at present.

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oooo! I request Atopodentatus unicus the strange marine herbivore!

  • @anniesearle6181
    @anniesearle6181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    While referencing archaeology not palaeontology, I have just written "the Victorians had an uncomfortable fondness for dynamite" in my dissertation. Probably the best line I've ever written

    • @zenolachance1181
      @zenolachance1181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And people still have a fascination with blowing things up, it's just a lot harder to get a hold of now

    • @visiblur
      @visiblur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Thing like this it's what keeps me hopeful for my bachelor's dissertation. I'm nervous as fuck, but being able to reference a literal arms race on a submicroscopic scale is going to be awesome.

    • @MylotheZooLovingScientist
      @MylotheZooLovingScientist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@visiblur All the best to you whenever you get started on that dissertation!

    • @Havamal
      @Havamal ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't get too mad at them though.
      If I consumed laudanum on a daily basis, I'd probably blow up a fossil bed sooner or later as well.

    • @beneficent2557
      @beneficent2557 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My house got Heinrich Schliemanned.

  • @mattdempsey4541
    @mattdempsey4541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1628

    I'm a longtime fan of the show, and would have the older YDAW episodes playing on loop in the office during my undergraduate and master's years. So seeing my name flash up on screen as part of a citation and seeing an adaptation of research and reconstructions that I was part of in the YDAW artstyle was a pretty amazing moment. Thank you for continuing to make awesome videos! :D

    • @s.j7423
      @s.j7423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      that is so lovely

    • @TheAspiringLawgiver
      @TheAspiringLawgiver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      It comes full circle.

    • @_veronica_r
      @_veronica_r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Timestamp? I looked through the citations list and didn't see "Matt Dempsey" anywhere on it...

    • @Martin-yh7vi
      @Martin-yh7vi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@_veronica_r I just looked up the full list in the gdrive link in the description. There is a "Dempsey M" in the last study cited.

    • @SMAnthonyW
      @SMAnthonyW 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@_veronica_r there is in fact, a Dempsey M. listed as the third author in the last citation (2020) on the Google doc.

  • @josh_reptiliano
    @josh_reptiliano 2 ปีที่แล้ว +793

    This is like the episode that the opening of a series have teased since the begining, and man does it delivers in the hype

    • @GuyNamedSean
      @GuyNamedSean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I actually lost my breath for a moment. The iguanodon is my favorite dinosaur and my friends actually hate when they get brought up because I geek so hard.

    • @miquelescribanoivars5049
      @miquelescribanoivars5049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      More like the Outro, but yes.

    • @Mael_Str0M
      @Mael_Str0M 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like the Bionicle LEGO rewind

    • @Joe_Potts
      @Joe_Potts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mael_Str0M my childhood right there lol

    • @Deinobi
      @Deinobi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@GuyNamedSean your friends are missing out

  • @TheSilverVixen
    @TheSilverVixen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1188

    "Talk Dumb, Get The Thumb" needs to be on your merch I would happily buy that LOL

  • @thetruemrbeard
    @thetruemrbeard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +652

    I appreciate how you clarified that the workers who theorized the size of the animal weren't idiots just because they were off in their size estimations. I think way too often we like to point and laugh at people from the past who made such mistakes, not realizing we ourselves could or would likely make the same errors as you pointed out.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes, totally agree.

    • @joshuabrown9398
      @joshuabrown9398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Ye we are able to use their knowledge as a basis for our knowledge.
      Humans aren't massively more clever, if at all, than our ancestors we can just build on their achievements.

    • @visiblur
      @visiblur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Exactly this. Science changes so incredibly quickly. I've literally had information from my first year of biochem be retconned on my second year and again in my third year.
      We build on the wrong guesses of our predecessor to hopefully reach the right answers ourselves. Well, the right answers until we ourselves are proven wrong.

    • @Jrez
      @Jrez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This so much! People of today tend to have a pretty prejudiced view of peoples of the past as being just plain 'dumber' than we are. People of the past were not stupid or less intelligent by any means! They were us, that's it, plain and simple. They just had more limitations and fewer giants' shoulders to stand on, and they became giants themselves. The amount of genius present in designs of early structures, machines, old tools, etc. is completely astounding. When I took apart an old air hammer and found essentially one moving part, just with a series of holes and galleys for air to pass through depending on where the part was, just left me astonished at the ingenuity, of how somebody created something basic to solve a complex purpose. The fact that the basic design of the internal combustion engine hasn't changed in over 100 years should convince anyone that we aren't any smarter than they were, we just have more knowledge.

    • @TheSpeculativeDoodl
      @TheSpeculativeDoodl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I completely agree

  • @bewilderbeastie8899
    @bewilderbeastie8899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    Ok but are we not going to talk about the Little Assistant cosplaying as David Attenborough?

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      They had a teaser post a while back discussing the difficulty of making tiny dinosaur pants.

    • @_veronica_r
      @_veronica_r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      His name is Bertrand :D

    • @couldntthinkofayoutubename6498
      @couldntthinkofayoutubename6498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or maybe even richard?

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ha! I had feeling that's what that was but I wasn't entirely sure

    • @KhanMann66
      @KhanMann66 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it was Hammond from Jurassic Park.

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    What I Expected: a lot of iguanodons
    What I Got: a whole-ass history lesson
    What It Was: awesome

  • @coconutthecockatiel478
    @coconutthecockatiel478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    “Talk dumb, get the thumb.” I’m stealing that.

  • @Eloraurora
    @Eloraurora 2 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    I love the image of a fancy Parisian party interrupted by, "Look! Fossils!"

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "Hey dude, check out these weird ancient teeth I found! Pretty cool, right?"

    • @themecoptera9258
      @themecoptera9258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This happens to this day in some fields. I know a guy who walked around a meeting with some a strange insect, asking anyone to tell him what it was. Turns out it was an extremely odd basal true bug.
      Same guy did the same thing a few years later with a hermit crab parasite. That one turned out to be a collembolan.

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@themecoptera9258 Holy hell talk about luck.

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@themecoptera9258 I had a "local ecology" class once, and was delighted to call the teacher over to an insect on the doorframe, ask, "What is that?" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴.

  • @danielkorladis7869
    @danielkorladis7869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Honestly it's amazing that the earliest paleontologists to work on Iguanodon got anything right, given that they had absolutely zero context for this kind of creature. Despite getting a lot wrong, they managed to work out that it was an herbivore, the initial size estimate wasn't off by all *that* much, and they even figured out that unlike any modern reptile, it chewed its food, and they even pieced together roughly how it did so.

  • @DrBunnyMedicinal
    @DrBunnyMedicinal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    "Talk dumb, get the thumb! We don't need to leave that in"
    YES YOU DID! =D

    • @pharoahcaraboo9610
      @pharoahcaraboo9610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      make 'talk dumb, get the thumb' the next 'you're talking shit for someone in thagomizer range'

  • @D.Jay.
    @D.Jay. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    Iguanodon: The originator of YDAW arguments.

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ?????

    • @gamingwithjay3
      @gamingwithjay3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@AverageAlien ydaw means your dinosaurs are wrong

    • @mareksicinski3726
      @mareksicinski3726 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gamingwithjay3 and?

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mareksicinski3726 reread the first comment that started this thread, lol

  • @ravelordnito9504
    @ravelordnito9504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    Fantastic episode as usual! There is actually one more Non-avian dinosaur used on a coat of arms, the Russian Chernyshevsky district has a Kulindadromeus rampant on its coat of arms.

    • @eliburry-schnepp6012
      @eliburry-schnepp6012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Liliensternus is on the coat of arms of Bedheim as well!

    • @StevenBellettini
      @StevenBellettini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      I meant 'used as a supporter,' there are actually a few non-avian dinos used as charges

    • @ravelordnito9504
      @ravelordnito9504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@StevenBellettini I see, seems i misunderstood. Thanks for the correction! :)

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I just looked it up. It's also on the flag, which is excellent.

  • @sirtony0114
    @sirtony0114 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    "Talk dumb, get the thumb"

  • @CthulhusDream
    @CthulhusDream 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Soooo....when are we getting a "Talk dumb, get the thumb" tshirt and or stickers lol?

    • @ogreCyques
      @ogreCyques 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TAKE MY MONEY!

  • @antonioteles5169
    @antonioteles5169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    audibly screamed when i got the notification
    i'm way too excited about this chanel

    • @FFANGEDD
      @FFANGEDD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      same! I was like "YESSS It's been too long!!!"

  • @dinglemcspringlefairy9050
    @dinglemcspringlefairy9050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Man I've been waiting for this episode since like the beginning of this series lol

  • @Gardow
    @Gardow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    As a Belgian who has been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since I was a little boy, and a big fan of this show ever since I found it a couple of years ago, I can not tell you how long I've been waiting for this episode. I was so excited when it was announced that Iguanodon was next. And now that it is here, I can say that I loved this episode. This talk may not be dumb, but I will gladly give it the thumb.

    • @robrechtcordemans3763
      @robrechtcordemans3763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The iguanodons in Brussels were probably the first dinosaurs I ever saw outside of a picture book back in primary school, so it's amazing to see an episode on them mentioning the ones from Belgium.

    • @Shadowspets
      @Shadowspets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Proud Belgian here as well ☺️

    • @toonvandenbroeck1697
      @toonvandenbroeck1697 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      proud belgian here!!!

  • @approachingetterath9959
    @approachingetterath9959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    would love to see a video explanation on the "death pose", since many fossils seem to be found with the neck bent back unnaturally

    • @josephengel8263
      @josephengel8263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      In the velociraptor episode he talks about the fighting dino fossils and mentions the neck might have been bent back as the flesh and skin dried out

    • @chubbydinosaur9148
      @chubbydinosaur9148 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm way too late to the conversation, but as a pet bird owner who sadly buried many birds (pets and wildlife rescue) they just kind of do that.
      When they're actively dying they bend their head back like that. Some mammals do it too.

  • @joearnold6881
    @joearnold6881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The idea of combining a prehensile tongue with a chopping beak would make iguanodon lunchtime more like a horror film!
    Bloody tongues falling all over the place

    • @psilovecybin5940
      @psilovecybin5940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aah so that's why snapping turtles that have a sharp scissor like beaks and use their tongues as lures all have no tongue left...? you make no sense m8

    • @KFrost-fx7dt
      @KFrost-fx7dt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Their tongues aren't prehensile in the way a giraffe's is. Generally animals with beaks and without soft lips can't stick their tongues out of their mouths.

    • @ame72813
      @ame72813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@psilovecybin5940 Snapping turtles dont have tongues long enough to come close to their beak. That argument makes no sense, even more so when you consider the original comment is clearly joking.

  • @fossildiggerstudios4645
    @fossildiggerstudios4645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Pyritized Fossils: Gold Plastic Syndrome For Paleontologists

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada 2 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    The more I learn about science history, the more I feel suspicious that any time a woman is mentioned in passing (like "oh, my wife showed these rocks to me and _I_ figured out they were significant!"), it's likely she was waaaaaay more involved than she ended up being given credit for, especially the farther back in history you go.

    • @leminjapan
      @leminjapan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Exactly this.

    • @GermanSwordMaster
      @GermanSwordMaster 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Good point. Although that last sentence isnt true. For example late medieval womens possibilities are greater then 19th cent ones in quite some points in europe. Emancipation isnt one straight climb. As is nothing really in history.
      Modernity is not at the top of a straight incline in every regard. Even if it wants to be.

  • @strzygon5426
    @strzygon5426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    YAY finally i get to see what Aladar actually looked like

  • @McChicken03
    @McChicken03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Are you watching a dinosaur toy in Dino clothes talk about lizards?”
    YES.

  • @marcustulliuscicero5443
    @marcustulliuscicero5443 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    A small nitpick at around 52:00
    Quadrupeds would actually be less likely to sink into loose soil than bipeds because they spread their mass over 4 points.

    • @recipoldinasty
      @recipoldinasty 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean they would sink easier but prob scape easier

  • @daliborjovanovic510
    @daliborjovanovic510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Iguanodon wastebasket taxonomy phenomenon was far more wide-reaching than just Lower Cretaceous taxa. By the early 2000s, some workers still apparently classed Late Cretaceous taxa as Iguanodon, as is inferable from certain documentaries at the time, like how Dinosaur Planet referred to their Rhabdodon (an ornithopod more basal than Iguanodon) as a species of Iguanodon. Likewise, Late Jurassic taxa, like the British, hilariously-named Cumnoria were also at one point lumped within Iguanodon.

  • @ryaquaza1571
    @ryaquaza1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love the way Iguanadon has stayed relatively popular in dinosaur media after all this time still appearing occasionally in games and movies to this day. The main reason I mention this because certain early dinosaurs get barely any love anymore for some weird reason.
    Megalosaurus needs a lot more love imo

  • @yourmotherindisguise
    @yourmotherindisguise 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    YESSSS WE'VE BEEN WAITING

  • @lordbarron3352
    @lordbarron3352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The genuine paleontologist look, voice, temperament, humor, and knowledge. Exquisite.

  • @antonlamme7623
    @antonlamme7623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I've recently been binge watching this show and I must say - the graphic profile has been adapted with great success! The quality of this episode (besides the actual content) is so nice to look at! Great work, from one graphic designer to another!

  • @arcosprey4811
    @arcosprey4811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    11:27 damn I wrote a paper on this for D. Altus. Memories

  • @BBMontalban
    @BBMontalban 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I know there is no chance that this is true, but my mental cannon about Bernissart, is that the iguanodonts used the place as a "elephant graveyard" sort of thing. Which i think could be a pretty cool behavior

    • @KnufWons
      @KnufWons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      You may or may not know this already, but it turns out that elephant graveyards are the results of flooding pushing elephant corpses into the “graveyard”. The true nature of the area is that a whole bunch of bodies get caught and remain in that area, and the fact that so many elephant remains are found there is notable simply because elephants are big and noteworthy.

    • @kekkres
      @kekkres 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@KnufWons not even, it's not a case of misreading the evidence. There is no evidence. There is not a single example of an elephant graveyard ever found. It's an idea that comes from old pulp stories of darkest africa and people just accepted the idea and it stuck in the cultural consciousness.

  • @forthrightgambitia1032
    @forthrightgambitia1032 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am from Maidstone and went to the grammar school there. That coat of arms was on our school uniform. Strangely enough I just found out that the site of where it was dug up was long since built over with housing estates where one of my friends lived. The iganadon is still very famous and there is a cast copy of it in the local museum - which along with a smuggled mummy from Egypt is one of the two main things to see there.

  • @Draco84
    @Draco84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    9:10 that ain’t no iguanadon. That’s the rhedosaurus from the beast of 20,000 fathoms.

  • @rddragon5
    @rddragon5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Almost an hour long! I feel spoiled. Thank you YDAW and all the people supporting it to make videos like this happen.

  • @aghistorian763
    @aghistorian763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well, it gets even weirder, because something like this happened more than once with the same kinds of animals. We have a mass deposit of Iguanodon and Mantellisaurus here in Germany as well. It contained around 15 individuals according to Norman's paper. Actually it seems that the sediment containing them also sank into a karst fissure. The similarities don't end there, because all bones are pyritized. It's all very very weird...

  • @SaritaWolf
    @SaritaWolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The crystal palace “pseudo-beak” kinda looks like they were using rhinoceros lips as reference, which would make sense since they gave it a nose horn as well.
    Also, maybe the iguanodon bonebeds are a sort of “elephant graveyard.” Maybe older iguanodons went to the swamp in search of food that was easier to chew, and ended up just dying of old age in that area?

    • @toblexson5020
      @toblexson5020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking something alone the same lines. And maybe the occasional younger adult iguanodons were badly injured or ill enough to be abandoned by the herd, and relocated to this area, whereas juvenile members of the herd would be looked after right until death due to maternal instinct. It's hard to think of a reoccuring natural disaster that would only affect such a specific area and demographic, so it does seem to feel somewhat intentional. Although as humans we are prone to seeing intent where there is none.

  • @ImARealWerewolf
    @ImARealWerewolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I'm a simple person. I see Iguanodon, I click.

  • @davidwright7193
    @davidwright7193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When I was studying at Cambridge in the early ‘90’s I had a friend on a similar course to mine whose name just happened to be David Norman and who kept getting letters from children about dinosaurs in his pidgin hole as they were addressed to David Norman, Cambridge University as far as I am aware they were all forwarded correctly.

  • @SkylerTheCryodrakon69
    @SkylerTheCryodrakon69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At long last
    The iguanodon episode

  • @drigrid
    @drigrid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As someone who works a bit with both source criticism and dissemination of science this video really impressed me. Super complex and narrow concepts and ideas really come to life in a way that is interesting to people who aren't biologists or paleontologists. Kudos for this.

  • @arcosprey4811
    @arcosprey4811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    In case you didn't understand the jaw mechanics, here's an animation that better represents it: th-cam.com/video/6Sr5is7-wdk/w-d-xo.html

    • @binnsy6879
      @binnsy6879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you! I've always struggled with the various descriptions and graphics of it that I've seen, but this actually shows what is going on. Super helpful!

    • @Deinobi
      @Deinobi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you kind stranger

  • @scorinth
    @scorinth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    YAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!
    Finally, a critical look at one of the dinosaurs with famously problematic restorations.

  • @josephneill691
    @josephneill691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    'talk dumb get the thumb' would be an amazing shirt

  • @paulomiguelcruz9835
    @paulomiguelcruz9835 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In my opinion, this has to be one of the greatest TH-cam channels available nowadays. As a person who graduated both in the fields of science and visual arts, this kind of content is just the holy grail. Thank you for your educational service! Cheers from Portugal!

  • @TheSihiro
    @TheSihiro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Perfect timing as I just finished cooking my meal and was looking for a vid to watch while eating xD Bless

  • @jsfbr
    @jsfbr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    (1) This is by far the best class on Paleontology I've seen on TH-cam. Thank you!
    (2) I had the opportunity of visiting the Iguanodon fossils in the Brussels Museum. What a sight! I could stay hours just looking at those giants! Even though I understand the necessity and value of displaying casts in place of actual fossilized dinosaur remains, these cause a deeper psychological effect in me. Man, I'm really looking at what once was an actual, living dinosaur from millions of years ago! Again, it was a remarkable experience.

  • @VirgoShelter
    @VirgoShelter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Talk dumb get the thumb"
    Yessyeysysysyhs

  • @Usulcardo
    @Usulcardo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    13:30 I just wanted to point out that some birds like the Friarbirds (genus Philemon) for example the Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus) do have cheek-like soft tissue at the base of their bills although I can't find any research on what kind of selection pressure gave them those weird cheeks nor do I know if there are osteological correlates on Philemon corniculatus' skull. Worth investigating !

  • @Tvboy777
    @Tvboy777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Glad to see this channel still going. I have always loved the hosts sense of humor sprinkled in through the fantastic animations.

  • @telson1583
    @telson1583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    17:47 the flag of Chernyshevsk, in Russia has a Kulindadromeus on it

  • @manospondylus4896
    @manospondylus4896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    17:46 Liliensternus is also on the coat of arms of Bedheim, Germany

  • @falsevacuum4667
    @falsevacuum4667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I really enjoy the way he puts things into context. He always reminds us not just WHAT happened throughout the history of researching the animal, but WHY the researchers thought the way they did. It's so refreshing to have things framed that way and not "hurr hurr past scientists dumb because they don't know what we know". Keep up the great work!

  • @brianbierlein4747
    @brianbierlein4747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great episode. Though I was distracted by that Barney in the background, I still managed to digest all the information in this way too short episode.
    I look forward to part 2! :P

  • @Osigot
    @Osigot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wait, is this a very high quality video on a very interesting topic with a good intro, filmed with a very good camera with a professional script and a pleasant presenter/host with a good sense of humor?
    *Why are there so few views and subscribers?*
    P.S. Thanks youtube recommendations for showing it to me

  • @CBusschaert
    @CBusschaert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    excited for sequel! Iguanodon 2: "No, they did not have wings."

  • @BriarRH
    @BriarRH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    32:08 oh my god that hadrosaurus painting is hilarious. it looks like some dudes in a suit creeping around in a golden age hollywood b movie monster flick.
    the hip and legs of both paintings are human looking, lord it creeps me out.

  • @zalybrainlessgenius503
    @zalybrainlessgenius503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    May I suggest spinosaurus? I know the research would be frustrating, as the reconstructions change about every year, but I think it's a very interesting topic!

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Considering that they only just found a better preserved tail within the last year or two (not to mention one of the best examples of it ever found being literally bombed) this would be a super interesting one.

    • @firytwig
      @firytwig 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spinosaurus was already done, and he already seems aware of most of the new research

    • @firytwig
      @firytwig ปีที่แล้ว

      They are certainly going to do an update video at some point but as far as I know it hasn’t been announced yet

  • @Croationman
    @Croationman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Only 15 minutes in and I’m already sad that it will be over soon. I don’t want it to end. I wish there could be a new Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong episode every week.

  • @Sombraptor
    @Sombraptor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    17:43 Actually, Russia's Chernyshevsky District has Kulindadromeus on its coat of arms!

  • @altejoh
    @altejoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just discovered this series, love to see it! Would love to hear an episode on troodon, or possibly the strange humanoid-dinosaur image that always seems to accompany troodon.

  • @Shadowspets
    @Shadowspets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a Belgian, I couldn’t be more proud of this documentary, I always felt very connected with the history of iguanodon.

  • @thatnickwalker
    @thatnickwalker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wake up babe, new YDAW :0

  • @GroovySulli
    @GroovySulli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Talk Dumb, Get The Thumb." This needs to be put on a sticker, shirt, or button with a YDAW illustration of Iguanodon. I will buy it all. Make it for Iguanodon's 200 year discovery for next year in 2022! It would be perfect and I would again buy it all! :)

  • @rashidclark
    @rashidclark 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Would not another possibility as to why the site has so many iguanodons be this: ?
    Perhaps the swamp-lake was too deep for most non-swimming animals to traverse (including juvenile iguanodons), but just the right depth for adult iguanodons to walk through. But then there are sudden changes of depth at the sinkholes, and these large, non-swimming animals die? The borders of this lake might be sloped such that smaller animals pick up that it's getting too deep for them and thus never venture out to the areas with the more sudden changes in depth.
    But maybe that's crazy. It seems that most contemporary, terrestrial herbivores can swim when they need too.

  • @trollytrouble1926
    @trollytrouble1926 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I’m a new fan but I already watched most of the series, I love how detailed and how you see the creature change into something that was real, would love to see sarcosuchus or baryonyx

  • @brettgabbitas1852
    @brettgabbitas1852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved the Richard Attenborough impression that Bertrand did!!!

  • @CooperHudgins
    @CooperHudgins 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love that Bertrand got dressed up as David Attenborough for the introduction😂❤

  • @jurassicjs6995
    @jurassicjs6995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The episode I’ve been waiting for since it was often out in the credits of old videos!

  • @Bassist665
    @Bassist665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have been waiting for ages to see this and loved every last second of it! Thank you for all your excellent work and for taking your time to make this happen!

  • @theorangeninja6486
    @theorangeninja6486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This episode is less "your toy is inaccurate" and more "your toy is a springboard for launching a conversation about the formation of paleontology as told from the perspective of THE OG dinosaur", won't catch me complaining tho XD

  • @someonekenobi
    @someonekenobi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The animations in these videos are always insane and so helpful. Thank you!

  • @TCovenantUnbeliever
    @TCovenantUnbeliever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Huzzah! Your work is always the best. I knew you were going to bring up Sternberg's Mummy Edmontosaurus. I'd love an episode on Edmontosaurus itself, but what I want most is an episode on a Plesiosaur.

  • @SlashersPod
    @SlashersPod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very excited to unveil our interview next month. Excellent work, as always.

  • @Themantogoto
    @Themantogoto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It has been so long! So excited to see this. Hope you guys are on a roll now to make one of these every month or 2.

  • @IICJZII
    @IICJZII 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been waiting for this for so long! Thank you for all the content, folks! Already excited for the next video 🎉

  • @AnubisFanVani
    @AnubisFanVani 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This super-episode was amazing! I enjoy YDAW so much everytime. Thanks for this one! ^^

  • @martinkois7126
    @martinkois7126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I LOVE the little dude's Sir David outfit. Perfection.

  • @danieldover3745
    @danieldover3745 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Iguanadon was one of my favorite dinosaurs as a kid, and I had the upright, spike-thumbed version fixed in my head, so I was surprised to see you criticize it, and then fell in love with the whole story of how we came to better understand iguanadon, and it's still one of my favorites, just in a different way.

  • @jurassicdragon4989
    @jurassicdragon4989 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I found your show randomly recently and I love it! I REALLY appreciate all the detail and research and the explanations of the bones you do! Keep it up!

  • @dudeskeela
    @dudeskeela 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, you two absolutely crushed it with this episode.

  • @NatsumeRyu
    @NatsumeRyu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the unedited pauses and the speaker's pace in this show. It makes it much easier for me to digest the information without the constant, back to back rapid fire information thats been edited together without natural breaks.

  • @kj_H65f
    @kj_H65f 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This really is incredible content. I'm so amazed at the level of work and research that goes into every episode.

  • @EC2019
    @EC2019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hooray! This one was a lot of fun, to follow along the timeline of the understanding of the animal. Thank you as always!

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to say, I really enjoy these longer videos that go into so much more depth!

  • @barkingmonkee
    @barkingmonkee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the 1st episode of YDAW I've come across and it's AMAZING! The quality of the science, the animations, the illustrations and the presentation of the material are all just brilliant. Well done.

  • @Camaniagames
    @Camaniagames 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been waiting for this for so long and words cannot describe my excitement when I saw the upload notification

  • @HasBeensNAddicts
    @HasBeensNAddicts 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So happy I found your channel. Time to binge watch

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God I love this channel so much. Definitely becoming a patron when I can afford to. So stoked to finally get the Iguanadon episode and it was even more interesting than I expected. Can't wait for the next. Also, "talk dumb, get the thumb" needs to be on some merch asap lol

  • @donjokerrr8492
    @donjokerrr8492 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video came out of nowhere on my recommended n I dont regret clicking on it. Hella informative awesome job homie 👌

  • @AntiqueBambi
    @AntiqueBambi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The way you talk and explain things puts me at complete ease. You make exploring this special interest of mine so much fun, thank you.

  • @supersam5802
    @supersam5802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    17:46 so your telling me no one has taken the opportunity to officially have a T-rex on their coat of arms?

  • @zenolachance1181
    @zenolachance1181 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of the best channels on TH-cam. All the details that you cover it's something nobody else on TH-cam is doing. I just came across your channel recently, and I am absolutely fascinated with the detailed work that you do. I have learned so much! Thank you for doing what you do !!!! Keep up the good work!!!!

  • @LDProductionsClass
    @LDProductionsClass 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super detailed and in depth, I loved it l! Glad to see you back!

  • @fedesxxxxxx
    @fedesxxxxxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    just finish it, great episode, as always, keep the good work, i love you guys!

  • @strifecrusader
    @strifecrusader 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the first ydaw I've ever watched, and one of the longest TH-cam videos I have ever watched. Awesome show. I enjoyed it from start to finish.

  • @charliemiskwaabineshii9001
    @charliemiskwaabineshii9001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome! Also I love your shelves in the background. Thank you for the superb length of video, I just adore you guys. ( & gals )

  • @myboy_
    @myboy_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these videos! One of my biggest pet peaves on TH-cam is the endless jump cuts and over editing. I respect that you do these in continuous shots. Sometimes you pause for a while, but I like that, you're actually thinking about what you're saying :)

  • @halzk4464
    @halzk4464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Finally! Iguanodon is such a classic. Thank you.