Velociraptor: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #24

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  • / ydaw -- Finally, it is here! We can thank Jurassic Park for turning Velociraptor into a household name, but since then the real animal has managed to step out of its movie monster counterpart's shadow. Watch to see how!
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    00:00 Intro
    01:09 Overview & History
    15:03 Body Size
    16:18 Head Shape
    27:38 Integument
    30:50 Hand Posture
    38:55 Pupil Shape
    45:19 Speed
    51:04 Claw Function
    56:33 Pack Behavior
    57:39 Intelligence
    59:42 Fighting Dinosaurs Specimen
    1:02:57 Conclusion
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    Video Contents:
    15:02 Size
    16:20 Head
    27:36 Integument
    30:49 Forelimbs
    38:53 Slit Pupils
    45:17 Speed
    51:01 Sickle Claws
    56:30 Pack Behavior
    57:35 Intelligence
    59:38 Fighting Dinosaurs Specimen
    Sources and links:
    Properly formatted version (which is over the video description character limit): docs.google.com/document/d/1X...
    1:17 utahdinosaurs.com/
    3:45 www.flickr.com/photos/interne...
    4:40 news.yale.edu/2015/06/18/yale...
    5:28 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    7:40 • From the Archives - Ce...
    7:51 archive.org/details/newconque...
    8:40 digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstr...
    13:05 peabody.yale.edu/sites/default...
    13:19 flic.kr/p/muc1y8
    13:35 paleoglot.org/files/Barsbold_...
    14:51 hdl.handle.net/2246/3557
    14:51 31:53 hdl.handle.net/2246/3025
    17:21 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr...
    17:21 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    19:00 books.google.com/books/about/...
    20:18 qilong.wordpress.com/2011/09/...
    20:18 markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20...
    20:18 www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/...
    20:40 flic.kr/p/69kgCn
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    21:09 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...
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    22:59 35:35 doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14576
    24:56 doi.org/10.1002/ar.24218
    26:29 doi.org/10.2307/4088897
    32:10 doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(200...
    33:48 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....
    40:05 doi.org/10.1126/science.1200043
    40:12 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
    43:28 doi.org/10.1242/jeb.018630
    47:22 doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.201...
    48:12 doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1...
    50:55 54:25 journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
    51:27 doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7577
    56:21 doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.201...
    56:55 doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1995...
    57:12 doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X(200...
    58:16 doi.org/10.1002/cne.23444
    58:50 doi.org/10.1111/joa.13160
    59:05 www.app.pan.pl/article/item/a...
    59:05 books.google.com/books?id=L-Z...
    1:00:26
    www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    1:00:52 theropoda.blogspot.com/2008/1...
    1:02:10 flic.kr/p/muc27n
    1:02:33 doi.org/10.1134/S003103011612...
    Turns out Dr. Witton is doing a series of blogs about Dromaeosaurs in pop culture
    markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2...
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  • @liahansen6896
    @liahansen6896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    i love how he says "renaissance" and then has to correct himself to "dinosaur renaissance". this is a man who truly cares about dinosaurs

  • @GoodLizardlicks
    @GoodLizardlicks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2951

    "That's not scary, looks like a six foot turkey!" said by a kid who has never been chased by an angry tom in breeding season.

    • @brandielee7971
      @brandielee7971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      THANK YOU

    • @shanedavid9923
      @shanedavid9923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      Here in Ireland we do not have wild turkeys, they are farmed but the farms are not common. What we do have, everywhere, are swans and an angry swan is not something you want to be around! If you go near a nest in a small boat or kayak they will come and attack you, it’s pretty easy to get knocked out of a small boat or capsize your kayak!

    • @alpharabbit2353
      @alpharabbit2353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      Damn straight. Normal turkeys are brutal already, but 6 feet? You dead

    • @DM-ql6ps
      @DM-ql6ps 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@shanedavid9923 I've been attacked by swans before, definitely not fun.

    • @RDSyafriyar
      @RDSyafriyar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      My mother has been terrorized by a bunch of swans back when I was at a deer park. And I ended up laughing pretty hard because she wasn't aware how territorial they were.

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    "Protoceratops chomps down on to velociraptor's right arm and holds on for the next 75 million years"
    That's quite the grudge. Must've been really mad at that raptor.

    • @SHDUStudios
      @SHDUStudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Eh, dromaesaurs get a bad rap-tor.

    • @jeffreygao3956
      @jeffreygao3956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@SHDUStudios *spit take*

    • @Anon26535
      @Anon26535 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair, the little bastard was trying to eat her babies.

    • @m1sty033
      @m1sty033 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SHDUStudios ha ha ha ha ha ha 😬

    • @Raptorman0205
      @Raptorman0205 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Tbf I'd be pretty pissed too if I was stuck in some sand and some rando ran up behind me and jabbed a karambit into my jugular.

  • @IronViking88
    @IronViking88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1389

    I like that he has an appreciation for why the creative team of Jurassic Park made the decisions they did about how to portray velociraptor instead of just pedantically stopping at "this is inaccurate".

    • @ezrawyrd9275
      @ezrawyrd9275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      A lesson that many reviewers and nitpickers should take to heart imo

    • @joeessig3550
      @joeessig3550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Wood Hightower-which is really just reaching greater heights of nitpickyness and skepticism at a more universal scale; then you pop out the other end as utterly open-minded.
      Edit: Yes 100% I agree with you, forgot to mention that lol. Critics that love cheap shots miss out on more interesting conversations and conclusions.

    • @xDinomanx
      @xDinomanx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Which is why Henry Wu in Jurassic World makes the argument that goes like this where he says "You didn't want reality, you wanted more teeth."
      Source:
      th-cam.com/video/XaVcjYbO3B0/w-d-xo.html
      Case in point, nothing in Jurassic Park is 100% accurate. Many of the animals in the movies are VERY different to their real life counterparts. I still love the franchise in spite of this along with the movies because they are still incredibly fun to watch.

    • @chrispy_091
      @chrispy_091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@xDinomanx the clip explains perfectly why the 'dinosaurs' in Jurassic park aren't actually dinosaurs....yet people still complain anyways.....

    • @fran3ro
      @fran3ro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@xDinomanx Jhon Hammond didn't want "more teeth" he wanted the real deal, something to show the people that wasn't a flea circus and to bring back those creatures, as if they were endangered species. I agree those weren't the real dinosaurs, but that quote doesn't fit in "Jurassic Park". "Jurassic World" I don't care, to me that movie blows.

  • @RickRaptor105
    @RickRaptor105 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1604

    You know Jurassic Park hugely warped the perception of this animal when the "inaccuracy explained" video is one hour long

    • @pst5345
      @pst5345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      You ignore the time gap of 17 years. 17 years of progressing investigation. You can easily line up the depictions of raptors in JP movies within that time gap and you will notice change according to popular knowledge as well.
      Ultimately movies will warp facts as much as they can to tell an interesting story. In the best case they initiate new interest in a subject.
      Public knowledge however is still slower than scientific publications. Just look at the number of papers he refers to. They are not as accessible as that bbc documentary from 5 years ago exploring T-Rex's and Velociraptor's behavior and anatomy. I wished I could have updates on documentaries as knowledge grows by somebody implementing a commentary similar to what ydaw is doing.

    • @diegodankquixote-wry3242
      @diegodankquixote-wry3242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The legend

    • @cthulhufhtagn2483
      @cthulhufhtagn2483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh, hey! Big fan!

    • @calvinosaurus4514
      @calvinosaurus4514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hey Rick! Have you ever considered making your own documentaries with JPOG or JWE?

    • @LordPai
      @LordPai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@pst5345 I have the headcanon that Jurassic Park realized they maybe had like Utahraptor or something and just wrote it off as a Velociraptor.

  • @teawrecks1243
    @teawrecks1243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    So Velociraptor wasn't an especially large dromaeosaur and actually was one of the relatively tiny ones, but it had the coolest-sounding name so now all dromaeosaurs are known as "raptors".
    Kind of like how people call all pterosaurs as "pterodactyls" even though the namesake Pterodactylus was a tiny little thing with a badass name.

    • @jaschabull2365
      @jaschabull2365 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      To be fair, I think Pterodactylus had just about every type of pterosaur shoehorned into it at one point. I guess Velociraptor had it kind of similar with Deinonychus being seen as part of it at one point, if memory serves correct.

    • @griffinhunter3206
      @griffinhunter3206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@jaschabull2365 At the time, it was debatable if the single deinonychus species deserved its own genus or if it should have been grouped in with the velociraptor genus, as Velociraptor antirrhopus.That false species Velociraptor antirrhopus was actually the velociraptor that Jurrassic park tried to recreate on the screen, rather than Velociraptor mongoliensis

    • @wadespencer3623
      @wadespencer3623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Pterodactylus was also the first named pterosaur and was used as a wastebasket taxon for a while... but also it is a very cool name, yes.

    • @f.u.m.o.5669
      @f.u.m.o.5669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I prefer Deinonychus, but whatever.

    • @Scallop2467
      @Scallop2467 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I personally think that pyroraptor is the coolest name meaning fire thief (probably why it was in Jurassic world)

  • @lukacvitkovic8550
    @lukacvitkovic8550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Never has anything been so successful at conveying the "dinosaurs were regular animals" image than that (relatively of course) simple animation of a Velociraptor picking up a ball
    Wonderful stuff

  • @carnotv6136
    @carnotv6136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +991

    Let’s get an F for that protoceratops who’s friends couldn’t save him

  • @UnaPinata
    @UnaPinata 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    'velociraptor claws at protoceratops's stomach like a cat that didn't want it's belly petted'
    That sentence made me happy.

  • @Sylfaenn
    @Sylfaenn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    “Maximum fluff velociraptor” is now one of my favourite expressions.

  • @tristenconrad3817
    @tristenconrad3817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Anyone else super pumped about the new Spinosaurus tail that was discovered? Palaeontologists think it had a crocodile like tail now making Spinosaurus much more aquatic than previously thought before! Would be cool to see a new Spinosaurus episode now

    • @cactusgamingyt9960
      @cactusgamingyt9960 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Talking about spinosaurus, ducks, geese and swans are pretty convergently similar to spinosaurus. They're both diving fish eaters, both theropods, both have short legs and a strange neck and they also might've had webbed toes!

    • @JonPITBZN
      @JonPITBZN ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spinosaurus is an ideal animal for a show like 7 Days of Science (5-10 minutes of content, weekly) and a worst-case scenario for a show like Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong (1 hour per dino forever). Because they change Spinosaurus on a weekly basis, after which Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong itself becomes wrong.

  • @AlteryxGaming
    @AlteryxGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1426

    Definitely wasn’t expecting an hour long episode, but it was absolutely fantastic!

    • @MungkaeX
      @MungkaeX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Alteryx me either. I was just watching and after about 15 minutes was like, “hmmm how much longer is this...what?!?”

    • @joshuaclabeaux1470
      @joshuaclabeaux1470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@MungkaeX Yeah, I had that reaction, too. But come on, Velociraptor Mongoliensis is one of the most famous and well-loved dinosaurs today. As you can see, many people sent them Velociraptor toys and there is SO MUCH to say about them, especially when he's got so many toys to critique.

    • @ivankadump2539
      @ivankadump2539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely superb.

    • @Cronta90
      @Cronta90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      With so much controversy about how VR actually looked like I'm not surprised of the lenght of the episode

    • @tscream80
      @tscream80 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It makes sense, considering just how much there is to unpack with this dinosaur.

  • @marcustulliuscicero5443
    @marcustulliuscicero5443 4 ปีที่แล้ว +984

    So Velociraptor neither had high velocity nor was especially raptorial.

    • @vladprus4019
      @vladprus4019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Cat-turkey would be much more fitting name.

    • @markusnavergard2387
      @markusnavergard2387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      i am gonna sue them for false advertisment

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      The idea Raptor Prey Restraint rules out killing prey larger than themselves is false, given that eagles can use RPR to kill animals multiple times their weight. Not to mention we have that Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops fossil.
      Also, Velociraptor is still faster than an average human adult at around 40kmh, so while it's not an especially fast dinosaur, it's not sluggish by any means.

    • @AarowSwift
      @AarowSwift 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Well, it was, just not in marathon runner terms. It would have been able to perform fast but short bursts of speed to pounce on prey, and it's way of dispatching prey was right on par with a Golden Eagle: snatch and stab.

    • @Crembaw
      @Crembaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That hand and foot movement looked impressive to me compared to what I’ve come to expect from dinosaurs.

  • @RDSyafriyar
    @RDSyafriyar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    15:18 - "But you can't just take a Deinonychus and scale it up to that size."
    Dakotaraptor: *Am I joke to you?*

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Its a more robust animal. Much as a Lion isn't just a scaled up house cat.

    • @jimkirkland5838
      @jimkirkland5838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      well........................

    • @Gasmaskmax
      @Gasmaskmax 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the turtle incident...

    • @tristannord5906
      @tristannord5906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      well they did use the deinonychus size and body shape for the "velociraptor" in the movie

    • @happybalint
      @happybalint 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or utahraptor

  • @judsonbaker8128
    @judsonbaker8128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Steven must be so incredibly well-prepared for these episodes because it never looks like he’s reading anything.

  • @annedavis3340
    @annedavis3340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    I do think they did the head shape change because it looked "stronger."
    Incidentally, that muscular bulking is precisely why I personally think leopard seals look REALLY scary, compared to what other seals look like. (Seals in general look cute, and then there are leopard seals, with a lot of bulk on their heads).
    I think the filmmakers were trying to give an impression of bite strength, or skull resiliency during a bite. Or something.

    • @paulm3952
      @paulm3952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Leopard Seals are terrifying. If you are ever in the water with one, you should be very careful.

    • @annedavis3340
      @annedavis3340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@paulm3952 yeah. Apparently scientists have recently been having problems with leopard seals because they've started testing humans as a prey type. There's only been like 1 death so far, and that was a couple years ago now, but the scientists had to change their rafts because the old design was being punctured by leopard seals etc etc etc

    • @punished_gooner
      @punished_gooner 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @everyone leopard seals almost never attack humans. they're efficient predators and like any other predator caution should be advised but you're unlikely to be attacked by one. there are far more instances of divers interacting with them without incident, even playing with them. don't spread fear regarding the seal because you find its appearance "terrifying"

    • @turkeygod6665
      @turkeygod6665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@punished_gooner People have the right to fear pretty much any animal. They rarely attack yes, but still being in water with one would still be a terrifying experience. We should not demonize predators but we also need to understand its perfectly reasonable to be afraid. A leopard seal could easily kill a human, and that alone is reason for fear. Even if the chances are unlikely.

    • @MylotheZooLovingScientist
      @MylotheZooLovingScientist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @hired goon - I don’t think Anne is guilty of any fear-mongering here. I actually had no idea anyone had ever been killed by a leopard seal before; videos of filmmakers swimming with them and interacting with them make the animals appear downright docile (except to penguins, of course). I think it’s important to have, at the very least, an understanding of what a predatory animal is capable of doing to a human.
      @ Anne - Fitting that leopard seals have sometimes been described as having a reptilian appearance, no?

  • @sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957
    @sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I think the split pupil thing has more to do with the fact that it evokes a sense of danger in our minds. We automatically fear things with slit pupils. I call it the Sauron effect.

    • @darkstarr984
      @darkstarr984 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They’re things that generally can see in the dark, which we can’t. It’s different from us to a strong degree. So it makes it scary. I like slit pupils.

  • @Blackratsnake
    @Blackratsnake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    May I suggest Iguanodon? Being the second dinosaur ever described, and having gone through many changes, I think it would be a good candidate for a review.

    • @clockworkkirlia7475
      @clockworkkirlia7475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Yes! I know it doesn't exactly hold up in any sense, but I absolutely adored Dinosaur as a kid and Iguanodon was my favourite dinosaur. Thumb-claws up!

    • @RaptorJay
      @RaptorJay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That be neat, though it is shown literally at the end of every episode of its looks over the years. But I still be down for one.

    • @barbarjinx3802
      @barbarjinx3802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What about megalosaurus?

    • @tscream80
      @tscream80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I've always wanted to send them toys based on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, particularly Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. Those have been hard to find, however.

    • @Deinobi
      @Deinobi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@RaptorJay rator jesus, when is your birthday? Is it called raptormas?

  • @nick3xtremegaming212
    @nick3xtremegaming212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    "Their active whenever they're hungry"
    me: Well of course i know him hes me

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Extra point for the Obi-Wan reference.

  • @PestoPosta
    @PestoPosta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    Why do I get the feeling that Velociraptors were the cats of their era.
    Cat-birds... Velociraptors were cat-birds...

    • @RDSyafriyar
      @RDSyafriyar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      And some have the feeling we still have cat-birds to this day.
      Owls might just be one of the cutest raptors to look at. UvU

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Would explain them to be solitary but being able to work in groups for larger prey if necessary.

    • @Davito2000
      @Davito2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      So it's going to scratch up your car hood, crap on the windshield, and spray the tires?

    • @an0rangutan
      @an0rangutan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      They probably weren't assholes like cats.
      But I've never met a velociraptor, so I dunno if they were assholes or not

    • @Elios0000
      @Elios0000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      turkey-cats

  • @YourDinosaursAreWrong
    @YourDinosaursAreWrong  4 ปีที่แล้ว +778

    Corrections! aka Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong was Wrong:
    - The rods in dromaeosaurids' tails are NOT ossified tendons, they are elongated parts of the vertebrae themselves.
    - The Wang, et al. Anchiornis paper was 2017, not 2019.
    - I said Mongolia "declared independence" from the USSR; they were never part of the union, though their democratic revolution coincided with its breakup.
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    • @Hoshimaru57
      @Hoshimaru57 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So no frog DNA, but how about crocodilian surrogate DNA? Would that be reasonable you think?

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Some other corrections plus notes;
      - the 2007 paper on Deinonychus not actually hunting Tenontosaurus or hunting cooperatively makes a few errors; it assumed that crocodilians are incapable of hunting cooperatively (when they are capable of it, albeit only on an opportunistic basis) and that pack hunting in diapsids is basically not possible (aside from crocodilians Harris's hawks and various piscivorous birds debunk this), it assumed that infighting rules out cooperative behaviour (it doesn't, as can be seen in various non-mammalian cooperative hunters), and it fails to take into account why no such assemblages of Deinonychus have been found around other herbivores (you'd expect scavenging to take place around any large carcass). So pack hunting is far from off the cards yet, though permanent family groupings are out.
      - Studies of intelligence in dromaeosaurs, and dinosaurs in general, are likely giving lower figures than their actual intelligence, as they rely entirely on brain size and anatomy, two factors that give unrealistically low intelligence estimates in living sauropsids.

    • @joshuaclabeaux1470
      @joshuaclabeaux1470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Mongolia wasn't officially part of the Soviet Union, but the Soviet authorities did try to boss them around as if it was. Case-in-point: Cyrillic script being forced upon the Mongolian language, which already had its own script.

    • @mistingwolf
      @mistingwolf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Skimmer birds have slit pupils, so there's that!

    • @fishbot9902
      @fishbot9902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hay about the idea of changing bird scutes to be feathers has been done since before the 13th century the silkie chicken
      also there is a gene that when present in chickens course them to lose most if not all of their feathers it also removes the scutes as well
      also dinochickens cool shit

  • @OpreanMircea
    @OpreanMircea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I find it interesting, because in Romanian, a Latin language, "a raptorial bird" is called a kidnapping bird, when you said that "raptor" mean "snacher" I made the connection

  • @bloodangel9403
    @bloodangel9403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The Beasts of the Mesozoic Raptor series has the most scientifically accurate raptors I've ever seen.
    And they are fully articulated!

  • @tscream80
    @tscream80 4 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    Well worth the wait.

    • @Davito2000
      @Davito2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just to hear him say MAXIMUM FLUFF Velociraptor was worth it.

    • @ipercalisse579
      @ipercalisse579 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Davito2000 ahahahha true

  • @MidnightMoon2267
    @MidnightMoon2267 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I got the Dark Wing Duck reference. Let’s get dangerous.

  • @LadyBrightcynder
    @LadyBrightcynder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Something I really love about this series is how the structure of feathers is broken down. I draw birds and dinosaurs a lot and I sometimes find just looking at reference images of actual wings are a little overwhelming, so it's nice to see wing structure so gradually and carefully broken down here!
    Glad you're back!

    • @darkstarr984
      @darkstarr984 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s very good. And admittedly the main reason I took a bird biology class.

  • @danibananni4347
    @danibananni4347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I love how you use the toy dinosaurs as a visual for comparing different inaccurate representations over the years to the actual evidence we have! (I also laughed at 33:37; the little red/yellow one is identical to one of my favorite toys as a kid and it's hilarious to see it so rightfully roasted.)

  • @smokecity6889
    @smokecity6889 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    33:43 I like how he says "and for nothing else"

    • @IStillJustLikeCats
      @IStillJustLikeCats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That laugh/scoff afterwards too gave the statement a very "because screw this thing and all its inaccuracies" vibe to it. lol

  • @GenjiKoi
    @GenjiKoi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    It's always refreshing to watch this show, I didn't even realize it was an hour long because I was just entranced by the facts that I did not yet know about Velociraptor. The new set looks amazing, and the room in the beginning is exquisitely put together. I was waiting the entire week for this video, and I'm happy it came. The animations look beautiful, and I feel like Steven has been growing in his art. I personally want to grow into paleo artistry, and this show helps me as to learn what I can with limited sources and small range of interests. Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong captivated me from the first time I had ever watched it, and I have even used the carnotaurus video for my research in school where we had to write our own news articles. My english teacher, and I don't mean to praise myself, said "It was a college paper report". I simply said "Most of my information came from YDAW and the sources cited". And it was, I look forward every day for the next video, and if i was able to use patreon, I would give $30 a week, and not regret it knowing that it goes toward education on dinosaurs, which are all too often portrayed outdated. I also appreciate that this show doesn't hate on Jurassic Park, and rather fixes the silver screen beasts. I personally, am a huge fan of Jurassic Park, and I do know that the dinosaurs are outdated. In the end, they are less of dinosaurs and more of movie monsters. Fixing the pubic eye is hard, especially when one does not have a great way to spread the facts. The algorithm is harsh, and coming from some random fan probably doesn't mean much, but, This is the greatest educational show of dinosaurs, ever. Period. Keep up the awe- inspiring work, we all love the time and effort that goes into these videos. Thank you, so so so so, SO much for creating Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong.

  • @fuzzyzombielove
    @fuzzyzombielove 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Oviraptor was an entirely separate dinosaur characterized by its birdlike crests and toothless beak. It was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924. It was found near what was believed to be the remains of protoceratops nest and given it's name meaning "egg snatcher." Osborn himself noted that the name might be misleading as it's proximity to the nest didn't necessarily mean it was ovivorous. In the 90's new fossil discoveries showed that Oviraptor was in fact, tending it's own eggs and not pilfering protoceratops'.
    Reconstructions suggest oviraptor was also, like, totally adorable.

  • @paulbabcock2428
    @paulbabcock2428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was so glad to hear him mention Roy Chapman Andrews after bringing up getting fossils from Mongolia. I was obsessed w dinosaurs in the fourth grade. And Roy Chapman Andrews was a particular hero of mine back then.

  • @sarah-8
    @sarah-8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    ITS BACK BOYS GET THE POPCORN

  • @TyrannosaurusRex5027
    @TyrannosaurusRex5027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    At long last, the best dinosaur series on TH-cam returns!

  • @thatrealpotato8795
    @thatrealpotato8795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    43:28 I love this so much that he gets so excited to give his source, knowing if he didn’t people would call him out for saying something “without evidence”

  • @BlackReshiram
    @BlackReshiram 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    OH GOD YES. AN ENTIRE HOUR OF VELOCIRAPTOR ANALYSIS.

  • @cinnamonsugarcourtney6073
    @cinnamonsugarcourtney6073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I am the Shadow that flaps in the night! Very unexpected reference. Love that this is up.

    • @MungkaeX
      @MungkaeX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      “I am the Confounding Variable in your Doctoral Thesis.”

    • @mrbyzantine0528
      @mrbyzantine0528 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Best part is Ducktales got a reboot in 2017 and the third season is set to release this month!

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lion Licks Darkwing Duck?

    • @brandielee7971
      @brandielee7971 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lion Licks Darkwing duck is a Disney cartoon. Daffy Duck is a Warner Brothers cartoon. Dark wing is a sort of mock of Batman, and came out in 1990. It's part of the Ducktails universe, and there is some crossover episodes with the original Ducktails from 1987.

  • @vladprus4019
    @vladprus4019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Possible "things" on head, naked head and neck?
    Nocturnal ambush p[redator with possibly slight pupils during day?
    I'm calling velociraptors cat-turkeys now.

    • @annedavis3340
      @annedavis3340 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Catturkies. I can dig it.

    • @an0rangutan
      @an0rangutan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But why though, they have nothing in common with cats, except MAYBE their eyes.
      This is even worse than people comparing Owls to cats.

    • @EmperorDixon
      @EmperorDixon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Turkats

    • @justashark776
      @justashark776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@an0rangutan Dromaeosaurs are the closest thing to cats dinosaurs have ever produced.

  • @Ryukai-san
    @Ryukai-san 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Personally I'd go with the swan comparison. Those things are freeking vicious and aggressive enough without teeth, giant claws and a penchant for raw meat!!
    Also, Your Spinosaurus Is 'NOW' wrong!!! :P That huge Swimming Tail they found looks Fabulous!!!!!!! Pleeeeeease!

  • @aidanpurcell783
    @aidanpurcell783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    16:07 I love how you can SEE him thinking about that scene from JP

  • @Sam-kt1mi
    @Sam-kt1mi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    This brings me great pleasure. I'm loving the amount of detail in this - A year ago I don't know if I would have thought I'd be so interested in the palaeontological history of Mongolia.

  • @GrizzledBear7
    @GrizzledBear7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I sent the orange one!

  • @CloudedByKatana
    @CloudedByKatana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "Bird's eyes are just objectively excellent" You can simplify that sentence to "Birds are just objectively excellent"

  • @Patherfinder1234
    @Patherfinder1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    thank you so much for using scientific anatomical terms. I'm in med school and you teaching supinating vs pronating is helping me identify the purpose and naming of muscle groups within the arm. keep up the excellent work!

  • @josephgalimidi2831
    @josephgalimidi2831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Truthfully, there isn't another biological science channel that I can think of where I learn as much and am as glued to the screen as this one. Thank you so much for all the work that you and your partner put into these!

  • @vmdraco
    @vmdraco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    All hail Maximum Fluff Raptor (• ⌣ •❀)

  • @michaelwade6475
    @michaelwade6475 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Me: In the middle of quarantine bored on a Sunday
    YDAW:hey here’s a hour long video on velociraptor

  • @SirClicks.
    @SirClicks. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    “Maximum fluff velociraptor” never thought I’d hear that before.

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Holy crap, I see why this one took you so long! This is practically a documentary. The animation is beautiful and the new set looks great.
    My personal theory about the Jurassic Park dinosaurs is that their first attempts actually *did* look like real velociraptors, but the scientists thought they looked stupid and added more lizard DNA to the next attempt.

    • @mrbyzantine0528
      @mrbyzantine0528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Scientists: Okay, we can try to make a dinosaur replica, and birds are th best bet.
      Park advisor: It better be something people want to see, considering the sum they pay to get out here!
      Scientists: Yeah, yeah, fine, we'll keep that in mind.
      *Makes bribdino*
      Dammit! It's accurate to our latest knowledge yet too damn cute! The advisors will never accept this!
      *Tries again with lizard dna*
      Okay, that's much more of a 'terrible lizard', right?
      Advisor: We can advertise this. Also, your puns suck.

    • @jasonvoorhees5180
      @jasonvoorhees5180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s nice and all but it has nothing to do with why the raptors look the way they do in the movies

    • @melanoc3tusii205
      @melanoc3tusii205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jasonvoorhees5180 ...

  • @lukebeall1068
    @lukebeall1068 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Tentosaurus: *exists*
    Deinonychus: it’s free real estate

    • @astphaire
      @astphaire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      god i hate reddit

    • @bendykirby4828
      @bendykirby4828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "I'll have a picture of Tenontosaurus."
      "How original..."
      "...That's being attacked by a pack of Deinonychus."
      "Daring today, aren't we?"

  • @ItsARandomDragon
    @ItsARandomDragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Scientists and archeologists: raptors had feathers
    Some people: NAH MATE

    • @robertculen2949
      @robertculen2949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paleontologists**

    • @HTTYD_Grunt-Garby_56
      @HTTYD_Grunt-Garby_56 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@robertculen2949 same thing brah

    • @martijn9568
      @martijn9568 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@HTTYD_Grunt-Garby_56 They both dig in the ground, but that's about where the similarities end.

  • @emilyvalentine4565
    @emilyvalentine4565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was 51 minutes through and I thought I had barely touched 20, hopefully that speaks to the quality of this incredible episode.

  • @Pyre001
    @Pyre001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    My favourite reconstruction is the one by Fred Wierum because it's just so damn cute.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#/media/File:Velociraptor_Restoration.png

    • @cthulhufhtagn2483
      @cthulhufhtagn2483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      DANGER DUCK

    • @mrbyzantine0528
      @mrbyzantine0528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's so fucking cute I'mma go punch a tree to feel manly again!

    • @eliburry-schnepp6012
      @eliburry-schnepp6012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Wierum's dinosaur art is so lifelike. Hartman might be my overall favorite but he and Willoughby are close behind

    • @Unethical.Dodgson
      @Unethical.Dodgson 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's also equally as inaccurate as portraying it as a scaley boy like JPark.

    • @cryptidliam8452
      @cryptidliam8452 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Cao Cao Games how-

  • @joschuaknuppe5849
    @joschuaknuppe5849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    *clapping a lot at the end*

  • @starrbeasts
    @starrbeasts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i’m autistic and often have trouble keeping up with fast-paced information and big flashy videos, like most of the things on youtube rn. these videos take it slow and gentle, and the music and the way you speak is very soft. i love it a lot! :D

  • @billnye9552
    @billnye9552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't know about others, but I find the scientifically accurate Velociraptor much scarier. My reasoning is, it's like a spider, small and can easily disappear. That's so much worse than the big turkeys they had in Jurassic Park.

    • @bubbydindins9647
      @bubbydindins9647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bill Nye plus blood stains on feathers easily. Terrifying

  • @joearnold6881
    @joearnold6881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Now I’m terrified of soaring turkeys.

    • @brandielee7971
      @brandielee7971 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You should be. I grew up around wild turkeys and just. No. You couldn't pay me to get near a six foot turkey. Nope.

    • @mattr2238
      @mattr2238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So am I, considering that turkeys are incapable of soaring flight

  • @TrashFireSpectator
    @TrashFireSpectator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    A whole hour? Yesss. Thank you!

  • @themesoceneofficial8559
    @themesoceneofficial8559 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Fact: even thought they say that velociraptor DNA was used in Jurassic park, the Jurassic park raptors are much closer to the Achillobator.

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That may be so, but it was consciously based upon Deinonychus, using the Velociraptor name.

    • @tyreeya_boi868
      @tyreeya_boi868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      JonMacFhearghuis also dakotaraptor

    • @amfvideos6810
      @amfvideos6810 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@tyreeya_boi868 Dakotaraptor wasn't actually discovered until 2015.

    • @lisamaitland157
      @lisamaitland157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That movie claimed, they used Frog DNA to Fill in a lot = This should have either killed the fetus, or by luck a viable animal. but it would not be dinosaur..

    • @andymac4883
      @andymac4883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wooo, I'm so glad I'm not the only one to have noticed this! Achillobator finds are even reasonably close to the areas Velociraptor was found in, so (unintentional as it was on the part of Crichton) it's entirely possible they accidentally cloned the as-yet unknown Achillobator and assumed it was a Velociraptor.

  • @evelynlamoy8483
    @evelynlamoy8483 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like the maximum fluff comment about feather covering. Velociraptor most likely wasn't that densely covered but the fun thing to think about is some dinosaurs probably would be. For species that lived in the more extreme latitudes, being very fluffy was probably a must. So there was likely some kind of raptor that was just a poofed up little chicken trying to stay warm

  • @reecehandley928
    @reecehandley928 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I was enamoured from start to finish , this sort of subject matter will always be quite dry so can only thank you for the jovial way in which you deliver it . Keep up the great work

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I always envision these and its relatives to be fluffy like a turkey or a at least like the Egyptian Vulture.

    • @VEZOK54
      @VEZOK54 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      _Paws_ But would they taste like turkey? 🤔

    • @Unethical.Dodgson
      @Unethical.Dodgson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dinos in this family would likely be somewhat fluffy in a weird kinda way. Dinosaur feathers were precursors to modern bird feathers. Not quite developed enough to look like the slick bird wing feathers that we have today.
      On one side. People envision these animals with thick plumage and graceful flight feathers. On the other side. People envision them as hard scaled animals. The truth is likely rather in between. Modern birds do also have scales but only on their legs and some modern birds do still have feathers that are not quite the same as the regular display and flight feathers.
      Add to that for some reason people assume that because one or two species of dinosaur had feathers that they all must have had them. That's also incorrect.
      But in short. Velo was feathered. But it didn't look like a pigeon.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those arm and tail feathers look a bit like a spoiler. Probably to help balancing and doing tight turns.

    • @ipercalisse579
      @ipercalisse579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@VEZOK54 I started laughing hysterically

    • @theexchipmunk
      @theexchipmunk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Unethical.Dodgson Yeah, if you are looking for the closest approximation to what a lot of dino fathers probably looked like, its the Emu. Those stringy more furry than father like feather are probably what a lot of dino fathers would have looked like. Made as insulation and protection from the environment, not flight. So Dinos were mostly fuzzy.

  • @AlexIsModded
    @AlexIsModded ปีที่แล้ว +2

    50:30 - I'm in full agreement that because velociraptor wasn't built to run fast, it was probably an ambush predator at somewhat close range. Given that we know from fossil evidence that it might have preyed on protoceratops, and that protoceratops didn't have strong vision, velociraptor could probably get pretty close undetected before pouncing. Interestingly, Jurassic Park actually depicts their version of velociraptor sneaking up on their prey and pouncing, rather than chasing them down. To this day I think this is brilliant.

  • @Heartogold42
    @Heartogold42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Absolutely love these videos, they push me to be an even bigger dino-nerd! I'm curious, you've said quite a few times that most dinosaurs couldn't pronate, so I guess that raises the question, which ones could? Thanks, and keep up the great work!

  • @londoncintron680
    @londoncintron680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I’m loving the new intro! I also happen to own the raptor with the oversized feathers (the one with pronated hands) , though I’d love to have a more accurate feathered V-raptor in my collection

    • @RDSyafriyar
      @RDSyafriyar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Then try checking out "Beasts of the Mesozoic" by Creative Beast Studio. They have a vast lineup of figures about accurately feathered dromaeosaurs, plus the feather patterns on each different raptor figure they made are based on those of birds.

    • @redwa11er
      @redwa11er 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Search Beasts of the Mesozoic. He's made a whole series of scientifically accurate raptor figures.

    • @londoncintron680
      @londoncintron680 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I searched them up and I really love their _V. mongoliensis_ personally. I’ve seen they’re also making a _Protoceratops_ which would go just perfectly together! Now to wait for an _Oviraptor._

    • @Gunslinger-tf9qk
      @Gunslinger-tf9qk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually just ordered the Black Velociraptor Mongoliensis. I cant wait for it to get here. Probably will have to pick up protoceratops too.

    • @itsahostiletakeover
      @itsahostiletakeover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can attest that the BOTM Raptors are fantastic. I have their Pyroraptor and Zhenyuanlong as well as one of the raptor chick packs and they're all great display pieces. A bit pricey but you get what you pay for certainly. I ordered eight of the ceratopsians for their Kickstarter last year and they have alrwady announced they are doing a tyrannosaur line next, gonna meed more shelf space lol. As for a cheaper raptor, safariltd.com just released a great Deinonychus at a very reasonable price, $12-13 I think.

  • @chiptankgirl
    @chiptankgirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Fantastic! It's beautiful. I want to show it to everyone I know. I want to make this required viewing for being my friend.

  • @DemitriVladMaximov
    @DemitriVladMaximov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." "I'm the terror that flaps in the night..." Yes I get both references.

  • @jastermereel4946
    @jastermereel4946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:28 i love how you center the mongolian fossil workers here. this is the way.

  • @MarioLanzas.
    @MarioLanzas. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    so great to see you back . and upgraded!

    • @bobthepotato4264
      @bobthepotato4264 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi! Amazing illustrations! I love your videos, keep up the incredible work!

  • @thedukeofchutney468
    @thedukeofchutney468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I really love this show

  • @robertpolilli1863
    @robertpolilli1863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For Jurassic Park, in a way, you had to be there. One of my primary reasons to going to see the movie, was to see the new dinosaurs, the active and agile bird-like dinosaurs and not the long portrayed dumb, lumbering dinosaurs of the past 140 years. It was so hard to be able to picture in my mind’s eye just how a lumbering dinosaur would be portrayed so differently. I could not even conceive of how this could be. My dinosaur toys as a kid and my kids dinosaur toys never gave you that impression. But when the brachiosaurus raised up on its back legs, I was as astonished as Dr Grant and Ellie were in seeing a living dinosaur. The movie changed correctly our view of dinosaurs, far more importantly than all the dinosaur features that were not up to modern views.

  • @alexphillips3074
    @alexphillips3074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video! Learned a lot of stuff. About the fighting dinosaurs though (and apologies if anyone else has said this), maybe the Velociraptor was going after a hatchling or a nest - we know that Protoceratops probably cared for their young at least for a while - and a nearby/guarding adult surprised the Velociraptor. Seems plausible Velociraptor would predate a young Protoceratops if it could get away with it. Just a thought.

  • @Muskoxing
    @Muskoxing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Never clicked on a notification so fast in my life

  • @Fishy_VA
    @Fishy_VA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Nobody:
    Paleo nerds during quarantine:
    0:25

  • @trevorgonzalez2616
    @trevorgonzalez2616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He's like the quirky paleology professor that I always wanted but never had

  • @theMuBot
    @theMuBot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Scute" is unironically one of my favorite words, and it brings me immense joy every time I hear it

  • @dylanlock2447
    @dylanlock2447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    ...or frog DNA.... I loved that reaction!!!

  • @Hoshimaru57
    @Hoshimaru57 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That one being shown at 29:00 made me really excited when I saw it the first time at my local museum. I honestly contemplated buying one and sending it to you with a “Hey! I think we’ve got a really good one here!”
    The same company (Safari Ltd I think), also does a Deinocheirus of this kind of paleontological accuracy.

    • @Quickstrike94
      @Quickstrike94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Safari LTD in general releases pretty accurate figures nowadays. Their main sculptor, Doug Watson, is a pretty chill dude who makes sure to go directly to the paleontologists that worked on the dinosaur in question. One of the few things that makes him grumpy is people assuming he screwed up without actually double checking the genuine fossil either in person or having someone else in person do it like he did. Their Sarcosuchus and Edmontosaurus releases this year were really cool... and their Deinonychus is beautiful. Yes, all three were done by him and he also did the Velociraptor in the episode (the orange one with feathers) as well as the Deinocheirus mentioned in the comment above me.

    • @anomalocaristheabnormalshr3248
      @anomalocaristheabnormalshr3248 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have their Carnotaurus and Velociraptor!

  • @grahamsmith2022
    @grahamsmith2022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The amount of TH-camrs that can make a video over an hour long AND hold your attention I can count on one hand,what a fascinating chap,well done sir,bravo!!

  • @kristakirby3269
    @kristakirby3269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I absolutely love that he gestured to the toys when he says we have a lot more information lol

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn2483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    For those who are interested: there is a bit more to the story of Velociraptor becoming Jurassic Park-ified than Michael Crichton disliking the name Deinonychus. As he was writing the book, Crichton read a book by Gregory Paul (a man known for giving dinosaurs new names willy-nilly with little regard for established taxonomy) which stated that Deinonychus was, in fact, a species of Velociraptor. In fact, in the book, one character states to another that "Deinonychus is now considered one of the Velociraptors", as well as mentioning digging up a juvenile _antirrhopus_ in Montana. And thus, Velociraptor being a human-sized predator was born.

    • @eliburry-schnepp6012
      @eliburry-schnepp6012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Indeed, it was in fact the movie that the name was considered; in the original concept art they were gonna use the name Deinonychus but Spielberg decided to stick w/ Velociraptor b/c it was cooler

    • @skepticalbadger
      @skepticalbadger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct.

  • @augustine5579
    @augustine5579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Definitely worth the wait, this has been one of the best YDAW videos.

  • @goldybays8654
    @goldybays8654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've been watching all the super old videos of YDAW and oml this series has evolved so much

  • @aleksandrakrolak
    @aleksandrakrolak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    51:04 Cats have 2 types of claws:
    - curved ones on front for holding, like a hook,
    - dagger like on feet for tearing pray apart.
    So maybe we should look at this that way?

    • @melanoc3tusii205
      @melanoc3tusii205 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      God... My cat definitely knows that.
      Her favourite strategy for play fighting is to pounce on another cat, knock them over, and then prostrate herself belly up before them .
      Then she grabs their head with her front legs and kicks the shit out of their face with her back ones.

  • @petrfedor1851
    @petrfedor1851 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is the best episode you made. For now.

  • @ryaquaza1571
    @ryaquaza1571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Honestly I wish a lot of asian dinosaurs would get as much recognition as velociraptor. We have real odd balls like deinocheirus, Ichthyovenator and Gigantspinosaurus, Tarbosaurus and Zhuchengtyrannus which are basically just better T. rex, the massive oviraptorid Megaraptor among other things.
    Granted certain Asian dinosaurs have gained decent attention over the years, like Therizinosaurus and Microraptor but I really feel like most of them don’t get the love they deserve

    • @bubbydindins9647
      @bubbydindins9647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah asia has some of my favorite dinosaurs. But name ONE famous Australian dinosaur. ONE.

    • @rgbymnky
      @rgbymnky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bubby din dins
      Australovenator technically appeared in walking with dinosaurs, but it was referred to as a ‘dwarf allosaur’ because the skeleton was yet to be completely identified until 2009
      That’s the closest any Australian dinosaur has come to fame and only because it was called an allosaur.

    • @TyrannoRex-sd9mc
      @TyrannoRex-sd9mc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Better T-Rex seems harsh.... I personally love every Dinosaur, and think all of them are respectively equal :)

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was a particularly great episode. Coincidentally I recently did a 3-D model of a velociraptor (admittedly scaled up for dramatic effect) and you addressed some of the very questions I had while making it: for example whether the teeth were exposed, and what the pupils should be like. Lot's of great tips, which I think I'll be going back to correct. Funny enough I started off with one reference drawing and about half-way through realised it was Jurassic Park and then found a paleo-art rendering of a skeleton with a silhouette and had to rip the model apart and reshape everything to match.
    It was also interesting to finally know why I didn't hear about velociraptor until I was in my twenties. I remember the first time hearing about this dinosaur from a co-worker who was reading Jurassic Park, which he told me was going to be a made into a movie. Having always been a huge fan of dinosaurs I was surprised I didn't know about velociraptors, and now I know it's because even western scientists were only just getting to know them at that time.
    And just before watching this I was talking to someone about the iguanodon species found in Thailand Sirintorana Koratosensis, because he wants to do a special about the dinosaurs of Nakhon Ratchasima, and I was telling him how iguanodon was the first dinosaur known to scientists, so the closing animation was another coincidence.

  • @tagg218
    @tagg218 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This channel is the perfect blend of hard science nerdy and fun nerdy.

  • @MajorBubbly
    @MajorBubbly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    great video, I loved the model scene of how the dinosaur fighting fossil took place. i can really see why this episode took so long to put together and the outcome was really good.

  • @TheGreatWolfYT
    @TheGreatWolfYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My favourite series is back!

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The fighting dinosaurs specimen truly is amazing

  • @ten-chan1015
    @ten-chan1015 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Velociraptor picking up a deflated ball is very adorable.

  • @benbaker5374
    @benbaker5374 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my first time watching one of these videos... man, that opening sequence is so creative and hilarious. So good!

  • @triccele
    @triccele 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yay! It's finally here! I was waiting so long for this episode, and I'm quite happy is finally out

  • @PhoenixofStarlight
    @PhoenixofStarlight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So glad to see this series back in action!! Thanks for an awesome episode to kick things back into gear!

  • @ricardoteg
    @ricardoteg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I did not include it because it's speculation and also heartbreaking". I'm so glad I found this channel

  • @jabronick
    @jabronick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You put so much work and time into this show and it always turns out incredibly good, glad it's back! :)

  • @r4fide
    @r4fide 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great episode, really came together wonderfully!

  • @ExperimenturalVideos
    @ExperimenturalVideos ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Possibly the funniest part of being a fan of your channel, with a connective tissue disorder, is whenever you tell us to do something with our hands, and show what it can't do or shouldn't do or SHOULD do and mine almost never does what's described. I don't know why it's a highlight of my day. Apparently I fail at the grasp thing.

  • @Nagassh
    @Nagassh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how the Iguanodon at the end looks like a slob going on some serious workouts and then just giving up again.

  • @jennyskipworth
    @jennyskipworth 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I absolutely get Dark Wing Duck references!!❤