You see these fossils and begin to understand why our ancestors believed in dragons. Finding those skulls would be life changing, no matter the time period found.
@@sardonicspartan9343 I know we've all heard that, so I'm not calling you out for repeating it. But I will say, I'm enormously skeptical of that claim. The Greeks were a metropolitan society far before there even was a unified Greece. The various city states had academics across disciplines from as far back as antiquity has left us documents... and they had plenty of exposure to modern existing elephants. Elephants were used in Asia Minor, all the into modern Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and North Africa (mostly into modern Ethiopia and Sudan) as beasts of burden and of war, and of course, there were still free ranging populations then too. Greeks most definitely saw elephant skulls from existing animals who died. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't recognize a skull when they saw it, as extinct mammoths and mastodons presented skulls which were largely similar to existing species. Cyclops were a fun story to tell, and there's a lazy connection to be made by looking at the tusks and nasal cavity of elephant skulls, but I don't agree that's its beyond supposition that old skulls directly inspired the stories. Greek gods and myths were allegorical, not literal explanations of natural phenomenon, they just didn't culturally tie things that tightly together. Just imagine for a second if we transcribed Greek myth to reality... the God of War, Ares, is repeatedly shown as cowardly and inept, not traits you'd want your soldiers to emulate. He wasn't supposed to be an exemplar like Tyr or Thor, he was just a fun character to tell stories about. Similarly, Zeus is never treated as being a weather bringing God, despite his famous thunderbolts. So I'm just saying, until I see some kind of scholarly evidence that directly quotes that this skull found in the ground was a Cyclops, and its shown as an elephant skull, I don't buy it. I think it's no more accurate than the ancient aliens people seeing a helicopter in the hieroglyphics at the Seti Temple in Abydos.
@@kiltedcripple some think its because they saw people forging and using masks similar to those we use today when using flames to weld materials togheter, but that too is up for debatw
Mrs Baldermort has done an amazing job on these videos, and I could listen to Baldermort talk about paint drying with a smile. Liked, shared and subscribed.
I has expecting an Anime "Baaaaaka" reference lol. Honestly this is not a dig I had ever known about. Beeing an American I have heard far more about Colorado so this is a wonderful piece to listen too!
Just for reference, some of the footage was taken from a video game called "The Isle". It is available on steam for $20. If you love dinosaurs it is a good game to check out.
From approx. 8:00 - 8:45 @@gknaturalhistory, it's pronounced Tyrannosaurids, not Tryannosaurus. Tyrannosaurids are the overall group that eventually led to T. rex; Tyrannosaurus is the large, menacing theropod that terrorises the original Jurassic Park film, and many other documentaries since... RE Stegosaurus stenops VS S. ungulatus, it's possible that S. ungualtus is a younger life stage of S. stenops, while S. stenops represents the adult animals. Of course, for this to apply, S. ungulatus and S. stenops have to have existed at the same time...
I enjoyed this, but I wish the images did not include therapods with pronated hands. Therapods used their hands for grasping, and held them palms-in. They were not capable of twisting their wrists.
Thank you for a very exellent video and info. - Hope to take a trip to Portugal and looking for dinosaur fossils. The large Torvosaurus and the big teethed Ceratosaurus are my favorites
AWESOME how many discoveries occurred in the past 20+ years ! ... AND the 1800s ... AND in the "lab" re-examining the finds in the following years ... 150+MILLION Years compressed and animated in a 20+ minute video... F-ing AWESOME ! Of all the geologic blinks of an eye to get to spend one's conscious life within, we're some lucky bastards! B-)
We can have a big input on it. The major dinosaur collection from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal is housed at Sociedade de História Natural of Torres Vedras.
Thank you for creating & sharing this fascinating documentation; really liked watching it! BTW the weight estimates regarding a big 12m Allosaurus seem far off with 1,5 tons - it would have at least three times that weight! Just imagine that animal.
Just a quick note here Alcobaça is written the way I've done it and not the way in the title, this comes from a hard to soft C in the portuguese language, where if the letter C if followed either by the vowel E or I, the C has a soft sound to it like an S in the word "sound", but if C is followed by either A, O or U the C has a harder sound to it like in the word "captain". For you to have a softer C with either A, O or U you'll need this Ç which is a C with a "sedilha", that the little thing bellow the letter C, and is what give the softer sound to C when followed by A, O or U.
The video was great though! And a big thank you for bringing to light prehestoric Portugal! As a Portuguese I think it is nice to see prehestoric Portugal, and Portugal in general being talked about here on youtube
Hi Miguel, You absolutely right. We just couldn't get the right font. Thank you very much for the explanation. The narrator Mr B is trying hard to get all the names pronounced correctly. However, you can imagine how many languages are out there. 😥We hope we gave it some justice. :)
@@gknaturalhistory You actually got all names nailed it there were a few exceptions like Lorinhã, though I can forgive those for how hard they can be. And I know how hard it can be when it comes to having to speack multiple languages, I sometimes forget words in english, french and spanish
You see these fossils and begin to understand why our ancestors believed in dragons. Finding those skulls would be life changing, no matter the time period found.
The legend of the cyclops came from an elephant skull.
@@sardonicspartan9343 I know we've all heard that, so I'm not calling you out for repeating it. But I will say, I'm enormously skeptical of that claim. The Greeks were a metropolitan society far before there even was a unified Greece. The various city states had academics across disciplines from as far back as antiquity has left us documents... and they had plenty of exposure to modern existing elephants. Elephants were used in Asia Minor, all the into modern Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and North Africa (mostly into modern Ethiopia and Sudan) as beasts of burden and of war, and of course, there were still free ranging populations then too. Greeks most definitely saw elephant skulls from existing animals who died. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't recognize a skull when they saw it, as extinct mammoths and mastodons presented skulls which were largely similar to existing species. Cyclops were a fun story to tell, and there's a lazy connection to be made by looking at the tusks and nasal cavity of elephant skulls, but I don't agree that's its beyond supposition that old skulls directly inspired the stories. Greek gods and myths were allegorical, not literal explanations of natural phenomenon, they just didn't culturally tie things that tightly together.
Just imagine for a second if we transcribed Greek myth to reality... the God of War, Ares, is repeatedly shown as cowardly and inept, not traits you'd want your soldiers to emulate. He wasn't supposed to be an exemplar like Tyr or Thor, he was just a fun character to tell stories about. Similarly, Zeus is never treated as being a weather bringing God, despite his famous thunderbolts. So I'm just saying, until I see some kind of scholarly evidence that directly quotes that this skull found in the ground was a Cyclops, and its shown as an elephant skull, I don't buy it. I think it's no more accurate than the ancient aliens people seeing a helicopter in the hieroglyphics at the Seti Temple in Abydos.
@@kiltedcripple some think its because they saw people forging and using masks similar to those we use today when using flames to weld materials togheter, but that too is up for debatw
Don't be silly.
@@kiltedcripple the legend of the cyclops comes from the bible and it is not what you think it is. The one eyed monster is the 📺 your living room.
Mrs Baldermort has done an amazing job on these videos, and I could listen to Baldermort talk about paint drying with a smile. Liked, shared and subscribed.
Yay a nice video to relax to after a long day at work
I has expecting an Anime "Baaaaaka" reference lol. Honestly this is not a dig I had ever known about. Beeing an American I have heard far more about Colorado so this is a wonderful piece to listen too!
Videos about Portugal's dinos are hard to come by in English so this is a real treat!
Thanks for everything baldermort!
Another great video, just what I needed for after work. Thank you and keep up the stellar work, Mrs. Baldermort and Mr. Baldermort!
You guys never come up short on these videos.thanks again for your effort and time. It does not go unnoticed!
I love that the size comparison of the Allo didn't only show people but also a dog :3
love your videos keep up the good work.....
Just for reference, some of the footage was taken from a video game called "The Isle". It is available on steam for $20. If you love dinosaurs it is a good game to check out.
3:25 looks like the short snouted Allosaurus
Another fantastic video, I been recommending them to my co-workers who want there kids to watch something smart and fun on youtube.
Thank you Bohdan. :)
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Hi Donald Hudson,
We hope we haven't disappointed you and delivered it. :)
@@gknaturalhistory you haven't let me down yet. Another great video.
From approx. 8:00 - 8:45 @@gknaturalhistory, it's pronounced Tyrannosaurids, not Tryannosaurus. Tyrannosaurids are the overall group that eventually led to T. rex; Tyrannosaurus is the large, menacing theropod that terrorises the original Jurassic Park film, and many other documentaries since...
RE Stegosaurus stenops VS S. ungulatus, it's possible that S. ungualtus is a younger life stage of S. stenops, while S. stenops represents the adult animals.
Of course, for this to apply, S. ungulatus and S. stenops have to have existed at the same time...
Thank you , GK .
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I enjoyed this, but I wish the images did not include therapods with pronated hands. Therapods used their hands for grasping, and held them palms-in. They were not capable of twisting their wrists.
Thank you for a very exellent video and info. - Hope to take a trip to Portugal and looking for dinosaur fossils. The large Torvosaurus and the big teethed Ceratosaurus are my favorites
Awesome~👍
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
Very good one. The Allosaurus is a beast.
Great Video as always.
Keep up the good work.
:)
Some of the scenes, like the ceratosaurus shots, look like they came out of the game "The Isle."
AWESOME how many discoveries occurred in the past 20+ years ! ... AND the 1800s ... AND in the "lab" re-examining the finds in the following years ... 150+MILLION Years compressed and animated in a 20+ minute video... F-ing AWESOME ! Of all the geologic blinks of an eye to get to spend one's conscious life within, we're some lucky bastards! B-)
This is fantastic stuff, thank you!
We can have a big input on it. The major dinosaur collection from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal is housed at Sociedade de História Natural of Torres Vedras.
So well done! Thank you!
Oh yeeaahhh, it's learnin' time.
Baldermort For the win! Love the 40k lore vids and these history vids.
Thank you for creating & sharing this fascinating documentation; really liked watching it! BTW the weight estimates regarding a big 12m Allosaurus seem far off with 1,5 tons - it would have at least three times that weight! Just imagine that animal.
You just needs to make a military history channel and you would cover all my favorites things dinosaurs, myths, 40k and military history
Those creatures were pretty interesting even the BoRiNg HeRbIvOrEs
Excellent video
Great video!
Thanks for anoter great video!
I always love your content baldy
BALDEMORT!!! The Empirion of man needs you...
Great!
The Torvosaurus has gone missing... 🤔
Just a quick note here Alcobaça is written the way I've done it and not the way in the title, this comes from a hard to soft C in the portuguese language, where if the letter C if followed either by the vowel E or I, the C has a soft sound to it like an S in the word "sound", but if C is followed by either A, O or U the C has a harder sound to it like in the word "captain". For you to have a softer C with either A, O or U you'll need this Ç which is a C with a "sedilha", that the little thing bellow the letter C, and is what give the softer sound to C when followed by A, O or U.
The video was great though!
And a big thank you for bringing to light prehestoric Portugal! As a Portuguese I think it is nice to see prehestoric Portugal, and Portugal in general being talked about here on youtube
Hi Miguel,
You absolutely right. We just couldn't get the right font.
Thank you very much for the explanation. The narrator Mr B is trying hard to get all the names pronounced correctly. However, you can imagine how many languages are out there. 😥We hope we gave it some justice. :)
It was our pleasure to create this video. We glad that you liked it. Please share with your friends so it can be reached by more people. Thank you :)
@@gknaturalhistory You actually got all names nailed it there were a few exceptions like Lorinhã, though I can forgive those for how hard they can be. And I know how hard it can be when it comes to having to speack multiple languages, I sometimes forget words in english, french and spanish
It is Alcobaça!
Was some of the Dino scenes come from a game of some sort? If so which one?
some of it was from the game called "The Isle". It is on steam for only $20 and it is very fun if you are a dino fan.
Very good. But there is several mistakes. A pitty.....
Noice
Does anyone else hear Whinnie the Pooh ?