According to this SciShow, dinosaurs possibly danced! So maybe in a way you are still paying tribute to the dinosaur with your education: ua-cam.com/video/G7CuWVFcNUE/v-deo.html
8 years ago there was an episode of Scishow where Hank said that apparently the head-bobbing of chickens and pigeons is not really a balancing function but rather to stabilize their head to see better.
Long time listener, first time commenter! Got on the video after listening on Spotify just to say that SAM YOU KNOW ENOUGH BY NOW! I’m not a scientist at all (I’m in law) and you provide a great science-enjoying layperson viewpoint to the show. 🎉
It's always such a delight to hear Deboki on Scishow Tangents! I know she does a bunch of behind the scenes stuff like researching and writing the topics here and on various of Hank's projects, but the first time I saw/heard her directly was for Crash Course Organic Chemistry and I've also heard her narration in Journey to the Microcosmos. She has a great voice, and I love the idea of guests getting to name the currency for their one-off episodes. Boke-bucks for the win!
At 26:09 , sauropods would also use a tactic employed by some birds and other reptiles in which they would swallow small smooth stones. These gastroliths would sit in the animals gut and help break down plant matter, essentially chewing their food with rock teeth in their stomachs :)
I've heard of other people having problems with the episode, but I haven't been able to replicate the issue. I'm sorry about that! What service do you use?
26:09 Sauropods used gastroliths to break down their food. Similar to how birds use a gizzard. Sauropods came in two basick shapes, horizontal or vertical. Vertical ones like Mamenchisaurus were tree top munchers. Horizontal ones like Diplodocus munched ground plants. These two body plans allowed both forms of Sauropods to coexist in the same environments for millions of years. Towards the end of the Jurassic and most all of the Cretaceous the horizontal feeders were replaced by hadrosaurs and ceratopsians.
recent studies of sauropod posture find diplodocids to be much less horizontal than they once were thought to be which makes sense given that ornithopods and thyreophorans were also very widespread low browsers
I've wanted to be a paleontologist since I could speak, I have a fond memory of my parents making a detour on a trip to stop by a museum/paleontology college in Tucumcari.
Anybody who thinks feathers make theropod dinosaurs less scary has never been in close contact with a feathered theropod. A goose will f*ck you up, and even a chicken or a pet parrot can draw blood*. And just imagine a feathery T. rex acting like a parakeet, hopping around and doing the inquisitive head tilt. That, to me, is FAR more terrifying that the way it was depicted in the Jurassic Park films. *the local zoo had a farmyard petting zoo section, with your standard domestic critters, cows, goats, chickens, sheep and such that you can pet. One time when I was there one of the chickens got annoyed, climbed up to the handrail of the walkway, and attacked the zookeeper who had raised it from the egg to the point that the human had to get stitches in her arm. Also one of the goats tried to eat me 3-year-old-at-the-time brother's shirt on the same visit, but that's a mammal thing, the bird was acting out of malice.
In 6th grade (2011/2012), we had a quiz on dinosaurs that had a question asking which animal group dinosaurs were related to, and I answered birds because that’s what I knew, but the “correct” answer was reptiles, which everyone else in the class answered… I am still salty about it to this day because other kids make fun of me for years after because of how “ridiculous” and “stupid” it was of me to say that birds are dinosaurs (Our taxonomic system really needs some work…)
If we're getting completely technical, you and the rest of the class kinda gave the same answer. Though you pointed out a specific group that turned out to be correct lol
Ițm very much a paleo enthusiast, one of my hobbies is actually to do life reconstruction of ammonites and other extinct invertebrates, but I was never really hooked into no-avian dinosaurs, still they are cool but I find their avian descendents to be way more interesting. Also Ceri and Silvia's cat is so adorable in the background!!!
Love listening to this show on my way to work! I always have so many fun little science tidbits to share with my friends and husband from this show. Always look forward to a new episode every week. Thanks for working so hard to bring us so many fun facts and make us all laugh!
I was such a dino kid that when I was three/four, I refused to answer to any name except Prehistoricus for almost seven months. My parents and older siblings will never let me forget this. I was also so intensely into dinosaurs that my preschool decided that they were a girl thing, because clearly they had to be because this one girl was so dino obsessed. I have now expanded my horizions, and am into natural history more broadly, and my nieces and nephews have to suffer through being given fossils of shark teeth and ammonites for birthdays.
the D. horneri study (or it might be D. torosus because I am not familiar with the study and it was repeatedly referred to as T. rex) was actually used for Tyrannosaurus behavior in the documentary series Prehistoric Planet in which it shows two Tyrannosaurus engaging in courtship behavior and nuzzling, because phylogenetic bracketing would make it very easy for T. rex to also exhibit this sensory ability they gave them a trait of a related genus, honestly you could probably look at the exact skulls because we have some really well preserved T. rex skulls, or something more out there like Bistahieversor sealeyi which also has a skull Struthiosaurus is a nodosaur and thus lacks both a stiffened tail and a tail club, they probably didn't need great balance as mentioned because big and low and WIDE, probably couldn't run very fast even if its brain was capable of the balance
Hi Edit: I guess 14 is old enough Also I am definitely a Dino person, I even have a toy Therizinosaurus that I’m pretty sure I got from the Houston museum of natural science
To be clear, chickens don't use their neck to power their walk. The reason they move their head so much has to do with their vision. As I understand it, they can't move their eyes like humans can. To see everything, they need to keep their heads stationary relative to the surrounding environment, and to adjust their vision they move their whole head at once. While walking, this results in their head repeatedly jumping forward, and then waiting there while the rest of the body catches up.
I'm so conditioned to trying to choose the best answer given, that when at the end Sam was reading off the ways you can support the show, my brain exclaimed, "Patreon!" before I was conscious it wasn't a quiz. 😅
@SciShow Tangents, as to the very last question about, "Would it be cool if a scientist in thousands or millions of years was looking at one of our poops?", I had the opposite thought. Would it be cool if a scientist in thousands or millions of years was looking at some other organism's poop, and discovered your remains? Like, a fossilised shark, with your arm in it, middle finger extended for eternity, and on your hand, a class ring inscribed with your name.
Oops. One famous mammal has changed its classification: the Giant Panda. It is relatively recent that it is now considered a bear. Period. So the "Lesser Panda" also known as the "Red Panda" is the "true" panda. The main renaming that I'm familiar with comes in plants where genetic evidence is leading to the expansion or narrowing of families and, sometimes, the renaming of genera as well as species. Nearly everything we thought we knew about plants has been changed. Very frustrating.
I got my phd in soil science... I've dug a lot of nice holes... fyi the organisms you are messing with the most when digging are varieties of fungus that don't grow back easily. Enjoy your new found guilt!
As a 40-year-old man, I am INCENSED that you would call dinosaurs "junk that kids like." I mean, sure, kids like dinosaurs. But the kids are right. Dinosaurs are awesome.
Your hole question has inspired me to play 7 days to die, the voxel (kinda like minecraft) based zombie survival building game. You can dig in that game and I freakin love it, i always attempt to dig out big tunnel systems connecting settlements and i almost always die in a cave in because you can’t be too greedy with your structural integrity lol. Thanks, i’m gonna go dig
I've now binge-watched all the UA-cam episodes of SciShow Tangents. Thank goodness you're also doing Rewind episodes, or I'd be bummed. I came for the science, but have come to love the personal interaction between the hosts. It's such a fantastic combination!
There are millions of species on Earth today. Presumably there were far far fewer 65+ million years ago. Does anyone have any scientific idea how many species were alive during any given time period in the age of dinosaurs? Was it thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Somewhere else?
Heartbroken whenever i find science people who don’t like space lol, it’s so strange to me. I like it all so I can understand being super interested in earth sciences and plants and animals but we can’t have earth without the rest of the universe that made us and it’s just one massive mystery and it’s all around us. It effects us so much, but like Ceri said to each their own I suppose
If Sam ever controls the currency again, you should call them Samoleons.
I was definitely a Dino kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was in 3rd grade lol. Now I'm in college studying music education.
According to this SciShow, dinosaurs possibly danced! So maybe in a way you are still paying tribute to the dinosaur with your education: ua-cam.com/video/G7CuWVFcNUE/v-deo.html
I want every single scishow tangents poem in the form of a book and/or children’s book
8 years ago there was an episode of Scishow where Hank said that apparently the head-bobbing of chickens and pigeons is not really a balancing function but rather to stabilize their head to see better.
i whish someone would complie all the tangents poems cus honestly i just love them
Yessss! Yes please!!!
Dude! Yes! A scishow poetry book! I started typing them all out but dang sauce that's going to take me a long time!
Imagine if they were in an illustrated book tho like childrens book style
@@abbyncisreid oh snap! Yes!
Long time listener, first time commenter! Got on the video after listening on Spotify just to say that SAM YOU KNOW ENOUGH BY NOW! I’m not a scientist at all (I’m in law) and you provide a great science-enjoying layperson viewpoint to the show. 🎉
Sam: *calls out the Egghead Kinship*
The Eggheads: *mindmeld on their introductions*
It's always such a delight to hear Deboki on Scishow Tangents! I know she does a bunch of behind the scenes stuff like researching and writing the topics here and on various of Hank's projects, but the first time I saw/heard her directly was for Crash Course Organic Chemistry and I've also heard her narration in Journey to the Microcosmos. She has a great voice, and I love the idea of guests getting to name the currency for their one-off episodes. Boke-bucks for the win!
the tropius shoutout was unexpected but appreciated
At 26:09 , sauropods would also use a tactic employed by some birds and other reptiles in which they would swallow small smooth stones. These gastroliths would sit in the animals gut and help break down plant matter, essentially chewing their food with rock teeth in their stomachs :)
Ceri it makes me so happy when your cat comes by to visit in the background!
Thank you for finally uploading this, my podcast app wouldnt play this for me so ive been waiting
I've heard of other people having problems with the episode, but I haven't been able to replicate the issue. I'm sorry about that! What service do you use?
@@SciShowTangents also well worth the wait :)
Not op but I had issues on Google podcasts
26:09 Sauropods used gastroliths to break down their food. Similar to how birds use a gizzard. Sauropods came in two basick shapes, horizontal or vertical. Vertical ones like Mamenchisaurus were tree top munchers. Horizontal ones like Diplodocus munched ground plants. These two body plans allowed both forms of Sauropods to coexist in the same environments for millions of years. Towards the end of the Jurassic and most all of the Cretaceous the horizontal feeders were replaced by hadrosaurs and ceratopsians.
recent studies of sauropod posture find diplodocids to be much less horizontal than they once were thought to be which makes sense given that ornithopods and thyreophorans were also very widespread low browsers
I've wanted to be a paleontologist since I could speak, I have a fond memory of my parents making a detour on a trip to stop by a museum/paleontology college in Tucumcari.
I absolutely love dinosaurs! Y'all did them justice 😊 thank you for another wonderful start to the day
Anybody who thinks feathers make theropod dinosaurs less scary has never been in close contact with a feathered theropod. A goose will f*ck you up, and even a chicken or a pet parrot can draw blood*. And just imagine a feathery T. rex acting like a parakeet, hopping around and doing the inquisitive head tilt. That, to me, is FAR more terrifying that the way it was depicted in the Jurassic Park films.
*the local zoo had a farmyard petting zoo section, with your standard domestic critters, cows, goats, chickens, sheep and such that you can pet. One time when I was there one of the chickens got annoyed, climbed up to the handrail of the walkway, and attacked the zookeeper who had raised it from the egg to the point that the human had to get stitches in her arm. Also one of the goats tried to eat me 3-year-old-at-the-time brother's shirt on the same visit, but that's a mammal thing, the bird was acting out of malice.
In 6th grade (2011/2012), we had a quiz on dinosaurs that had a question asking which animal group dinosaurs were related to, and I answered birds because that’s what I knew, but the “correct” answer was reptiles, which everyone else in the class answered… I am still salty about it to this day because other kids make fun of me for years after because of how “ridiculous” and “stupid” it was of me to say that birds are dinosaurs
(Our taxonomic system really needs some work…)
If we're getting completely technical, you and the rest of the class kinda gave the same answer. Though you pointed out a specific group that turned out to be correct lol
Saw the podcast pop up, but skipped it so I could watch the video 👍
Ițm very much a paleo enthusiast, one of my hobbies is actually to do life reconstruction of ammonites and other extinct invertebrates, but I was never really hooked into no-avian dinosaurs, still they are cool but I find their avian descendents to be way more interesting. Also Ceri and Silvia's cat is so adorable in the background!!!
Love listening to this show on my way to work! I always have so many fun little science tidbits to share with my friends and husband from this show. Always look forward to a new episode every week. Thanks for working so hard to bring us so many fun facts and make us all laugh!
Oh, boy, my three-year-old dino-loving niece would be so sad at your common dislike of her favorite creatures 😂
Sam---I just dug a hole to plant a tree. It was 3 feet wide by 2 feet deep. Dang, that was a lot of work in the heat.
I dug a concrete post out of the ground about that deep, but that's so wide! Digging is hard!! - Sam
I just got back from a dinosaur dig in Utah, happy to return from fieldwork to such excellent content.
I was such a dino kid that when I was three/four, I refused to answer to any name except Prehistoricus for almost seven months. My parents and older siblings will never let me forget this. I was also so intensely into dinosaurs that my preschool decided that they were a girl thing, because clearly they had to be because this one girl was so dino obsessed.
I have now expanded my horizions, and am into natural history more broadly, and my nieces and nephews have to suffer through being given fossils of shark teeth and ammonites for birthdays.
So happy to see this episode! Surprised it took this long 😅 great episode! Love the UA-cam too
the D. horneri study (or it might be D. torosus because I am not familiar with the study and it was repeatedly referred to as T. rex) was actually used for Tyrannosaurus behavior in the documentary series Prehistoric Planet in which it shows two Tyrannosaurus engaging in courtship behavior and nuzzling, because phylogenetic bracketing would make it very easy for T. rex to also exhibit this sensory ability they gave them a trait of a related genus, honestly you could probably look at the exact skulls because we have some really well preserved T. rex skulls, or something more out there like Bistahieversor sealeyi which also has a skull
Struthiosaurus is a nodosaur and thus lacks both a stiffened tail and a tail club, they probably didn't need great balance as mentioned because big and low and WIDE, probably couldn't run very fast even if its brain was capable of the balance
Hi
Edit: I guess 14 is old enough
Also I am definitely a Dino person, I even have a toy Therizinosaurus that I’m pretty sure I got from the Houston museum of natural science
To be clear, chickens don't use their neck to power their walk. The reason they move their head so much has to do with their vision.
As I understand it, they can't move their eyes like humans can. To see everything, they need to keep their heads stationary relative to the surrounding environment, and to adjust their vision they move their whole head at once.
While walking, this results in their head repeatedly jumping forward, and then waiting there while the rest of the body catches up.
I'm so conditioned to trying to choose the best answer given, that when at the end Sam was reading off the ways you can support the show, my brain exclaimed, "Patreon!" before I was conscious it wasn't a quiz. 😅
@SciShow Tangents, as to the very last question about, "Would it be cool if a scientist in thousands or millions of years was looking at one of our poops?", I had the opposite thought. Would it be cool if a scientist in thousands or millions of years was looking at some other organism's poop, and discovered your remains? Like, a fossilised shark, with your arm in it, middle finger extended for eternity, and on your hand, a class ring inscribed with your name.
Ok, that was a really great question at 02:00
I like how dinosaurs are broken into bird-hipped and lizard-hipped, but birds are in the lizard-hipped group.
Oops. One famous mammal has changed its classification: the Giant Panda. It is relatively recent that it is now considered a bear. Period. So the "Lesser Panda" also known as the "Red Panda" is the "true" panda.
The main renaming that I'm familiar with comes in plants where genetic evidence is leading to the expansion or narrowing of families and, sometimes, the renaming of genera as well as species. Nearly everything we thought we knew about plants has been changed. Very frustrating.
that is very cool info!
10:25 since when do reptiles not lay eggs?
There are some species of snake and lizard that give live birth.
I got my phd in soil science... I've dug a lot of nice holes... fyi the organisms you are messing with the most when digging are varieties of fungus that don't grow back easily. Enjoy your new found guilt!
Omigosh can someone please explain the Ruby & Sapphire connection to Tropius? 🤯
Grade A auto-generated subtitles:
"the kissing T-Rexes" → "the kissing to your exes"
XD
As a 40-year-old man, I am INCENSED that you would call dinosaurs "junk that kids like."
I mean, sure, kids like dinosaurs. But the kids are right. Dinosaurs are awesome.
The whole tyrannosaurus had feathered wings on their arms so they could rub shoulders, cuddle.
I still love dinosaurs so much! I have and I think I will always be a dinosaur woman.
Birds kiss all the time!! Like they lock beaks and regurgitate food to each other!! Its hardcore kissing
It was said that the brontosaurus had been matched to the wrong head and was renamed for that.
I love that Deboki's pic just looks like she doesn't believe a fuckin word Ceri is saying
Your hole question has inspired me to play 7 days to die, the voxel (kinda like minecraft) based zombie survival building game. You can dig in that game and I freakin love it, i always attempt to dig out big tunnel systems connecting settlements and i almost always die in a cave in because you can’t be too greedy with your structural integrity lol. Thanks, i’m gonna go dig
I've now binge-watched all the UA-cam episodes of SciShow Tangents. Thank goodness you're also doing Rewind episodes, or I'd be bummed. I came for the science, but have come to love the personal interaction between the hosts. It's such a fantastic combination!
i wonnder if the T REX chickens legs , tasted any better with more muscle
Kitty!!!
Wouldn't it be a bit more like certain tribes who rub their noses together to say hello, rather than kissing?
There are millions of species on Earth today. Presumably there were far far fewer 65+ million years ago. Does anyone have any scientific idea how many species were alive during any given time period in the age of dinosaurs? Was it thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Somewhere else?
Heartbroken whenever i find science people who don’t like space lol, it’s so strange to me. I like it all so I can understand being super interested in earth sciences and plants and animals but we can’t have earth without the rest of the universe that made us and it’s just one massive mystery and it’s all around us. It effects us so much, but like Ceri said to each their own I suppose