These Are The Coolest Fossils From 2023

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  • @Roope00
    @Roope00 Рік тому +572

    Odd, usually we have fossils from millions of years ago!

  • @vectorwolf
    @vectorwolf Рік тому +96

    Regarding the mosasaur... when you see that kind of star shaped cross section in medieval weaponry, it's something intended specifically to pierce mail or plate armor. I think this speaks to a predator with a diet comprised of prey with heavy scales or bony plating, rather than an actual shell. I know there are plenty of armored fish in the record, so I'd look for those in the same strata as your mosasaur.

    • @jabbrewoki
      @jabbrewoki Рік тому +12

      I like how you think, and I like your name.

    • @NinaDmytraczenko
      @NinaDmytraczenko Рік тому +7

      Ha! And my mom used to say LARPing would never be a useful skill 😂😂😂😂

    • @GinHindew110
      @GinHindew110 Рік тому +5

      armored fish havent really made it big ever since, so its very probable

    • @MaFritz101
      @MaFritz101 Рік тому +3

      Besides armored fish, add sharks with thick shark skin

    • @jabbrewoki
      @jabbrewoki Рік тому +2

      @@MaFritz101 piercing skulls as well

  • @robmann400
    @robmann400 Рік тому +78

    Screwdriver Toothed Mosasaurs used their unique teeth to pick up small cubes of ice which they needed whenever feeding because their diet mainly consisted of vodka and orange juice.
    You’re welcome!

    • @meg2831
      @meg2831 Рік тому +1

      Makes sense to me

  • @therongjr
    @therongjr Рік тому +153

    I was disappointed that you didn't elaborate what kind of dinosaur and mammal were locked in mortal combat in the last segment. (They were a psittacosaurid and gobiconodontid, by the way!)

    • @dawnorem189
      @dawnorem189 Рік тому +9

      I'm curious how they decided they were fighting and the little mammal wasn't just eating an already dead/dying dino.

    • @dasstigma
      @dasstigma Рік тому +4

      II am also disappointed that you did not say how tall I am at the end of your comment. (It's 182cm by the way).

    • @blakake
      @blakake 9 місяців тому

      I was disappointed when I thought "there's a chance my son might be this much of a try hard" but I doubt it.

    • @neilcook4710
      @neilcook4710 9 місяців тому

      I'm doubting the authenticity of the Chinese fossil. Just a hunch.

    • @dasstigma
      @dasstigma 9 місяців тому

      @@neilcook4710 Yes, because China. China is not the US, so it must be lying. Because the US never lies. I got you! You are definitely not racist! Correct?

  • @lethargogpeterson4083
    @lethargogpeterson4083 Рік тому +267

    Can we call that screwdriver toothed mosasaur Ikeasaurus in honor of the furniture they (almost certainly) did not assemble?
    Edit: Shoutout to @kayleighlehrman9566, who in a reply to this comment came up with an even more appropriate name, Ikeadont.

    • @mandelbraught2728
      @mandelbraught2728 Рік тому +20

      Maybe it evolved for exactly this purpose, since our species apparently isn't evolved enough to assemble them.😉

    • @kayleighlehrman9566
      @kayleighlehrman9566 Рік тому +36

      Or maybe Ikeadont, to specifically mention the teeth

    • @lethargogpeterson4083
      @lethargogpeterson4083 Рік тому +9

      @@kayleighlehrman9566 Ooo. Even better, yes. There could even be multiple species in the genus, for hex wrenches, etc.

    • @KOKO-uu7yd
      @KOKO-uu7yd Рік тому +5

      LOVE IT!👍👍

    • @AileTheAlien
      @AileTheAlien Рік тому +4

      @@kayleighlehrman9566 triple-win - it sounds like "Ikea don't" because it's not assembling anything! 😆

  • @areallyshortbrontothere
    @areallyshortbrontothere Рік тому +17

    As a fossilized animal, I approve this list

  • @outistynnanyt5153
    @outistynnanyt5153 Рік тому +14

    My thought for the "screwdriver teeth" is that maybe it was used as a wedge? Not for hard-bodied organisms, but maybe "tough bodied" that could have benefited from being split apart, but not shredded???

  • @elihyland4781
    @elihyland4781 Рік тому +2

    That thumbnail deserves to be preserved for future generations

  • @FACTION141
    @FACTION141 Рік тому +7

    So you’re telling me that it is technically possible that the ankylosaurus could’ve had human like speech similar to that of a parrot

    • @smurfyday
      @smurfyday 9 місяців тому

      I mean, most birds can do fancy vocals compared to other animals, so it only stands to reason that their common ancestor, the non-avian dinos, could have done the same

  • @Shadowpup6
    @Shadowpup6 Рік тому +5

    Me hearing about a fossil found in 2005: "Oh that was a couple years ago." Reid: "NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO." Me: WTF

    • @fezii9043
      @fezii9043 10 місяців тому +1

      Haha boomer
      (I'm only making fun of you since I'm a Gen Z kid trying to forget the inevitable march of time slowly overtaking my existence to eventually wipe out all that I am or ever have been)

  • @ravenwolf7128
    @ravenwolf7128 Рік тому +27

    Love the fossils! Hope they get to reconstruct some dino calls and create a more realistic immersive experience visuals matched with sounds--a whole chorus from various parts of the Mesozoic. Wish we could glimpse through a time machine....

    • @magnusbjarni
      @magnusbjarni Рік тому +4

      Ive wondered how the past sounded like and imagine if the air was flush with stunning and beautiful sounds that could rip your ear drums from up close. The immensely deep songs of the bigger animals and the shorter, higher pitches from the small reptiles. Instead of roars, there would be songs that struck fear and others that made you feel safe. And they would stop as some invisible threat came near so the silence would be deafening and terrifying

    • @Beryllahawk
      @Beryllahawk Рік тому +3

      That was also my first thought. If the fossil is complete enough for them to create a model, maybe they can make some noise! I think they tried this in the late 1980s with parasaurolophus fossils - someone made models of the crest bones. I don't remember anymore if that was purely speculative, but that segment was among a wave of dinosaur related "isn't this nifty" that swamped the TV channels right after the first Jurassic Park flick came out.

  • @werty8472
    @werty8472 Рік тому +22

    That screwdriver shape is a spudger. It's a shape used to separate two hard parts which are held together with interlocking or adhesive pull.

    • @carmensmithaguirre3049
      @carmensmithaguirre3049 Рік тому +6

      So they would've eaten clams or oysters or something?

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 Рік тому +7

      I was thinking something specialized for eating a particular mollusk myself. I'm actually looking at a extant animal that has teeth that if you take them away from the jaw or not especially outstanding but when they're in the jaw they form a structure almost identical to a pruning saw which is a type of saw that slices out a little thin section in the middle to avoid getting bound. When I watch these animals feed I see them using their teeth as a saw to sever the spine of prey and I believe they may be the only ones that do something like this currently. So it's absolutely possible for animals to have really unusual and specific dentition evolve that isn't seen elsewhere. What makes my particular animal especially outstanding is it does this because it's a snake and has no way of gripping and tearing apart food, except for this species which is developed these crazy teeth that let them do that.

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens Рік тому +3

    An ancient angry kitten fighting a dragon to the death, while in the background, a volcano is exploding. **cue metal music**

    • @ThirtytwoJ
      @ThirtytwoJ 10 місяців тому +1

      Soooo neadertal dinner date, netflix and chill where you scavenge the loser.

  • @sharendonnelly7770
    @sharendonnelly7770 Рік тому +30

    Phillips head tooth structure in the mosasaur appears to be a combination adaptation of crushing and gripping. Perhaps there existed an organism, like a nautilus or ammonite, that had a relatively light shell yet chewy center? The specialized tooth structure could have allowed the mosasaur to chomp into the shell and dispatch it while gripping the meaty portion to consume. My humble thoughts only, hoping to see other ideas on this one.

    • @WhatIsSanity
      @WhatIsSanity Рік тому +5

      I was thing that or they bit into and shredded some sort of large leafy seaweed. The unusual shape would provide quite a bit of traction and shearing ability once the tips had already punctured, granted this would require the mosasaur to shake its head back and forth like a shark or crocodilian.

  • @jdranetz
    @jdranetz Рік тому +16

    The dino against the mammal may have had a hinderence of cold, and was attacked while sleeping. Repiles have more primative ears, too. It snuck up on it.

  • @rickseiden1
    @rickseiden1 Рік тому +54

    I'm asking this out of ignorance, and not to challenge people who know a lot more than I do. How do they know that the three mosasaur teeth they found represent a new species? Could it be a known species of mosasaur with some sort of genetic defect?

    • @user-et2dx5du7e
      @user-et2dx5du7e Рік тому

      the chances of such great genetic defect is smaller than that of a new species getting fossilized

    • @caseyleichter2309
      @caseyleichter2309 Рік тому +17

      I wonder the same thing! That's one of the problems with fossils: it's hard to tell if a strange one is a genuinely different species/breed, or if it's a one-off due to deformity. Unless they find more, there's no way to tell for sure. (If the critter was mature, or even old, then we can hazard a guess that even if the phillips-head teeth were a deformity, they was still functional enough for the critter to be able to eat...and, possibly pass the trait on to their offspring.)

    • @eseguerito2629
      @eseguerito2629 Рік тому +37

      Lomg story short, most animals that die will never be fossilized in the first place because it only happens under very specific circumstances. So, when one is discovered, it’s a safer bet to assume that it’s a completely ordinary and average specimen of it’s particular species.

    • @MontgomeryWenis
      @MontgomeryWenis Рік тому +6

      I'm wondering how they even identified it as a mosasaur when all they found were teeth that have never been seen in any animal ever.

    • @outistynnanyt5153
      @outistynnanyt5153 Рік тому +8

      ​@@eseguerito2629 this makes a lot of sense, but i still wonder: is there a way to rule that out? Or is it just "statistically this is probably 'normal,' so we should treat it like it is"?

  • @stax6092
    @stax6092 Рік тому +54

    Man, I love Ankylosaurus. But I gotta say the most Epic fight to me is the fossil find in Jurassic Fight-Club between an Ankylosaur-type-dinosaur(Gastro-Something) and Utah Raptor. Real cool.
    Go little mammal though.

    • @Casio718
      @Casio718 Рік тому

      That sounds like Raptor Red and there's a book about jer called Raptor Red. It's about the life of a female Utahraptor.

    • @Glunked
      @Glunked Рік тому +2

      Gastonia?

    • @stax6092
      @stax6092 Рік тому +1

      @@Glunked That's the one. It had been so long the name had escaped me. Thank you.

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 Рік тому

      best dino

    • @Glunked
      @Glunked Рік тому +1

      @@stax6092 no problem

  • @Aaa-dv3oi
    @Aaa-dv3oi Рік тому +9

    That battle will last forever and that’s beautiful to me

    • @poonoi1968
      @poonoi1968 Рік тому

      If you're not already, you should marry 😂

  • @uningenieromas
    @uningenieromas Рік тому +11

    11:18 That fight would have 'Duel of Fates' in the background.

    • @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722
      @gabrielalejandrodoldan4722 Рік тому +2

      Batalla de los héroes en realidad, literalmente estaban peleando en un lugar parecido a Mustafar

  • @ixiairisborne1695
    @ixiairisborne1695 8 місяців тому

    screwdriver teeth suggestion: speed + strength. By having the footprint of a larger tooth, it would have nearly the same strength as if it were round, at the major diameter. By having the troughs in the teeth, they'd be lighter than they'd be at the major diameter. So, my theory would be that this meant the mosasaur could snap its jaws closed either with less energy needed or with greater speed, penetrating bones, scales, dermal plating, etc with greater ease or with deeper penetration.

  • @chr.s
    @chr.s Рік тому +3

    Best thumbnail 10/10. Give the designer a high five from me please

  • @blackkittycat15
    @blackkittycat15 Рік тому +3

    That last one has to be the ancestor of the chihuahua.

    • @smurfyday
      @smurfyday 9 місяців тому

      Sounds like you've never seen that viral video about honey badgers

  • @6pin66
    @6pin66 Рік тому +13

    With the Mammal vs Dino fight.........umm punching above their weight is a well established Mammal thing . Ever hear of Mustelids ?!?! I bet a Fisher could mess a small dino up REAL good . By small , I mean.....not a Sauropod :P

    • @pluspiping
      @pluspiping 10 місяців тому

      Agreed. Badger vibes, indeed.

  • @protocetid
    @protocetid 11 місяців тому

    wow 2023 truly was a golden year for fossil discoveries!

  • @BallisticDamages
    @BallisticDamages Рік тому +12

    Just got back from my local disused quarry and found some nice vancouverensis fossils. Still hoping to find a nice Ammonite or something. Wish I could find something even 1/100th as awesome as these fossils though haha

    • @joeh2236
      @joeh2236 Рік тому +5

      When I was a kid in the late 80's, early 90's one of my dads friends was a paleontologist and he gave me some plesiosaur teeth. I thought that was the coolest thing. Not that you care, just wanted to share. Hope you find what your looking for!

    • @BallisticDamages
      @BallisticDamages Рік тому +5

      @@joeh2236 you're quite wrong my friend! I do care! That sounds awesome 😎

  • @josephdonais4778
    @josephdonais4778 Рік тому +1

    Mosasaur teeth, a pyramid of blades. Mom's failed experiment at maximizing the phase and cutting surface area, "Being on the cutting edge"... of evolution?
    I dream of being chased by bears. Being chased by a toothy dino...? I do believe "terror, pain and death" and terror, pain and death mean the same thing. Who the hell wants nuances?

  • @AmericanMeiling
    @AmericanMeiling Рік тому +11

    Imagining a big beast like a dinosaur warbling like a bird just made me so giddy 😹😹😹 It literally surprises me ... Little things are really the best

  • @theendoftheworld9921
    @theendoftheworld9921 Рік тому +5

    I never skip ads on informative content like this and neither should you. Unless you're in a rush or something, do whatever you want in the end

  • @hamentaschen
    @hamentaschen Рік тому +4

    "I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra Рік тому +1

    3:16 Maybe the screwdriver Mosasaur was eating fleshy prey that buried itself in the sediments of the seabed 🤔
    The serrations on the side of the grooves and the grooves themselves would help the animal capture and hold onto its prey. And the sediments of the seabed would be responsible for wearing the teeth down 🤔
    If the prey items were large-ish, that would explain why this animal evolved these teeth over say baileen

  • @ponyote
    @ponyote Рік тому +2

    Screwdriver teeth could really do a number on soft tissue, maybe with a thin shell or thick hide? Just my two cents.

  • @Nala15-Artist
    @Nala15-Artist Рік тому +2

    The discoveries like the preserved larynx is such a help into further completing the picture of what life in the time of dinosaurs was like. It drives me nuts how some old-guard paleontologists keep spouting the myth the dinosaur age was quiet solely because we haven't found a voicebox yet! Come on, use some common sense. If you think the dinosaur age was quiet then you also have to presume that pack and herd-behavior didn't happen (which your data shows it did) because vocal communication is KEY for that! And now... we have some good proof. ;)
    (for something that was obvious ...)

  • @AverageSsb2Player
    @AverageSsb2Player 11 місяців тому +1

    Explaining why some migrating birds are endangered or what so ever.
    1. Bird: Cranes
    Crane birds are basically birds that are omnivorous. They are commonly found at lakes, rivers, wetlands and etc. Now, why are they endangered?
    1. Reason: Habitat loss
    Habitat loss is something very bad for animals. It could lead to it being critically endangered or going extinct. Welp, how is Habitat loss caused? The answer is human activity. Human activity can cause bad pollution, wildfires and etc. I also think *overhunting* is another reason.
    Currently. There are 500,000 or roughly half a million crane birds left.
    2. Bird: White Stork
    White Storks is a bird that is the second largest living stork. Just ahead the Marabou Stork. These birds are threatened due to habitat loss caused by human activity. White Storks are carnivorous and are commonly found at lakes, rivers, wetlands, swamps and etc. They are endangered due to water pollution, habitat loss and etc. Overhunting is also a bad problem for these birds. I think so.
    Currently. There are roughly 700,000-705,000 White Storks left today.
    White Storks can also die while migrating, especially due to being overencumbered and falling down to the ground. They can also die from hunger or thirst. Same goes with other migranitory birds.
    PART 2: COMING SOON
    Or maybe even sooner?
    Or maybe even later?

  • @lesleyghostdragon3149
    @lesleyghostdragon3149 Рік тому +1

    "...a face only a mother could love, or, maybe, a utensil drawer...?" LOL Give that writer a bonus!
    Anthropomorphisation of a utensil drawer 😂...🤔...😨...uh oh...it was funny until I envisioned the next time I open and reach into my potentially sentient utensil drawer...

  • @timmorton8918
    @timmorton8918 Рік тому +7

    If the Ankylosaurus had a larynx similar to a birds, do you think they would have been able to mimic sounds!? And how terrifying do you think that would be if you went back in time and thought you heard someone talking but it was a f****** Ankylosaurus

    • @gobblinal
      @gobblinal Рік тому +1

      I have always wanted T.Rex to crow like a rooster and it would be wonderful to think of forests full of dinosaurs all twittering back and forth.

    • @lauracronbungusman1582
      @lauracronbungusman1582 Рік тому +1

      This is the first ever discovered reptilian dinosaur larynx, I think it’s more favorable to assume many dinosaurs had this bird-like structure. maybe the world used to be filled with beautiful bellowing calls from dinosaurs. To add to your point, maybe dinosaurs could specialize in mimicking prey’s calls, causing prey to find them first.

  • @akeleven
    @akeleven 11 місяців тому

    Regarding all the teeth configurations: nobody talks about how the tongue functions to get that food down the gullet.

  • @131scavy
    @131scavy Рік тому

    Serrated and pointed teeth like that suggest they were used against something that was air breathing and potentially the hunting involved drowning or otherwise pinning their prey underwater.
    Hunting early pterosaurs, other early avians, wading animals and semi-aquatic species by grabbing and drowning their prey would be a way to use serrated teeth since the mosasaur didn't use its limbs in conjunction with it's mouth.

  • @ashtree3023
    @ashtree3023 Рік тому +1

    3:23 for the Mososaur question: Perhaps ice breaking mososaurs who liked some kind of ice-inhabiting thing? Idk.

    • @mcv2178
      @mcv2178 Рік тому

      The mosasaur that could have saved the Titanic!

  • @germanomagnone
    @germanomagnone Рік тому +2

    It is nice to think that the larynx of the Pinacosaurus which was similar to that of the birds as the ear bones, would perhaps have been the tenor "lucianosaurus Pinacotti" (parody of the name of the famous Italian tenor: Luciano Pavarotti)

  • @pluspiping
    @pluspiping 10 місяців тому

    Of all the funky ways for things to fossilize, I was very surprised the 'golden' fossils weren't pyrite! What a curious petri dish of a planet we live on, with such varied chemical reactions to happen that might not happen anywhere else in the universe.

  • @boopbiffsnose
    @boopbiffsnose 11 місяців тому

    I love discoveries that come from reexamining already known fossils.

  • @tagAught
    @tagAught 11 місяців тому

    Re mosasaur teeth: honestly, I'm thinking some kind of cephalopod. Not for any specific reason relating to the shape of the teeth, necessarily, but because I could see that producing a certain amount of wear on the teeth (blunting them against internal shell structures? can't remember the details of cephalopods in the Cretaceous, sorry), while at the same time not breaking because the actual *meat* of the body is all soft tissue.

  • @ericdavis7779
    @ericdavis7779 11 місяців тому

    I would suggest the teeth are arranged to inflict a wound that would fester and bleed terribly thereby allowing them to track and find the prey or while still not catching at least mortally wounding

  • @samhodge7460
    @samhodge7460 Рік тому

    I really like this host!

  • @111jkjk
    @111jkjk Рік тому

    i just ❤❤❤ that thumbnail

  • @bhami
    @bhami Рік тому +2

    5:37 Instead of clip art of lions, how about showing us an artist's concept of an actual Titanophoneus? Web search, including Wikipedia, shows dozens.

  • @blackbird7889
    @blackbird7889 Рік тому

    I like the thought that dinosaurs might've been able to sing like birds

    • @darkonyx6995
      @darkonyx6995 Рік тому

      It all depends on the species, Hadrosaur dinosaurs, which are the dinosaurs we have the best data on sounds, would have sounded like trumpets, Parasaurolophus in specific would have sounded very similar to a train horn and a Tripod from War of the Worlds. Also, Tyrannosaurus likely would have made low but intense humming noises, which would be felt by your bones rather than heard by your ears!

  • @EmyN
    @EmyN 11 місяців тому

    Oh! Just missed the new found Pliosaur head! One of the most complete specimens of it’s type, and maybe we can find the rest of the body too

  • @takenname8053
    @takenname8053 Рік тому +1

    Should have joined in PaleoRewind

  • @SpawnDucky
    @SpawnDucky Рік тому

    That last fossil was pretty metal. 🤘

    • @germanomagnone
      @germanomagnone Рік тому

      perhaps when he was alive he was a fanatic of rock music

  • @DrScott-i9r
    @DrScott-i9r Рік тому +1

    The pterosaur with the straining teeth could also have had an expandable lower mouth or neck like a pelican or humpback whale to increase the volume of water it could capture to strain.

    • @lauracronbungusman1582
      @lauracronbungusman1582 Рік тому

      I agree this would be quite advantageous for that species. I wonder if paleontologists listen to speculative zoology from the public, we all seem to have great ideas to share!

  • @thisperson9758
    @thisperson9758 Рік тому

    I love this guy

  • @dennis_mihaylov
    @dennis_mihaylov Рік тому

    that is a very interesting video!

  • @BaldingClamydia
    @BaldingClamydia 8 місяців тому

    5:10 is that a firefly reference? :D

  • @Rendertk1
    @Rendertk1 Рік тому +5

    I am inclined to disbelieve that the dino and mammal fight is actually a fight at all. As mentioned the mammal is a bit out of its weight class, but also it's paw is in the mouth of the dino, which is a good way to lose your toes even a herbivore can probably be expected to be capable of biting them off. Sadly I think it more likely that the mammal is an omnivorous generalist given its physique and the general niches occupied by mammals at the time (with some exceptions). It is likely scavenging a carcass imo, maybe the dino succumbed to the volcano first or maybe it died for another reason. The handholds of the mammal are probably just it getting perchase and leverage to pull the carcass apart. It seems far more likely that such an event would be fossilised than mid-combat too. Not saying that the combat explanation isn't possible for those who want to hold out hope, but you seem to be riding the edge of occam's razor.
    Edit: Have just read the associated paper, they do seem to demonstrate that the size difference (within 95% confidence interval of log-log predator mass to maximum prey mass) is not unreasonable, though it should be noted that this is the maximum prey mass and they themselves state it as "We therefore cannot reject the hypothesis that this association preserves a doomed predation event on the part of the mammal, despite its smaller size." This to me feels accurate, they have demonstrated that it can't be immediately outright rejected. That being said they have not demonstrated that this is predation and I think the null hypothesis should probably be scavenging. They use an analogue to african wild dogs hunting behaviour which could make sense of the behaviour if correct. However this should be a point for further exploration, if kleptoparistism was a regular occurence one should expect the frequency of kleptoparasitised fossil bones to be greater than the frequency of a mid-predation event, so other P. lujiatunensis fossils should be cross-referenced for signs of kleptoparasitism (teeth marks from both R. robustus and a theropod), they make no mention of this cross-referencing having occurred that I can see. I think the authors have mildly sensationalised this by leaving this an open possibility and not doing enough to substantiate their claims, and then unfortunately in distilling here what was initially a tentative proposal to be explored further has been presented as fact.

  • @TheTaintedWisdom
    @TheTaintedWisdom Рік тому +2

    I'm a simple man. I see my favorite dinosaur in the thumbnail of a science video, I click.

  • @AryadiSubagio
    @AryadiSubagio Рік тому +1

    that dinosaur vs mammal fossil is my favorite! I can imagine one of them saying "finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!" and people still talk about it to this day.

  • @MusicWithJustin
    @MusicWithJustin Рік тому

    1:15 Brennan Lee Mulligan is not gonna be happy about that one

  • @boogiesinger
    @boogiesinger 9 місяців тому

    Hi, marine biologist,biochemist and paleontology enthusiast (amateur) here. I was wondering a lot about the unusual teeth of the mosasaurus and it seems like the structure could be useful for grazing rocks and hard surfaces for conches or something that sticks hard on these surfaces. Imagine what tool someone would use to remove a conch from a rock, after the obvious flat knife breaks a few times...
    Also, is it possible that the mammal and the dino were just embracing hard, since they were surrounded by devastating lava? An imminent destruction could create a brief unlikely friendship like that.

    • @basiliskboy17
      @basiliskboy17 3 місяці тому

      on the teeth thing: no. We have shell-cracking mosasaurs and they don't have teeth like Stelladens. Theirs are shorter, stubbier, and rounder. Think of Globidens.
      As for the latter, that's anthropomorphising them a little bit too much

  • @Azerinth
    @Azerinth Рік тому

    I need art of the most metal battle creatures inserted into the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight of Star Wars III.

  • @Albinojackrussel
    @Albinojackrussel Рік тому +2

    Might be mid head phones, but im almost exclusively getting audio on the left channel, and just the odd cutting in and out on the right. I seem to be fine with other audio, but my headpohones are a bit glitchy, so might just be them.

    • @BenBrooksShards
      @BenBrooksShards Рік тому

      I found the audio level was moderately biased towards the left channel on my desktop with stereo speakers. I didn't get any cutting in and out like you did but perhaps your headphones have a volume threshold where they cut out when below that level.
      I ended up having to turn on "mono audio" (Windows sound setting) as the balance was too distracting.

  • @christopherb8017
    @christopherb8017 Рік тому +1

    A mosasaur assembling IKEA furniture with it's teeth is a great use of DALL-E and my spare time

  • @kevincronk7981
    @kevincronk7981 11 місяців тому +1

    Who says there was no mososaur IKEA? Were you there?

  • @zuglymonster
    @zuglymonster Рік тому

    The picture in the thumbnail was so cute

  • @GhostNinja0007
    @GhostNinja0007 Рік тому +3

    Still doesn't feel real to me, but im gonna be 21 in 5 days on Dec, 31. Hope everyone had a great holidays, and on to have a good New Year

    • @apocalypse487
      @apocalypse487 Рік тому +1

      It just feels like another day 😂

    • @poonoi1968
      @poonoi1968 Рік тому +1

      Tips hat and smile to GhostNinja person.👴

    • @GhostNinja0007
      @GhostNinja0007 Рік тому

      @@apocalypse487 You're not wrong🤣

  • @Rhyswithoutherspoon
    @Rhyswithoutherspoon Рік тому +1

    10:30 What a way to be fossilized!

    • @germanomagnone
      @germanomagnone Рік тому

      it's not the only fossil fight with the fighters fossilized together. there is the famous "fighting dinosaurs" fossil with the velociraptor and protoceratops and the "prehistoric duel" of a Triceratops and a young T-Rex (some think it was a nanotyrannus). and now to see the repenomamus against that poor thing of a Psittacosaurus, that repenomamus gives a new meaning to the saying "big game".

  • @SMunro
    @SMunro Рік тому +1

    Dinosaur has voicebox capable of complex Sounds.
    Dino:
    Do my eys
    decieve me?
    What Do I see
    in the sky?
    It looms above
    Like a predator.
    And like a predator
    it falls on its Prey.

  • @hydrashade1851
    @hydrashade1851 Рік тому +1

    two theories for the screwdriver toothed mosasaur that arent based on anything but worldbuilding brain: maybe it ate bones, or filter feeders stuck to rocks like sponges? maybe it scavenged?

  • @christinasophieschultz5081
    @christinasophieschultz5081 11 місяців тому

    1:17 naaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮😮😅😅😂😂😂

  • @alexisrux2223
    @alexisrux2223 11 місяців тому

    With the screw driver teeth thing could that have been useful for shellfish take a look at the crabeater seal teeth there weird as heck seen nowhere else and are for a vary specific diet and style of eating

  • @jameseddleman6944
    @jameseddleman6944 Рік тому

    Some kind of soft shelled thing? maybe it was the type to make its prey bleed out? that is really cool looking teeth though.

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz1564 6 місяців тому

    "They failed to notice the wave of ash and debris heading their way".
    Dude, if a pyroclastic flow is heading their way, running would not have been an option.

  • @tuwcouz
    @tuwcouz Рік тому

    How do people keep up to date with this stuff I'd love to know more but Sci show is my only source of information for any form of science

  • @onyxianna
    @onyxianna Рік тому

    Bahahaha!!! Two and BIT teeth were found!! It would be cool to see a crosshead tooth!

  • @hugoalvord2779
    @hugoalvord2779 Рік тому

    That screwdriver toothed creature may have eaten fish that had different armor than modern animals

  • @jdranetz
    @jdranetz Рік тому +1

    Maybe the Mosasaur grabbed cepholapods. Also, have any Torx teeth showed up?

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 5 місяців тому

    That would make for a very weird dawn chorus.

  • @wombat.6652
    @wombat.6652 Рік тому

    2 The Screwdriver toothed Mosasaur: Could that have been a mutation in a single animal ?

  • @suzettehenderson9278
    @suzettehenderson9278 Рік тому +1

    I would have thought they would include that pliosaur from Devon.

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 Рік тому +1

    Have a cool yule, y'all!

  • @richardpaxford5792
    @richardpaxford5792 Рік тому

    "Strong Badger Vibes!"

  • @scottnunnemaker5209
    @scottnunnemaker5209 Рік тому +2

    Would you say snakes have incredibly long necks? Like those massive boas and anacondas?

  • @tedbomba6631
    @tedbomba6631 Рік тому

    My guess is that the mosasaur usually dined on spirochetes . . .

  • @strixalu
    @strixalu 11 місяців тому

    Regarding the ankylosaur larynx... that fossil was of Pinacosaurus, a dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous around 81-75 million years ago. Birds, however, are around 150 million years old, so referring to pinacosaurus as an older relative of the birds is misleading. Birds and ankylosaurs lived along side one another, as very distant cousins. Basically my main point is that ankylosaurs are not an "older" relative of birds because birds evolved first.

  • @joe-skeen
    @joe-skeen Рік тому

    I always knew those songs from Land Before Time were really of prehistoric origin! 😂

  • @gabormolnar2208
    @gabormolnar2208 Рік тому

    So wait, the gold colored "pyritized" fossils from that german locality are not pyrite or even marcasite, but phosfates? What kind of minerals are they?

  • @MontgomeryWenis
    @MontgomeryWenis Рік тому +1

    How did they identify that a tooth shape that's never been seen in any animal ever found came from a mosasaur when all that was found were a couple teeth?

    • @DJFracus
      @DJFracus Рік тому +4

      Part of its jaw was found as well, not just teeth.

    • @littlesnowflakepunk855
      @littlesnowflakepunk855 Рік тому +3

      The fossil record is so fragmentary that paleontologists have, by necessity, gotten very good at identifying at least higher-rank taxonomy from very small pieces.

    • @MontgomeryWenis
      @MontgomeryWenis Рік тому

      @@DJFracus Ahhh okay. I guess I missed that.

    • @MontgomeryWenis
      @MontgomeryWenis Рік тому +2

      @@littlesnowflakepunk855 Right, I understand that much. But if its shape has never been seen in any animal, past or present, wouldn't that exponentially broaden the possibilities? Okay, they found three never before seen teeth and a jaw bone that resembles that of a mosasaur. That's not confirmation that it belonged to a mosasaur. It's confirmation that something that lived around the same time and place as mosasaurs and had a jaw that we think resembles that of a mosasaur, but ate something completely different and was well adapted to eating that. Birds and baby crocodiles have similar skulls. Convergent evolution is plentiful in the fossil record, especially after mass extinction events, like when mosasaurs evolved to fill their niches.

  • @cottonO3
    @cottonO3 Рік тому

    "The neck is the part that holds the.. head, on,..." -funny guy in Vaca shirt😂😊

  • @LiviaIndica
    @LiviaIndica Рік тому +4

    No plants or fungi?

  • @chrism3784
    @chrism3784 Рік тому +1

    I cannot find a video about this anywhere, but can you do video about the possibility of all of Earth's Oxygen being consumed, if it is even possible.

  • @CardinalTreehouse
    @CardinalTreehouse Рік тому +1

    2:22 I see what you did there

    • @blactazz
      @blactazz Рік тому

      I was searching the comments to see if anyone commented on this lol

  • @Lurkily_Esh
    @Lurkily_Esh Рік тому +1

    Since the screw shape seems common in herbivores, maybe it started there. But since it also resembles a wood saw . . . maybe this was a herbivore that ground through tougher woods with a side-to-side chew? Given the success of beaver teeth, that seems unlikely, but, you know, it DOES seem to be a vanished branch of tooth-evolution, so maybe that's why.
    Maybe a scavenger that got some essential nutrients from bones other creatures discarded?
    Maybe it preyed on something slippery enough to need grippy points, but plants comprised enough of its diet to keep the flat herbivore tooth.
    Too many possibilities, not enough informattion.

    • @basiliskboy17
      @basiliskboy17 3 місяці тому

      mosasaurs were marine reptiles, it didn't eat wood.

  • @chocolatefrenzieya
    @chocolatefrenzieya Рік тому

    Most terrifying teeth ever!

  • @kadeadams2308
    @kadeadams2308 Рік тому

    Ah, a new year :))))

  • @chloesibilla8199
    @chloesibilla8199 Рік тому

    Do we know what bit the long neck?

  • @fishybusinessco.8398
    @fishybusinessco.8398 Рік тому

    Bro, I am so glad we have no living creature to compare it to

  • @Zappygunshot
    @Zappygunshot 9 місяців тому

    Is it not possible that the dinosaur fell on top of the mammal from some powerful force, say, the high winds and hurtling boulders in a pyroclastic flow; and the mammal spent its last seconds pinned, desperately trying to claw and bite its way out?

  • @lightbeingform
    @lightbeingform Рік тому

    That's how my cat wakes me up in the morning

  • @diebesgrab
    @diebesgrab Рік тому

    When did we decide Tanystropheus was marine? Last I heard we were leaning semi-aquatic.

  • @BooboosANDBloodshed_95
    @BooboosANDBloodshed_95 Рік тому

    This is amazing. The host looks a bit like Tyson Fury.