@Jurassic Hero Not really. People pet animals that can easily rip them to shreds and are usually aggresive towards humans like Bears , Lions , Hippos , Kangaroos , Chimpanzees and so on. Only "cuteness" factor matters ... then again not always.
honestly the eyes and the face are the most interesting. it actually looks like an intelligent hunter observing situations instead of a killing machine that just kills and eats
2:49 small correction, in Jurassic park, the dinosaurs’ DNA are spliced with tree frog DNA, who have good distance and night vision, but can’t see things that aren’t moving very well. This is explained thoroughly in the novel, but not really touched upon in the movies. Because of this, your average joe will think that the T-Rex has movement based vision, which is obviously not true and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense under scrutiny. So it’s not really a theory as much as it is a misinterpretation of it’s source material.
And another thing to note is that in the lore the one T rex from the first movie all the way to the jurassic world trilogy has a vision problem due to her frog DNA meanwhile the other Tyrannosaur's that we've seen don't share this problem
question is, did alan grant know that it behaves different than a 100% t-rex DNA specimen? because in the movie it looks like this would apply to any t-rex...
I find it really interesting how as we get more and more accurate with these depictions, the more and more it looks like an actual animal as opposed to a “design”.
I think the stomach is a little weird but it's probably only because of the way I grew up with it however , it is accurate as to what we know and I respect it because I can see it as a real thing , shit we have the platypus
@@karlohaze5304 Tyrannosaurus has a massive tail held high and deep pelvic saddle bone that extends between the legs and behind the thighs, which are slightly bent forward from vertical to begin with. The cloacal opening is located on the base of the tail. You don't get an ass crack with anatomy like that. Of note is that birds, which share a similar pelvic anatomy don't have ass cracks either. Not even chickens and turkeys which have been specifically bred for large gluteal muscles.
@Isee because there are no attachments for facial muscles on dinosaur skulls that would allow expression; expression is exclusive to mammals, and is still very limited in most species.
@@ArJayDM you see the studiomod vocalization list and images? Video is awesome. Depicts them with plumage and their vocalizations are more guttural/bird like. They had a mix of plumage and their scales.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
Having fallen in love with dinosaurs as a kid in the 1950s, I always sensed deep down that there was far more to them than just the "dumb giant lizards in swamps" image that was so prevalent. Then in the late 80s, the perception began to change and here we are today, with a far better understanding of their anatomy and realizing they had complex behaviors like animals today. And maybe they weren't so "dumb" after all.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
I think T-Rex will always remain top dog in people's imagination. Though bigger and more ferocious dinosaurs have been discovered, it seems no one will ever unseat the Tyrant King.
@@Cissy2cute I agree 100%. Tyrannosaurus Rex isn’t the king of the dinosaurs for what it is, but what it was. At the time of its discovery, it was the largest carnivore found. Paleontologists could tell just by looking at the bones and skull itself, that this dinosaur was a very muscular and intelligent(for a dinosaur) creature. Of course today, some carnivores could probably beat Tyrannosaurus in a fight, it doesn’t change the fact that the Tyrannosaurus was an icon that paved it’s way into a child’s imagination as not a monster, but a force of nature.
@@brandenmarcum430 You have put that very well. Some thought Giganotosaurus might dethrone the King, but that never happened. T. Rex has an almost mythical aura about it. Knight's depiction of him from the very beginning captured the imagination and has never really let go. Every child seems to be enthralled by his appearance and the power he emanates. No one will ever knock this king off the throne. And for various reasons, that is probably as it should be.
@@Cissy2cute correct. My previous comment in fact ignored the idea that T. Rex, although an apex predator of its time, would probably do very well against most dinosaurs. Giganotosaurus most likely wouldn’t stand a chance because if Tyrannosaurus got a hold of its neck, it’s game over
Fyi, the reason the T. rex couldn’t see people that stood still in the Jurassic park movie (and book) was because the scientists had to fill the missing dinosaur genome using amphibious dna. Amphibians cant focus their vision on objects that stay still. It wasn’t because they simply believed T. Rex had terrible vision, it was a flaw of human creation.
@@knightofarkronia9968 But the T.Rex in Jurassic park has a lot of frog in its genetic makeup. That’s where they get the vision based movement from, the same way indominus rex gets a camouflage ability from cuttlefish DNA
I like this recreation alot, she looks smooth, elegant, and almost motherly. Like you can almost get the impression of a serene personality just from gazing at her.
Honestly I like this version of the Rex, it's like we've almost come full circle back to the designs that were initially thought of when they first started studying, illustrating dinosaurs seriously in the early 20th century; animals that actually looked like bulky, lumbering but no less powerful and intimidating beasts rather than just "big reptiles" like the later designs were
@Sony Guts Well too bad that’s science and not fiction. These things existed and we’re trying to imagine what they looked like and not making them look cool
@Jimmy Delvecchio You quite obviously haven't seen many modern predators if you think that. Especially the komodo dragon, which is what the rex resembles now.
@Jimmy Delvecchio Bro. The dinosaurs only died out because a giant rock smashed into the planet, causing vast volcanic activity and clouds of dust from the impact to basically create the primordial version of a nuclear winter. If that rock hadn't hit earth, Rexes likely would have continued to thrive and survive. And human life would be a non-starter. T-rex got so big because they were so successful, which caused their prey items to evolve to be bigger through selective breeding - aka, the bigger an adult Diplodocus was, the less likely it was to be targeted by a predator, so the females would more likely congregate and thus mate around and with them, resulting in larger offspring. Likewise, the smaller females would be targeted, resulting in offspring slowly getting larger. This back-and--forth arms race between predator and prey is what decides the evolutionary fate of both, hence why the Sauropods reached insane sizes and Triceratops grew such vicious armaments.
@RATHALOS Agreed, I like how depictions of dinosaurs are beginning to give a less monstrous and more realistic vision of them as animals as we see them today. This almost looks like a gigantic carnivorous elephant or hippo stalking prey on the savanna. Considering what we have inferred to be true about these animals, I'd still be scared of the thing considering it might start stalking you before you could even spot it.
I think it's great, although I would've loved it even more if they depicted it in a more upright walking posture rather than angled sharply downwards with its head near the ground. It would've been much cooler to see it with its head at full walking posture elevation, slightly higher than the hips, rather than bending down to the ground. This would've been ideal: www.fieldandstream.com/prehistoric-sportsman-how-to-hunt-t-rex/ If people think even that posture is more upright than it ever got (i don't know why it would be, but for the sake of argument), then how about this: images.app.goo.gl/u1jgQiL41opYZMJAA Or this: images.app.goo.gl/SV9SkTMPTMzgdndw5 It'd be awesome to stand in front of it and stare up in awe at the sheer size of it. Fleshy looks massive, certainly, but you lose something by having it bending down with its head close the ground as if biting a smaller dinosaur. You take height out of the equation and make it shorter, and height is actually incredibly important when it comes to having a visceral reaction to the size of something. I personally want to see T rex in its full splendor, standing tall with its head 15 feet off the ground, not crouching down with its head 5 feet off the ground.
@@m74d3 Unfortunately this was for technical reasons. The Front of the body is to heavy, that's why the Hadrosaur was added. Otherwise this sculpture would have tipped over.
Dinosaurs have by and large gone from "skinny and dumb" to "fat and smart" and im here for it. Seeing a creature as muscular and bulky as this Sue would be a lot more terrifying to me than the typical shrink wrapped rexes we were accustomed to for a long time.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
It's awesome how they found scale impressions of the places that were damn near impossible to have feathers and whoopty-doo, the entire thing's a buck naked salmon-alligator mutant rhinoceros.
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Sue is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen. She was always my favorite dinosaur. I agreed with the lips thing too. Even predators like lions and tigers with huge teeth have them covered by lips.
Fake bones and fake science. All lies. The bone wars was the biggest fraud and we deal with this nonsense now. All these “scientist” making cgi and recreations based on one whale bone discovered a hundred years ago. You’re dumb if you think there was dinosaurs for millions of years. Millions of years. laughable. The speculation being preached as science is truly absurd.
Yeah but still debatable. You mentioned cats from the feline family which are mammals. Think of reptiles which basically is what Dino's are but also think of crocodiles which indeed are reptiles LIKE t rex and lived with them too. And they're massive scary teeh show rather than being hidden. Plus the jaws work similar and given that it's a top predator I'd imagine it to not have lips.
@@lavishlivingta8956 The vast majority of reptiles do not have visible teeth. Crocodilians (who are not in anyway related to therapods like T. Rex) are a special case.
This honestly still looks like my childhood vision of the T-Rex. The eyes and the lips aren’t any big deal for me personally and I think she looks super cool.
Same, it is pretty surprising how on par it is with most depictions I’ve grown up with. I feel like it’s one of the Jurassic Park versions that actually got quite a bit right, give or take some chunkiness, but
There are people that give Jurassic Park way to much shit. The first movie at the very least did a lot of good for paleontology, such as changing the mainstream version of dinosaurs to be more like birds, and T-rex is a dinosaur that got pretty good. Showing that they were active predators, or that it’s an animal and not a movie monster, or changing the poster, hell even though this wasn’t know at the time, you can see Rexy in the first movie fast walking and not running, which is what paleontologists believe how T-Rex would chase down prey. The movie isn’t perfect, there’s shrink wrapping present, Rexy is a little oversized, although considering the size of Scotty it’s not to far off, but overall it’s not terrible and did a lot of good for this magnificent creature. In summary, people need to stop being so mean to Jurassic Park. We all know it’s dated, but in terms of when it was released, it was pretty accurate and did a lot of good. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
@@MellowGrunt10 100% Agreed I just hurts to see many people criticize the 1993 film for not having Paleontological accuracies which wasn't even known during the time.
@@MellowGrunt10 I love jurassic park beause it's mostly my imagination of how awesome things are. I don't care if they made it far fetched it wasn't support to be accurate. You ae right
@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 He didn’t say that it proved T-Rex was featherless. He lists a few possibilities given the current evidence: They had feathers as infants and lose them or adults had patches of feathers etc.
@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 thinking about it logically though, it lived in a warm environment, and it is known that other large dinosaurs, such as ceratopsians, sauropods, hadrosaurs, and other tyranosaurids(include Ng Albertasaurus I believe) had no meaningful feathers despite them likely being ancestral to all of them. Taking a look at other mega fauna from similar environments still alive today, we see them possessing little to no fur, despite fur being ancestral to them. It seems that there comes a point when feathers are simply no longer useful, and so there would be selective pressure to lose them
I think that was the best quote in the video tbh. People romanticize science and scientific discoveries, sometimes to the point of where it misleads and impedes scientific progress. The popularity of the alpha-omega dynamic in wolves is a great example of this.
Are you kidding? This is somehow even more awesome than the images I've been shown as a kid. Perhaps it's because I've aged and my definition of "cool" has obviously changed, but this more realistic depiction of the once apex predator is nothing short of awesome. Can't wait to see what more we learn as paleontologists uncover more data.
i don't agree scientist make dinosaurs look stupider i know dinosaurs have feathers and i think a they look badass with them but still people make them look stupid i mean look at sue she looks over weight and why dos she have lips some people says lips would protect dinosaur teeth what a bunch of crap if a ankylosaurus smashes it tail club into your jaw with the force of 14,000 newton lips are not going to save your jaw or teeth
@@Aztechaemenid I think he means that we're all still kids on the inside... well I hope that's what he means and not as an insult there are enough *ssholes on the internet as it is
I do think it’s interesting how much the T-Rex has evolved in terms of our knowledge about the them. It seems like in the past few years there was a push to make the T-Rex into some very colorful, exotic, feathery creature that had no resemblance to what we originally thought them to look like. Now we’ve sort of met in the middle.
Assing the materials could support each other, I'm willing to bet that nature did the engineering well enough to support it. Assuming they made a copy of an Argentinasaurus' skeleton and covered it with copies of meat I bet it would stand.
One cool fact about this statue is that the juvenile hadrosaur is actually serving as a third point of contact to the base, if it wasn't there, the whole thing would topple over.
This is gorgeous. The only issue I have are the tarsal scutes along the feet, which are most of the time accredited to recessed flight feathers along the legs and feet of the ancestors of birds. It was more likely to have a reticulated scale pattern, with smaller scales covering the length of the feet in no discernible pattern. The scutes do look cool though, so there's that.
Excactly. Also there are muscles missing below the knee. The legs are the weak Point of this reconstruction, however it still is one of the best life sized sculptures of this animal, I‘ve seen.
@MinutemanSam The study about the scutes points to a Maniraptoran origin, which Tyrannosauria aren‘t part of. The leg feathers of Microraptor grow from the side of the foot. It is very possible for the scutes to move a view inches towards the front over millions of years. And even If other Coelosauria had scutes, skin texture doesn‘t grow proportionally to the hole animal in gigantism. Komodo dragon scales aren’t that much bigger than the scales of tiny lizards, the Dragon just has a lot more of them. So if Tyrannosaurus had scutes, they probably would be much tinier compared to his foot than what you see in birds. However most Dinosaurs seem to have had scutes on their toes.
@@erikhamann what do you mean by muscles missing below the knee? I'm bad at dino-anatomy.. is that the last joint before the foot or the one following the hip joint? Because that one has muscles. I'm just trying to picture where additional musculature would have to be.
@@lukthere2 nah the joint under the hip, a knee like humans have it. I think the joint above the foot is her ankle, so in comparison she practicly walks on the front of her feet and on her toes.
I remember seeing a video by Trey the Explainer where he briefly mentions that the Tyrannosaurus could've had ''camoflage patterns in its feathers and skin'' - before the notion of T-Rex feathers was debunked - because they were charging, ambush predators. He specifically says ''maybe there was tan ones that had skin like a lion, or a tiger''. lo and behold -
Maybe its my life long love for dinosaurs... or just animals in general. But despite all the visual representations we've been presented with over the years this model is how I've always imagined a T-Rex to look. Its nice to see lips and natural eyes and the right kinda muscle mass. Its no longer just a fictional monster used to scare. Its an actual creature that lived. I love this so much. I'm always excited about learning more about these creatures.
I have yet to meet a puppy capable of holding an entire bloody Hadrosaur carcass in its mouth while using banana-sized teeth to keep it from dropping out... I'm just sayin'... LOL
Komodo Dragons and Black Throat Monitors have the same puppydog head shape. Yet, they are scary animals. Well, except when your Black Throat accepts you, then you literally get a scaly puppydog.
Well that can't be true or followed to any degree seeing as where quantum mechanics has lead us, that too of creation, and there's plenty of sentimental and emotional scientists with predispositions and assumptions of the Super Natural, which is at its heart just Natural. Science is full of theories; hopes & dreams of men's mind. The day we'll turn lead into gold, and find the fountain of life. Alchemy hasn't changed much in all the years it's been on Earth.
@@dipskiff Separate of my world view at the moment, about around 4th grade I began to see a hole in the narrative and thought dinosaurs to be quite the invention. Something to capture the interest of young boys and children into the world of 'Science'. As time has gone on, and I've grown older with that thought, it would seem I wasn't far off from the truth. What ever this depiction is we're shown, is clearly not what ever it is that's being claimed in discovery. A lot of fossils that were found have been proven to be frauds as well, no better than cast-molds of 'Big-foot's prints etc. (You can go find some articles on it during the earlier fraudulent years of Paleontology. Being blunt and completely cynical here, it's obvious that they're a hoax to bring in funding. It's a cool fantasy but that's it. If I wasn't going to swallow the bull shit lies of Religion, why would I be so swift to swallow the poison of Science? It's better to sit back, question it all and do your own genuine research on the honest materials still rarely out there. I'm not here to argue or debate tbh, but you asked, and I'm clarifying. Peace out and have a great Vets Day.
What sucks even more is the statement he said just before that >>>"Keep in mind, we can only spot things 1.6 kilometers away." I may not have 20/20 vision, but I know I could spot parked cars, geese flying, people walking, or other objects smaller than a T-Rex more than a mile away. If what he is trying to say is: Objects that we can barely spot at 1.6 kilometers, a T-Rex can spot 6 kilometers away; then that would make more sense. But given the fact that scientists are still debating what dinosaurs actually would have looked like, I doubt they have any clue as to how strong their vision was.
So the whole 'Neil Armstrong landing on the moon' thing means no never mind to you? Or the Sistine Chapel? Or Shakespeare? Or the fall of Communism? Actually, we don't suck. We're awesome.
I mean, for a naked bipedal monkey, we have a pretty good vision in general, it is decaying over time but we have glasses, and also, we are not extinct (yet)
I'm just in awe of how absolutely massive Sue (and all Tyrannosaurus) were. I mean look at it, if it weren't for having the skeletons as proof, it would be almost impossible to believe that animals this gargantuan actually lived at one point. I wanna visit the Field Museum so I can see Sue, and Fleshy. I imagine (and this sounds corny) that it would be a truly humbling thing to stand side by side with greatest predator that ever walked.
T rex over the years: 1900s: Basically an upright giant lizard. 1990s: Athletic, scary big monster 2010s: Murdering chiken 2020: *Chunky* But seriously, he isn't fat, he is muscular. Best depiction of t rex ever.
I frickin LOVE this recreation, it's first time I am not a little kid with no idea about basic animal biology and thinking "Yea, this looks like an actual animal that would move and breathe"
The Jurassic Park T-Rex always looked more like a monster than an animal. Which is of course what Spielberg wanted, a massive man-eating monster. Something that could only exist in the world of fiction. This however looks like something that could have easily existed on this planet. It’s lips, it’s skin, it’s eyes, and skull shape all scream life like. It’s hard to imagine that back in the 1910s at the dawn of cinema the T-Rex was depicted as having scales like an alligator, teeth sticking out of its mouth like a crocodile, a forked tongue that went in and out of its mouth like a snake, and stood upright like a human. Compare that to this, it’s quite amazing how our knowledge of this prehistoric carnivore has changed over time.
Absolutely stunning. While I loved them as a child , It makes me happy to see that we’re moving away from the pop culture depiction monsters. instead we’re showcasing these animals for what they were , animals.
Yeah, it makes me happy too. No more stupid ass Hollywood depictions of animals that want nothing more than to kill and eat any human in proximity, but instead displaying them as actual animals that are simply surviving in this world.
@@misterbearmore4633 Lol just get over it. Jurassic Park/World is a movie franchise, and the lore of the movies has already explained that the dinosaurs are not 100% accurate and are genetically modified monsters made for money. Stop crying and hating on a franchise and instead cherish it for helping others learn more about these animals, or guide their curiosity. Funny thing is, the majority of people who bitch about the movies were introduced to dinosaurs because of Jurassic Park/World.
@@aleemizcool3654 I wasn't just talking about the Jurassic Park franchise, I was talking about the majority of the overly-exaggerated mainstream depictions of dinosaurs (as well as animals in general). I understand that their purpose is to make the films more exhilarating, but to depict them like this so common that it starts to persuade people into thinking that this is what they are/were actually like. When people were told about how bad wolves are, even when it's told through fairy tales such as little red riding hood, it tarnishes the reputation of the wolf and labels them as vicious killers that will attack you the moment they see you. Yes, the Jurassic Park franchise has certainly helped others learn more about dinosaurs and guided their curiosity, but it also contributed to many people thinking negatively about them, or in other words, leading many people (especially younger audiences) to think that they are ruthless killing machines that will spend an unnecessary amount of energy chasing insignificant snacks (I'm especially talking about the most infamous ones such as the T. Rex and Spinosaurus). I don't really like how the Jurassic Park franchise depicts most of the dinosaurs, but that's just my opinion.
I was looking at pictures of it and there was a small reference model that was being used, why hasn't a company made this! I'm so tired of the exact same lip less shrink wrapped dinosaur. 😡
This feels like a character reveal. I have no problem with this. I actually really like the design. It still reminds me a lot of the dinosaurs I liked as a kid but now a little more realistic. Especially glad they ditched the feathers.
Horrifying fact: the T-rex didn't roar like a lion but it hmmmed in a very very low tone and it is said that it produced infra sounds so you couldn't hear it but literally *feel* it
The ability to see skin impressions is amazing. I never thought we'd have any clue what they actually looked like beside the bones, but those being left behind is a priceless bit of luck. A way to glimpse something long, long gone.
Not going to lie, the feathers have really grown on me. I've grown to love the chicken/bear aesthetic thats developed lately. And the idea of an animal the size of a T-Rex fluffing up like a cockatoo for a threat display is pretty incredible.
well the point should be to create realistic depiction regardless of what we like or not otherwise its not science but fantasy. The consensus is more that trex had parts with feather
0:22 This looks so much like a live, tameable animal that would let you pet his snout if he's fed enough and can't be bothered with hunting one skinny human. Kinda like a crocodile today.
No matter, i will simply punch it till unconscious, drug it up with some weird green narcotics, and force feed it meat! Then when it awakes, we will be best pals and ill put a saddle on it and ride it!
This new take on the T. Rex looks amazing, I honestly think this might be my new favorite take on the animal, old favorite being the Jurassic Park design. The size and amount of muscle you can see on this creature is intimidating as heck! You could take one look at that massive neck, huge chest and powerful legs and say "yep, this was a top predator of its time." My favorite change has to be the teeth, sure to some it may be a bit off-putting to see a T. Rex without its teeth bared, but I've always though of it kind of like how some species of Alligator & Crocodile also don't have their teeth exposed, doesn't change how menacing & intimidating they look. Sorry, I'm rambling, TL;DR: This is the best take on T. Rex ever, love it
Have to disagree, it definitely makes it look less intimidating, but that's fine. It's how the animal should be presented, it's our understanding that's just how the creature looked.
@@godofthecripples1237 Think of it from a moviemaking point of view. You see this big predator staring at you, and then its lips start curling up revealing those teeth, and suddenly you crap your pants because now shit just got real.
Remember when most people that thought that T. rex was like 75% covered in feathers and anyone who thought otherwise was dismissed as an idiot.... Good times.
I never read that MOST people (do you mean dinosaurologists?) ever thought that. Most of the comments by scientists on web sites, not just youtube, said the adults may have had some feathers and a few said they were likely covered with feathers but hardly anyone said the adults were definitely nearly completely covered in feathers.
@@dondragmer2412 Honestly, we jumped the gun on that. The only evidence about T-rex having feathers is the Yutyrannous (Who is a shit ton older than the Rex) and he's not even a tyrannosaurid, he's a tyrannosaurod. And that's without mentioning the 84+ million years of evolution between the two.
Feathered giants was a stupid concept. Rex lived on a tropical world and large animals have problems with heat dispersion (elephant's large ears cool the animal off).
@@allewis4008 Actually the kinds of feathers that the tyrannosaurus rex would have possibly possessed are ones that help to cool an animal off. The feathers on an ostrich or emu for example allow the animal to be cooled off in hot environments. Regardless of that however, T rex would have lived in a temperate climate, not a tropical one. Hell creek would have possibly gotten snow and definitely was not a tropical area
@@swedneck Indeed :D But you know what i mean. And they probably have lot of other misconceptions too like walking, tool use, and many other things. + sorry for my bad English
Well we do have the same amount of hair as a chimpanzee, the only difference being most of our body hair is extremely thin and transparent, so it looks like there's none. But that's a good point you make anyway.
@@eligijpen3770 So, like hasta la Vista said we have almost exactly the same amount of body hair and about the same density of it as chimps. Ours are just shorter and thinner. We also know that some humans with a genetic disorder ("werewolf syndrome") can grow thick long hair like chimps, so the genes are still there for us to develop full-body hair covering. That makes your initial post somewhat ironic because by the same logic, it is possible that, just like humans are really as hairy as chimps, T-rex could have been as feathery as some other theropod lineages, just with shorter dinofuzz that couldn't leave a distinct impression in the fossil record.
I can imagine it forcing it’s snoot up near my face, smelling me n’ checkin me out as I try to push it away- obviously to no avail lol, it’s too strong. Y’know what it’s like when a strong determined dog is pushing it’s face up against ya for some reason, right? Except.. this time.. it’s much much bigger and wayy more dangerous.
@@somethingwithbungalows it’s like facing down a polar bear. It has absolutely no fear of you and you can only hope it’s not hungry or bored because it has no mercy.
Early depictions of T.Rex: Toothy-face hell beast that spawned nightmares in children everywhere. T.Rex now: Possibly the cutest, chubbiest hell beast that ever lived.
So as someone who liked the feathered T-Rex I feel I need to defend a lot of paleo artist's who decided to draw feathered T-Rex. We had no skin impressions for the longest time, what we did have was skin impressions from one of t-rex's close relatives Yutyrannus which did preserve proto feathers. If you knew that indian elephants had thin hair, and you've never seen an African elephant, then you'd assume the African elephant would have feathers. It turns out we were wrong, but it was our best guess given the evidence we had. Fuzzy T-Rex was fine for what it was and a striking image.
@@necrogenisis sure, but between Yutyrannus AND integument probably being the ancestral condition of theropods, it’s not unreasonable to assume Tyrannosaurus probably had feathers until evidence to the contrary appeared
Something I have recently discovered about the whole eyesight thing in jp, is that in the original novel, Alan grant didn’t know this, not because he was a bad paleontologist but because the frog dna changed the way the tyrannosaur eyes functioned. It is only in the movie that it’s set out as fact when dr grant explains the movement based vision before meeting the tyrannosaur
I wish that we could actually bring atleast one of these back, that would be such a sight to see. To think this planet was once covered with these weird giant birds and lizards will never stop blowing my mind 😂
@@nickhoffman9689 Yeah, tbf, T-rex were known from their fossil record of only meeting other rexes when mating and raising offspring, otherwise they lived in solitude, patrolling a massive territory that no zoo or animal preserve on Earth could dream of having. You know how orcas suck at surviving in zoos because of their need to travel (to name just one issue)? Well, a Rex would be the land equivalent.
I love how rapidly we are changing our ideas of how these creatures looked, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, the depictions had looked that way since the 30s. But now we have so much more information, and our image of these amazing animals fluctuates so rapidly. It’s very exciting
@@franciscosantoyo9835 i think people like they’re comfort zone when it comes to knolledge and understanding. The thought of a feathery dinosaur becomes much harder to comprehend after a life thinking of scaley monsters, but I think that kind of thinking extends to most subjects, like astronomy where people can’t get over Pluto’s planatery stays changing
@Frizzurd oh ye, look at the new Jurassic park films, they contemplated changing to our more modern view, but felt they should keep to the original due to how people recognise them. Personaly I’d be quite happy having new fiction stories with the old image of them due to nostalgia
This is the first time i feel like one of our adaptations looks like a true animal. Not a scaly monster. She's scary, sure, but wonderful and very pretty
The original discoverer of sue got it taken off him and put in this museum he was so sad and the museum didn’t even invite him to the unveiling, and he got no credit as if he didn’t exist. (This is explained in the documentary “Dinosaur 13”)
dinosaurs and other fossils are real estate according to the decision they used to rob him of it ( after years of painstaking work separating her from the surrounding stone of course). disgusting robbery by the feds
Look at how bulky and all the muscles and fat. Definitely no need for feathers. She's just perfect, such beauty. Kudos to the people/person behind the life-sized replica. Absolutely gorgeous.
Can we take a moment to appreciate Stan Winston's attention to detail that helped cement the visual representation of the Jurassic Park T-rex into popular culture? Sure, he didn't quite get the lips or eyes right, but he nailed the form and the size of the beast and it's appearance.
Well Stan Winston didn't create the design used in the movies. Concept artist Mark McCreery came up with the look that Spielberg ultimately decided on using, though Stan Winston did a fantastic job bringing that design to life.
Yeah same, feathered t-rex was always kinda stupid to me not because of the looks; but because it really wouldn't need feathers unless it lived in artic regions (some subspecies of t-rex did but not all of them). The only way scientists thinking that would work is if they had feathers as babies and lost them as they grew older. (Also sorry for my rant I just noticed this was 2 months ago)
@@ill.lly__ i didn't mind the feathered t rex version, from what I saw its like a dense cape covering from its head to torso. and i drew t rex in the way that was actuate at the time with feathers and people still love it.
I know this is old, but i love having my image of dinosaurs challenged, it shows that we're still learning and it shows more and more that these were real animals the closer we get to fully realizing what they looked like, and i love every bit of that
yes bout time we don't get any of those hideous ugly life sized models (you know that t rex statue with the feathers on the back of its neck? yeah that horrendous mess)
@@mr.jenkins5582 looked like something out of a horror movie and not a realistic animal, which is weird considering all the other reconstructions in that articles look really good.
@@UmbraXCVII It is worth mentioning that that one was an adolescent and Sue is an adult. You're right, it looks terrible but the reduced musculature and different proportions make sense. If you take into account the possibility that they hatched with feathers and lost them over time, both could actually be accurate. But if it is, damn that kid had an ugly face.
This depiction does a great job at portraying Sue and the Tyrannosaurus rex species as they were: Not shrink-wrapped movie monsters with a soulless gaze and unquenchable bloodlust, but as animals that lived in our world. Sure, they were 40-foot long hypercarnivores that could crush a Jeep in their jaws, but they were also something majestic that commanded respect, not demanded it.
Well I'm going to miss the fluffy T-Rexes hypotesis, but I am glad that they could find the skin impression, hopefully in the future we can cover even more of these beings.
@@scottythetrex5197 It is realistic if you dont want the animal to be able to actually survive. The only thing those are missing is the muscle and fat tissue needed to survive which this recreation has. But i also love the JP design so i can agree with you.
One thing that gives me interest is the eyes, they're less like that of a fictional dragon-like creature and more like that of a huge bird, like the shoebill.
OMG she is beautiful. Such beautiful, soulful eyes. I do wish she had _some_ feathers, such as along her spine, but I understand given our current data it is better for her to be scaly instead. Should be noted though that the scales that covered T.Rex were different than the scales found on most reptiles, they were more like the avian scales found on the feet of birds. These structures are themselves modified feathers instead of true scales, so you could say T.Rex was covered in feathers after all!
@@mehakahmed110 Yes, birds are technically reptiles and they have feathers, the dinosaurs of old also had feathers. Many of them would have looked like furry, bipedal reptiles, a great example is Yutyrannus or Sinosauropteryx.
What's weird is, the overall look is almost back full circle to the majority of depictions when I was a kid in the 80s... No feathers, chunkier, lips, reptilian scales... They were usually depicted more upright at the time, but besides that...
This is so cool how what people thought dinosaurs were is still being developed even today. One of my close friends from elementary school is trying to become a paleontologist. I always liked dinosaurs but never nearly as much as him lol
What I've learned from this:
Humans will litterally pet anything they see
as a human, i can confirm this
........ yes
I will let it eat you
As a alien i can also confirm this.
@Jurassic Hero Not really. People pet animals that can easily rip them to shreds and are usually aggresive towards humans like Bears , Lions , Hippos , Kangaroos , Chimpanzees and so on. Only "cuteness" factor matters ... then again not always.
"I would stop at nothing to pet this thing"
Bruh she'd be the thing stopping you.
Noms
Noms
no, she looks so cute
That’s a LOT of STOP.
@@eliteexpression Still an apex predator though.
honestly the eyes and the face are the most interesting. it actually looks like an intelligent hunter observing situations instead of a killing machine that just kills and eats
Did you know that trex is as intelligent as a chimp?
@@arandomdinosaur4019 did you know that your informations are fake?
@@arandomdinosaur4019 Probably not as a chimp but as a lion is possible since they were probably pack hunters
@@alphanightfury1416 no you can look it up but it would make sense
@@mieszkobachorr3752 well how smart are they then?
2:49 small correction, in Jurassic park, the dinosaurs’ DNA are spliced with tree frog DNA, who have good distance and night vision, but can’t see things that aren’t moving very well. This is explained thoroughly in the novel, but not really touched upon in the movies. Because of this, your average joe will think that the T-Rex has movement based vision, which is obviously not true and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense under scrutiny. So it’s not really a theory as much as it is a misinterpretation of it’s source material.
It's corrected in the second novel. Ask George Baselton all about it.
ayyy I was about to write the same!
And another thing to note is that in the lore the one T rex from the first movie all the way to the jurassic world trilogy has a vision problem due to her frog DNA meanwhile the other Tyrannosaur's that we've seen don't share this problem
It is touched upon in the movies and a big diatribe is made about it in Jurassic World
question is, did alan grant know that it behaves different than a 100% t-rex DNA specimen?
because in the movie it looks like this would apply to any t-rex...
To think that a version of our world exists where these animals were everywhere blows my mind.
What do u mean a version of our world?
@@caseythomas1424 Our world back then.
It was so long ago that alone should blow your mind
Existed*
Longer than our own species
I find it really interesting how as we get more and more accurate with these depictions, the more and more it looks like an actual animal as opposed to a “design”.
I think the stomach is a little weird but it's probably only because of the way I grew up with it however , it is accurate as to what we know and I respect it because I can see it as a real thing , shit we have the platypus
Also there is no 👀ass Crack.. Uff hahah it doesn't look fully how it should've been
@@karlohaze5304 Tyrannosaurus has a massive tail held high and deep pelvic saddle bone that extends between the legs and behind the thighs, which are slightly bent forward from vertical to begin with. The cloacal opening is located on the base of the tail. You don't get an ass crack with anatomy like that.
Of note is that birds, which share a similar pelvic anatomy don't have ass cracks either. Not even chickens and turkeys which have been specifically bred for large gluteal muscles.
@@peanutrecord6989 I also see it that way I feel like it’s legs couldn’t hold it up
Accurate? Do you know that the dinosaur was created before it was discovered?? So really it just goes off what people want to say they look like.
If T-Rex had lips, imagine if it could bare its teeth like a dog or cat. That would be terrifyingly awesome.
They're not muscled, so they couldn't move them in any appreciable way.
@@alexandruianu8432 But what if they were, and they could?
@Isee because there are no attachments for facial muscles on dinosaur skulls that would allow expression; expression is exclusive to mammals, and is still very limited in most species.
@Isee bro just humor the idea, holy fuck my guy, so fucking uptight
@@toomanycooks7836 ok. But what if they could. Bad ass.
The less and less fantastical and monster-like these animals get, the more I fall in love with them. This is majestic.
It looks pretty much exactly like jurassic Park 1. Relax weirdo
@@ArJayDM you see the studiomod vocalization list and images? Video is awesome. Depicts them with plumage and their vocalizations are more guttural/bird like. They had a mix of plumage and their scales.
@@ArJayDMdoesn't look like jp, proportions are way diferent, ie. the size of arms and legs, the ribcage's shape and many more features.. Relax weirdo
They feel fantastical in every way regardless their design.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
"what did you notice first?"
Me: tiny arms...
Abelisaurs had it worse
Carnotoarus
The virgin arms
Same lol
no anus
Alternative title: "Man tries to get a date with an inanimate Tyrannosaurus."
Japanese man* XD
And that was in Florida i know it
I mean she’s pretty
And since she’s a girl it fits the name
“Sue”
Man is simpin' for the rex
Most people would call this rex thicc or fat. She is none of these. That is 100% pure muscle.
But she still needs some love
100% pure chonk
She's cute, even if muscular.
Soooooo. Thicc?
Not 100% muscle. Look at all that belly fat. They made her too fat to run. Big mistake.
Having fallen in love with dinosaurs as a kid in the 1950s, I always sensed deep down that there was far more to them than just the "dumb giant lizards in swamps" image that was so prevalent. Then in the late 80s, the perception began to change and here we are today, with a far better understanding of their anatomy and realizing they had complex behaviors like animals today. And maybe they weren't so "dumb" after all.
@bacongoose8820Late 60s or early 70s, I reckon
Imagine that now we know that birds are the last living dinosaurs. We don’t have to imagine anymore, we have them in our backyards.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
“That never hurt anyone”
Holding a dead hadrosaur in its mouth
Have you? ua-cam.com/video/vNggYJhE9nM/v-deo.html
@@moth300 shut up
@@the4thtomato138 no
@@moth300 ok
@@moth300 no
My first reaction:
"She was always my favourite as a kid, and now that I see her shes the most beautiful thing I ever saw"
Sounds like a "since we were children" love story
I think T-Rex will always remain top dog in people's imagination. Though bigger and more ferocious dinosaurs have been discovered, it seems no one will ever unseat the Tyrant King.
@@Cissy2cute I agree 100%. Tyrannosaurus Rex isn’t the king of the dinosaurs for what it is, but what it was. At the time of its discovery, it was the largest carnivore found. Paleontologists could tell just by looking at the bones and skull itself, that this dinosaur was a very muscular and intelligent(for a dinosaur) creature. Of course today, some carnivores could probably beat Tyrannosaurus in a fight, it doesn’t change the fact that the Tyrannosaurus was an icon that paved it’s way into a child’s imagination as not a monster, but a force of nature.
@@brandenmarcum430 You have put that very well. Some thought Giganotosaurus might dethrone the King, but that never happened. T. Rex has an almost mythical aura about it. Knight's depiction of him from the very beginning captured the imagination and has never really let go. Every child seems to be enthralled by his appearance and the power he emanates. No one will ever knock this king off the throne. And for various reasons, that is probably as it should be.
@@Cissy2cute correct. My previous comment in fact ignored the idea that T. Rex, although an apex predator of its time, would probably do very well against most dinosaurs. Giganotosaurus most likely wouldn’t stand a chance because if Tyrannosaurus got a hold of its neck, it’s game over
Fyi, the reason the T. rex couldn’t see people that stood still in the Jurassic park movie (and book) was because the scientists had to fill the missing dinosaur genome using amphibious dna. Amphibians cant focus their vision on objects that stay still. It wasn’t because they simply believed T. Rex had terrible vision, it was a flaw of human creation.
It’s currently believed that Tyrannosaurus had excellent vision, so standing still wouldn’t do you any good.
It wasn’t because they simply believed T. Rex had terrible vision, it was a flaw of human creation.
@@knightofarkronia9968 But the T.Rex in Jurassic park has a lot of frog in its genetic makeup. That’s where they get the vision based movement from, the same way indominus rex gets a camouflage ability from cuttlefish DNA
@@MsScarletwings In the movie, Dr Grant said that it’s eyesight was based around movement long before visiting Jurassic Park.
@@knightofarkronia9968 The thinking changed between I and II.
I like this recreation alot, she looks smooth, elegant, and almost motherly. Like you can almost get the impression of a serene personality just from gazing at her.
yeah you can almost forget the dead hadrosaur hanging from her mouth haha
@@whatis112-s2i lol yeah no kidding :)
Elegant... she's quite a chonk! (I'm not doubting the recreation though).
@@rem45acp elegantly chonkasaurus lol
Like cross between a Komodo dragon and an Elephant.
Honestly I like this version of the Rex, it's like we've almost come full circle back to the designs that were initially thought of when they first started studying, illustrating dinosaurs seriously in the early 20th century; animals that actually looked like bulky, lumbering but no less powerful and intimidating beasts rather than just "big reptiles" like the later designs were
Yeah but unlike the old ones it was smart, can turn very well, has good eyesight, and hearing and a bunch of new features
@Sony Guts Well too bad that’s science and not fiction. These things existed and we’re trying to imagine what they looked like and not making them look cool
@Sony Guts Okay
@Jimmy Delvecchio You quite obviously haven't seen many modern predators if you think that. Especially the komodo dragon, which is what the rex resembles now.
@Jimmy Delvecchio Bro. The dinosaurs only died out because a giant rock smashed into the planet, causing vast volcanic activity and clouds of dust from the impact to basically create the primordial version of a nuclear winter. If that rock hadn't hit earth, Rexes likely would have continued to thrive and survive. And human life would be a non-starter. T-rex got so big because they were so successful, which caused their prey items to evolve to be bigger through selective breeding - aka, the bigger an adult Diplodocus was, the less likely it was to be targeted by a predator, so the females would more likely congregate and thus mate around and with them, resulting in larger offspring. Likewise, the smaller females would be targeted, resulting in offspring slowly getting larger. This back-and--forth arms race between predator and prey is what decides the evolutionary fate of both, hence why the Sauropods reached insane sizes and Triceratops grew such vicious armaments.
This is my favorite depiction of T. Rex ever
@RATHALOS Agreed, I like how depictions of dinosaurs are beginning to give a less monstrous and more realistic vision of them as animals as we see them today. This almost looks like a gigantic carnivorous elephant or hippo stalking prey on the savanna. Considering what we have inferred to be true about these animals, I'd still be scared of the thing considering it might start stalking you before you could even spot it.
They become more and more realistic as we complete more of the puzzle.
me too i love when dinosaurs are reconstructed in their accurate form
I think it's great, although I would've loved it even more if they depicted it in a more upright walking posture rather than angled sharply downwards with its head near the ground.
It would've been much cooler to see it with its head at full walking posture elevation, slightly higher than the hips, rather than bending down to the ground. This would've been ideal:
www.fieldandstream.com/prehistoric-sportsman-how-to-hunt-t-rex/
If people think even that posture is more upright than it ever got (i don't know why it would be, but for the sake of argument), then how about this:
images.app.goo.gl/u1jgQiL41opYZMJAA
Or this: images.app.goo.gl/SV9SkTMPTMzgdndw5
It'd be awesome to stand in front of it and stare up in awe at the sheer size of it. Fleshy looks massive, certainly, but you lose something by having it bending down with its head close the ground as if biting a smaller dinosaur. You take height out of the equation and make it shorter, and height is actually incredibly important when it comes to having a visceral reaction to the size of something. I personally want to see T rex in its full splendor, standing tall with its head 15 feet off the ground, not crouching down with its head 5 feet off the ground.
@@m74d3 Unfortunately this was for technical reasons. The Front of the body is to heavy, that's why the Hadrosaur was added. Otherwise this sculpture would have tipped over.
Ngl Fleshy is friend-shaped. A very carnivorous and crunch-you-in-one-bite friend but a friend nonetheless
accurate barney-
Some dogs are like that.
Almost like Hyenas! I only really see a puppy, a homicidal puppy, but a puppy nonetheless
Is that a drawfee reference?
A friend for a whole 5 seconds.
Dinosaurs have by and large gone from "skinny and dumb" to "fat and smart" and im here for it. Seeing a creature as muscular and bulky as this Sue would be a lot more terrifying to me than the typical shrink wrapped rexes we were accustomed to for a long time.
Before they were skinny and dumb, they were fat and dumb.
The belly is too thick in comparison to its legs. I think prehistoric planet got it right. Liked their model much better. It too had lips and it's designed according to the newest findings but has better proportions.
They put flesh on Sue? I remember seeing her when she was just bones.
Nah they’ve made a life size flesh replica. The original Sue is still just bones!! 👍
Sue has gained quite a weight
@@virgin1792 Who said only humans could get bored and fat during quarantine?
I'm sure Dr. Wu was responsible for that.
they grow up so fast
Has lips
Is chunky
No feathers
Mfing Barney was pretty accurate too I guess
of course is chunky it weights 2 times an african elephant
It's awesome how they found scale impressions of the places that were damn near impossible to have feathers and whoopty-doo, the entire thing's a buck naked salmon-alligator mutant rhinoceros.
I thought you were gonna point out
1. Featherless
2. Bipedal
This is a man
@@spinomania1921 Fleshy is my favourite breed of man
@Michol 0515 it wasn't
Artist: So how you want the Rex be depicted?
Dude: THICC
Artist: What?
Dude: I said *THICC* ... with lips!
26 dec 2020 Edit: Over 2.5K Likes... Thanks everyone for help reaching such a THICC number, if this comment made you have a good laugh then my heart is done for today!
lol!!!!
Artist: Are you describing an ideal girl or a dinosaur?
Dude: *Both.*
... and awesome hips!
I hope they do a model like this with the Tarbosaur. It is the asian version of t-Rex and it was about as long but leaner, not thicc at all.
@Kim Dőng Umm Pro Interracial Couples best quote I’ve seen
Sue is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen. She was always my favorite dinosaur. I agreed with the lips thing too. Even predators like lions and tigers with huge teeth have them covered by lips.
I actually can not think of a single land animal with visible teeth.
@@MatsNorway Saber tooth tiger for some reason
Fake bones and fake science. All lies. The bone wars was the biggest fraud and we deal with this nonsense now. All these “scientist” making cgi and recreations based on one whale bone discovered a hundred years ago. You’re dumb if you think there was dinosaurs for millions of years. Millions of years. laughable. The speculation being preached as science is truly absurd.
Yeah but still debatable. You mentioned cats from the feline family which are mammals. Think of reptiles which basically is what Dino's are but also think of crocodiles which indeed are reptiles LIKE t rex and lived with them too. And they're massive scary teeh show rather than being hidden. Plus the jaws work similar and given that it's a top predator I'd imagine it to not have lips.
@@lavishlivingta8956 The vast majority of reptiles do not have visible teeth. Crocodilians (who are not in anyway related to therapods like T. Rex) are a special case.
This honestly still looks like my childhood vision of the T-Rex. The eyes and the lips aren’t any big deal for me personally and I think she looks super cool.
Same, it is pretty surprising how on par it is with most depictions I’ve grown up with. I feel like it’s one of the Jurassic Park versions that actually got quite a bit right, give or take some chunkiness, but
There are people that give Jurassic Park way to much shit. The first movie at the very least did a lot of good for paleontology, such as changing the mainstream version of dinosaurs to be more like birds, and T-rex is a dinosaur that got pretty good. Showing that they were active predators, or that it’s an animal and not a movie monster, or changing the poster, hell even though this wasn’t know at the time, you can see Rexy in the first movie fast walking and not running, which is what paleontologists believe how T-Rex would chase down prey. The movie isn’t perfect, there’s shrink wrapping present, Rexy is a little oversized, although considering the size of Scotty it’s not to far off, but overall it’s not terrible and did a lot of good for this magnificent creature.
In summary, people need to stop being so mean to Jurassic Park. We all know it’s dated, but in terms of when it was released, it was pretty accurate and did a lot of good. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
@@MellowGrunt10
100% Agreed
I just hurts to see many people criticize the 1993 film for not having Paleontological accuracies which wasn't even known during the time.
@@MellowGrunt10 yes Jurassic park gets free pass. But Jurassic world has no excuse fuck that shit!
@@MellowGrunt10 I love jurassic park beause it's mostly my imagination of how awesome things are. I don't care if they made it far fetched it wasn't support to be accurate. You ae right
“Never become sentimental with a predisposed belief in science.” I like this.
Except that his statement a out the tre ot having feathers is wrong, asmall piece of skin does not prove the animal is featherless
@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 He didn’t say that it proved T-Rex was featherless. He lists a few possibilities given the current evidence: They had feathers as infants and lose them or adults had patches of feathers etc.
@@jackdawson7209 Thats far from proved
@@pedrocavalcantesantana7378 thinking about it logically though, it lived in a warm environment, and it is known that other large dinosaurs, such as ceratopsians, sauropods, hadrosaurs, and other tyranosaurids(include Ng Albertasaurus I believe) had no meaningful feathers despite them likely being ancestral to all of them. Taking a look at other mega fauna from similar environments still alive today, we see them possessing little to no fur, despite fur being ancestral to them. It seems that there comes a point when feathers are simply no longer useful, and so there would be selective pressure to lose them
I think that was the best quote in the video tbh. People romanticize science and scientific discoveries, sometimes to the point of where it misleads and impedes scientific progress. The popularity of the alpha-omega dynamic in wolves is a great example of this.
Are you kidding? This is somehow even more awesome than the images I've been shown as a kid. Perhaps it's because I've aged and my definition of "cool" has obviously changed, but this more realistic depiction of the once apex predator is nothing short of awesome. Can't wait to see what more we learn as paleontologists uncover more data.
i don't agree scientist make dinosaurs look stupider i know dinosaurs have feathers and i think a they look badass with them but still people make them look stupid i mean look at sue she looks over weight and why dos she have lips some people says lips would protect dinosaur teeth what a bunch of crap if a ankylosaurus smashes it tail club into your jaw with the force of 14,000 newton lips are not going to save your jaw or teeth
You may have "aged" buy you've yet to "mature"
@@davidsheckler8417 Nice platitude. Care to elaborate?
@@Aztechaemenid I think he means that we're all still kids on the inside... well I hope that's what he means and not as an insult there are enough *ssholes on the internet as it is
@EESoo 1 month??
I do think it’s interesting how much the T-Rex has evolved in terms of our knowledge about the them. It seems like in the past few years there was a push to make the T-Rex into some very colorful, exotic, feathery creature that had no resemblance to what we originally thought them to look like. Now we’ve sort of met in the middle.
Scientists: Here’s sue
Everyone: Not to be dramatic but I’d die for Sue
I'd sue.
haha
me
Same
@@hellawolf Lol so what people found it funny just like people find reddit lookin ass comments funny, sorry I triggered you over something funny dude
Now imagine a life-sized Argentinosaurus built to this level of realism.
Too much thiccness!!
You would need to get actual construction-engineers to make sure it didn't fall apart.
Assing the materials could support each other, I'm willing to bet that nature did the engineering well enough to support it. Assuming they made a copy of an Argentinasaurus' skeleton and covered it with copies of meat I bet it would stand.
Too big and too expensive
Well shit, that would be impressive.
But can I ride it while I’m wearing a crusader armor and holding a Kalashnikov rifle?
without a shred of doubt. In fact, I think this is required
*y e s*
“Sir, your ride, your armor and your weapon are waiting for you”
@@glanarant4118 did you name yourself that just to piss people off?
@@kiwisinner making people think they’re having a stroke while reading my name is my full-time hobby!
One cool fact about this statue is that the juvenile hadrosaur is actually serving as a third point of contact to the base, if it wasn't there, the whole thing would topple over.
Oh wow, never knew it.
I want a mini version in my room
Gojira54g who doesn’t want
That would be cool
@@ONYX_Maximus I want to live in a Carcharodontosaurid Shaped Room.
I want a giant room with an exact replica of the statue
i like trains
Featherless swans are by far the scariest thing i've seen this year.
How about featherless owls 👀
This is gorgeous. The only issue I have are the tarsal scutes along the feet, which are most of the time accredited to recessed flight feathers along the legs and feet of the ancestors of birds. It was more likely to have a reticulated scale pattern, with smaller scales covering the length of the feet in no discernible pattern. The scutes do look cool though, so there's that.
Phil Furney I was searching for this comment. Have you watched Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong?
Excactly. Also there are muscles missing below the knee. The legs are the weak Point of this reconstruction, however it still is one of the best life sized sculptures of this animal, I‘ve seen.
@MinutemanSam The study about the scutes points to a Maniraptoran origin, which Tyrannosauria aren‘t part of. The leg feathers of Microraptor grow from the side of the foot. It is very possible for the scutes to move a view inches towards the front over millions of years. And even If other Coelosauria had scutes, skin texture doesn‘t grow proportionally to the hole animal in gigantism. Komodo dragon scales aren’t that much bigger than the scales of tiny lizards, the Dragon just has a lot more of them. So if Tyrannosaurus had scutes, they probably would be much tinier compared to his foot than what you see in birds. However most Dinosaurs seem to have had scutes on their toes.
@@erikhamann what do you mean by muscles missing below the knee? I'm bad at dino-anatomy.. is that the last joint before the foot or the one following the hip joint? Because that one has muscles. I'm just trying to picture where additional musculature would have to be.
@@lukthere2 nah the joint under the hip, a knee like humans have it. I think the joint above the foot is her ankle, so in comparison she practicly walks on the front of her feet and on her toes.
I like this model of T-Rex.
She looks like an actual animal rather than a movie monster.
"Aw, I want to pet it". That's the first thing I thought of too. She looks so cute.
she is so big SHE will pet you...
@@firegator6853 yo I think I saw you in the T. rex vs giga animation
'Just want to say that I love your profile pic and name! Stay metal! 🤘🔥🤘
Same
Would you? ua-cam.com/video/vNggYJhE9nM/v-deo.html
I love what you said about the Jurassic Park dinosaur eyes. How they convey thought and thinking, and how dumb slit eyes can look.
The only dinosaur in Jurassic Park with slit eyes is the raptor...
@@gsquadxz Yeah, and they look so dead and lifeless.
@@The_PokeSaurus What did you expect from a genetically egineered theme park monster.
@@gsquadxz That is true, but I still prefer the round eyes like in Jurassic Park 3, but they were on a completely different island for years.
@@The_PokeSaurus Yeah, the JP3 raptors were the best.
I won’t lie, this is actually an appealing and good look at a dinosaur. It looks really cool but also really feasible
Are you crushing on a dinosaur
@@ImVeryOriginal I am lmao
I remember seeing a video by Trey the Explainer where he briefly mentions that the Tyrannosaurus could've had ''camoflage patterns in its feathers and skin'' - before the notion of T-Rex feathers was debunked - because they were charging, ambush predators. He specifically says ''maybe there was tan ones that had skin like a lion, or a tiger''.
lo and behold -
Maybe its my life long love for dinosaurs... or just animals in general. But despite all the visual representations we've been presented with over the years this model is how I've always imagined a T-Rex to look. Its nice to see lips and natural eyes and the right kinda muscle mass. Its no longer just a fictional monster used to scare. Its an actual creature that lived. I love this so much. I'm always excited about learning more about these creatures.
Dang this depiction makes t-rex’s look like big puppies. Especially the softness of the face
I have yet to meet a puppy capable of holding an entire bloody Hadrosaur carcass in its mouth while using banana-sized teeth to keep it from dropping out... I'm just sayin'... LOL
Komodo Dragons and Black Throat Monitors have the same puppydog head shape. Yet, they are scary animals. Well, except when your Black Throat accepts you, then you literally get a scaly puppydog.
She's dummy thicc and all but this new accurate t rex is genuinely terrifying looking
Big puppies? What the heck scary-assed things are you taking for walkies? 😄
“Never become sentimental with a predisposed belief in science”
*hastily shoves my “Pluto is still a planet to ME” sign under the bed*
Never forget
:(
Well that can't be true or followed to any degree seeing as where quantum mechanics has lead us, that too of creation, and there's plenty of sentimental and emotional scientists with predispositions and assumptions of the Super Natural, which is at its heart just Natural. Science is full of theories; hopes & dreams of men's mind. The day we'll turn lead into gold, and find the fountain of life. Alchemy hasn't changed much in all the years it's been on Earth.
Bird brings the Word haha what
@@dipskiff
Separate of my world view at the moment, about around 4th grade I began to see a hole in the narrative and thought dinosaurs to be quite the invention. Something to capture the interest of young boys and children into the world of 'Science'.
As time has gone on, and I've grown older with that thought, it would seem I wasn't far off from the truth.
What ever this depiction is we're shown, is clearly not what ever it is that's being claimed in discovery.
A lot of fossils that were found have been proven to be frauds as well, no better than cast-molds of 'Big-foot's prints etc. (You can go find some articles on it during the earlier fraudulent years of Paleontology.
Being blunt and completely cynical here, it's obvious that they're a hoax to bring in funding. It's a cool fantasy but that's it.
If I wasn't going to swallow the bull shit lies of Religion, why would I be so swift to swallow the poison of Science? It's better to sit back, question it all and do your own genuine research on the honest materials still rarely out there.
I'm not here to argue or debate tbh, but you asked, and I'm clarifying.
Peace out and have a great Vets Day.
"We kinda suck."
I couldn't agree more.
What sucks even more is the statement he said just before that >>>"Keep in mind, we can only spot things 1.6 kilometers away."
I may not have 20/20 vision, but I know I could spot parked cars, geese flying, people walking, or other objects smaller than a T-Rex more than a mile away.
If what he is trying to say is: Objects that we can barely spot at 1.6 kilometers, a T-Rex can spot 6 kilometers away; then that would make more sense.
But given the fact that scientists are still debating what dinosaurs actually would have looked like, I doubt they have any clue as to how strong their vision was.
Yes.
Yet we're made in the image of the most powerful entity that ever exists
So the whole 'Neil Armstrong landing on the moon' thing means no never mind to you? Or the Sistine Chapel? Or Shakespeare? Or the fall of Communism? Actually, we don't suck. We're awesome.
I mean, for a naked bipedal monkey, we have a pretty good vision in general, it is decaying over time but we have glasses, and also, we are not extinct (yet)
I'm just in awe of how absolutely massive Sue (and all Tyrannosaurus) were. I mean look at it, if it weren't for having the skeletons as proof, it would be almost impossible to believe that animals this gargantuan actually lived at one point.
I wanna visit the Field Museum so I can see Sue, and Fleshy. I imagine (and this sounds corny) that it would be a truly humbling thing to stand side by side with greatest predator that ever walked.
I dont think you would be standing for long my guy, but I agree with this statement
Edit: I thought you meant while the Rex was alive, my bad
I love her! She is so cute! My favorite part is that it doesn't look like a monster, it looks like an animal.
Which is what we should remember. As was said in the movie "They are not monsters, they're just animals".
Reminds me of a polar bear, really cute looking yet terrifying if you imagine actually encountering one
@@wm8840 you can outrun it
@@CasualCat64 u cant outrun a polar bear
@@parrotilol I outran child support I’ll be fine
T rex over the years:
1900s: Basically an upright giant lizard.
1990s: Athletic, scary big monster
2010s: Murdering chiken
2020: *Chunky*
But seriously, he isn't fat, he is muscular. Best depiction of t rex ever.
It thought featherd t rex looked more like a giant vulture
@@goose6112 deppends on the reconstruction you pick, one of them really looks like a turkey
@@italucenaz oh ok
@pablo rex yeah I know
Man what, I loved the Feathered Trex, especially the Saurian one
this > www.deviantart.com/arvalis/art/Saurian-Tyrannosaurus-rex-555992736
I frickin LOVE this recreation, it's first time I am not a little kid with no idea about basic animal biology and thinking "Yea, this looks like an actual animal that would move and breathe"
The Jurassic Park T-Rex always looked more like a monster than an animal. Which is of course what Spielberg wanted, a massive man-eating monster. Something that could only exist in the world of fiction.
This however looks like something that could have easily existed on this planet. It’s lips, it’s skin, it’s eyes, and skull shape all scream life like.
It’s hard to imagine that back in the 1910s at the dawn of cinema the T-Rex was depicted as having scales like an alligator, teeth sticking out of its mouth like a crocodile, a forked tongue that went in and out of its mouth like a snake, and stood upright like a human.
Compare that to this, it’s quite amazing how our knowledge of this prehistoric carnivore has changed over time.
This looks exactly like how i imagined it would looks like, intelligent, none of that feather business, and earthy colored
2:12 Uhh... Wow, that's the pfp I've had since 2013.
Its even weirder considering at exact moment this image popped up in the video i found your comment
@@dead2675 lol
I respect it
Absolutely stunning. While I loved them as a child , It makes me happy to see that we’re moving away from the pop culture depiction monsters. instead we’re showcasing these animals for what they were , animals.
Yeah, it makes me happy too. No more stupid ass Hollywood depictions of animals that want nothing more than to kill and eat any human in proximity, but instead displaying them as actual animals that are simply surviving in this world.
@@misterbearmore4633 Lol just get over it. Jurassic Park/World is a movie franchise, and the lore of the movies has already explained that the dinosaurs are not 100% accurate and are genetically modified monsters made for money. Stop crying and hating on a franchise and instead cherish it for helping others learn more about these animals, or guide their curiosity. Funny thing is, the majority of people who bitch about the movies were introduced to dinosaurs because of Jurassic Park/World.
@@aleemizcool3654 I wasn't just talking about the Jurassic Park franchise, I was talking about the majority of the overly-exaggerated mainstream depictions of dinosaurs (as well as animals in general). I understand that their purpose is to make the films more exhilarating, but to depict them like this so common that it starts to persuade people into thinking that this is what they are/were actually like. When people were told about how bad wolves are, even when it's told through fairy tales such as little red riding hood, it tarnishes the reputation of the wolf and labels them as vicious killers that will attack you the moment they see you. Yes, the Jurassic Park franchise has certainly helped others learn more about dinosaurs and guided their curiosity, but it also contributed to many people thinking negatively about them, or in other words, leading many people (especially younger audiences) to think that they are ruthless killing machines that will spend an unnecessary amount of energy chasing insignificant snacks (I'm especially talking about the most infamous ones such as the T. Rex and Spinosaurus). I don't really like how the Jurassic Park franchise depicts most of the dinosaurs, but that's just my opinion.
to be honest I actually like the Jurassic Park/World design better
@@mr.radish3224 naw foo
I want a scaled version of this for my collection now. She would look gorgeous on one of my shelves.
I was looking at pictures of it and there was a small reference model that was being used, why hasn't a company made this! I'm so tired of the exact same lip less shrink wrapped dinosaur. 😡
I'm sure they'll eventually sell figurines of it in the gift shop, if they have any business savvy at all.
@@jillmo6458 I'm hoping one of the major model companies pick it up to make them.
i mean there is the PNSO "Wilson" model, very similar.
@@yourhomie3858 yeah but the face is shrink wrapped and it's missing lips
This feels like a character reveal. I have no problem with this. I actually really like the design. It still reminds me a lot of the dinosaurs I liked as a kid but now a little more realistic. Especially glad they ditched the feathers.
“What do you notice first when you look at the animal?” “She’s gorgeous”
Horrifying fact: the T-rex didn't roar like a lion but it hmmmed in a very very low tone and it is said that it produced infra sounds so you couldn't hear it but literally *feel* it
Tigers do the same
@@hochigaming14yearsago90 I'm sure you felt and heard it coming with its weight.
@@jameslacey5474 true
Bullcrap statement, u really believe that...
@@lookingfortruth1930 why dont u offer a counter argument dingus
"A razor scooter" I feel that one, lmao
felt it in my ankles
Pity the fool who mistakenly flung themselves into a T-rex with their razor scooter.
They shall be not long for this world.
:P
It was probably a ball hitch.
The ability to see skin impressions is amazing. I never thought we'd have any clue what they actually looked like beside the bones, but those being left behind is a priceless bit of luck. A way to glimpse something long, long gone.
Not going to lie, the feathers have really grown on me. I've grown to love the chicken/bear aesthetic thats developed lately.
And the idea of an animal the size of a T-Rex fluffing up like a cockatoo for a threat display is pretty incredible.
well the point should be to create realistic depiction regardless of what we like or not otherwise its not science but fantasy.
The consensus is more that trex had parts with feather
@@Wohodix proto-feathers actually
0:22 This looks so much like a live, tameable animal that would let you pet his snout if he's fed enough and can't be bothered with hunting one skinny human. Kinda like a crocodile today.
Yeah, "tamable", or about as tamable as a giant chicken crocodile monster can be
No matter, i will simply punch it till unconscious, drug it up with some weird green narcotics, and force feed it meat! Then when it awakes, we will be best pals and ill put a saddle on it and ride it!
@@WozzaDekon don't forget your saddle
except crocodiles aren't tamable.
@@pasindudinusha6507 They are trainable though.
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This new take on the T. Rex looks amazing, I honestly think this might be my new favorite take on the animal, old favorite being the Jurassic Park design. The size and amount of muscle you can see on this creature is intimidating as heck! You could take one look at that massive neck, huge chest and powerful legs and say "yep, this was a top predator of its time." My favorite change has to be the teeth, sure to some it may be a bit off-putting to see a T. Rex without its teeth bared, but I've always though of it kind of like how some species of Alligator & Crocodile also don't have their teeth exposed, doesn't change how menacing & intimidating they look.
Sorry, I'm rambling, TL;DR: This is the best take on T. Rex ever, love it
T. rex. Because there is no hyphen in the full name. But your comment in general is spot on and I quite agree.
@@dondragmer2412 Ah, thank you for correcting me, and I'm glad you agree
Have to disagree, it definitely makes it look less intimidating, but that's fine. It's how the animal should be presented, it's our understanding that's just how the creature looked.
Plz keep rambling bc if you don’t I will
@@godofthecripples1237 Think of it from a moviemaking point of view. You see this big predator staring at you, and then its lips start curling up revealing those teeth, and suddenly you crap your pants because now shit just got real.
It’s crazy how far away Jurassic park was on the velociraptor but how close it was to the Tyrannosaurus
Remember when most people that thought that T. rex was like 75% covered in feathers and anyone who thought otherwise was dismissed as an idiot....
Good times.
I never read that MOST people (do you mean dinosaurologists?) ever thought that. Most of the comments by scientists on web sites, not just youtube, said the adults may have had some feathers and a few said they were likely covered with feathers but hardly anyone said the adults were definitely nearly completely covered in feathers.
@@dondragmer2412 Honestly, we jumped the gun on that. The only evidence about T-rex having feathers is the Yutyrannous (Who is a shit ton older than the Rex) and he's not even a tyrannosaurid, he's a tyrannosaurod. And that's without mentioning the 84+ million years of evolution between the two.
Feathered giants was a stupid concept. Rex lived on a tropical world and large animals have problems with heat dispersion (elephant's large ears cool the animal off).
@@allewis4008 Actually the kinds of feathers that the tyrannosaurus rex would have possibly possessed are ones that help to cool an animal off. The feathers on an ostrich or emu for example allow the animal to be cooled off in hot environments. Regardless of that however, T rex would have lived in a temperate climate, not a tropical one. Hell creek would have possibly gotten snow and definitely was not a tropical area
@@allewis4008 Indeed! And I'm glad the truth about this is finally coming to light.
She's pretty adorable from a certain angle
True
Say that to the dino in her mouth
@@-gj3nu Well you know cats catch mice,birds and other animals, yet they are adorable, right?
Imagine humans are extinct and future civilizations
say
monkeys had all over their body hair
so humans must have too.
If the only know.
well we do have body hair, although some more than others.
@@swedneck Indeed
:D
But you know what i mean.
And they probably have
lot of
other misconceptions too like walking, tool use, and many other things.
+ sorry for my bad English
Well we do have the same amount of hair as a chimpanzee, the only difference being most of our body hair is extremely thin and transparent, so it looks like there's none. But that's a good point you make anyway.
You should see my uncle.
@@eligijpen3770 So, like hasta la Vista said we have almost exactly the same amount of body hair and about the same density of it as chimps. Ours are just shorter and thinner. We also know that some humans with a genetic disorder ("werewolf syndrome") can grow thick long hair like chimps, so the genes are still there for us to develop full-body hair covering. That makes your initial post somewhat ironic because by the same logic, it is possible that, just like humans are really as hairy as chimps, T-rex could have been as feathery as some other theropod lineages, just with shorter dinofuzz that couldn't leave a distinct impression in the fossil record.
They would be absolutely breathtaking to see in real life. Incredibly, pants-shittingly terrifying, but breathtaking.
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Idk why, just being the center focus to a ferocious animal gives me chills
I can imagine it forcing it’s snoot up near my face, smelling me n’ checkin me out as I try to push it away- obviously to no avail lol, it’s too strong. Y’know what it’s like when a strong determined dog is pushing it’s face up against ya for some reason, right? Except.. this time.. it’s much much bigger and wayy more dangerous.
So any big cat
@@somethingwithbungalows it’s like facing down a polar bear. It has absolutely no fear of you and you can only hope it’s not hungry or bored because it has no mercy.
Early depictions of T.Rex: Toothy-face hell beast that spawned nightmares in children everywhere.
T.Rex now: Possibly the cutest, chubbiest hell beast that ever lived.
Until it eats you
@@Nubbbyy Emphasis on "hell beast."
Appropriate, since a few lived in Hell Creek.
I make death music
i like fluffy boi
The best change ever was lifting their tails off the ground.
Yup, and making the stance more horizontal
"this one was always my favorite when I was a kid. And now I've seen one, its the most beautiful thing I ever saw."
- Alan Grant, 1993
First thing that comes to my mind when I see a tyrannosaurus leg infected or injured: METAL SCOOTER🗿
So as someone who liked the feathered T-Rex I feel I need to defend a lot of paleo artist's who decided to draw feathered T-Rex. We had no skin impressions for the longest time, what we did have was skin impressions from one of t-rex's close relatives Yutyrannus which did preserve proto feathers. If you knew that indian elephants had thin hair, and you've never seen an African elephant, then you'd assume the African elephant would have feathers.
It turns out we were wrong, but it was our best guess given the evidence we had. Fuzzy T-Rex was fine for what it was and a striking image.
That's fair but, Yutyrannus is not that closely related to Tyrannosaurus.
@@necrogenisis sure, but between Yutyrannus AND integument probably being the ancestral condition of theropods, it’s not unreasonable to assume Tyrannosaurus probably had feathers until evidence to the contrary appeared
I think that t rex only had feathers during the colder months, while during the warm months he would have no feathers.
Why idiot?
Me since I was 10 years old:
"Feathered Rex = Gay!"
The most accurate depiction of a T-Rex has them wrecking someone. Let's appreciate that.
Something I have recently discovered about the whole eyesight thing in jp, is that in the original novel, Alan grant didn’t know this, not because he was a bad paleontologist but because the frog dna changed the way the tyrannosaur eyes functioned. It is only in the movie that it’s set out as fact when dr grant explains the movement based vision before meeting the tyrannosaur
I wish that we could actually bring atleast one of these back, that would be such a sight to see. To think this planet was once covered with these weird giant birds and lizards will never stop blowing my mind 😂
If we did people would probably right away kill it because of the destruction it would cause.
@@cheese-y1y eh, not if it was contained properly. Like have it at select zoos or special facilities for viewing
@@nickhoffman9689 How the heck would people contain that thing without killing it?
@@nickhoffman9689 Yeah, tbf, T-rex were known from their fossil record of only meeting other rexes when mating and raising offspring, otherwise they lived in solitude, patrolling a massive territory that no zoo or animal preserve on Earth could dream of having. You know how orcas suck at surviving in zoos because of their need to travel (to name just one issue)? Well, a Rex would be the land equivalent.
no
I love how rapidly we are changing our ideas of how these creatures looked, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, the depictions had looked that way since the 30s. But now we have so much more information, and our image of these amazing animals fluctuates so rapidly. It’s very exciting
and wait until you are a grand pa... to bad many people prefer the older, inaccurate images... idiots.
@@franciscosantoyo9835 i think people like they’re comfort zone when it comes to knolledge and understanding. The thought of a feathery dinosaur becomes much harder to comprehend after a life thinking of scaley monsters, but I think that kind of thinking extends to most subjects, like astronomy where people can’t get over Pluto’s planatery stays changing
@Frizzurd oh ye, look at the new Jurassic park films, they contemplated changing to our more modern view, but felt they should keep to the original due to how people recognise them. Personaly I’d be quite happy having new fiction stories with the old image of them due to nostalgia
@Frizzurd oh I definately think those depictions inspired Pokemon. That makes me want to play Pokemon yellow again😂
This is the first time i feel like one of our adaptations looks like a true animal. Not a scaly monster. She's scary, sure, but wonderful and very pretty
The original discoverer of sue got it taken off him and put in this museum he was so sad and the museum didn’t even invite him to the unveiling, and he got no credit as if he didn’t exist. (This is explained in the documentary “Dinosaur 13”)
dinosaurs and other fossils are real estate according to the decision they used to rob him of it ( after years of painstaking work separating her from the surrounding stone of course). disgusting robbery by the feds
I'd honestly buy a small version of this for my desk
thats called a sparrow
Look at how bulky and all the muscles and fat. Definitely no need for feathers.
She's just perfect, such beauty. Kudos to the people/person behind the life-sized replica. Absolutely gorgeous.
@Cameron Doerksen what?
It's most definitely "people" behind the life-sized replica.
Bruh we'd legit try and pet a whole ass Spinosaurus because our deformed brains automatically think, "must pet"
You can see where Prehistoric Planet drew its inspiration for T-Rex’s design
Can we take a moment to appreciate Stan Winston's attention to detail that helped cement the visual representation of the Jurassic Park T-rex into popular culture? Sure, he didn't quite get the lips or eyes right, but he nailed the form and the size of the beast and it's appearance.
Well Stan Winston didn't create the design used in the movies. Concept artist Mark McCreery came up with the look that Spielberg ultimately decided on using, though Stan Winston did a fantastic job bringing that design to life.
I forgot my pop filter before I went back to school, but I couldn't wait for this one. Let me know what you think!
This is awesome
@@GkOtM-fj6dp awesome bro
About the teeth: T Rex shed them on a regular basis, so it wouldn't matter if they were exposed or not.
So fat.
Imagine if sue just comes alive
This is exactly how I imagined t-rex's, I love this
Yeah same, feathered t-rex was always kinda stupid to me not because of the looks; but because it really wouldn't need feathers unless it lived in artic regions (some subspecies of t-rex did but not all of them). The only way scientists thinking that would work is if they had feathers as babies and lost them as they grew older. (Also sorry for my rant I just noticed this was 2 months ago)
Could you? ua-cam.com/video/vNggYJhE9nM/v-deo.html
@@ill.lly__ They kinda looked not needed
@@ill.lly__ i didn't mind the feathered t rex version, from what I saw its like a dense cape covering from its head to torso. and i drew t rex in the way that was actuate at the time with feathers and people still love it.
@@ill.lly__ Bruhhhhhh, you know nothing, the T.Rex had feathers and they were not just for display, yes it needed feathers
I know this is old, but i love having my image of dinosaurs challenged, it shows that we're still learning and it shows more and more that these were real animals the closer we get to fully realizing what they looked like, and i love every bit of that
Me: checks back in 5 years to see how drastically the t-rex has adapted. “Oh it’s a bird”
She both THICC,and perfectly accurate, which is my favorite
Shuckgus
I am, so very glad about this reconstruction.
yes bout time we don't get any of those hideous ugly life sized models (you know that t rex statue with the feathers on the back of its neck? yeah that horrendous mess)
I live near Chicago and we have a membership at all the field. Sue has her own wing now. Totally worth checking out.
agreed
I love how this one looks, the other feathered reconstruction display that was popular awhile back looked absolutely horrendous
This one www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/arts/design/t-rex-exhibition-american-museum-of-natural-history.html
Yeah, not only it was only partially lipped, it’s arms were way to thin
@@mr.jenkins5582 looked like something out of a horror movie and not a realistic animal, which is weird considering all the other reconstructions in that articles look really good.
Umbra. XCVII yeah
@@UmbraXCVII It is worth mentioning that that one was an adolescent and Sue is an adult. You're right, it looks terrible but the reduced musculature and different proportions make sense. If you take into account the possibility that they hatched with feathers and lost them over time, both could actually be accurate. But if it is, damn that kid had an ugly face.
I still remember seeing sue as a kid when she was being show cased in Anchorage Alaska. So cool how far our understanding has come
the imaginarium!!!!!
I saw her as a kid too. I even got a stuffed animal that day.
This depiction does a great job at portraying Sue and the Tyrannosaurus rex species as they were: Not shrink-wrapped movie monsters with a soulless gaze and unquenchable bloodlust, but as animals that lived in our world. Sure, they were 40-foot long hypercarnivores that could crush a Jeep in their jaws, but they were also something majestic that commanded respect, not demanded it.
Holy shit, shrink wrapped modern animals are fucking terrifying.
I’ve never heard of the usual sucked in skin as ‘shrink wrap’ but that is a good word for it
Well I'm going to miss the fluffy T-Rexes hypotesis, but I am glad that they could find the skin impression, hopefully in the future we can cover even more of these beings.
as much as I love JP, this version of the T-rex looks great and much more realistic
I think the JP version is pretty realistic myself. This is awesome too.
@@scottythetrex5197 It is realistic if you dont want the animal to be able to actually survive. The only thing those are missing is the muscle and fat tissue needed to survive which this recreation has. But i also love the JP design so i can agree with you.
Jurassic Park’s T-Rex looks like a monster, this T-Rex looks like an animal that could have existed.
One thing that gives me interest is the eyes, they're less like that of a fictional dragon-like creature and more like that of a huge bird, like the shoebill.
OMG she is beautiful. Such beautiful, soulful eyes. I do wish she had _some_ feathers, such as along her spine, but I understand given our current data it is better for her to be scaly instead. Should be noted though that the scales that covered T.Rex were different than the scales found on most reptiles, they were more like the avian scales found on the feet of birds. These structures are themselves modified feathers instead of true scales, so you could say T.Rex was covered in feathers after all!
It cant have feathers. Are there any reptiles that have feathers?
then again feathers are modified scales
@@mehakahmed110 dinosaurs were not reptiles actually
@@mehakahmed110 What the Hell are you doing here with that moronic conclusion, lmao.
@@mehakahmed110
Yes, birds are technically reptiles and they have feathers, the dinosaurs of old also had feathers. Many of them would have looked like furry, bipedal reptiles, a great example is Yutyrannus or Sinosauropteryx.
What's weird is, the overall look is almost back full circle to the majority of depictions when I was a kid in the 80s... No feathers, chunkier, lips, reptilian scales... They were usually depicted more upright at the time, but besides that...
Not quite reptilian scales either. More like a featherless bird. Just look at the naked parts on an ostrich.
@@majungasaurusaaaa Hey man, if you want to look at naked ostriches, that's on you.
@@thejagman22 lmao
@@thejagman22 nice
@@thejagman22 but on a serious note, here is an emu foot (just look at it): upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Emu_foot.jpg
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Me trying to convince my mom I don’t have homework when I actually do:
This is so cool how what people thought dinosaurs were is still being developed even today.
One of my close friends from elementary school is trying to become a paleontologist. I always liked dinosaurs but never nearly as much as him lol