Secrets of the stegosaurus skeleton | Natural History Museum
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2014
- Follow the arrival of the world's most complete stegosaurus skeleton and its first few months behind the scenes at the Museum as it underwent rigorous scientific examination. The unprecedented specimen arrived at the Museum in late 2013, but before it was put on public display our dinosaur researchers wanted to get their hands on it.
Prof Paul Barrett and Dr Charlotte Brassey took incredibly detailed measurements of the skeleton with laser and CT scans as well as 360 degree photography. By building 3D models and analysing all the data they collected, they hope to be able to answer some of the big questions about the anatomy and life of stegosaurus.
Discover more about the world's most complete stegosaurus skeleton: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stegos...
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Very proud to have my voiceover on this video and in the gallery at The Natural History Museum...Go Stego!
use your voice for humanity and not slave control...
Thanks for listening NyteHawke, which slaves am I controlling with this Stegosaurus in the Natural History Museum?
Piers Gibbon it's not the stegosaurus. it's the new generations' mind-programming corps like the 'unnatural' history books, classes, and museums - and i know you know! and then you got me - i was rude i know, apologies. but enough of that slave circle we keep putting generation next in. we all have to make a living sure, but that's what they count on. i know you know...
you controlled me with making me happy....I quite like this Stegosaurus
I read your comment in your voice. :)
As of the Walking with Dinosaurs footage...I can't tell you how much I want to see an HD re-release of the original series.
Stegosaurus is awesome! Sophie the Stegosaurus is one of my favorite dinosaur fossil specimens.
I saw ‘Sophie’ at the British museum of natural history in 2016. I’m currently sculpting a life sized stegosaurus head and neck based on information I have found so far.
Sophie is great to look at. The only thing I would say based on what I have seen others say is the tail spikes are believed to have pointed out sideways more rather then up. I also find it interesting that Sophie doesn’t have the throat ossicles.
holly crap i literally thought they made 3d models of the bone for display and kept the real one locked away in safe storage for future studies, had no idea it was the real thing
Funny enough, I found this video because of the video game The Isle. I wanted to know why the stego had such a significantly square back end, and it appears those hip bones are their own layer of armor for a lot of internal organs. Thank you Jinawee for keepin the love of dinos alive!
I went 2 days ago and I saw this at the entrence and it was amazing
Great video. My son, who is homeschooled, loved it.
What a beautifully preserved skeleton!
I love Stegosaurus! I should see the one at the Natural History Museum when I visit it!
Fantastic videos.
what a great job!
Thank you and bravo
It will never cease to amaze me that these creatures existed millions of years ago, on the same planet we walk on today.
My favorite dinosaur since I was a kid and read 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek". 🤗 If you've got kiddos, definitely recommend. Thanks for the upload. 💙
will you and BBC make a movie about Sophie?
Not counting movies but I wish Stegosaurus appeared in more Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal documentaries as he hasn’t appeared in that many and the only ones that come to mind are the original BBC Walking with Dinosaurs, When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Planet Dinosaur, Jurassic Fight Club and Prehistoric America.
it was a good video
How fast and dynamic was that tail?
I really love Stegosaurus
Does anyone know why the tail spikes are pointed up vs to the side of the tail?
Absolutely incredible animal. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a fully grown specimen since adults were much larger. But still, amazing!
It's thought this particular Stegosaurus is a juvenile so not quite fully-grown.
This still amazes me after the 10th time watching. Any help on what i should bring to my visit there next month??
Hyphnes Bros First of all our Stegosaur, of course! You can find it just inside the Exhibition Road entrance, in the Red Zone.
Our latest exhibition, Corals: Secret Cities of the Sea, will also be running, and you can book tickets in advance online. If you know what day you're visiting, be sure to check the events calendar on our website (under What's On) to see what other events and exhibitions are running. Otherwise, our Visitor App is great for finding your way to the highlights. Enjoy!
Natural History Museum Thanks! This really helped! Got the app and im about to look through it!
Hyphnes Bros I would also suggest that you go very early, about 45 minutes to an hour early -- entrance is free so lines can get VERY long and everyone heads off for the dinosaurs first, and getting in as far ahead in the line helps for you to have a relatively relaxed time to enjoy the beautiful displays. I would also recommend that you have one of those selfie sticks -- my husband brought one and I was scoffing at him at first, but boy, those things were really good for aerial and whole-body shots of the dinos because they're so long you can't step back far enough to bring a whole one into focus. Last thing -- go on to the museum's site and decide which ones of the displays you really want to see. There's a lot to see (no kidding) and knowing which ones you're targeting will help keep you from simply wandering around, getting stuck in crowds, or getting annoyed. This would be especially important if you've got kids or a lot of other people with you! Have fun and good luck!
porcusuxor Thanks for the advice, this is really helpful! Im going on friday :D
Wouldn't it have been possible that stego ran on its back legs? Similar to the recent discovery that some sauropods did so. I think the plates were for preventing allosaurus from grabbing & bitting it among other bonus functions
What if they snapped there long neck back to protect there face when they were in battle there shields/plates on there back would protect there face right?
how large is this Stegosaurus and how large was the largest Stegosaurus? Im not asking for a childrens Dino fact Im asking for a real size ....this is a dynamic pose for sure. Gorgeous.
Anu Kottur Our scientists are currently working on this very question. Previously an animal's leg bone has been used as a predictor of its mass, but since this specimen is so complete we're hoping a 3D model made will be able to provide a more accurate result. The findings are soon to be published in scientific journal, so we can't reveal details just yet, but look here for more detail on how this question is being answered: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/revealing-stegosaurus-secrets.html
thank you so much. This actually shows me that Stegosaurus was quite a dynamic moving dinosaur. I never believed it to be lumbering. It seems to be more fluid than an elephant of similar size.
I notice the plates are frilled on top. Isn' that unusual for bones?
It is unusual, but when worn with her Dior ® cape, she looks absolutely majestic.
Wow so cool. What kind of age do you think this individual was?
Leila Smith Hi Leila, we don't know the exact age but we do know it isn't a fully grown adult. This is what we say in our Q&A with the Museum's dinosaur expert, Paul Barrett:
"We don’t know the dinosaur’s exact age, but we do know that it wasn’t an adult. As animals grow, the gaps between some of the bones close up. Some of those areas are still open in this dinosaur, showing it hadn’t yet reached full adulthood. The skeleton is just over 5.5 metres long, whereas other Stegosaurus specimens reach up to nine metres in length, so it still had a way to grow. But it wasn’t a baby by any means."
However, at the time of writing, Paul estimates that the Stegosaurus was at least 6 years old when it died.
Thanks for letting me know. Straight away I had doubts that it was fully grown, judging from the size. Hopefully you guys might find out how it died, could have been an allosuarus attack for all we know.
there is one named 'sophie' that they think was a young adult and weighed around 3,200 pounds and was supposedly the size of a small rhinoceros.
Personally, I don't believe they can be sure. they had a brontosaurus with a tiny head in a museum for decades before they said "it's head is too small to handle the food consumption needed to feed the large body" and changed the head to a different one, from the stockroom, I suppose.
Stegosaurus Was a magnificent animal
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What species might this Stegosaurus be? Armatus? Stenops?
blackraylancer Our Stegosaur is Stegosaurus stenops. You can find out more about the specimen in a few of the articles in the 'Discover' section of our website.
Its me!!!
Stegosaurus had a row or two rows of dorsal plates? Because in the animation of the animal in the forest it seems to have two rows, and in the final reconstruction of the skeleton it seems to have only one row.
It looks like the final reconstruction does technically have two rows, it's just that they alternate in position.
@@droopsmoop ok, it seems i'ts right, but however please look again at 3:00, when the skeleton turns.
Go stego!
Since Stegosaurus is found only in the Morrison Formation of North America how did you get the most complete skeleton?
The skeleton was discovered in 2003 by professional fossil hunter Bob Simon, who was digging at a site called Red Canyon Ranch in Wyoming. We were able to acquire it thanks to a donation.
never said where it came from?
Love this....wasnt full size was she?
No, she wasn't.
Is this Sarah from Aathal?
They said they would be able to tell how fast it could run. Does anyone know the answer to this?
Caleb King Research into this specimen is currently ongoing, and we hope our Stegosaur will enable our scientists to answer many of the pressing questions about this species. Most recently, Dr Charlotte Brassey and Prof Paul Barrett, along with Dr Susannah Maidment of Imperial College London, were able to use 3D modelling to calculate the weight of our Stegosaur. Find out more on our website under 'Our science'.
Natural History Museum Awesome. Will do!
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maybe its like a solar panel soaking in heat from the sun
Why such a small head?
God practicing.
when did tom sawyer get so smart
Was this specimen's neck long for a Stegosaur?
blackraylancer Not particularly. At least one Stegosaur (Miragaia) is known to have a much longer neck.
Why is there a giant ass plate on the beggining of the tail?
Self defense they think
Is it a skeleton or a fosil ?
Great question. I guess a fossil is just a reeeaaally old skelly, eh? ☺️
So, did it have feathers?
+Johnny Favorite So far evidence of feathers has only been found in theropod dinosaurs. You can see a reconstruction of what it's thought this stegosaur looked like here: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stegosaurus-strike-out.html
Raptors had feathers as everyone knows and they look great, but feathered Stegosaurs? No that sounds silly and it wouldn't look right and thus if it did have feathers, we would have known that long ago and there would be remains of fossilised feathers. Sorry but I don't Stegosaurus had feathers, he was nice and scaly.
Hard to say. There is evidence of feathers (or "protofeathers" for those who insist on calling them that) and related structures in several ornithischians now, which makes it entirely plausible that they had feathers to some degree. However, at least four groups of dinosaurs seem to have secondarily lost feathers for whatever reason (sauropods, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, and abelisaurs), so stegosaurs and other thyreophorans (stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, etc.) may have done so as well. At the moment there really isn't any evidence one way or the other, so whether to show them with or without feathers is basically artistic license until we find a stegosaur specimen that was fossilized under the right conditions for feathers to preserve (something which, sadly, isn't very likely to happen :/).
All these people answering a question they don’t know the answer to 🤣
Meaning name roof lizard
I thought stegos would be at least 50% more to double the size of that. Is this a juvenile specimen?
Yes, this is an immature specimen.
Yes it not fully grown, adults were gigantic.
3:18 is that my great great great great grandma :c
This seems like a species of the dinosaur Stegosaurus and might have soft tissue with possible DNA, if we're lucky.
they talk like those were the actual fossilized bones which are not. the real fossilized bones never get displayed like this, they always make replicas of the real fossils to make this kind of displays since the fossils are so fragile and precious they never take such risk on the real ones they always keep them safe and for studying them more..
Unlike most dinosaurs the stegosaurus is well documented in paintings carved into marble walls and stone In the Philippines there are life sizes marble statues thay are always shown dressed up in fine beautiful garmets and clothes and covered in precious gemstones thay are always accompanied by beautiful girls. The fact that this animal can be see in old art paintings carvings kids toys from the past means that this animal bones when found can be matched a actual animal. All the other dinosaurs have been made up and fabricated and never existed and looked the way thay show them. all dinosaurs skeletons in the museums are all from China and are fake there are no real dinosaur bones on display. And there are only one or two bones if that of any given so called dinosaurs. I have actual real back plates from a stegosaurus and thay don't look at all like there's I have five plates and for one thing thay are thicker and thay still have some skin on them in areas you can see the bones in them one of the plates actually see the bone protruding out the end it kind of looks like a rib bone the other ones you can see the bone but it's not protruding out thay have well a smell to them I have. Collection of amazing fossil I even have a one of a kind never seen before fossil that tells an amazing story and it gives a look into the past and captured in time in melted sand glass its exactly like amber except inserted of being amber these perfectly preserved fossils are in sand glass from what must of been a huge event that took place for sand to melt and trap the things in the sand in the glass is how to get very very hot fast and then solidify immediately after
Made in China
Absolutely no explanation of what the skeleton shows except size of brain. Such potential wasted. Video should have been titled How to Scan and Exhibit . . . .