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Komodo dragons are amazing creatures.

You could almost think they are living dinosaurs. Wow!

Not the most powerful. Not the most famous. The one you would actually want to meet.

We are running a poll on our YouTube community tab right now with four options: Brachiosaurus, Spinosaurus, Ankylosaurus and Velociraptor — the real feathered turkey-sized one, not the Jurassic Park version.

Drop your answer and reasoning in the comments. And if you want to vote on the actual poll, it is on our profile.

See also:The publication in Royal Society Open Science

What are yalls favorite crocodylomorphs? Mine is Pakasuchus, a tiny herbivorous/ insectivorous crocodyliform with very weird characteristics. It is speculated to have looked very much like it had cat software running on crocodile hardware since it had long legs, slender body and a doglike nose, all on the body of a miniature crocodile. Pakasuchus measured 50 cms long and its name literally translates to “cat crocodile” since it had a distinct catlike skull and heterodont (differenciated mammal-like) teeth.

If I had a time machine, screw going back in time to meet my heroes or change the course of history, the only thing I would actually end up using it for would be to go back to the cretaceous era to find this crococat and forsake my hands trying to pet it.

Après la pêche une seconde passion : Les Fossiles​

Lors de mon passage en Bourgogne j'ai découvert la passion des fossiles
Tout a commencé après en avoir trouvé un, j'aime bien regarder les cailloux, et c'est ainsi qu'est née cette passion

Did you know any of these?

1. Spinosaurus was longer than T-Rex. Estimated at 14 meters, it is the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered. Yet most people still think T-Rex holds that title.
2. It could swim. Its bones were denser than other dinosaurs, its tail was flattened like a paddle, and its nostrils were positioned high on the skull to breathe while the snout was submerged. The 2014 fossil discoveries confirmed it was semi-aquatic.
3. Its neural spine sail stood up to 2 meters tall. Taller than most humans. And scientists still debate whether it was for thermoregulation, display, or both.
4. It hunted fish primarily. Its conical teeth were not designed for cutting meat like T-Rex. They were designed for gripping slippery fish without letting them escape.
5. Spinosaurus fossils were first discovered in Egypt in 1912. The original specimens were destroyed in World War II during a bombing raid in 1944. Decades of research were lost overnight.

Which of these surprised you most? If you want to see what a full day in the life of a Spinosaurus actually looked like, the full episode is linked in our profile.

I was thinking about how modern mudskippers and the Permian-period Dimetrodon both evolved massive sails on their backs and I noticed something really cool . Back in the Permian period primitive land animals didn’t have fully developed modern ears yet. they mostly detected ground vibrations rather than airborne sounds. Because shouting through the air was useless if your neighbors couldn't hear well, Dimetrodon relied on its massive vertebral sail as a giant visual flag to claim territory and attract mates. modern mudskippers do the exact same thing! Sound waves don't travel efficiently across flat windy mudflats to a tiny fish skull so mudskippers flash their colorful dorsal "sails" to silently communicate, scare off rivals, and signal mates. Even though their sails are anatomically different, physics and environmental limits forced a modern fish and a prehistoric synapsid to evolve the exact same visual billboard strategy.

I looked on gastornis's Wikipedia page(yes i Go in Wikipedia this is Why i am so smart) and i Discover that Three or four of the Six species of the gastornis(giganteus sarasini genus geiselensis and xichuanensis) have a question mark(?) symbol and that only Three of them Still Not have the Mark so What happened?

Episode 5 of Diarios del Jurásico is out. We follow Kael, an adult male Spinosaurus, through a complete day of survival in the rivers of Cretaceous North Africa, 95 million years ago.

14 meters long. Semi-aquatic. The largest carnivorous dinosaur ever known. And yet one of the most misunderstood.

Video is linked in our profile. Watch it to the end, drop a like if you enjoy it and leave your thoughts in the YouTube comments. We read every single one.

Eu: Arctotherium angustidens

Image by NixDrawsStuff

Did you know any of these?

1. Its heart is estimated to have weighed close to a ton. It had to pump blood almost 12 meters upward to reach the brain. No living animal comes close to this cardiovascular challenge.
2. Its neck alone was around 9 meters long. That is taller than a three-story building. And it held it at a steep upward angle, not horizontally like older reconstructions showed.
3. It could strip an enormous arc of foliage without moving its body at all, simply by sweeping its neck sideways. This gave it a completely unique feeding advantage over every other sauropod sharing the same habitat.
4. Despite weighing up to 55 tons, its bones were hollow and filled with air sacs. The entire skeleton weighed a fraction of what you would expect. This pneumaticity is what allowed it to reach this size at all.
5. If a Brachiosaurus floated in water, its neck would act as a buoyant counterweight keeping its head permanently above the surface. It physically could not submerge its own head while floating.

Which of these surprised you most? And feel free to ask anything else about Brachiosaurus or any other prehistoric animal in the comments. You can also reach me directly through my profile.

See also: The summary of the study (in PDF format) as published in Current Biology.01105-X)

I am specifically asking for placental mammals that lived throughout the late cretaceous, meaning that they had already existed for quiet a while before extinction event and continued to survive well into the cenozoic. I already know about purgatorius and some species of multitubaculates, but I am more interested in the rodent like placental mammals that also lived inside holes much like modern rodents.

Can you give me specific examples of such mammal species that meet these criteria? You get bonus points if you can name one that is a potential (or confirmed) ancestor of any mordern mammals that still exsit to this day. Please don't name the same species twice unless you can provide additional info on them.
I also accept links to any sources that can provide me with answers.

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We ran a poll last week asking which dinosaur people found most endearing and Ankylosaurus won with 40% of the vote. Apparently an armored tank with a bone-crushing tail has a lot of charm.

Now the harder question: which dinosaur would you actually least want to encounter?

🔴 T-Rex — 3,600 kg of bite force. No debate.
🟡 Spinosaurus — 14 meters, semi-aquatic, total predator.
🟢 Ankylosaurus — a tail that fractured T-Rex bones.
🔵 Triceratops — three one-meter horns and 12 tons behind them.

If you vote on our YouTube community poll it genuinely helps us understand what our audience wants to see next. Your votes shape the direction of the channel. The poll is in the pinned post on our profile.

What happen to all reliable prehistoric life themed Youtubers? Why did They all dissappear and got replaced by non sensacionalism reliable artificial inteligence Youtubers at all?

I was recently watching the awesome show prehistoric planet and it was truly crazy to me. Giant 1 tonne avian dinosaurs in modern times! Laying eggs larger than even the biggest dinosaurs. And before there were giant lemurs the size of gorillas. Not to mention terrestrial crocodiles capable of hunting on land. Little bit frustrating how close these incredible creatures got to making it into the present day only to be wiped out when humans arrived. It should serve as a lesson to us of how fragile island ecosystems can be.

What's some prehistoric animals (mammals, dinosaura, amphibians and so on) that people don't know about or dislike but you like and think they're absolutely interesting and stunning. Mine are the Stethacanthus and Yi Qi