If you like our stuff, and would like to help us keep making it, please consider chipping in over at patreon.com/YDAW, or taking a look at our products at www.etsy.com/shop/YDAWtheShop, or by buying Steven a coffee at ko-fi.com/ydawtheshow . All proceeds go back into making the videos you see here!
Will be interesting to hear your thoughts on the new Attenborough-narrated 'Walking with Dinosaurs...' TV series (once you see it). Guessing much artistic speculative license taken, but also some interesting interpretations of scientific evidence?
@The general fun fact, if you're talking about the Petter Jackson King Kong, they released an art book styled as a field guild for skull island, where they explain that the V Rex's were horribly imbred due to low population numbers on the island, which is why their teeth are so messed up.
"Do you think Nanotyranus is its own species or a juvenile Tryanosaurus?" "No comment" Now I know where there's controversy in the paleontology community
Thank you for being essentially the mr. Rogers of dinosaurs teaching us about them in a kind and very easy to understand manner! My daughter loves the series and we have to watch or at least listen to at least one episode a day !
To YDAW:- In the latter half of the 20th century some paleontologists in India unearthed a few teeth in the Cretaceous Lameta formation an tentatively assigned it to Titanosaurus as Titanosaurus rahioliensis. Latter in ~2003 Wilson and Upchurch were Clearing the absolute mess that was the genus Titanosaurus and they showed that the teeth show synapomorpies of Rebbachisaurid teeth and were specifically similar to Nigersaurus. They listed it as Neosauropoda indet. In 2020, some other paleontologists found it to be an "Indeterminate basal Diplodocoid", basically a Rebbachisaurid again, making it the last surviving Diplodocoid. What's your thoughts on this?
Assorted observations: 1:40 I think Bryer is the main US distributor for CollectA (formerly Procon), which is the original maker of this Cryo. I think this model is going on 10 years old now, but Collecta evidently hasn't retired it yet. (*EDIT* 19:20 .... Oh. Well, there you go. *LOL*) 5:00 be sure to read through the genera list on those MPCs later! There are some pretty rare animals included. 13:35 I'm getting a rush of nostalgia from that Littlefoot toy; I had a bunch of the characters once upon a time. TLBT holds up well as a film, too! (better than We're Back for sure) 17:20 yeah, I'm certain that's a Dimorphodon as well - probably Papo brand, as they've long been doing dinosaur toys heavily based on the Jurassic Park designs. 19:40 two "frozen crested lizards" made Steven freeze up (ba-dum tsch) 24:10 looks like a Gorgonops - one of them saber-toothed Permian synapsids. 25:30 A knockoff of a Tim Mee Toys Triceratops, maybe? The orange thingy is totally wonky, though. Whole lotta Hong Kong cheap-o-saurs there! 29:33 Dearc - pronounced "Jark" (dunno about the species name). I actually love this name and how it sounds. 30:00 I think Troodon was featured in one of the last major games from a few years ago. It's never featured in the films proper. 33:50 I remember having one of those pterosaur toys, in a different color (maybe Chap Mei brand) - no idea what genus they were going for! 36:00 is that the biggest box you've gotten yet?! A delightful mailbag video as always!
Definitely a Chap Mei pterosaur (or at least a mold based on it), JPToys identifies it as Pterodactylus but that's probably not the case. I always thought of it as Ornithocherius personally
The species name "sgiathanach" seems to be pronounced as "Ski-hen-ok". From what I know of Scottish Gaelic, "th" is generally just "h" and "ch" is a hard c with an h, "loch" is a well-known word pertaining to this rule.
33:58 There ironically is a paper shortage on right now due to several factors including inflation, labor costs, factories closing that resulted in shifting supply chains, which later became blocked up due to recent world events.
Actually while it's 'made' by Breyer, Breyer bought out CollectA brand, which is what the dino is apart of. Though CollectA was also known for it's horses but they did other animals as well, from farm animals to dinos. And this is coming from a model horse collector. 😅
Oof! That Cryo head sculp... I'm happy you got one (or two of the same one), because I'd love to see a video on some Antarctic dinos. But man, they did not even _try_ with that snout!
I seriously love this series. The way you explain everything on the show is superb. Sometimes I'll just pop your videos on to have on the background and I love how you respond to your fan mails!
You should add a part to the outdo sequence where it shows what bones of the iguana don were known to science so that we can see not only the gradual reconstruction but the gradual increase in bone knowledge that plays into it as well
26:10 NOOO! I’d never known what the heck that was supposed to be and that’s one of a few toys that I’ve seen that I was hoping you’d someday get so I could get a positive ID. The other one I’m eternally curious about is your mascot. The random weird therapod with a mohawk.
Trodden was also venomous in the Tell Tale game, though with a radi ally different design, and I think in the books Compsignathis was venomous so it might also be a nod to to that?
I'm about 90% sure that the yellow thing you couldn't identify in those 60s toys was a Permian Moschops. And that thing with the long nose was a weird creature called Macrauchenia. I, too, had a toy of one when I was little and had no idea what it was until I watched Walking with Beasts.
For the Cryolophosaurus figure, I'll like to point out that it's made by the company Collecta (I have the same model) looking forward to the next video. If other people have pointed this out then err, hope your having a great day. EDIT : Welp you figured it out anyway XD
19:45 “I can’t think of a joke” I can: a few more and you’ll have a stable collection😉 Cause they’re from a horse company and resemble horse dinosaurs.
Honestly the mosasaur makes me really excited to see more non dinosaurs potentially in the future as full episodes. Marine reptiles just in general would be awesome, same for pterosaurs, not to mention mammalian fossils or even synapsids.... So much to cover....
From what I remember sauropods walk lke camels and elephantswalk. front gith foot back right foor front left foot back left foot unlike most other animals which trot and gallop like a horsealternating front legs then alternating back legs.
I really liked dinosaurs as a kid. I got a stegosaurus toy that could have turned me onto paleontology, except it had this quirk that it walked forwards or backwards depending on which way around the battery was inserted. It's my earliest memory of my parents being unable to explain something, and is probably part of why I'm an engineer now. Still don't know how or why they made Dinosara that way.
5:31I think its one of those dogs from the Ghostbusters movie ;) I was going to guess some kind of synapsid or something, I dunno. Moschops? Diadectes?
I believe the word might be "Gorgosaurus", that's the closest I could find at I believe I found the image that was used as a reference for that drawing. Striking similarity!
I still have that one lol so many of these are so familiar from decades ago - even the bird/pterosaur thing Steve said he also had as a kid is probably still somewhere around here, if I look hard enough lol
I don't know if this is a good place to comment for questions but I would love Stephen's take on this. Kevin Padian published a paper in Acta Palaeontologia Polonica recently discussing the possibility that T-Rex developed shorter arms as a result of essential feeding frenzy behavior of multiple T-Rex's feeding on the same carcass, the risk of one adult biting off anothers arm either non-intensually or as an aggressive behavior to get the other to back off. If true, would this have greater implications for Carnataurus with its almost non-existent arms and broad bull dog style mouth?
If you like our stuff, and would like to help us keep making it, please consider chipping in over at patreon.com/YDAW, or taking a look at our products at www.etsy.com/shop/YDAWtheShop, or by buying Steven a coffee at ko-fi.com/ydawtheshow . All proceeds go back into making the videos you see here!
I clearly like how you don't recognize that the Paleozoic Animal in question is Moschops.
When Acro?
just ordered a few things from your etsy! i love everything on there, keep up the good work
Oi, heads up the picture at 24:11 was of a Gorgonops.
Will be interesting to hear your thoughts on the new Attenborough-narrated 'Walking with Dinosaurs...' TV series (once you see it). Guessing much artistic speculative license taken, but also some interesting interpretations of scientific evidence?
32:04 " your awkward and goofy personality..."
*slumps down*
"... I laugh every episode despite there not being a joke."
*slumps down even more*
🤣🤣🤣
I would love a pop culture dino episode where you look at the anatomy as it's given, and try to come up with an ecological niche for them.
Barney is a menace
@@Corduroycrustshorts "Barney's high levels of some form of blubber would be used to help keep warm in sub-zero temperatures."
The ankylosaur from Disneys dinosaur
Some humans seem to need one for themselves.
@The general fun fact, if you're talking about the Petter Jackson King Kong, they released an art book styled as a field guild for skull island, where they explain that the V Rex's were horribly imbred due to low population numbers on the island, which is why their teeth are so messed up.
30:44 the tyrannosaurids from left to right tarbosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and albertosaurus. I just forgot to say it in the letter
Just wanted to say, I think your art is really good! I love your colour choices especially, and your subject choices are fun.
Oh, thank you so much!
Yeah your art is great!!
your art is awesome dude! amazing job!!
Considering he was able to successfully tell which dino is which without being told is probably a good sign :) I think your art is amazing!
"Do you think Nanotyranus is its own species or a juvenile Tryanosaurus?"
"No comment"
Now I know where there's controversy in the paleontology community
lmao
Thank you for being essentially the mr. Rogers of dinosaurs teaching us about them in a kind and very easy to understand manner! My daughter loves the series and we have to watch or at least listen to at least one episode a day !
When Prehistoric Planet comes out, consider doing an episode on what it gets wrong/right!
To YDAW:-
In the latter half of the 20th century some paleontologists in India unearthed a few teeth in the Cretaceous Lameta formation an tentatively assigned it to Titanosaurus as Titanosaurus rahioliensis. Latter in ~2003 Wilson and Upchurch were Clearing the absolute mess that was the genus Titanosaurus and they showed that the teeth show synapomorpies of Rebbachisaurid teeth and were specifically similar to Nigersaurus. They listed it as Neosauropoda indet. In 2020, some other paleontologists found it to be an "Indeterminate basal Diplodocoid", basically a Rebbachisaurid again, making it the last surviving Diplodocoid. What's your thoughts on this?
glad the weird dimorphodon made it safely! and also that my spino drawing didn't come off in transit! look forward to your next vid
I really loved your spino drawing!
These videos are so soothing on top of being informative. Thanks for all the work you do :)
Assorted observations:
1:40 I think Bryer is the main US distributor for CollectA (formerly Procon), which is the original maker of this Cryo. I think this model is going on 10 years old now, but Collecta evidently hasn't retired it yet. (*EDIT* 19:20 .... Oh. Well, there you go. *LOL*)
5:00 be sure to read through the genera list on those MPCs later! There are some pretty rare animals included.
13:35 I'm getting a rush of nostalgia from that Littlefoot toy; I had a bunch of the characters once upon a time. TLBT holds up well as a film, too! (better than We're Back for sure)
17:20 yeah, I'm certain that's a Dimorphodon as well - probably Papo brand, as they've long been doing dinosaur toys heavily based on the Jurassic Park designs.
19:40 two "frozen crested lizards" made Steven freeze up (ba-dum tsch)
24:10 looks like a Gorgonops - one of them saber-toothed Permian synapsids.
25:30 A knockoff of a Tim Mee Toys Triceratops, maybe? The orange thingy is totally wonky, though. Whole lotta Hong Kong cheap-o-saurs there!
29:33 Dearc - pronounced "Jark" (dunno about the species name). I actually love this name and how it sounds.
30:00 I think Troodon was featured in one of the last major games from a few years ago. It's never featured in the films proper.
33:50 I remember having one of those pterosaur toys, in a different color (maybe Chap Mei brand) - no idea what genus they were going for!
36:00 is that the biggest box you've gotten yet?!
A delightful mailbag video as always!
Wow!
Definitely a Chap Mei pterosaur (or at least a mold based on it), JPToys identifies it as Pterodactylus but that's probably not the case. I always thought of it as Ornithocherius personally
Troodon was introduced in JP: The Game, and was venomous in that, then in JWE and JWE2 it retained that quality
The species name "sgiathanach" seems to be pronounced as "Ski-hen-ok". From what I know of Scottish Gaelic, "th" is generally just "h" and "ch" is a hard c with an h, "loch" is a well-known word pertaining to this rule.
I believe the “marrasaurus” is supposed to be a tropeognathus. Trops are somewhat iconic pterosaurs so it is not far fetched.
"I can't think of a joke"
Well don't forget what that company makes. You can pull a nice sized carriage now that you have two of them.
33:58 There ironically is a paper shortage on right now due to several factors including inflation, labor costs, factories closing that resulted in shifting supply chains, which later became blocked up due to recent world events.
Actually while it's 'made' by Breyer, Breyer bought out CollectA brand, which is what the dino is apart of. Though CollectA was also known for it's horses but they did other animals as well, from farm animals to dinos. And this is coming from a model horse collector. 😅
Oof! That Cryo head sculp... I'm happy you got one (or two of the same one), because I'd love to see a video on some Antarctic dinos. But man, they did not even _try_ with that snout!
The art is incredible especially for a 13 y/o. It’s very clean and nice
you know your dinosaur is wrong when he says "whatever that is" lol.
I've got the joke for those two: What do you call a dinosaur that watches romantic comedies?
"A Cry-o Laugh-o Saurus!
Hahaha!
May you live long and prosper my friend
Too bad they weren't Saurolophus, because then he'd have a pair-o'-Saurolophus...
So maybe a dinosaur that watches dramas is a "Cry-a-lot-for-sure".
Aww yes, two new horses 😄
Based off of the dinosaurs from Ark (which are definitely not the most reliable source) the long and scrony one at 5:15 might be a moschops.
Thats what I thought too. I wonder if Ark 2 will do any better.
12:52 hey I had that same toy when I was younger! It was a hand me down from my dad! Really neat to see it featured here
leaning into the "dinosaur in a human suit" thing with the intro today huh?
"yeah this toy is pretty inaccurate, we- uh UM I MEAN... THEY didn't look like that."
8:48 that’s a Boley raptor. I love their little raptors they sell in small lots with other dinosaurs
Always glad to watch one of your videos. Thanks!
My day is always brightened by a new YDAW video!
Colorado representation in the first 60 seconds! 16:14 love the spinosaurus drawing here.
I seriously love this series. The way you explain everything on the show is superb. Sometimes I'll just pop your videos on to have on the background and I love how you respond to your fan mails!
The dinosaur in the package that you didn't know was actually A Permian synapsid called Moschops
5:17 i think its a moschops
Me to
Yes! That's what i was thinking too, it does look "moschops-y"!
Agree
It's a gorgonopsid at 24:05, it was a permian therapsid
I always loved his vids for his entertaining critiques and the amazing facts!
5:16 and whatever that is... Looks like a Moschops Capensis to me... 24:09 A Gorgonopsid, probably Inostrancevia Alexandri
I also had the generic pterosaur at 26:07 ! I didn't like playing with it cuz it couldn't face forward while I made it talk like a puppet
I had the same one lol so many of these (like the green mosasaur near the beginning) bring back so many great memories!
3:30 to be fair, there are prehistoric animal toys from 2019 I'd call dated due to how wrong they look.
There are probably dinosaur toys in production right as I type that I'd call dated
I had the same green mosasaur lol
You should add a part to the outdo sequence where it shows what bones of the iguana don were known to science so that we can see not only the gradual reconstruction but the gradual increase in bone knowledge that plays into it as well
26:10 NOOO! I’d never known what the heck that was supposed to be and that’s one of a few toys that I’ve seen that I was hoping you’d someday get so I could get a positive ID.
The other one I’m eternally curious about is your mascot. The random weird therapod with a mohawk.
I had (still have somewhere?) that one, as well! So many of these look familiar, like that green mosasaur near the beginning :)
Your channel is great. Congratulations
Those 1960s toys seemed to be in extremely good condition for such old toys
Watching this was absolutly delightfull and wholesome.
Yaaay! I'm always happy to see you post again. Love your videos and keep up the awesome work!
Re:Troodon in Jurassic Park;
The Jurassic World Evolution games made them venomous to help them stand out from the other small theropods.
I was wondering if they mixed up the name with compys in the book.
Trodden was also venomous in the Tell Tale game, though with a radi ally different design, and I think in the books Compsignathis was venomous so it might also be a nod to to that?
19:39 this is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
^ the dinosaurs and Star Wars crossover that made me chuckle today lol
I'm about 90% sure that the yellow thing you couldn't identify in those 60s toys was a Permian Moschops. And that thing with the long nose was a weird creature called Macrauchenia. I, too, had a toy of one when I was little and had no idea what it was until I watched Walking with Beasts.
The artist who sent in the lino prints should consider selling them somewhere - I'd love to add those to my collection of dinosaur lino prints!
There's no rule that intros have to be coherent.
The Baryonyx looks like a skeksis. :D
I think the quadruped from the first set of toys was supposed to be moschops. I had it when I was a wee tyke.
Wields the switchblade like a pro. Your mild-mannered goofiness is just a front, innit? I got my eyes on you mate. Will watch every video carefully.
5:25 is that some kind of Permian moschops?
For the Cryolophosaurus figure, I'll like to point out that it's made by the company Collecta (I have the same model) looking forward to the next video.
If other people have pointed this out then err, hope your having a great day.
EDIT : Welp you figured it out anyway XD
"It's Mononykus and it's got one claw on its hand"
That brings back memories of Jurassic Park 3's Ptera(no)don.
19:45 “I can’t think of a joke”
I can: a few more and you’ll have a stable collection😉
Cause they’re from a horse company and resemble horse dinosaurs.
Honestly the mosasaur makes me really excited to see more non dinosaurs potentially in the future as full episodes. Marine reptiles just in general would be awesome, same for pterosaurs, not to mention mammalian fossils or even synapsids.... So much to cover....
Yay, new video! Always a pleasure!
From what I remember sauropods walk lke camels and elephantswalk. front gith foot back right foor front left foot back left foot unlike most other animals which trot and gallop like a horsealternating front legs then alternating back legs.
28:53 The skull looks more like it is based on spinosaurus than baryonyx.
I had that same Mosasaur when I was a kid too!
high-five, me too! So many of these bring back great memories - like that weir pterosaur that Steve said he also had as a kid lol
500th like! :D Also, the unknown synapsid in the MPC lot was _Moschops_ .
13:35 those were my favourite cartoons as a little kid
The dino at 26:16 is a archaeopteryx i had a lot of these as a child
Same here lol a lot of these bring back some great memories, like the green mosasaur close to the beginning
CollectA figures are some of my favorite dinosaur figures to collect.
Gorgonops is a synapsid from the late Permian I believe its the one that vaguely resembles a saber tooth cat
I really liked dinosaurs as a kid. I got a stegosaurus toy that could have turned me onto paleontology, except it had this quirk that it walked forwards or backwards depending on which way around the battery was inserted. It's my earliest memory of my parents being unable to explain something, and is probably part of why I'm an engineer now.
Still don't know how or why they made Dinosara that way.
26:04
I had 2 of those, and might still have them.
I greatly appreciate how quick the subscribe advert was at the beginning. Very tasteful, if I could sub harder I would do so.
Cryolophasaurus is my favorite Dinosaur, I hope to see more of it in media soon
5:31I think its one of those dogs from the Ghostbusters movie ;)
I was going to guess some kind of synapsid or something, I dunno. Moschops? Diadectes?
7:07 Bootleg version of the Old Schleich Giganotosaurus
6:06 is maybe a moschops?
I believe the word might be "Gorgosaurus", that's the closest I could find at I believe I found the image that was used as a reference for that drawing. Striking similarity!
A Smilodon is look like a St. Bernard Dog and an English Mastiff.
Another great video 🙂
11:27 Sauropog!
We need a sauropoggers emote on the discord
I remember having that veiny red pterosaurs when I was like 8 or 9
5:32 I think it some kind of non mammal synapid, like a Moschops
I was thinking Moschops too
Steven is lost at sea when outside the mesozoic I suppose
Loved the intro
You should do a Synapisode on Dinocephalians, Dicynodont and the Pelycosaurs of the late Carboniferous and early Permian.
The moment the second letter mentioned a classic 1990 Mosasaurus, I knew it was the one I still have! Careful, those fins break off easily.
I still have that one lol so many of these are so familiar from decades ago - even the bird/pterosaur thing Steve said he also had as a kid is probably still somewhere around here, if I look hard enough lol
YESSSSSS!!!
NEW VIDEOOOOO
You tought Cryolophosaurus didn´t hunt in pack? Well too bad!
I think a paper came out saying Agustinia didn't have spikes - sounds like
it'd be half a video considering lack of specimens
"If I put my mail in a really big box, it would seem really important and the nice dinosaur man will open it first!"
5:26 I think that’s supposed to be Moschops
You really didn`t recognize the Gorgonops^^? Please makea few permian episodes in the future^^. You had Dimetrodon already ...
That baryonyx looks real dope tho-
That mysterious yellow guy its Moschops :D
Well this was pretty lovely
Also I hope y'all have a good day.
5:16 its a moschops
That one you can’t identify appears to be…ah, here it is: Moschops. I knew I’d seen it before
NO OFFENSE, but the "whatever that is" was obviously a dinocephalian (probably Moschops). NO OFFENSE!
I have one of those cryolophosaurus as well 😂
The triceratops from we’re back reminds me of droopy from Hannah Barbara
Gorgonops. Like Gorgon with ops on the end of it.
I don't know if this is a good place to comment for questions but I would love Stephen's take on this. Kevin Padian published a paper in Acta Palaeontologia Polonica recently discussing the possibility that T-Rex developed shorter arms as a result of essential feeding frenzy behavior of multiple T-Rex's feeding on the same carcass, the risk of one adult biting off anothers arm either non-intensually or as an aggressive behavior to get the other to back off. If true, would this have greater implications for Carnataurus with its almost non-existent arms and broad bull dog style mouth?
Could the critter at 5:25 be a Moschops?
5:33 It kinda looks like a Moschops.
Would be interesting to see what you'd make of the PC game The Isle.
Video idea maybe?
Where is reaction to Prehistoric planet trailers?
I had that mosasaur.