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For the frog skeleton, easy reason for the legs to be right could be that the artist has had frog legs before, not necessarily french and that's also cajun I think that most of the bone ears are more because they're decorations, mainly to make it possible to differentiate between them there. Also, there's the newer Unicorn and the Dragon ones from the last few years that are popping up...though the unicorn is, basically, Dollar Tree's version of a zombie my little pony unicorn
Same here, I found some skeletons (rat, bat with ears, and spider) in a cheap supermarket and bought them immediately. The spider skeleton is hilarious to me because it shouldn't exist. I might have to hunt down that scorpion skeleton too
I'll admit, I have a big fondness for plastic skeletons like the frog, which just look like "a frog made of bone" instead of "the skeleton of a frog". That's because I like to corpse them. Using layers of tissue, glue, latex, cotton, and a lot of paint, I stretch artificial skin back over the plastic skeleton to make zombie creatures... and those incorrect skeletons just sort of meet me in the middle when it comes to that process! Somehow, though, I suspect I'm not actually their target audience.
It's easy to try yourself, you can get liquid latex and acrylic paint at art stores, or online. That and standard cotton wool. Adam Savage's tested did quite a good demonstration
In undergrad, my Human anatomy and physiology professor bought a human skeleton from one of the stores around Halloween, and we got extra credit if we could point out at least 10 things anatomically wrong with it.
@@eg_manifest510 Well, plastic is just oil, wich is made from fossiles who are bones.. So I guess our bones are in fact made of plastic ? (Still is a good joke, I would have probably made the same mistake if I was in the class)
I was just staring at a Halloween bird skeleton at my physical therapist office and trying to figure out why it was so unnerving. I realized it was because they gave the bird a human rib cage and it didn’t at all have a keel for the wings to attach to.
And why they have singular leg bones and not two leg bones, our bones would get extra pressure if we were to try and jump like a frog with force, not good on human arms.
i imagine that a necromancer that actually took the time to make that octopus wouldn't want to send it out to fight adventurers because it probably would have taken an incredibly long time to make... strikes me as a passion project
In D&D one of the options listed for the Find Familiar spell (which Necromancers can learn) is an octopus, so it wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility for a necromancer to do something like this to make their familiar.
The octopus skeleton is my absolute favorite. The designer was lavish both in humor and oddball creativity. I would have liked hearing the initial request to produce this goofy piece of fiction and the response to it.
The mermaid skeleton is 100% accurate. As a former merman myself I can certify that it is correct. Though I will add we migrate into fresh water to spawn and merkids live there first 2 years in freshwater lakes before joining the saltwater community.
@@gavinbrown216 that is an interesting question. I guess I am trans species. There was something about a contract with a sea witch wearing an octopus somewhere along the line. 🧜♂️+🧙♀️🐙=🧍♂️
These skeletons are like the polar opposite of shrinkwrapped dinosaurs. Both exist so we can recognise what the animal is in a way we're not used to seeing them at the extent of accuracy, but shrinkwrapping removes features, while decorative skeletons adds extraneous ones.
Shrinkwrapped dinosaurs is not really to show animals in a recognizable way, it's just the less costing hypothesis, in a scientifical context. We only know bones from dinosaurs, so we base our reconstructions on these bones ^^
Theory 1: the merskeleton is from a merman. Merfolk might have more sexually dimorphic pelvises than humans do, although live birth is still hard to imagine working for them. Theory 2: merfolk lay eggs. (He covered that theory later in the video) This would be easier to do with a fish tail. Theory 3: About the asymmetrical tail, the vertibrae are attached as though this tail is meant to be used up and down, like a whale. You have to twist it one way or the other to use the fin from side to side. This particular merperson was probably disabled and dependent on a sense of community in other, non-disabled merfolk to care for it. So, can some form of pollution or mercury poisoning cause asymmetrical fish?
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@@meredocu I thought they were spelled the same too, if it makes you feel better. I thought the machine was named after the linguistic method of smoothly transitioning from one topic to another, because it smoothly transitions you from one place to another.
I saw this one meme where it’s a picture of Halloween decorations of the skeleton of a spider, octopus, and scorpion, and the caption was, “Repost to scare a zoologist”
That depends on the dragon. I would assume Asian dragons which lack wings would look a lot like primitive snakes though with much more durable bones. Wyverns, cockatrices, and basilisks would probably look like birds with more bat like wings. I have no idea what a six limbed European dragon would look like given they would need two pairs of shoulders alongside their massive bird-like keel to support flight. Maybe whatever substance that they breath out as fire causes them to be nearly as light as air like a hydrogen balloon.
I love these dumb, nonsensical halloween skeletons with all my heart. I like to think of them as the results of little necromancer craft projects - seeing what they can stitch together with the spare bones they have lying around the crypt. Delightful!
“Look: sometimes you just want a skeleton octopus, or a skeleton spider, and it doesn’t matter where you get the bones from. _bUt OcToPi DoN’t HaVe BoNeS-_ DID I ASK IF OCTOPI HAD BONES”
I really don't think that was an Octopus skeleton, I think it was a failed version of a Cthulhu sculpture. Maybe they made it and just said slap an octopus label and call it a day. Love this idea, teach science in new and unique ways
i figured its more "octupus looking skeleton" rather than "skeleton OF an octopus" its a cool thing to hang up that looks odd but id never look for anatomical accuracy in a halloween decoration unless im using real bones somehow
@@Simon-ho6ly I also love it. I've considering buying it for an enclosure decoration, but I don't want ot tp light up. Maybe they'll sell me a broken one for a discount.
Yeah I'm not sure why people expect a cheap plastic skeleton from a store to be accurate. Most witches and human figures are not accurate as well. It's just fun figures to put in your Halloween displays. Usually they are disfigured on purpose to make them bizarre and more "Halloween" looking. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they were completely aware from the start that these designs were not accurate.
I work at Spirit halloween and we sell the octopus skeletons (I have one I think they’re hysterical) however, the amount of people that I have had to Break the news that octopus don’t have skeletons is horrifying😂 I always make a joke about the skeletons when people come up to purchase them and without fail at least some of the grown adult people will be confused I had someone not believe me when I told them one time
Y'know, a biologically-accurate octopus "skeleton" decoration could be cool. Imagine this soft-bodied transparent sculpture with the hard beak in clear view. Sort of like a ghost, but not quite a ghost since there's a corporeal part to it.
I feel like there are always two people working on those skeletons. One person who actually does the research and makes a more or less accurate skeleton with minor adjustments for manufacturing purposes and a second person who looks at them and says "change that or noone recognises what animal it is" or "change that, it doesn't look skelety enough"
This might be a strange idea or not match the type of content you wanna create but have you considered making a video where you talk about fantasy creatures and the bone structures and anatomical details they would probably have if they existed and functioned in the real world?
I’d like your system for ranking pets, but applied to mythological creatures. Like, I’d love a pet griffin, they’re very intelligent, but there’s always a risk they’ll eat me. I’d never adopt a baby centaur. If they get injured, I have to deal with that corrosive blood.
The mermaid and squirrel are from joanns! I aways joke when people buy them about the inaccuracies so watching this video was satisfying. Especially the bone ear parts! I always laugh at those!
@@Tareltonlives "Octopi" is not correct in any context. The correct Latin plural of the word "octōpūs" is "octōpodēs". Anyone who speaks Latin would be especially understanding of the fact that the word is not Latin in origin, and therefore would not end in "-i".
That discussion at the end of the video cracked me up! I'm going to have to go and watch The Little Mermaid now and I'll probably have many more (disturbing) questions by the time it's done 😂
I was thinking about when we dissected frogs on high school. How we never encountered ribs when slicing them open. This frog skeleton is silly… It’s more like a bone costume for a plush frog to wear…
Turning Halloween decorations into biology/anatomy lessons is a very Clint thing I wouldn't have any other way. Wish I could have seen you at Tinley, one of the only people I wish was there who wasn't! I get it though, it's a jaunt. Regardless, thanks for being so "zoologist-y" Clint :)
I have a friend who collects these skeletons. He loves them. He has a whole lore for them and everything. Makes a really cool youtube series with them. In his mind, these skeletons don't have to be anatomically correct as they're more of a skeletal-ized version of that creature rather than that creature's actual skeleton. Like if you tried to create a model of the creature with bones. I always thought that was a cool way of looking at it.
My mom has a chameleon skeleton similar to the one on the left, but it has a proper tail instead of a posable tail, and I'm pretty sure it has five toes that are clumped into two groups that both point kinda forward, so slightly more accurate, but still not proper chameleon feet. Scared my dad though when he wandered into the living room with insomnia at 4am and thought there was some strange lizard standing on top of the DVD player before realizing it was a Halloween skeleton... Also, Clint - have you considered the possibility that your "mermaid" skeleton may have simply been a merman? The females could potentially differ from the males in the pelvic region even more dramatically than with humans, since they are a different species
I have a guess as to what happened with a bat. Those weird fused fingers look a little like the carpometacarpus (fused hand bones) on a bird wing. Most of these bat skeletons ignore the carpals and metacarpals altogether, which isn't really surprising because they are itty bitty on bats, but birds have fused hand bones and fused fingers, and the fused hand bones look a lot like those weird bat fingers. It looks like they either looked at a bird wing instead of a bat wing and then just sort of tacked on the rest, or they consciously tried to build some sort of weird monstrosity that was a fusion of a bird wing and a bat wing. Edit: So the most likely explanation for this weirdness just occurred to me, and now I think it's actually the same situation as with the frog skeleton. The artist has probably only ever seen real wing bones on a plate and they weren't bat wings. Either that or they already make a bird skeleton and these wings are just modified from it's wings, like the chameleon tail and the rat tail.
My convict cichlids loved the (fake) human skulls that i put in their aquarium for shelters/caves, so to bring the look together, i did buy this exact fish skeleton on sale at walmart and cut it apart and my tank was a lovely convict tank boneyard that was layer dirted and heavily planted and filtered and mossed with local twisty driftwood and rock caverns and they loved it.
the frog would of been much scarier if accurate..which makes it so disappointing! The holiday of spooks scares and candy but they went with a less scary design (though a frog with a human pelvis is kinda scary, not as scary as it's normal pelvis though)
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When I see things like the scorpion, spider, and octopus skeletons I rationalize it as particularly artistic necromancers crafting those skeletons in the image of familiar animals, but using the parts of other creatures to get there.
You know they all started by raising proper scorpions and spiders, and were disappointed when they just kinda looked like living scorpions and spiders, so they had to get to work on those custom skeletons so that their hordes of the undead to keep their unified "memento mori" vibe.
@@corphish129oh 100%. You also know they went through good, GOOD skeletons to get the right shape for the skeleton spider ribs, and the right vertebre to make those octopode skeletentacles
Honestly, these were better than I was expecting. The worst one I've seen this year was a shark skeleton. On the topic of mythical creatures, surprisingly, the "best" one I've seen is of a jackalope. Rather, it was a very accurate rabbit skeleton (no bone ears or anything!) that just happened to have antlers.
Oooo beyond the nerdy lingo I loved in the last holloween deco video, I learned that scorpions glow in a blacklight for some reason and that a crustacean's pincers are one 'finger' split in two, that's pretty cool. Also the ending was the funniest and most unexpected bit ever, most videos of doctors reacting to things aren't so humorous or make the effort for a clever TV show reference, definitely subbing to stay in touch for more content
I like to watch these videos in bulk, and every time I come back after letting a few videos build up, I instantly remember how much I love getting to know all these scientific names for things. And get so happy when I figure out a definition before Clint gives the answer. It's not the best part of these videos, by far, but it is still a feature I absolutely love!
I like how you present your information, how you point out inaccuracies and give correct info. Your one of those types of know it alls who point out what’s wrong with something but do it in a POSITIVE way. When you talk, your kind, courteous and respectful. Your not negative in any way. You present yourself in a way that makes people want to listen to what you have to say. Your the total opposite of my uncle, who is all kinds of negative. He’s mean and has the attitude that he’s always right and everyone else is wrong. He treats everyone like they are stupid and makes you not want to listen to him. Even if he’s right, I never want to listen to what he says cause he treats me like I’m stupid and always tells me I’m wrong. Keep doing your thing. I like your attitude. Your an awsome guy and you know the right way to talk to people. 🙂👍👍
This is the first video of yours that I have ever seen. I considered myself a biology nerd and I work in veterinary medicine and I still learned a lot! Consider me a new subscriber.
Ridiculously excited that The Cat made another appearance. Truly, it speaks to us all. Little unclear about what it's saying, but it sure does speak. This year's champion is probably the demon octopus - shoutout to those bone suckers.
This would have been so much fun if my zoology teacher had done this when I was in school. But no, we just wrote lengthy papers of comparative anatomy of vertebrates. 😜
Thank you so much for including the cat!!! 😂🤣😂🤣 I think my favorite this year is the octopus! When I first saw the skull suture I thought they were trying to make it a mouth sideways!!!
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Might have suggested this before but, it'd be cool to do a video on reptiles that might be discovered/formally recognised in the near future
Please make a video about quails
Why did they make a chameleon skeleton at all?? I mean, of course, when I think horror movies and HALLOWEEN I think tiny harmless insectivores….🙄
Also, that black cat looks like some sort of deranged old world monkey….
For the frog skeleton, easy reason for the legs to be right could be that the artist has had frog legs before, not necessarily french and that's also cajun
I think that most of the bone ears are more because they're decorations, mainly to make it possible to differentiate between them there.
Also, there's the newer Unicorn and the Dragon ones from the last few years that are popping up...though the unicorn is, basically, Dollar Tree's version of a zombie my little pony unicorn
"Skeletons of animals that don't have skeletons" is unironically my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration.
Same here, I found some skeletons (rat, bat with ears, and spider) in a cheap supermarket and bought them immediately. The spider skeleton is hilarious to me because it shouldn't exist. I might have to hunt down that scorpion skeleton too
I'll admit, I have a big fondness for plastic skeletons like the frog, which just look like "a frog made of bone" instead of "the skeleton of a frog". That's because I like to corpse them. Using layers of tissue, glue, latex, cotton, and a lot of paint, I stretch artificial skin back over the plastic skeleton to make zombie creatures... and those incorrect skeletons just sort of meet me in the middle when it comes to that process! Somehow, though, I suspect I'm not actually their target audience.
Woow, that sounds really cool!
That's incredible. I want to see it!
It's easy to try yourself, you can get liquid latex and acrylic paint at art stores, or online. That and standard cotton wool. Adam Savage's tested did quite a good demonstration
You just singlehandedly changed my opinion on these stupid things. I now believe they have ONE good use.
Oh that’s actually pretty dope. Sounds fun!
In undergrad, my Human anatomy and physiology professor bought a human skeleton from one of the stores around Halloween, and we got extra credit if we could point out at least 10 things anatomically wrong with it.
Cool....!!🙆♂️👍😄
can ya list some
That unironically sounds really fun
if I was in that class I'd have said "human bones aren't made of plastic" and seen if that worked
@@eg_manifest510 Well, plastic is just oil, wich is made from fossiles who are bones.. So I guess our bones are in fact made of plastic ?
(Still is a good joke, I would have probably made the same mistake if I was in the class)
I was just staring at a Halloween bird skeleton at my physical therapist office and trying to figure out why it was so unnerving. I realized it was because they gave the bird a human rib cage and it didn’t at all have a keel for the wings to attach to.
Someone still needs to make a Jellyfish skeleton
Boneyfish.
Jellybone
🤣 ya know someone probably will one day lol
🤣🤣
Cowfish
Sounds crunchy
Necromancer carving suckers onto vertebrae to use for the octopus arms: “this is going to look so cool when I’m done”
If you've ever tried jumping like a frog as a human, you understand why a frog pelvis is shaped like a frog pelvis, and not a human pelvis.
And why they have singular leg bones and not two leg bones, our bones would get extra pressure if we were to try and jump like a frog with force, not good on human arms.
I end up going head first into the wolf I tried it it hurts
Rabbit OW
Ever played leapfrog?
That cat is the epitome of "there was an attempt" 😂
Clint trying to rationalize that last skeleton is just what I needed this morning! 😂
The ending was perfect! 🤣
I want to know how many takes it took Clint to get through that. I can't imagine it was easy delivering all those "facts" with a straight face.
Big Futurama fan, and I was thinking of that exact scene when suddenly… there it was!😂
The hero we need, not the hero we deserve.
“Why couldn’t she be the other kind of mermaid? With the fish part on top, and the lady part on bottom?!”
I like the idea that mermaids lay mermaid's purse eggs. Just seems fitting, naming wise.
i imagine that a necromancer that actually took the time to make that octopus wouldn't want to send it out to fight adventurers because it probably would have taken an incredibly long time to make... strikes me as a passion project
a lil desk buddy while scribing out forbidden spells by the local lich
In D&D one of the options listed for the Find Familiar spell (which Necromancers can learn) is an octopus, so it wouldn't be outside of the realm of possibility for a necromancer to do something like this to make their familiar.
I would just go with bone dust gel molded into tentacles, not much different than golems or animating blood.
My guess is that it's a skull of Cthulhu.
"FINE, KILL ME AND MY ARMY OF THE UNDEAD, BUT PLEASE SPARE MR. OCTINGTON!"
The octopus skeleton is my absolute favorite. The designer was lavish both in humor and oddball creativity. I would have liked hearing the initial request to produce this goofy piece of fiction and the response to it.
The mermaid skeleton is 100% accurate. As a former merman myself I can certify that it is correct. Though I will add we migrate into fresh water to spawn and merkids live there first 2 years in freshwater lakes before joining the saltwater community.
Former merman? You trans?
@@gavinbrown216 that is an interesting question. I guess I am trans species. There was something about a contract with a sea witch wearing an octopus somewhere along the line. 🧜♂️+🧙♀️🐙=🧍♂️
@@dan_e Ursula and her damned contracts.
Question: Does this still apply to "half" mermaids like a certain trio of Australian girls?
@@dan_e you poor unfortunate soul.
Just got home from some shopping, the Halloween stuff is already popping up and gotta say, this year is the first time I've seen skeleton PUMPKINS
These skeletons are like the polar opposite of shrinkwrapped dinosaurs. Both exist so we can recognise what the animal is in a way we're not used to seeing them at the extent of accuracy, but shrinkwrapping removes features, while decorative skeletons adds extraneous ones.
Shrinkwrapped dinosaurs is not really to show animals in a recognizable way, it's just the less costing hypothesis, in a scientifical context. We only know bones from dinosaurs, so we base our reconstructions on these bones ^^
Theory 1: the merskeleton is from a merman.
Merfolk might have more sexually dimorphic pelvises than humans do, although live birth is still hard to imagine working for them.
Theory 2: merfolk lay eggs. (He covered that theory later in the video)
This would be easier to do with a fish tail.
Theory 3: About the asymmetrical tail, the vertibrae are attached as though this tail is meant to be used up and down, like a whale.
You have to twist it one way or the other to use the fin from side to side.
This particular merperson was probably disabled and dependent on a sense of community in other, non-disabled merfolk to care for it.
So, can some form of pollution or mercury poisoning cause asymmetrical fish?
How to get a perfect invertebrate exoskeleton for Halloween:
1. wait for your invertebrate to shed
2. make sure they don't eat it
3. Make sure I dont eat it
@@pixelturtle5041 4. Make sure the gremlin sitting behind you right now doesn't eat it
@@astuteanansi4935 5. Make sure the skeleton hiding inside you doesn't eat it.
@@theapexsurvivor9538 6. Make sure the dragons don't eat it.
@@Firewall546 Make sure yo mama don't eat it
I imagine the frog one did a accurate skeleton first and was told "no one would believe it, make it more human".
That mermaids breeding part was a blast, truly. xD
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"and while we are on the subject of back legs, this fish has none" truly a masterful Segue.
*Segue. A Segway is a cringe mode of personal transport. 🤣
@@DrachenGothik666 all this time, I lived in a lie. I thought they were spelled the same way. my life is a LIE! (imma correct thx)
@@meredocu I thought they were spelled the same too, if it makes you feel better. I thought the machine was named after the linguistic method of smoothly transitioning from one topic to another, because it smoothly transitions you from one place to another.
@@danielled8665 this make me feel a bit better. thanks.
I saw this one meme where it’s a picture of Halloween decorations of the skeleton of a spider, octopus, and scorpion, and the caption was, “Repost to scare a zoologist”
The last skeleton was awesome. I wanted to teach a crash course in hypothetical dragon anatomy in college and i imagine it would've been very similar
That depends on the dragon. I would assume Asian dragons which lack wings would look a lot like primitive snakes though with much more durable bones. Wyverns, cockatrices, and basilisks would probably look like birds with more bat like wings. I have no idea what a six limbed European dragon would look like given they would need two pairs of shoulders alongside their massive bird-like keel to support flight. Maybe whatever substance that they breath out as fire causes them to be nearly as light as air like a hydrogen balloon.
I should not have been eating while watching this. I literally spat my rice out when he brought out the cat 😂😂
You managed to use octopodes, octopuses and octopi all in one segment. I want you to know how fully appreciate Ithat.
I wasn't sure if anyone would catch that 😉
Huh and you just thought me there are 3 (2 official English ones but I agree "octopi" is valid and beautiful) plurals for "octopus"
I usually say octopodes
I don't know why I forget that frogs have skeletons but when I'm reminded I'm always so confused and disappointed in myself
I love these dumb, nonsensical halloween skeletons with all my heart. I like to think of them as the results of little necromancer craft projects - seeing what they can stitch together with the spare bones they have lying around the crypt. Delightful!
That’s such a fun take!!
"Oh no... It's Halloween! How could I forget?! Uhh uh what do I have laying around to decorate...?" 😂
“Look: sometimes you just want a skeleton octopus, or a skeleton spider, and it doesn’t matter where you get the bones from. _bUt OcToPi DoN’t HaVe BoNeS-_ DID I ASK IF OCTOPI HAD BONES”
"The frog designer must have been French." OMG, I laughed so hard at that!
I really don't think that was an Octopus skeleton, I think it was a failed version of a Cthulhu sculpture. Maybe they made it and just said slap an octopus label and call it a day. Love this idea, teach science in new and unique ways
i figured its more "octupus looking skeleton" rather than "skeleton OF an octopus" its a cool thing to hang up that looks odd but id never look for anatomical accuracy in a halloween decoration unless im using real bones somehow
@@Simon-ho6ly I also love it. I've considering buying it for an enclosure decoration, but I don't want ot tp light up. Maybe they'll sell me a broken one for a discount.
Yeah I'm not sure why people expect a cheap plastic skeleton from a store to be accurate. Most witches and human figures are not accurate as well. It's just fun figures to put in your Halloween displays. Usually they are disfigured on purpose to make them bizarre and more "Halloween" looking. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if they were completely aware from the start that these designs were not accurate.
It dose look very Lovecraftien.
Wait cthulu wouldn't have bones..being a squid
"Hey bro come look at my octopus Skeleton decoration! *points at air* "
"There nothing there.."
"Exactly"
I work at Spirit halloween and we sell the octopus skeletons (I have one I think they’re hysterical) however, the amount of people that I have had to Break the news that octopus don’t have skeletons is horrifying😂 I always make a joke about the skeletons when people come up to purchase them and without fail at least some of the grown adult people will be confused I had someone not believe me when I told them one time
Aren’t the only hard parts on octopi their beaks?
@@aruce9 yes
@@aruce9 Yes, that's why they are such good escape artists. If their beak can pass through a hole They can pass through the hole.
Poor people....they have jello for brains
I'm having a hard time believing you, to be honest. I don't think that many people are actually that ignorant. :/
Y'know, a biologically-accurate octopus "skeleton" decoration could be cool. Imagine this soft-bodied transparent sculpture with the hard beak in clear view. Sort of like a ghost, but not quite a ghost since there's a corporeal part to it.
Clint determinedly using every possible pluralization of octopus just hoping someone will try to correct him so he can give the lecture 😂
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@Clint's Reptiles what does the symbol on your right ring mean?
I feel like there are always two people working on those skeletons.
One person who actually does the research and makes a more or less accurate skeleton with minor adjustments for manufacturing purposes and a second person who looks at them and says "change that or noone recognises what animal it is" or "change that, it doesn't look skelety enough"
Sure octopus don't have skeletons. But isn't it SPOOKY that this one does?
I love how serious he takes the mermaid skeleton!
This might be a strange idea or not match the type of content you wanna create but have you considered making a video where you talk about fantasy creatures and the bone structures and anatomical details they would probably have if they existed and functioned in the real world?
I like that idea a lot!
@@ClintsReptiles =D
I want to know what a dragon skeleton would look like! And what a skull of a unicorn would have to look like to support a horn. Great idea!
The hypothetical biology of fantastical creatures is my ABSOULTE FAIVERET' TOPIC, two of my favorite subjects in one! nothing beats it!
I’d like your system for ranking pets, but applied to mythological creatures. Like, I’d love a pet griffin, they’re very intelligent, but there’s always a risk they’ll eat me. I’d never adopt a baby centaur. If they get injured, I have to deal with that corrosive blood.
The mermaid and squirrel are from joanns! I aways joke when people buy them about the inaccuracies so watching this video was satisfying. Especially the bone ear parts! I always laugh at those!
My favorite part of this video is the fact that you used all 3 forms of the plural for octopus! lol
I wondered if anyone would catch that. ⭐
I caught that! Love it.
I like to put it this way: Octopuses is correct English. Octopi is correct Latin. Octopodes is correct Greek.
@@Tareltonlives "Octopi" is not correct in any context. The correct Latin plural of the word "octōpūs" is "octōpodēs". Anyone who speaks Latin would be especially understanding of the fact that the word is not Latin in origin, and therefore would not end in "-i".
@@jonahs92 Yes, but people modify the plural in English as well. So all should be Octopodes, but if we can modify English we can modify Latin.
@@jonahs92 Besides, it's not like Roman Latin ever respected borrowed words.
That last skeleton got me 🤣 all your videos are amazing you describing that last one was quite literally the best thing ever!
That discussion at the end of the video cracked me up! I'm going to have to go and watch The Little Mermaid now and I'll probably have many more (disturbing) questions by the time it's done 😂
Has The Deep seen this?
Made me think of the movie “Teeth” 😳😱😂😂
Price Eric is in for a surprise when he finds caviar in his bed...
I was thinking about when we dissected frogs on high school. How we never encountered ribs when slicing them open. This frog skeleton is silly… It’s more like a bone costume for a plush frog to wear…
Turning Halloween decorations into biology/anatomy lessons is a very Clint thing I wouldn't have any other way. Wish I could have seen you at Tinley, one of the only people I wish was there who wasn't! I get it though, it's a jaunt. Regardless, thanks for being so "zoologist-y" Clint :)
I hope to be to the next one!
I have a friend who collects these skeletons. He loves them. He has a whole lore for them and everything. Makes a really cool youtube series with them. In his mind, these skeletons don't have to be anatomically correct as they're more of a skeletal-ized version of that creature rather than that creature's actual skeleton. Like if you tried to create a model of the creature with bones. I always thought that was a cool way of looking at it.
My mom has a chameleon skeleton similar to the one on the left, but it has a proper tail instead of a posable tail, and I'm pretty sure it has five toes that are clumped into two groups that both point kinda forward, so slightly more accurate, but still not proper chameleon feet. Scared my dad though when he wandered into the living room with insomnia at 4am and thought there was some strange lizard standing on top of the DVD player before realizing it was a Halloween skeleton...
Also, Clint - have you considered the possibility that your "mermaid" skeleton may have simply been a merman? The females could potentially differ from the males in the pelvic region even more dramatically than with humans, since they are a different species
That last section is actually very good for fantasy world building! XD
I have a guess as to what happened with a bat. Those weird fused fingers look a little like the carpometacarpus (fused hand bones) on a bird wing. Most of these bat skeletons ignore the carpals and metacarpals altogether, which isn't really surprising because they are itty bitty on bats, but birds have fused hand bones and fused fingers, and the fused hand bones look a lot like those weird bat fingers. It looks like they either looked at a bird wing instead of a bat wing and then just sort of tacked on the rest, or they consciously tried to build some sort of weird monstrosity that was a fusion of a bird wing and a bat wing.
Edit: So the most likely explanation for this weirdness just occurred to me, and now I think it's actually the same situation as with the frog skeleton. The artist has probably only ever seen real wing bones on a plate and they weren't bat wings. Either that or they already make a bird skeleton and these wings are just modified from it's wings, like the chameleon tail and the rat tail.
My convict cichlids loved the (fake) human skulls that i put in their aquarium for shelters/caves, so to bring the look together, i did buy this exact fish skeleton on sale at walmart and cut it apart and my tank was a lovely convict tank boneyard that was layer dirted and heavily planted and filtered and mossed with local twisty driftwood and rock caverns and they loved it.
I appreciate how Clint used all three octopus plurals.
I didn't know if anybody would notice that 😅
Octopussy
@@ClintsReptiles I noticed and I felt like you did it to intentionally spite me.
@@IATEALLTHECHEESEso you’re the cause of my sharp cheddar going missing
What is the 3rd one? I know Octopi and Octopuses, but what else?
It is sooo fun listening to you talk about things I don't really understand, I've learned soo much from you. God bless!
my favourite thing about this video is you covering all your bases with 'octopodes', 'octupuses' and 'octopi'. i really appreciated that😂
the frog would of been much scarier if accurate..which makes it so disappointing! The holiday of spooks scares and candy but they went with a less scary design (though a frog with a human pelvis is kinda scary, not as scary as it's normal pelvis though)
Clint, you should have a side business designing anatomically accurate Halloween skeleton decorations, staring with a mermaid! 😂
So FWIW, I've been marathoning your archives as I'm stuck home recovering from surgery, and THIS video (and the promise of 35 minutes of bonus content) that finally got me to become a patron on Patreon. :D
When I see things like the scorpion, spider, and octopus skeletons I rationalize it as particularly artistic necromancers crafting those skeletons in the image of familiar animals, but using the parts of other creatures to get there.
You know they all started by raising proper scorpions and spiders, and were disappointed when they just kinda looked like living scorpions and spiders, so they had to get to work on those custom skeletons so that their hordes of the undead to keep their unified "memento mori" vibe.
@@corphish129oh 100%. You also know they went through good, GOOD skeletons to get the right shape for the skeleton spider ribs, and the right vertebre to make those octopode skeletentacles
Honestly, these were better than I was expecting.
The worst one I've seen this year was a shark skeleton.
On the topic of mythical creatures, surprisingly, the "best" one I've seen is of a jackalope. Rather, it was a very accurate rabbit skeleton (no bone ears or anything!) that just happened to have antlers.
i still think i found the king of anatomically-incorrect skeleton decorations when i discovered that wal-mart sells *pumpkin* skeletons
The “second dorsal fin” on a piranha is actually an adipose (fleshy) fin with no spines, so you are right about it not being a hard/skeletal feature.
What i learned is that clearly if mermaids birthed same sized children as humans then they aren't being depicted as *thicc* in the hips enough
This is my new favorite tradition for Halloween. Keep it going every year please.
I like that you're finding the positive sides of even the most embarrassing ones. Love the positivity!
You need to keep that cat on display in the Reptile Room all year round.
I'm disappointed you didn't find the pumpkin skeleton, though.
The w h a t skeleton?
Scuse me WHAT?!
With the bat fingers, I think it was originally designed with 4 fingers but they had difficulties manufacturing it so they just fused 2 of them.
13:03 please call him smelly cat! Iv never seen a more suitable cat for that song 🤣 x
I'd absolutely love to see a collaboration between Drawfee (of Bone Game fame) and Clint
Yes! THIS is the content I need in my life! (Target has duck skeletons this year and they are DELIGHTFUL.)
Giant undead scorpion summoned by a Necromancer sounds like a freaking badass B movie script theme LOL
Your enthusiasm and excitement for unique creatures paired with your knowledge of the smallest details is refreshing! 💜
Oooo beyond the nerdy lingo I loved in the last holloween deco video, I learned that scorpions glow in a blacklight for some reason and that a crustacean's pincers are one 'finger' split in two, that's pretty cool. Also the ending was the funniest and most unexpected bit ever, most videos of doctors reacting to things aren't so humorous or make the effort for a clever TV show reference, definitely subbing to stay in touch for more content
An anatomically accurate dead octopus would be just a bit unimpressive, wouldn’t it? 😅
The cat alone was worth the watch. Watching Clint dissolve into laughter was fun to watch. Have a wonderful day!
I LOVE YOUR CALM AND SOOTHING VOICE AS U TALK ABOUT THE SKELETON “MONSTROSITIES”
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Clint's tie collection.
I like to watch these videos in bulk, and every time I come back after letting a few videos build up, I instantly remember how much I love getting to know all these scientific names for things. And get so happy when I figure out a definition before Clint gives the answer.
It's not the best part of these videos, by far, but it is still a feature I absolutely love!
I was not prepared for that last skeleton. Another wonderful Halloween video! (I'm still laughing at the cat's teeth.)
It was like a bad stuffed animal equivalent of one of those bad taxidermy memes, designed by the lady that melted the Jesus painting.
The secondary dorsal fin on a piranha is an adipose fin, so they typically don't have bony rays, so it's pretty accurate to omit if
I was thinking of that exact Futurama bit right before you cut to it!
I like how you present your information, how you point out inaccuracies and give correct info. Your one of those types of know it alls who point out what’s wrong with something but do it in a POSITIVE way. When you talk, your kind, courteous and respectful. Your not negative in any way. You present yourself in a way that makes people want to listen to what you have to say.
Your the total opposite of my uncle, who is all kinds of negative. He’s mean and has the attitude that he’s always right and everyone else is wrong. He treats everyone like they are stupid and makes you not want to listen to him. Even if he’s right, I never want to listen to what he says cause he treats me like I’m stupid and always tells me I’m wrong.
Keep doing your thing. I like your attitude. Your an awsome guy and you know the right way to talk to people. 🙂👍👍
When I was younger, my parents would take the real animal bones and skulls I found and use them as halloween decorations. We still do to this day.
The last skeleton solves the Mermaid Problem, which is very funny to me.
I love how you do this type of video in a so serious way
The cat re-reveal killed me 🤣🤣
Most redeeming feature for the mermaid: No bone breasts.
This is the first video of yours that I have ever seen. I considered myself a biology nerd and I work in veterinary medicine and I still learned a lot! Consider me a new subscriber.
Ridiculously excited that The Cat made another appearance. Truly, it speaks to us all. Little unclear about what it's saying, but it sure does speak. This year's champion is probably the demon octopus - shoutout to those bone suckers.
My head canon of all this skeletons is that a necromancer that does not know about animals and just create what he think it correct.
I was not expecting that last skeleton 😂😂😂
I really hope you'll do this again this year, with whatever new abominations the halloween decoration companies have cooked up.
i worked at spirit halloween when they came out with those skeleton octopi. It absolutely cracked me up when i first saw them
Love the Ursula question, I hadn't thought about that until it was pointed out
I'm glad we're returning to the concept of the first video I've seen on this channel. Brings nostalgia
6:27 how do YOU know what my pelvis looks like 🤨
I never learnt that much about mermaids, thank you so much.
$100 says the artists made accurate skeletons but then their bosses were like "Wtf? That’s not what a skeleton looks like!"and made them change them.
That frog one looks like a chibi style frog figure, especially that face lmao
This would have been so much fun if my zoology teacher had done this when I was in school. But no, we just wrote lengthy papers of comparative anatomy of vertebrates. 😜
I saw a prop that was a dogs skeleton for Halloween and it had ear bones 😂
Thank you so much for including the cat!!! 😂🤣😂🤣
I think my favorite this year is the octopus! When I first saw the skull suture I thought they were trying to make it a mouth sideways!!!
I love my kitty!
@@ClintsReptiles The black AT-AT kitty is the best
I'd love to see Clint's reaction to the Discovery "documentary" about Mermaids.