It's fascinating to think that Stegosaurus had already been extinct for 80 million years by the time T-Rex appeared. T-Rex only lived 66 million years ago, so that means we live closer in time to the T-Rex than it did to the Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus was already a fossil when T-Rex walked the earth. Stegosaurus was a true Jurassic icon. It wasn't a dinosaur to be messed with.
Who would win? A pack of Allosauruses, or you? Stegosaurus: "If they managed to avoid the range of my tail, it might cause me a little trouble." But would you lose? Stegosaurus: "Nah, I'd win."
I have a feeling they would be somewhere between elephants and hippos on the aggression scale. Mind you rinos can be pretty cranky sobs when they want to.
Anything with gigantic spikes on it's tail and a brain the size of a walnut is going to be infinitely scarier then any carnivore to me. Herbivore dose not equal chill. I have seen how absolutely brutal non carnivorous animals can be so yeah I believe this video 100%
Ive seen a video where a zebra kicked a wildebeast minding its own business, suddenly and without warning, in the head. It died instantly and every animal nearby scattered like a gunshot. Zebras arent even heavy hitters in Africa and theyll still do a drive by for no reason.
It's not scarier. They DO know when to chill because they only get aggressive when you either provoke them, get too close to them, or get near their babies. A carnivore is more likely to hunt you for food than any herbivore. I know herbivores can eat meat at times and certain ones could hunt a little bit, but they are not as active hunters and evolved to tackle and kill prey as carnivores, or certain large omnivores like bears.
@@william3100 youre right, their evolutionary adaptations are primarily geared toward foraging and avoiding predators rather than actively seeking out prey
Large African herbivores tend to be profoundly aggressive as an adaptation to the mega predators in their environment. Imagine a stegosaurus as aggressive and foul tempered as a hippopotamus or a cape buffalo
I remember when I was in kindergarten or first grade and one of helper teacher's favorite dinosaur was Stegosaurus because she brought it up every time we talked about dinosaurs. the Stego is truly an iconic dino.
I am not fooled by the name “Thagomizer” because that does indeed sound like a weapon of destruction... I imagine getting thagomized is akin to being disintegrated. 😂
RIP also imagine being a carnivore in the jurassic period (cerato or not) chilling and minding your own business and just seeing a stegosaurus dragging the upper half a cerato on its thagomaizers while passing by you like everything is normal
Your channel is definitely one of my top three favorite dinosaur channels. And the main reason why is because, along with your very professional and easy to listen to narration, you include such a diverse and voluminous list of Paleo-biota in the formations alongside the feature creature! I love your videos, please keep it up!
Honestly, I feels like i learnt something new today! Didn't realized that they actually have gular armor! What more, i thought the 'second' brian might have been feasible but woah!
Stegosaurus is my favourite dinosaur. Also, does anyone else think that it's surprisingly slept on in media? Like, it's so iconic and has appeared so many times yet it and its family have never really been the main focus in any documentary.
@knightofarkronia9968 im sure he'll come back and say it's fact but your right it is an opinion. Stegosaurus is my favorite period not changing my mind.
Just came to say you managed to pronounce Lourinhã almost perfectly, with almost being 95% perfectly, the "ã" at the end is a nasal sound. Outside of that it was a good pronounciation of both the formation name and the city that the formation is named after. Great video as well
Always a good day when Extinct Zoo uploads. Especially on my birthday!! Thanks for being so entertaining, educational, and inspiring my world building for my prehistoric-themed fantasy novel series, keep up the awesome work
A 7-tonne male Stegosaurus. He too is a herbivore but very dangerous. The large plates on his back are primarily there for display. It's the meter-long spikes on his tail that makes him so lethal. These he can wield with devastating effect, despite having a very small brain for his body size. (Walking with Dinosaurs episode 2: Time of the Titans, Oct. 11 1999) Comment on Walking with Dinosaurs 25th Anniversary
I always thought it made sense that the back plates made it harder to climb on it's back, and if they got on top, the plates again block them from biting further down the body. Not to mention the plates would probably often be the focus of bites, acting as decoy.
As an article in the learned journal, “The Far Side” mentioned, those spikes on the end of the Stegosaurus tail are called the Thagomizer - after the late Thag Simmons. No, really. Palaeontologists do call it that now.
Finally the Stego get some recognition, I always liked it but what solidified it as my favorite herbivore being when it won a dinosaur battle royale in Gaming Beavers JW Evolution video, defeating the Indoraptor through endurance.
Any predator capable of taking down a stegosaur is going to have sufficient intelligence to avoid the tail. Must mean they travel in groups, otherwise a pair of allosaurs shouldn't have much trouble. That being said, if I was a predator, I would look for prey that is LESS of a hassle than anything packing a thagomizer.
Fossils are pieces of natural history and should only be displayed in museums and research institutions. Auctioning paleontological and archeological objects, whether they are on private property or not, should be a crime.
It's gross how rich people and corporations will hoard these and great pieces of art only because they are valuable, and keep them away from the public.
Absolutely not. The person who found it is the one that should decide whether to donate the fossil to a museum /research, or keep/sell it. Specially if found in their own private land. You can't just take people's possessions. America isn't a communist sh*thole
Probably more important than being "publically appreciated art pieces" is that fossils are an extremely limited resource, and if one is beyond the reach of examination or God forbid destroyed, that's essentially permanent loss of data. Something we might never know about that animal, period. THATS the sad part, in my book
Top 10 most famous is an understatement, there are only three dinosaurs that you can expect an average person to know by name, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus. Sure, people know Sauropods as "long necks," but, with the possible exception of Brontosaurus, most people won't be able to think of any specific genera. Anyway, great video about my favorite dinosaur.
@@lsmith3907 It surely does, but it's more popularized by Jurassic Park and not quite as entrenched in culture imo. Jurassic Park is still extremely important in popular culture ofc.
Since I was 5 years old (I'm 33 now), the Stegosaurus has been my absolute favourite dinosaur! Other kids made fun of me because they said it was boring, but hell no, Stegosaurus was amazing. I still have my Stegosaurus toys from that time.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel. You are like the dinosaur king of RUclips. Literally binge watching all these videos. Huge fan of Gary Larson and even then it didn't twig with me at that dinosaur was named after a cartoon of his (insaw the comments) that's awesome. Keep up the great work, dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs!
Ankylosaurus - Nothing beats a mace on the tail as a weapon for self defense! Triceratops - Hold my three lances on my head. Stegosaurus - Yawn! Wake me up when you have four warhammers on your tail.
When I was a kid in the early sixties I was really into dinosaurs like a lot of kids. My mom worked at a department store and would bring me little collections of plastic dinosaurs in a plastic bag. Most boys would have liked the T-Rex, but I loved Stegosaurus because it was an underdog and was so weird with those back plates and spikes. “Stegosaurus Smash!”
Look at the present: What are the most dangerous land animals? The elephant and the hippopotamus - both large herbivores. Hippopotami are ferociously territorial, they have terrible tempers, their teeth are a foot long, and they're much faster than they look. Elephants are mostly peaceful - although a bull elephant in musth is not, not at all. But if they want you to get out of their way, or if they feel threatened.......
Love this dinosaur. Our 5th grade teacher (early 60's) read us a book at story time, "The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek", by Evelyn Sibley Lampman . . . later the sequel, "The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs". I bought both books, giving them to my Grandsons, who actually live near where the story took place, in Oregon. In 7th grade I got a 1st in the State in the Science Fair at the University of Illinois, with a project on "The Stegosaurus". In the movie, "Journey To The Beginning Of Time", one evening a Stegosaurus is killed in battle with a Ceratosaurus. The next morning the 4 adventurers of the movie investigate a life sized model, climbing all over it taking measurements.This inspired me to recreated the dead Stego' in snow that winter . . . a bit smaller though 😊
The stegosaurus has a small brain? That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Koalas. So dumb that you cannot feed them leaves separate from a branch, you have to hand them a branch with leaves attached (they only recognise leaves if they're currently attached to a branch). But! As a species, they're still around. Obviously, not being able to recognise leaves torn off a branch as food has not been a factor in their survival. It's not just that they have a small brain, but it is figured that they're effectively stoned all the time due to what their diet is and the way it is digested. Crows, ravens, and other corvids. Quite a small brain compared with a person, but a level of intelligence and problem solving that is at the approximate level of a five year old, on top of an excellent ability to see, to smell, to fly.
Future video idea: usually when people talk about the Jurassic they refer to the late Jurassic and the Morrison for formation (understandably because it’s the best known from the Jurassic very interesting) but I would really appreciate if you would talk about a different part of the world (or different time) in the Jurassic
I already loved Stegosaurus and thought the thagomizer was so cool, but you broke it down, numbers-wise, its pretty intimidating! A 3 foot long bone spike moving at 144 km/h?! Yeah NO thank you!!
I'm not sure why everybody gushes over carnivores so much. Theyre pretty bland and uniform in their morphology compared to herbivores, with the exception being size and heat ornamentation. Herbivores vary widely in body type, defensive strategies and size. Totally underrated.
@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon Okay, whatever you say. Interesting, and I'd wager somewhat hypocritical coming from the person finding issue with a pretty damn innocuous comment.
Another awesome video. I'm still wanting to see a video on the following creatures The Helicoprion, Jaguars, Leopards, and Hyenas. Minor question, if we now know that a majority of iconic Dinosaurs had plummage or some form of feathers, wouldn't it make sense that some of the lesser known ones like Steggo would also have it? I guess decause we haven't seen it appear on any of the skeletons yet, that we simply don't know. Keep up the amazing work.
@@lewismaclean8849 same. Bc many consider that feathers might not be limited to just the theropods but could have appeared in a wider range of dinosaur species
Let's not forget sauropods like camarasaurus. That thing is far more powerful than ANY stegosaurus, and it doesn't even have tail spikes! It also had a stronger bite force than any of its contemporary carnivorous theropods.
@@knightofarkronia9968lol no, any modern gun would cripple a dinosaur, might not kill it immediately, but the dinosaurs couldn't do anything about damage in their internal organs, so yeah, they'd die.
Why don’t you get to think and make a suggestion creating another RUclips Videos Shows that’s all about the Extinct Prehistoric Amphicyons (Bear Dogs) on the next Extinct Zoo coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍
great video! i really enjoyed the insights you shared, but i have to say, i’m a bit skeptical about the idea that the scariest animal wasn't a carnivore. I mean, sure, some herbivores could have been intimidating, but they weren't actively hunting. doesn't that change the whole definition of 'scary'? curious to hear what others think!
"The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."
I love how "thagomizer" started off as a joke Gary Larson made for one of his comics but actually became the real scientiffic name.
He also has a flea named after him. His weird, goofy sense of humor is wonderful.
As I recall, Thag did not survive the comic... :)
@@mycrazylife1111#ThagForever!
I just made that comment
RIP Thag Simmons
It's fascinating to think that Stegosaurus had already been extinct for 80 million years by the time T-Rex appeared. T-Rex only lived 66 million years ago, so that means we live closer in time to the T-Rex than it did to the Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus was already a fossil when T-Rex walked the earth. Stegosaurus was a true Jurassic icon. It wasn't a dinosaur to be messed with.
Wow, this is really mind-blowing.
This is my favorite fun fact
agree, its sheer size and unique morphology make it a formidable presence in its environment.
T-rex is more likely to see lady Gaga then a stegosaurus
@@tjl102 Lol!
“Today is a great day to make a theropod look like a giant walking piece of Swiss cheese.”
-Stegosaurus
"NOT ENOUGH HOLES PEOPLE!"
-Another Stegosaurus
Who would win? A pack of Allosauruses, or you?
Stegosaurus: "If they managed to avoid the range of my tail, it might cause me a little trouble."
But would you lose?
Stegosaurus: "Nah, I'd win."
Stegosaurus: "It's Thagamising time!".
Throughout the jurrasic and cretacous I alone am the spiked one-stegosaurus the strongest herbivore of the modern era
Are you the strongest because you're Stegosaurus or are you Stegosaurus because you're the strongest?
if the pack was smart enough, one front, one back likely do it.
Jurassic Kaisen
R.I.P. Thag Simmons, who was the first to be Thagomized by the Thagomizer.
I got this reference!!!
Attack the stegosauruses, and complete your journey to the farside!
Came here just to comment something like that XD
The bitch had it coming
Mess with the bull, get the horns.
A Stegosaurus tail being swung at 90 mph?! I knew a direct hit would be devestating, but not with that much force. WOW.
Imagine that hitting your crotch. The Allosaurus at 6:50 seemed to know.
Imagine getting hit on your crotch by a Ankylosaurus@@solarium-z8230
I feel it also had a display like a crocodile shaking in the water with its plates
@@solarium-z8230 said Allosaurus: "Ooooouuuuch! Duuude... duuuuuude.... what the hell.... I just wanted to eat you.... ooough"
90 mph is a decent major league fastball….
If Stegosaurus was alive today, we'd get dozens of stories of people getting stabbed because they wanted to pet an "innoffensive herbivore" every year
Yes the Thag Simmons memorial park would probably need a cemetery next door to deal with the victims.
Already happens with things like hippos and moose and buffalo.
Large herbivores tend to be more aggressive than large carnivores.
@@timeshark8727 Yeah. That's why I said that.
Darwin says let them die
@@rodrigoandorinha9259 Not what Darwin said
Imagine if the Stegosaurus had the temperament of todays hippos, oh boy.
I have a feeling they would be somewhere between elephants and hippos on the aggression scale. Mind you rinos can be pretty cranky sobs when they want to.
@glenchapman3899 you think they'd be somewhere between not aggressive at all and incredibilly aggressive.... yeah, that's a pretty safe bet lol
@@timeshark8727 Elephants kill nearly as many people as hippos do each year, especially in South East Asia.
Stegocoppter!!🎉
With the 90 mph tail whip, they'd be dangerous with the temperament of a golden retriever.
I love how in almost every image, Ceratosaurus looks like it is on its third tour in Nam while cranked out on meth ^^
Least maniac ceratosaurus
I love this channel, i am obsessed with pre-historic life since i was little boy. I am 36 years old now.
That's cool 👍😎
Now you are a very big boy that is still obsessed with pre-historic dragons and fur elephants.
Come here big boi
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Please rephrase that 😬
Anything with gigantic spikes on it's tail and a brain the size of a walnut is going to be infinitely scarier then any carnivore to me. Herbivore dose not equal chill. I have seen how absolutely brutal non carnivorous animals can be so yeah I believe this video 100%
Ive seen a video where a zebra kicked a wildebeast minding its own business, suddenly and without warning, in the head. It died instantly and every animal nearby scattered like a gunshot. Zebras arent even heavy hitters in Africa and theyll still do a drive by for no reason.
It's not scarier. They DO know when to chill because they only get aggressive when you either provoke them, get too close to them, or get near their babies. A carnivore is more likely to hunt you for food than any herbivore.
I know herbivores can eat meat at times and certain ones could hunt a little bit, but they are not as active hunters and evolved to tackle and kill prey as carnivores, or certain large omnivores like bears.
@@william3100 youre right, their evolutionary adaptations are primarily geared toward foraging and avoiding predators rather than actively seeking out prey
@@AncientWildTV predators fight to eat, prey fights to live.
Large African herbivores tend to be profoundly aggressive as an adaptation to the mega predators in their environment. Imagine a stegosaurus as aggressive and foul tempered as a hippopotamus or a cape buffalo
It is criminal to not mention that the Thagomizer is quite literally named after a Far Side cartoon.
"After the _late_ Thag Simmons."
Poor Thag was killed by that thing, and in a _very_ brutal fashion.
I remember when I was in kindergarten or first grade and one of helper teacher's favorite dinosaur was Stegosaurus because she brought it up every time we talked about dinosaurs. the Stego is truly an iconic dino.
I am not fooled by the name “Thagomizer” because that does indeed sound like a weapon of destruction...
I imagine getting thagomized is akin to being disintegrated. 😂
Sounds synonymous with being atomized, lol.
@@teamfortress2sandvich it really does.
Sounds closer to being throngled with a throngler.
@@lemagicbaguette1917Thronglers are also fearsome weapons
@@luuk341I think of the man-catcher.
MY POOR BOI CERATO IN THE THUMBNAIL 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
Hahaha get thagamized
RIP
also imagine being a carnivore in the jurassic period (cerato or not) chilling and minding your own business and just seeing a stegosaurus dragging the upper half a cerato on its thagomaizers while passing by you like everything is normal
Stego pulled a brutality on my boy
Yall really ignoring the flying birdy and raptors literally eating ma boi up while ma boi is on stego's tail.. Thats too much disrespect.. 😭
Cerato always catching stray even when it’s those damn allos turn🙏🏼😡
R.i.p Thag Simmons 5:44 for his FAFO moment
😆
We will never forget you, Thag!
Your channel is definitely one of my top three favorite dinosaur channels. And the main reason why is because, along with your very professional and easy to listen to narration, you include such a diverse and voluminous list of Paleo-biota in the formations alongside the feature creature! I love your videos, please keep it up!
That allosaurus got THAGOMIZED
poor, poor bastard.
What a way to go!
Allosaurus had never seen such 🐂 💩 before
@@jjasper7512 Painful AND humiliating!
''He is not the sharppest tool on the shed'' 11:55 ☠💀
SomeBODY once told me
Or she 🧏♀️🦖
Honestly, I feels like i learnt something new today! Didn't realized that they actually have gular armor! What more, i thought the 'second' brian might have been feasible but woah!
Thag Simmons RIP. Never forget.
Stegosaurus is my favourite dinosaur.
Also, does anyone else think that it's surprisingly slept on in media? Like, it's so iconic and has appeared so many times yet it and its family have never really been the main focus in any documentary.
No, you're so right; usually it's the sauropods or therapods that got the spotlight
Stegosaurus appears in 6 documentaries whereas most of its screentime is in movies, merchandise, games and TV shows.
Ankylosaurus is better! 😂
@@Tugela60 In your opinion, at least.
@knightofarkronia9968 im sure he'll come back and say it's fact but your right it is an opinion. Stegosaurus is my favorite period not changing my mind.
6:46 BRO THAT HURTS😢
Actually Dinosaurs and Reptiles don’t have ****
Just came to say you managed to pronounce Lourinhã almost perfectly, with almost being 95% perfectly, the "ã" at the end is a nasal sound. Outside of that it was a good pronounciation of both the formation name and the city that the formation is named after.
Great video as well
The stegosaurus in the thumbnail is like a walking kabob
Stegosaurus and T. Rex were my all time favorite dinosaurs growing up. So iconic and just fkin cool man.
Always a good day when Extinct Zoo uploads. Especially on my birthday!! Thanks for being so entertaining, educational, and inspiring my world building for my prehistoric-themed fantasy novel series, keep up the awesome work
Happy late birthday g
A 7-tonne male Stegosaurus. He too is a herbivore but very dangerous. The large plates on his back are primarily there for display. It's the meter-long spikes on his tail that makes him so lethal. These he can wield with devastating effect, despite having a very small brain for his body size. (Walking with Dinosaurs episode 2: Time of the Titans, Oct. 11 1999)
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The thumbnail made the think I was on Dino LiveLeak for a second.
lmao
Just imagining a Bipedal Stego might be the the very first ancestors of a possible Godzilla.
I dig so much the thagomizer on the tail od the New Monsterverse Godzilla form.. ultra HARD
Don’t forget how the Thagomizer was named from “The Far Side” comic strip.
I always thought it made sense that the back plates made it harder to climb on it's back, and if they got on top, the plates again block them from biting further down the body. Not to mention the plates would probably often be the focus of bites, acting as decoy.
I remember even the 70s-80s books about dinosaurs were not certain about the plates vertical or horizontal positions
Always learn something on this channel. Thought I knew the stego pretty well.
A beautiful but deadly addition to Morrison Park.
About time Stegosaurus got the spotlight, he’s one of my favorite Jurassic dinosaurs
I would NOT want to be at the end of those tail spikes 😨😨
A video on my favourite dinosaur? Nice!
As an article in the learned journal, “The Far Side” mentioned, those spikes on the end of the Stegosaurus tail are called the Thagomizer - after the late Thag Simmons.
No, really. Palaeontologists do call it that now.
Can you imagine these things walking in packs?
"Damn it Jerry! Stop swinging your tail while you walk! You almost took Bob's face off!"
"I am the danger"
*Stegosaurus probably*
Me seeing the thumbnail (which hopefully won't change): "I am a Stegosaurus"
Finally the Stego get some recognition, I always liked it but what solidified it as my favorite herbivore being when it won a dinosaur battle royale in Gaming Beavers JW Evolution video, defeating the Indoraptor through endurance.
Any predator capable of taking down a stegosaur is going to have sufficient intelligence to avoid the tail. Must mean they travel in groups, otherwise a pair of allosaurs shouldn't have much trouble. That being said, if I was a predator, I would look for prey that is LESS of a hassle than anything packing a thagomizer.
Yep. If an Allosaurus was to take out a Stegosaurus it would have looked for a weaker specimen
Fossils are pieces of natural history and should only be displayed in museums and research institutions. Auctioning paleontological and archeological objects, whether they are on private property or not, should be a crime.
It's gross how rich people and corporations will hoard these and great pieces of art only because they are valuable, and keep them away from the public.
Absolutely not. The person who found it is the one that should decide whether to donate the fossil to a museum /research, or keep/sell it. Specially if found in their own private land. You can't just take people's possessions. America isn't a communist sh*thole
Probably more important than being "publically appreciated art pieces" is that fossils are an extremely limited resource, and if one is beyond the reach of examination or God forbid destroyed, that's essentially permanent loss of data. Something we might never know about that animal, period. THATS the sad part, in my book
Thankfully, Apex managed to avoid that fate!
ExtinctZoo, I beg of you to make a video on the unenlagiines, specifically Austroraptor! Huge, possibly semi-aquatic, it’s too interesting to pass up.
Although stegosaurus had a brain the size of a Walnut..
It ain't give no mercy to carnivores
Only when a carnivore messes with it, though. You could say the same about almost every large animal.
"My small brain doesn't have the capacity for mercy." goes hard
This was an excellent video, correcting many misconceptions I learned 50 years ago as a child, and adding to my knowledge!
that's a wild thumbnail in RUclips's age of double standard aggressive and unreasonable censorship.
when he said "Saurphaganx" I laughed
The 🐐is back
Great video as usual! I am glad to live near the Morrison formation here in Colorado.
Herbivores are more dangerous than carnivores
You can't convince something that thinks you finna eat its cheeks off
Thank you, Thag Simmons. Your contributions to paleontology will be long remembered.
The spikes and horns we find as fossils are the core parts and in life would have been 3 times longer.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
Top 10 most famous is an understatement, there are only three dinosaurs that you can expect an average person to know by name, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus. Sure, people know Sauropods as "long necks," but, with the possible exception of Brontosaurus, most people won't be able to think of any specific genera. Anyway, great video about my favorite dinosaur.
Velociraptor enters the conversation...
@@lsmith3907 It surely does, but it's more popularized by Jurassic Park and not quite as entrenched in culture imo. Jurassic Park is still extremely important in popular culture ofc.
Since I was 5 years old (I'm 33 now), the Stegosaurus has been my absolute favourite dinosaur! Other kids made fun of me because they said it was boring, but hell no, Stegosaurus was amazing. I still have my Stegosaurus toys from that time.
I don't think anyone would think "Thagomizer" is funny sounding, especially when you look at it.
Look up "Gary Larson Thagomizer". The reason it's funny is because that is the origin of the word.
I'm so glad I discovered your channel. You are like the dinosaur king of RUclips. Literally binge watching all these videos. Huge fan of Gary Larson and even then it didn't twig with me at that dinosaur was named after a cartoon of his (insaw the comments) that's awesome. Keep up the great work, dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs!
Stegosaurus has always been my favourite dinosaur.
Ankylosaurus - Nothing beats a mace on the tail as a weapon for self defense!
Triceratops - Hold my three lances on my head.
Stegosaurus - Yawn! Wake me up when you have four warhammers on your tail.
What's that documentary at 6:25
It's from "The Ballad of Big Al," one of my all-time favorite docs about dinosaurs
When I was a kid in the early sixties I was really into dinosaurs like a lot of kids. My mom worked at a department store and would bring me little collections of plastic dinosaurs in a plastic bag. Most boys would have liked the T-Rex, but I loved Stegosaurus because it was an underdog and was so weird with those back plates and spikes. “Stegosaurus Smash!”
Look at the present:
What are the most dangerous land animals? The elephant and the hippopotamus - both large herbivores.
Hippopotami are ferociously territorial, they have terrible tempers, their teeth are a foot long, and they're much faster than they look.
Elephants are mostly peaceful - although a bull elephant in musth is not, not at all. But if they want you to get out of their way, or if they feel threatened.......
Love this dinosaur. Our 5th grade teacher (early 60's) read us a book at story time, "The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek", by Evelyn Sibley Lampman . . . later the sequel, "The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs". I bought both books, giving them to my Grandsons, who actually live near where the story took place, in Oregon. In 7th grade I got a 1st in the State in the Science Fair at the University of Illinois, with a project on "The Stegosaurus". In the movie, "Journey To The Beginning Of Time", one evening a Stegosaurus is killed in battle with a Ceratosaurus. The next morning the 4 adventurers of the movie investigate a life sized model, climbing all over it taking measurements.This inspired me to recreated the dead Stego' in snow that winter . . . a bit smaller though 😊
Herbivores can be just as scary if not more so than carnivores
African buffalo and hippos are responsible for many more deaths in Africa than lions or leopards.
Hell YES, love hearing about my favorite dino being badass as hell for a herbivore. Love stegos so much.
This makes me love those big friend-shaped dangerous tanks even more, thank you. Absolutely my favorite dino for sure.
5:18 wdym weird name thagomizer sounds rad
It may not be one of the sharpest tools in the shed, but it definitly has some of the sharpest tools in the shed.
The stegosaurus has a small brain? That isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Koalas. So dumb that you cannot feed them leaves separate from a branch, you have to hand them a branch with leaves attached (they only recognise leaves if they're currently attached to a branch). But! As a species, they're still around. Obviously, not being able to recognise leaves torn off a branch as food has not been a factor in their survival. It's not just that they have a small brain, but it is figured that they're effectively stoned all the time due to what their diet is and the way it is digested.
Crows, ravens, and other corvids. Quite a small brain compared with a person, but a level of intelligence and problem solving that is at the approximate level of a five year old, on top of an excellent ability to see, to smell, to fly.
Future video idea: usually when people talk about the Jurassic they refer to the late Jurassic and the Morrison for formation (understandably because it’s the best known from the Jurassic very interesting) but I would really appreciate if you would talk about a different part of the world (or different time) in the Jurassic
The stegosaurus also that popular dinosaur for thagomizer and Plates on the Back
Dropping plates!
I already loved Stegosaurus and thought the thagomizer was so cool, but you broke it down, numbers-wise, its pretty intimidating!
A 3 foot long bone spike moving at 144 km/h?! Yeah NO thank you!!
I'm not sure why everybody gushes over carnivores so much. Theyre pretty bland and uniform in their morphology compared to herbivores, with the exception being size and heat ornamentation. Herbivores vary widely in body type, defensive strategies and size. Totally underrated.
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@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon Since when is being right an issue?
@@bobbydigital8056 You sound mentally ill...
@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon Okay, whatever you say. Interesting, and I'd wager somewhat hypocritical coming from the person finding issue with a pretty damn innocuous comment.
@bobbydigital8056 Are you ok? Did something happen? You are not making any sense...
This feels like the type of content I would find on Nebula. Really good quality content!
LET HIM COOK🔥✨
Thagomizer, named after Thag Simmons from a Far Side comic by Gary Larson. Excellent comics and such a well earned nod.
Dinosaurs are so cool
Another awesome video. I'm still wanting to see a video on the following creatures The Helicoprion, Jaguars, Leopards, and Hyenas. Minor question, if we now know that a majority of iconic Dinosaurs had plummage or some form of feathers, wouldn't it make sense that some of the lesser known ones like Steggo would also have it? I guess decause we haven't seen it appear on any of the skeletons yet, that we simply don't know. Keep up the amazing work.
We guess some of them might have had some feathers but many of them just as likely had no feathers
@@Karthull I mean it would be crazy to imagine a creature like that that had feathers .
@@lewismaclean8849 same. Bc many consider that feathers might not be limited to just the theropods but could have appeared in a wider range of dinosaur species
I have learned more history and geography from you than in class. I love your informative videos so much. Have a good day 😊
"This is the most dangerous non-carnivore animal"
Time Traveller with a gun: 😂
Let's not forget sauropods like camarasaurus. That thing is far more powerful than ANY stegosaurus, and it doesn't even have tail spikes! It also had a stronger bite force than any of its contemporary carnivorous theropods.
What kind of gun? With a lot of large animals today, gunshots only tick them off, and it may have been the same for Stegosaurus.
@@knightofarkronia9968lol no, any modern gun would cripple a dinosaur, might not kill it immediately, but the dinosaurs couldn't do anything about damage in their internal organs, so yeah, they'd die.
Ah, yes, the Thagomizer! Named after the late Thag Simmons, of course 😂😂😂 Great Far Side cartoon 😎👍
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The dinosaur equivalent of adding nails to the end of a baseball bat.
EZ is very cool.
I love their thagomizers! And I love Larson for making that perfect description - adopted by the paleontologists!
Theres always that one depiction of a ceratosaurus stuck on a stegosaurus's thagomizers😭 #mercyforcerato
I love when The Thagomizer said "Its thagomizing time!" and thagomized all over the place
The Mayan record depicts stegosaurus being hunted by people!
That shit is fake.
great video! i really enjoyed the insights you shared, but i have to say, i’m a bit skeptical about the idea that the scariest animal wasn't a carnivore. I mean, sure, some herbivores could have been intimidating, but they weren't actively hunting. doesn't that change the whole definition of 'scary'? curious to hear what others think!
Carnivores fight to eat. Herbivores fight to survive. It’s why the scariest animals on earth are not carnivores, but herbivores.
The unlucky Allosaurus with the deadly groin injury reportedly uttered the world’s first cuss word.
First also W
Dilo is first
I always believed the large plates on the stego's back was for temperature regulation. Such a cool dino
Man but imagine the plates turn red on an predator must looked so cool
With its tiny brain, paleontologists think the Stegosaurus might have been one of the first influencers.
That comparison was uncalled for! You owe Stegosaurus an apology!
"The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut."
Such an iconic animal, its amazing body functioned so well, didn't need to think about it💖thank you!
Just found this channel today, and love it 👍
That thumbnail goes hard