Cara Liss is a monster. Every other scientist, in every other region, has been able to revive ancient Pokemon using only a fragment of said Pokemon for decades. She purposely wanted to experiment on Pokemon, no matter how much that Pokemon suffered because of it. And the player is partially responsible for crimes against Pokemon. And I find it odd that the Pokedex entries for these creations, throw random hypotheses of why they died out and never questioned their source or how these Pokemon came into being in the first place. There seems to be corruption in the Galar scientific community that the government is overlooking.
First, the Spinosaurus was an Godzilla-sized Allosaurus with a sail Then, the Spinosaurus was a horizontal, bipedal Dimetrodon THEN, the Spinosaurus was a quadraped crocodile thing *THEN, it was a bipedal, aquatic, tadpole-tailed, crocodile-platypus thing!*
@@wastelandlegocheem A lot of people get confused about this part. Evolution is entirely random mutation, and the species that just happen to mutate traits that happen to be beneficial in their environment live on and pass on their genes; natural selection. It's more 'survival of the adaptable' than 'survival of the fittest'. Our ancestor species just happened to have mutated many traits that are exceptionally useful for adaptation and survival, and so we have a bit of survivorship bias when looking back. But the bland reality is that we simply won the genetic lottery in terms of random mutations, and from there we began to thrive. And species don't necessarily go extinct when they breed a new species, like how your father and grandfather will still be around when you're born, which is the reason we have so many different animals of the same type: birds, fish, apes (including ourselves), cats, dogs, etc.
@@Syncopiia actually evolution isn't random at all,all evolution has a reason that helps them survive in there habitat like fish evolved gill to help them breathe underwater and plant evolved to need less water in the desert
I remember the excitement I felt upon getting my first two Galarian fossils and my utter confusion when Cara Liss made me select them one at a time. The horror and shame from seeing the Frankenstein monster I'd agreed to revive will haunt me more than any ghost girl ever will.
I like to think that the scientist Cara liss was once a respected Pokémon palaeontologist that lost her title. Compared to other region and possibly future region fossils, they did not know how to properly restore Galar fossils properly. Not enough DNA in the fossils, didn’t want them to be part rock or the entire practice to revive fossils in the first place had not been done. So Cara Liss had the idea to fuse the Pokémon fossils together to bring them back. This lead to the Galar fossils, originally she was proudest others were not. They removed her status and she was no longer a regarded scientist. Failure to see what she did wrong and claims to be the smartest palaeontologist, she still uses this process for trainers that bring them the right fossils
I also personally appreciate the fact that all the shinies for them follow the same color scheme, where they're all grey'd out. To me, it feels like a nod to how they shouldn't be alive.
Yes, the Inspiration is Good BUT THE EXECUTION IS TERRRRRIBLE!! You can't just do that! It's nice to refer something interesting in your games but THIS?! This is opening/spawning so many Plot Holes and Questions and whatnot! Why is this Possible? Why can you create Life like this, what implications does it have for Crimes (even done by the Protagonist?!) and whatnot else! I can't even list all the Problems these beings existing opens up! And yeah, Pokemon Fusions, a dump fan-feature is one of them indeed!! I really don't like these Pokemon existing! It would have been alright if some NPC would just talk about this Subject, but Pokemon actually existing like this?! NO! Redcon that! NOW!
@Kyle Lundgren wow, I never thought people can be so stupid, you never even used one, so don't judge something before looking at it, and Garchomp is not overrated, it's just loved, so shut up
I’ve always been a dinosaur nerd since I was a kid, and as much as I’d love to see the “regular” versions of these fossil Pokémon, I kinda really appreciate the historical reference in these wacky fusions. I mean, Galar is the perfect place; it’s based on the UK where dinosaurs were first identified/studied officially.
I also notice that the chimeras have a lower BST (505) than Tyrantrum’s and Aurorus’s 521. That could be significant, because those two are found in Kalos, which is based on France, and might be geographically close to Galar if the geography is similar to the real world. As such, there might be a lore reason for this: the inherent unnaturalness of the chimeras is reducing their strength, and the “true” versions have a base 521 stat distribution.
How would that mesh with Rampardos and Bastiodon, though? They're both Fossil Pokemon from Sinnoh with dinosaur designs, but both of those have a BST of 495. There's also Aerodactyl, a Fossil Pokemon from Kanto, which has a BST of 515.
I like that idea,similar to people in the past sew stuffed bodies of animals to create "mythical creatures",sell them and make more money.And I believe that's actually the origin of the jackalope:deer antlers glued to a stuffed hare/rabbit(I read it from a book of some sort.)
So, do i get this right?! That Fossil Revival Girl is meant to symbolize all mistakes ever made in this Science, and she made the Pokemon and Pokedex Entrys both up? She just made them up? But she can revive them and they still live? How in the world would they be able to live then? The Revival should have failed, that would make much more sense! Or am i getting all this wrong?
So, do i get this right?! That Fossil Revival Girl is meant to symbolize all mistakes ever made in this Science, and she made the Pokemon and Pokedex Entrys both up? She just made them up? But she can revive them and they still live? How in the world would they be able to live then? The Revival should have failed, that would make much more sense! Or am i getting all this wrong?
Well, its probably not gonna happen. You see, the lower half of the fish has....actually never been discovered. Only the head has ever been discovered.
I really hope we get the correct halves in the dlc. I don’t really see why it shouldn’t happen since it would add how many more combinations of fossil Pokémon. But it is still game freak...
TL;DW The Galor Fossil Pokemon exist to roast early Paleontology, and the Jurassic Park series. In all seriousness though, I'd love to see Pokemon based on uniting the correct fossils, and/or the current fossil mon evolving to better fit together so they at least look a lot less miserable.
Nicole Rafferty it would be cool to see a Pokémon game set in prehistoric times. With all the fossil Pokémon and only new prehistoric Pokémon. with an opportunity to obtain a Pokémon from the future somehow. I think the concept could be something fresh for the series
Not gonna lie i thought their designs sucked ass but after seeing the lore it's kinda charming. The should give complete versions of the actual fossils though.
The lore is super cool, but the designs are not attractive at all (which was the point) and I feel too bad for the abominations, so I don't want to resurrect the fossils this gen.
@@ck7993 Sadly you can not do that in game. Tried that when I first play Sword. Tried to put two Dino Fossils together but Cara Liss wouldn't have it :-/
"I dint think paleontology was filled with so much drama...." Well, its is... like every month theres new drama..... its pretty fun I recommend. Cries in paleo noises.
Paleo nerd here to judge everything you say! Begin Sin Counter: 1. William Buckland technically discovered the first _dinosaur_ fossil. Fossils had been around long before that. Look up Mary Anning. In fact, giant ground sloths - a group of South and, later, North American sloths that thought they were elephants - were immensely popular in British museums before the good ol' dinosaurs came along. 2. Sauropod is the group, not the species. There were all kinds of sauropods - macronians, rebbeciosaurians, titanosaurs, diplodocids - each with many species within them. Brontosaurus was a type of Late Jurassic diplodocid - a sauropod, yes, but not THE sauropod. 3. It was not a Brachiosaurus skull, it was a Camarasaurus skull. Marsh found it near the body of the Apatosaurus and assumed they went together. 4. Small sin. Elasmosaurus is a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur. 5. The Triceratops/Torosaurus thing is pretty hotly contested, but generally agreed to be false. No baby Torosaurus have been found (yet, I've heard rumors that that's not true), but the animals lived in different areas. It seems unlikely to suggest that two animals that lived in different places were the same because you haven't found babies of one of them. 6. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were erected in 1852, before much paleontological work had been done in North America. The - strictly American - bone wars began in 1877. Your dates are wrong. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were not based on Cope and Marsh's work. 7. Again, abelisaurs are a group of dinosaurs - of which Carnotaurus is a member. You're probably thinking of Abelisaurus. 8. That's ma-JUNG-o-saurus, ROO-gops, and jig-a-NO-to-saurus. It's not actually ji-GAN-to-saurus. The English translation is Giant Southern Reptile. 9. Umm...are you thinking of the pachycephalosaurids? Dracorex is a dinosaur (or possibly a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus), but I know of no family of dinosaurs called Draconus. 10. The meteor theory is 100% confirmed. Volcanoes helped, but they weren't the catalyst. Also, just a small nitpick, dinosaurs never went extinct. Birds are still here. 11. SERIOUSLY?! HOW CAN A TWENTY-FOOT FISH WITH AN ARMORED SKULL AND TEETH FORMED FROM BONY PLATES POSSIBLY BORE YOU?!?! IT MAKES JAWS LOOK LIKE A LITTLE KITTEN!! I mean, not a sin, more of an opinion, but still... 12. DracoREX is not a maniraptor. It's an herbivorous pachycephalosaurid. Maniraptors are theropods. Also, you still seem to be somehow mixing up Dracorex the species and Pachycephalosaurid the family. Total sin counter: 12. Please don't hate me for this.
Fun fact, the human sized Velociraptors from Jurassic Park are actually Utahraptors (found in the state of Utah if you haven't guessed), which were, in actuality, roughly human sized. In fact, they even mentioned in the archaeological dig scene that the raptor they had found was IN UTAH. However, they chose to incorrectly call the Velociraptors because it sounded cooler.
No they were definitely velociraptors. They just are closer to the size of utahraptors. Henry Wu said himself that they should have been small and feathered but Hammond wanted them to be bigger, scarier, more teeth. So they were inaccurate velociraptors but are closer to utahraptors in size
It was actually mentioned in the novel and by the author that they were Dienonychus (aka Velociraptor Antirhopus, at the time) and that he chose to call them Velociraptor because it sounded cooler. Speilberg followed the same idea in the movie.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied that they could that they didn't stop to think that they should." - Dr. Ian Malcom With the way these fossil mon turned out (especially Arctovish) this bit is brought to Its fullest meaning.
Please, everyone. Be nice to your little fossil abominations. They deserve the same level of love and attention as the rest of your Pokemon friends. I mean, the poor things didn't ask to be born. It's not their fault they are a sin against everything natural in this world.
And Goh and Ash caught two of them (and they really love them). Aerodactyl, on the other hand, was freaking out when he saw Arctozolt. He was going “What the heck are you?”
Remember the tongue twister : "she sells sea shells down by the sea sea shore" fun fact: she is actually selling dinosaur bones and she is the first person to find dino bones and her name is mary anning
lockstin you are not looking at the big part of these pokemon. why is it that you need half of a skeleton to revive the half, so you need another half to make them alive. but the other fossil pokemon you only need one bone, one shell, or one feather (aka archen) to revive the whole pokemon. and then you have aerodactyl who doesn't have any body parts, but blood. whats wrong the pokemon, or the "Jurassic park" science.
that's a very interesting idea, just makes me think how far this concept can go but you have to agree that the aka "magic" science could just fuse them in a way that makes them look a little more natural than a clean cut frakenstein
Grayvior's Void That’s not how it works. Every single cell in your body holds the DNA blueprint for your entire body. If you have right equipment and the required knowledge, you could theoretically reconstruct an entire creature from a single drop of its blood preserved inside of a mosquito trapped in amber. However, non-amber fossils are just rocks, so every fossil Pokémon except for Aerodactyl couldn’t have been revived since there was nothing left of their actual bodies. So Jurassic Park is theoretically possible, but most fossil Pokemon technically aren’t. But hey, I don’t definitely play Pokémon for the realism of its mechanics; I play it because it’s fun.
Gnoggin is doing Mesozoic paleontology... Oh boy are the comments gonna go nuts. He is not an expert, nor does he claim to be one, and he honestly did a pretty decent job running down the basics. Please do not throw rocks at this good boy for pronunciations, classification mixups, and keep critiques on the hottly contested things civil. Literally new information comes out about this stuff monthly, so I do not blame him for being up to date on all the journals. Just remember we learn more about more about these ancient creatures (pokemon or dinosaurs? You decide!) all the time, and in another hundred years we will continue to look back and think "wow that was a wack theory, at least they were trying their best". That or just "wow, idiots" but I'm hopeful someone future scientist will take pitty.
I love arctozolt, they're so cute, and they even have the sniffles because the zolt part isn't used to the cold. AHHHHHHH. And their shaking generates its electricity
Hmm, alot of Ice-types naturally shiver too despite wielding cold. Cubchoo & Snorunt come to mind. Would imagine that perhaps "Pokemon Logic" it shivering is a good thing?
take the fossils to someone who knows what they are doing, like the OTHER REGION'S fossil researchers who don't need a whole skeleton to revive the whole pokemon.
Actually this regions professor evidently has a better Resurrection machine since they don't have the rock type so that means they don't retain the fossil aspect of them meaning that they're basically perfectly resurrected and the only thing bad about them is how their bodies are put together
@@DivineDEC no actually whats most likely happening is that the "main" type of each half of the fossil are overriding the rock part, meaning if we actually had a full mon of the vish or zolt would be water rock or electric rock respectfully
They probably have the info already, like tons of papers and other scientific resources before actually "going production" with the fossil revival. One theory is that the fossils weren't being revived, they're creating a new pokemon based on their understanding of the fossil sample with modern pokemon models (Jurassic Park style)
Yes, the Inspiration is Good BUT THE EXECUTION IS TERRRRRIBLE!! You can't just do that! It's nice to refer something interesting in your games but THIS?! This is opening/spawning so many Plot Holes and Questions and whatnot! Why is this Possible? Why can you create Life like this, what implications does it have for Crimes (even done by the Protagonist?!) and whatnot else! I can't even list all the Problems these beings existing opens up! And yeah, Pokemon Fusions, a dump fan-feature is one of them indeed!! I really don't like these Pokemon existing! It would have been alright if some NPC would just talk about this Subject, but Pokemon actually existing like this?! NO! Redcon that! NOW!
I just hope the dlc reveals that we can find the other halves of the fossils so we can finally have their normal forms. This way both players will be happy.
If they had given us the other halves think logically about how many new Pokémon that actually would have been. Pure Draco Dracoarcto Dracovish Dracozolt Pure Arcto Arctodraco Arctovish Arctozolt Pure Vish Vishdraco Visharcto Vishzolt Pure Zolt Zoltdraco Zoltarcto Zoltvish I think that would be all of them, needless to say there was no way they would be adding 12 new fossils. (Though I still feel having a pure for each would have made sense, ah well maybe in the future)
It didn’t due to game freak’s laziness and prioritizing the stupid legendaries over the incomplete fossils that need to be fixed and the past gen fossils are just treated like regular pokemon. Freaking overpriced, overhyped garbage ass “expansion” dlc
You know, with the Diamond/Pearl remakes, there could be the Bone Wars equivalent with Cara arguing with Byron, who notices these fossil Pokemon and tries to reassemble them to the right forms and he and Cara would battle with their respective forms to see which one is right. Just food for thought.
I mean god knows I love the fossil pokemon and the concept behind them in this generation, but there's NO denying that every single one of them is an act against god, and asking Cara Liss to make one for you is basically making yourself an accomplice in some VERY SERIOUS ETHICAL CRIMES if nothing else, I hope Pokemon Gun eventually lets us recreate the ACTUAL versions of these fossils later on, maybe even giving us the back halves of fossils to mix-and-match with will give us a bunch more combinations of Moral Sins. (honestly I just want the full version of Zolt. I need my pikaraptor ;A;)
Anybody remember those weird Pokegods that were fusions of different Pokemons? Like: -Venustoise -Stonebro -Articzapmewtres -Ratichu In a million years from now when the next era of Pokemon happens and the first 807 become extinct, the scientists in those times might just end up making them.
Imagine being like an archeologist in like the year 4000, seeing an alligator skull then putting it on a cheetah skeleton and being like “that look cool”
Now here is where you are WRONG! Arcto is not a walrus, it is a PLESIOSSAURUS, it is called PLESIO in spanish and that's why it is called a DINO in English. The body is small but i'm sure it would have a long neck. Even some fan arts show how it could be and it fits perfectly.
He even mentioned the whole ELASMOSAURUS with the head in the wrong place and called the plesiosaurus fossil a walrus. I think he was a little too influenced by fanart of people portraying it as a walrus instead of trying to look at this extra stuff.
@@lighteriumart Personally, I think it has less to do with fanart and more to with Lockstin's bad habit of inconsistent thought process. In this case, he thought to check the names of the Pokemon themselves in different languages, but not the names of the items that made them. And this is far from the first time he's been inconsistent in some way. He really needs to work on that.
I'd like to add to this hypothesis by adding that the other candidates have the wrong type of tail fluke. Walrus's are horizontal, and both Ichtosaurs and Mosasaurs have a strong downward bend near the end of the tail to form the bottom half of a vertical tail fluke. Plesiosaurs are suspected to have a broader variety, which would make them the strongest candidate.
Fun Fact: The T-rex from Jurassic park originally was even MORE inaccurate than in the movie! My comp professor back in college used to work special effects on the film and one of his favorite stories was always working on that damn T-rex. Apparently the original model they filmed with the toes were bright purple and NO ONE on the set wanted to fix it! Even during shooting it was always "Don't worry, we'll fix it in post" (A note for any aspiring film makers: *NEVER* utter this phrase out loud unless you want to be murdered by your post production) He actually had to go in and fix the toes in post. Quite literally re-shooting several shots with the correct dino feet just so he could have a decent looking composite (and I mean a composite in the 1990's definition of the term, not the modern process), and we're talking post-production technology and compositing way back in 1993 so I can only imagine how much of a pain that was to comp just to change the toe color. Bit of fun film trivia for you~ X3
Imo this is a great idea. They look rediculous and messed up, but it adds a charm to them. The history behind the designs is also interesting so I approve Gen 8's fossil pokemon.
@@whatTFisThis That's part of the morally gray area of reviving these pokemon this way. In the next game we'll probably have the bottom half of Zolt and Vish and the top half of Arcto and Draco. We might even be able to create more monstrosities and remake the real original versions too.
Well, the Jurassic Park Velociraptors were more based on the larger Deinonychus, but Michael Crichton used the Velociraptor name because he thought it felt "more dramatic". The book version of Dilophosaurus was more accurate, bigger and no frill (though it still spit poison), it was made smaller in the movie so it wouldn't steal the thunder of the raptors.
Ok for the most part it's a solid video but there are MAJOR errors I have to address, coming from a Paleontological background. Firstly: The Bone Wars happened AFTER the Crystal Palace construction. The CP was based on the earliest reconstructions of dinosaurs, hence the much more lizard-like reconstructions of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. By the time the Bone Wars happens dinosaurs were already starting to be reconstructed more like the upright walking, tail dragging forms that were made popular in Harryhausen films, so the reason the CP reconstructions were bad were because they were from the earliest days of paleontology, NOT the result of the Bone Wars. Secondly some of your justifications for the original forms aren't good. I still think the stegosaur interpretation is correct due to the large size, prominent backward pointing ischium and pubis (the "spike" coming out under the tail, which is smaller in pachycephalosaurs proportionally), and obviously the plates, which actually are more triangular in most stegosaur species. The whole "dracorex" interpretation is confusing since "Zolt" is clearly NOT from any known ceolorosaurian dinosaur name, and "Vish" just references the fact it's a fish and doesn't come from any part of the name "Dunkelosteus". Also no dinosaurs had elephantine feet, that is an outdated reconstruction. Even stegosaurus feet are closer to how they're presented in "Draco-". If anything the names reflect the types more than what they were from. "-vish" clearly comes from fish, which it was, but is also because fish are purely aquatic animals. "Arcto-" Reflects the ice type because of the Arctic. "-zolt" reflects the electric type, as in a jolt of electricity. And "Draco-" comes from the fact it's a dragon type. Quick side note, the Japanese often refer to dinosaurs as dragons, there's even a submarine in the Japan naval fleet called Kenryū , which means "Sword Dragon" and is nicknamed "Stegosaurus". As for the Arcto half... you completely forgot 2 major and famous types of marine reptiles that fit that body shape perfectly: the pliosaurs and plesiosaurs. Not only were pleiosaurs among the earliest described marine reptiles and portrayed alongside icthyosaurs in the earliest paleo art, we also know they had a small fluke on their short tails and would have used their long flippers for propulsion. Now I don't know if it's a pliosaur or plesiosaur as all the major differences are in the front half, but the more rounded shape of the flippers is a bit closer to plesiosaurs, compared to the much thinner and pointed flippers of pliosaurs. The walrus depiction doesn't fit in the slightest, especially since there aren't even that many distinct fossil walruses to be based on. Also the whole "Dino fossil" joke fits better since marine reptiles and pterosaurs are often mislabeled as "swimming and flying dinosaurs". Your description of zolt was pretty on point though, I will give you that. All in all I hope these 4 fossils are purged from future pokemon games. Replace them with the real forms and get these abominations against nature out of my sight. Not only do they look awful but they grossly oversimplify early paleontology which, as you said, was people trying to make sense of things no one has ever seen. I have never hated any pokemon design more than these four. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Fun fact: Dracorex is actually just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurs and/or Stygimoloch.
The biological implications of not only these Pokemon but potentially every Pokemon are also fascinating. Like Dracovish. It's head is connected to it's damn tail. Biologically, that's wack.
I find it weirdly impressive that Cara Liss actually made it capable of surviving in that state. Though I'm also afraid to find out how she managed it.
I like to think that the lungs and important organs of Vish are all located around its head. I mean it does have a rather big head, and the tail end of Draco sure as heck isn't supplying any organs like that.
@@burgermeister8261 well, how about everything from the neck down? It's neck is its tail, and it's throat would need to lead to it's stomach, and intestines and all the other important bits. The Draco ain't supplying that. Especially from the tail, upwards
The police are still tracking down the scientist Cara Liss. She was last seen outside Stow-on-Side. The police have urged people not to allow her access to fossils. Ash doesn't listen and he gets a Dracozolt. Ash is now considered an accomplice of Cara Liss for crimes against pokemon.
Heads up Lockstin! There's a fair amount of mixup in terms of the content in the video. While I understand that Dinosaur pronunciations can be....awkward, there's a bunch of facts in this video that actually aren't true. First of all Dracorex. It's name is actually Dracorex Hogwartsia, not 'Hogwartis', although that could have just been a mistake during the script process. But the bigger problem with it is the family. 'Draconis', as a family, does not exist, as Dracorex is part of the Pachycephalosaurus family. It's also not a Maniraptoran, which is what Dromaeosaurids (Like what Zolt is) is. Dracorex is a Ornithiscian, whereas Maniraptorans are Sauriscians. Now for the tail part. It's 'Dragon' association and name could very easily be from the fact that Stegosaurids (Which it's highly likely to be based off of) are most commonly found in China, which, typically a lot of Dinosaurs dug up in China get the 'Long' suffix, as in Chinese for Dragon. In terms of 'Arcto', Arcto seems to be a Plesiosaurus or Pliosaurus, which had short tails (With flukes, like what Arcto has). To add to this, the fact that Arctozolt walks but Arctovish swims could be a nod to the outdated belief that Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs could haul themselves up onto land, something we know wasn't actually possible. And as a fun little extra bit of info, Arctozolt is walking upright in an unrealistic posture for a Dinosaur, possibly in reference to the outdated depiction of 'tail dragging' or 'Kangaroo posture' that was common until the Dinosaur renaissance of the 60's.
The Jurassic Park velociraptors are actually based on Utah raptors, but the people making the movie either got confused or thought Velociraptor sounded cooler
The 4 fossil Pokémon assembled correctly will be Velocizolt/Electrozolt Dunkleovish/Aquovish Dracostego Arctosaur(It looked like Mosasaur if you ask me)
Originally, I thought these pokemon were absolute monstrosities and don't deserve this suffering. But now, Dracovish is my baby. I named mine Pörthing.
Fun fact! In the Jurassic Park novels its explained that utahraptor and Velociraptor were lumped into the same species/group and so the Velociraptors in Jurassic park are Utahraptors but named as Velociraptors due to how the scientific community named species in that series. Utahraptors are... terrifying
Am I the only one who really liked these new fossil Pokémon? Yeah they're eternally suffering but the more jabs at paleontologists I see the more I get to appreciate their designs. Plus they all just look good to me on their own. Idk maybe I'm a sadist but I plan on using these guys in my various playthroughs of Sw&Sh. Was gonna use an Arctozolt on my first run actually, but I have Shield and I didn't know I could get all 4 fossil types until it was too late.
The fossil revivers name in Pokemon sword and shield makes a lot of sense because fossils back in the early days of paleontology were frankensteined together to create abominations.
10:20 I don't want to be that guy but in the books Hammond was the one who wanted the dinosaurs to be accurate and Dr Wu wanted them to be more interesting
Finally, we can make Mewthree after all these years! Just a little Mew foot bone here, and a Mewtwo tail there.... oh and a mew tail instead of Mewtwo's neck thing......
12:01 Now that I think about it that makes sense because to me it's like they took the front of one dinosaur and the back of another and glued them together. But I will say that while I like this little nod to old paleontology I am kinda surprised that the region based on the place where the first Dinosaurs where discovered doesn't have a Megalosaur and Iguanadon Pokémon.
I would love to see the next generation that includes fossils go into the idea of the Jurassic Park way of making pokemon by having incomplete fossils that you have to combine with dna from already existing pokemon (maybe introduce a single frog-like pokemon whose characteristics build into each fossil in a subtle way or have each fossil have a pokemon that is somewhat similar to it that builds onto it, like combining an aquatic fossil with Sharpedo dna and it ends up being this Mosasaur with a face or coloration of sharpedo).
Please no more incomplete fossils. They need to fix the terrible gen 8 ones and make actual good fossil pokemon designs and no mockeries of fossil pokemon like paradox pokemon
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Gen 8's fossil Pokemon all have this look to them that screams "kill me now". I honesty feel bad for reviving them.
EXPECIALLY ARCTOVISH
Nightigal I named all 4 of them “Kill, Me, Now, Please”
i used dracovish in my shield playthrough and now hes in my top 5 favorite galar mons......
They're in so much pain
Honestly the fans treat these fossil better cause ive seen art of seemless NOT mismatched acro and dracozolt and they are adorable
Cara Liss is a monster.
Every other scientist, in every other region, has been able to revive ancient Pokemon using only a fragment of said Pokemon for decades.
She purposely wanted to experiment on Pokemon, no matter how much that Pokemon suffered because of it.
And the player is partially responsible for crimes against Pokemon.
And I find it odd that the Pokedex entries for these creations, throw random hypotheses of why they died out and never questioned their source or how these Pokemon came into being in the first place.
There seems to be corruption in the Galar scientific community that the government is overlooking.
She got preoccupied with whether or not she could, she never stopped to think if she should.
Maybe they are funded by Chairman Rose who pushes them to deliever
@@optillian4182 Oh. My. Goodness. I umm... really don't know how to respond. Lol
@@rocknrevolt938 It was a Jurassic Park reference.
@@optillian4182 So was mine. I was referencing his speech patterns. It was, granted, bad.
"Is Gamefreak testing out Pokemon Fusion?"
*Necrozma and Kyurem exchange glances*
*Ultra necrozma stares angrily at Sword and Shield*
Angry
Boi
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Over seas
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It says absofusion
Well necrozma is more like a parasitic bond using lunala and solgaleo to gain easy access to light
@@DragonspineInfiniteZero more like some kind of kirby beast. He aborbs and gains the abilities, jjst like my boi Necrozma.
You want to talk about "incorrect dinosaurs?" Who else remembers when the T-Rex stood at a 90 degree angle?
I am still shocked it's related to the Chicken.
I remember people though The Plesiosaurus had a head on there tail! XD
Don't get me started on Spinosaurus
First, the Spinosaurus was an Godzilla-sized Allosaurus with a sail
Then, the Spinosaurus was a horizontal, bipedal Dimetrodon
THEN, the Spinosaurus was a quadraped crocodile thing
*THEN, it was a bipedal, aquatic, tadpole-tailed, crocodile-platypus thing!*
@@chrissparks7439 and yet not a lot of people know about it.
"Evolution isn't mother nature just throwing things until they work"
Well no, but actually kind of yes
"Well no, but actually yeah it's exactly that"
I read this exactly at the same time he said it wtf
Evolution is often a random genetic change that benefites, right?
@@wastelandlegocheem A lot of people get confused about this part. Evolution is entirely random mutation, and the species that just happen to mutate traits that happen to be beneficial in their environment live on and pass on their genes; natural selection. It's more 'survival of the adaptable' than 'survival of the fittest'. Our ancestor species just happened to have mutated many traits that are exceptionally useful for adaptation and survival, and so we have a bit of survivorship bias when looking back. But the bland reality is that we simply won the genetic lottery in terms of random mutations, and from there we began to thrive. And species don't necessarily go extinct when they breed a new species, like how your father and grandfather will still be around when you're born, which is the reason we have so many different animals of the same type: birds, fish, apes (including ourselves), cats, dogs, etc.
@@Syncopiia actually evolution isn't random at all,all evolution has a reason that helps them survive in there habitat like fish evolved gill to help them breathe underwater and plant evolved to need less water in the desert
Arctozolt: It's so cold.
Dracovish: Why am I backwards?
Arctovish: I can't breath.
Dracozolt: Why am I thick?
Fans: We'll fix you right up
"Why am i thick?"
They cry for the sweet release of death.
Dracovish can't breathe either I think.
@@ra1nyran Outside of water so he/she has a bipedal frame but can only survive in either Super humid or underwater envirments
And we did.
Dracovish traded his ability to breathe for the ability to murder everything
So, A existence of suffering?
Sounds legit
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 He suffers a lot, but makes the others suffer too
@@gianlu5077 he makes them suffer more
@@xX_wiLLiam_Xx WAY more.
you must give him SOME pitty points,right?
I remember the excitement I felt upon getting my first two Galarian fossils and my utter confusion when Cara Liss made me select them one at a time. The horror and shame from seeing the Frankenstein monster I'd agreed to revive will haunt me more than any ghost girl ever will.
Unlike Victor Frankenstein _I_ took responsibility and cared for the abomination I brought into this world!
I like to think that the scientist Cara liss was once a respected Pokémon palaeontologist that lost her title. Compared to other region and possibly future region fossils, they did not know how to properly restore Galar fossils properly. Not enough DNA in the fossils, didn’t want them to be part rock or the entire practice to revive fossils in the first place had not been done. So Cara Liss had the idea to fuse the Pokémon fossils together to bring them back. This lead to the Galar fossils, originally she was proudest others were not. They removed her status and she was no longer a regarded scientist. Failure to see what she did wrong and claims to be the smartest palaeontologist, she still uses this process for trainers that bring them the right fossils
"When the pokemon woke up, his head was backwards, and the professor was never heard from again! Anyway, that's how I lost my palaeontology license."
paleontologist:"voila, I've found a new dinosaur!"
Dracovish:"please let me stay extinct..."
Soon buddy... soon
Is cara liss even a scientist? She doesnt have a lab and just mix two different parts to create a new one
@@ericgabrielalvesdecarvalho3496 Frankenstein moment
So... O.C. Marsh... invented a dinosaur that didn't exist... you could say...
O.C. made an OC?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Please leave.
This is the best comment ever
You all get likes.
Yes. Do not steal his dinosaurs.
I also personally appreciate the fact that all the shinies for them follow the same color scheme, where they're all grey'd out. To me, it feels like a nod to how they shouldn't be alive.
"Honestly, I never would've thought paleontology had so much drama..."
Boy you don't know the half of it
Clearly Cara Liss didn't know halves either...
Yes, the Inspiration is Good BUT THE EXECUTION IS TERRRRRIBLE!!
You can't just do that!
It's nice to refer something interesting in your games but THIS?!
This is opening/spawning so many Plot Holes and Questions and whatnot!
Why is this Possible? Why can you create Life like this, what implications does it have for Crimes (even done by the Protagonist?!) and whatnot else!
I can't even list all the Problems these beings existing opens up! And yeah, Pokemon Fusions, a dump fan-feature is one of them indeed!!
I really don't like these Pokemon existing! It would have been alright if some NPC would just talk about this Subject, but Pokemon actually existing like this?! NO! Redcon that! NOW!
@@slevinchannel7589 well, Black/White Kyurem and Dawnwings/Duskmane Necrozma exists
@@slevinchannel7589 chill bro it's just a game
Remember Nanotyrannus vs Baby T.Rex, if it’s it’s a real dino or a baby T.Rex.
Child: Hey gramps, wanna watch Jurassic Park
Bone War Veteran: **ptsd intensifies**
I took ONE look at my dracovish on my blind playthrough and immediately went "This thing's existence is pain."
I feel terrible.
I never saw it I thought it was overrated trash like Garchomp.
@@kylelundgren5133 Okay then? Aren't you special.
same, i couldnt use any of the abominations cause I just felt so bad for creating them
@Kyle Lundgren wow, I never thought people can be so stupid, you never even used one, so don't judge something before looking at it, and Garchomp is not overrated, it's just loved, so shut up
@JohnHenry FitzGerald yeah I can just feel their pain
I’ve always been a dinosaur nerd since I was a kid, and as much as I’d love to see the “regular” versions of these fossil Pokémon, I kinda really appreciate the historical reference in these wacky fusions.
I mean, Galar is the perfect place; it’s based on the UK where dinosaurs were first identified/studied officially.
Every generation should add new fossil pokemon i love them
Since Galar is based off of the UK they should have released the complete designs then have the bone war sthick as a side quest and punish Cara Liss
@@GameFreakSucks bruh yesssssss
I also notice that the chimeras have a lower BST (505) than Tyrantrum’s and Aurorus’s 521. That could be significant, because those two are found in Kalos, which is based on France, and might be geographically close to Galar if the geography is similar to the real world. As such, there might be a lore reason for this: the inherent unnaturalness of the chimeras is reducing their strength, and the “true” versions have a base 521 stat distribution.
How would that mesh with Rampardos and Bastiodon, though? They're both Fossil Pokemon from Sinnoh with dinosaur designs, but both of those have a BST of 495. There's also Aerodactyl, a Fossil Pokemon from Kanto, which has a BST of 515.
@@seemo5789 that is japan, the other half of the world, and aerodactyl IS refered as the king of pokemon dinosaurs of his time
@@lishark843 Yet you can still find all (or at least most) of the fossils for other regions' Fossil Pokemon in other parts of the world.
So if Pokémon die and you save their skeletons, you can mix and match the parts and revive the hybrid abomination in Galar to create super pokemon...
I like that idea,similar to people in the past sew stuffed bodies of animals to create "mythical creatures",sell them and make more money.And I believe that's actually the origin of the jackalope:deer antlers glued to a stuffed hare/rabbit(I read it from a book of some sort.)
So, do i get this right?! That Fossil Revival Girl is meant to symbolize all mistakes ever made in this Science, and she made the Pokemon and Pokedex Entrys both up? She just made them up? But she can revive them and they still live?
How in the world would they be able to live then? The Revival should have failed, that would make much more sense!
Or am i getting all this wrong?
So, do i get this right?! That Fossil Revival Girl is meant to symbolize all mistakes ever made in this Science, and she made the Pokemon and Pokedex Entrys both up? She just made them up? But she can revive them and they still live?
How in the world would they be able to live then? The Revival should have failed, that would make much more sense!
Or am i getting all this wrong?
Miltank plus shuckle
Combine Turtwig and Squirtle to make Turtle
I really hope to see the other halves in crown tundra. there's clearly a big thing for mining.
Or we'll just have all the previous fossils return
I really hope so. I wanna see the full Zolt body!
Also wondering if they'd be pure types or half Rock since they're not fused with another...
@@Cuprite1024 I'm kind of hoping half rock. I always liked fossils for that honestly. Rock is a decent type.
Well, its probably not gonna happen. You see, the lower half of the fish has....actually never been discovered. Only the head has ever been discovered.
Exaactly what i was thinking
I really hope we get the correct halves in the dlc. I don’t really see why it shouldn’t happen since it would add how many more combinations of fossil Pokémon. But it is still game freak...
Uuuuummmmm
@@Dash-lx4ng no correct halves at all
@@Lyth13 maybe gen 9 one can hope right
@@FierceDietyLink100 nope, sorry
@@KalDoesStuff maybe in a dlc....?
I'll wait for the future answer, i already know how it end
TL;DW The Galor Fossil Pokemon exist to roast early Paleontology, and the Jurassic Park series.
In all seriousness though, I'd love to see Pokemon based on uniting the correct fossils, and/or the current fossil mon evolving to better fit together so they at least look a lot less miserable.
Nicole Rafferty it would be cool to see a Pokémon game set in prehistoric times. With all the fossil Pokémon and only new prehistoric Pokémon. with an opportunity to obtain a Pokémon from the future somehow. I think the concept could be something fresh for the series
@@ross8723 I don't see that working out at all, despite how interesting that sounds.
@@ross8723 that would be epic
"ooga booga me choose pikachu"
Now knowing that dlc content with new mons are possible, they could give access to the actual correct combination for this gen.
@@ross8723 it could be cool for a spin-off game
The fact that the fossil reviver is named Cara Liss suddenly makes sense.
That and she is not even in a lab XD.
And she just mixes up a bunch of fossils without a care in the world.
She even wears two different kinds of shoes. The girl is just a complete mess and I question her degree in paleontology.
Also: she’s half awake.
It seems at this point she’s possibly drunk to understand what she’s doing.
From my perspective
Creativity 0
Gamefreak: what other fossil facts can I find?...oh. here we go!
Players: WHAT MONSTROSITIES ARE THESE?
Gamefreak: LORE. THEY ARE LORE DAMNIT.
Not gonna lie i thought their designs sucked ass but after seeing the lore it's kinda charming. The should give complete versions of the actual fossils though.
The lore is super cool, but the designs are not attractive at all (which was the point) and I feel too bad for the abominations, so I don't want to resurrect the fossils this gen.
what if you combine drake+drake? what about drake +dino? or fish + (the electric fossil which I don't remember the name of)?
@@ck7993 Sadly you can not do that in game. Tried that when I first play Sword. Tried to put two Dino Fossils together but Cara Liss wouldn't have it :-/
@@Dawleyllama I know
"I dint think paleontology was filled with so much drama...."
Well, its is... like every month theres new drama..... its pretty fun I recommend.
Cries in paleo noises.
Hey remember that whole “was t-Rex a scavenger” thing!
@@Iijjccbb oh god
Anyone remember Nanotyrannus vs Baby T.Rex?
@@suchomimustenerensis oh man Jurassic fight club I loved that show!
@@suchomimustenerensis it's still going on :P
My theory: Fossilized Dino is the bottom half of what Dragapult was before becoming a Ghost type.
It all comes together!!!
Evolution, baby!
Isn't that line based on an ancient amphibian? Dreepy even has gills.
Yeah, no
Good try but the colors dont match
Paleo nerd here to judge everything you say! Begin Sin Counter:
1. William Buckland technically discovered the first _dinosaur_ fossil. Fossils had been around long before that. Look up Mary Anning. In fact, giant ground sloths - a group of South and, later, North American sloths that thought they were elephants - were immensely popular in British museums before the good ol' dinosaurs came along.
2. Sauropod is the group, not the species. There were all kinds of sauropods - macronians, rebbeciosaurians, titanosaurs, diplodocids - each with many species within them. Brontosaurus was a type of Late Jurassic diplodocid - a sauropod, yes, but not THE sauropod.
3. It was not a Brachiosaurus skull, it was a Camarasaurus skull. Marsh found it near the body of the Apatosaurus and assumed they went together.
4. Small sin. Elasmosaurus is a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur.
5. The Triceratops/Torosaurus thing is pretty hotly contested, but generally agreed to be false. No baby Torosaurus have been found (yet, I've heard rumors that that's not true), but the animals lived in different areas. It seems unlikely to suggest that two animals that lived in different places were the same because you haven't found babies of one of them.
6. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were erected in 1852, before much paleontological work had been done in North America. The - strictly American - bone wars began in 1877. Your dates are wrong. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were not based on Cope and Marsh's work.
7. Again, abelisaurs are a group of dinosaurs - of which Carnotaurus is a member. You're probably thinking of Abelisaurus.
8. That's ma-JUNG-o-saurus, ROO-gops, and jig-a-NO-to-saurus. It's not actually ji-GAN-to-saurus. The English translation is Giant Southern Reptile.
9. Umm...are you thinking of the pachycephalosaurids? Dracorex is a dinosaur (or possibly a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus), but I know of no family of dinosaurs called Draconus.
10. The meteor theory is 100% confirmed. Volcanoes helped, but they weren't the catalyst. Also, just a small nitpick, dinosaurs never went extinct. Birds are still here.
11. SERIOUSLY?! HOW CAN A TWENTY-FOOT FISH WITH AN ARMORED SKULL AND TEETH FORMED FROM BONY PLATES POSSIBLY BORE YOU?!?! IT MAKES JAWS LOOK LIKE A LITTLE KITTEN!! I mean, not a sin, more of an opinion, but still...
12. DracoREX is not a maniraptor. It's an herbivorous pachycephalosaurid. Maniraptors are theropods. Also, you still seem to be somehow mixing up Dracorex the species and Pachycephalosaurid the family.
Total sin counter: 12. Please don't hate me for this.
Thank you. That Sauropod thing annoyed me more than it should have.
Wow
I really don't think dracorex was the inspiration for Draco-.
I can't believe Gnoggin was wrong. Time to point our fingers and laugh at him.
5 year old me when I see random relatives
Fun fact, the human sized Velociraptors from Jurassic Park are actually Utahraptors (found in the state of Utah if you haven't guessed), which were, in actuality, roughly human sized. In fact, they even mentioned in the archaeological dig scene that the raptor they had found was IN UTAH. However, they chose to incorrectly call the Velociraptors because it sounded cooler.
No they were definitely velociraptors. They just are closer to the size of utahraptors. Henry Wu said himself that they should have been small and feathered but Hammond wanted them to be bigger, scarier, more teeth.
So they were inaccurate velociraptors but are closer to utahraptors in size
They are based on Deinonychus, actually. Utahraptor was as tall as a horse.
It was actually mentioned in the novel and by the author that they were Dienonychus (aka Velociraptor Antirhopus, at the time) and that he chose to call them Velociraptor because it sounded cooler. Speilberg followed the same idea in the movie.
To be fair, calling it a velociraptor is cooler than a Utahraptor.
They are Utah sized Velociraptors.
the bird fossil also says that the zolt half once "soared across the sky", referencing how nobody really knew what they were talking about.
The lady's name is "Cara Liss".
As in "careless".
What else could happen but abominations?
"Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger"
*Is offended in Gen 8 fossil 'mon*
*boss music starts playing in gen 9*
*”this is Garnet, back together”*
@@VincentEdelstein dracovish: murder time
Fusion is just a weak tactic to make strong extinct Pokémon weaker.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied that they could that they didn't stop to think that they should."
- Dr. Ian Malcom
With the way these fossil mon turned out (especially Arctovish) this bit is brought to Its fullest meaning.
well dracozolt just has to live with a giant butt for the rest of its life
Please, everyone. Be nice to your little fossil abominations. They deserve the same level of love and attention as the rest of your Pokemon friends.
I mean, the poor things didn't ask to be born. It's not their fault they are a sin against everything natural in this world.
I literally love Arctozolt. It’s so cute!
Dracovish does not need any love and attention. It kills everything
The fossil Pokemon are creative in there own way which make me like them much more
Love Strong Jaw Dragovish
Grim Reaper Thank U Mr. Fish
Arctovish is the embodiment of agony to me
Idk,They all seem to be suffering to me
Arctovish looks almost functional except for the head
They definitely all look like they're suffering.
@@Aego384 It could have been the only passable one... could have...
I actually thought Arctovish was the right Pokémon
And Goh and Ash caught two of them (and they really love them). Aerodactyl, on the other hand, was freaking out when he saw Arctozolt. He was going “What the heck are you?”
13:00
well technically it could run at 35-40 miles per hour... it'd just break every bone in it's legs within about 10 minutes of doing it
Wort it every time
Remember the tongue twister : "she sells sea shells down by the sea sea shore" fun fact: she is actually selling dinosaur bones and she is the first person to find dino bones and her name is mary anning
Yup
It's Cara Liss, not Mary.
@@cometcal7387 the actual lady who found dinosaur bones or the pokemon character
@@theworld9533 Is this a question?
@@cometcal7387 its a *THREAT*
lockstin you are not looking at the big part of these pokemon. why is it that you need half of a skeleton to revive the half, so you need another half to make them alive. but the other fossil pokemon you only need one bone, one shell, or one feather (aka archen) to revive the whole pokemon. and then you have aerodactyl who doesn't have any body parts, but blood. whats wrong the pokemon, or the "Jurassic park" science.
I mean. The one that revives the fossils is called Cara Liss. She probably needs all of them to make anything
Cara Liss is a hack scientist. Why do you think she's not in a laboratory and is dressed like a bum (mis-matching shoes)?
Maybe you don't actually need both and Cara Liss just wants to make these things because she's a mad scientist.
that's a very interesting idea, just makes me think how far this concept can go but you have to agree that the aka "magic" science could just fuse them in a way that makes them look a little more natural than a clean cut frakenstein
Grayvior's Void That’s not how it works. Every single cell in your body holds the DNA blueprint for your entire body. If you have right equipment and the required knowledge, you could theoretically reconstruct an entire creature from a single drop of its blood preserved inside of a mosquito trapped in amber. However, non-amber fossils are just rocks, so every fossil Pokémon except for Aerodactyl couldn’t have been revived since there was nothing left of their actual bodies. So Jurassic Park is theoretically possible, but most fossil Pokemon technically aren’t. But hey, I don’t definitely play Pokémon for the realism of its mechanics; I play it because it’s fun.
Gnoggin is doing Mesozoic paleontology...
Oh boy are the comments gonna go nuts. He is not an expert, nor does he claim to be one, and he honestly did a pretty decent job running down the basics. Please do not throw rocks at this good boy for pronunciations, classification mixups, and keep critiques on the hottly contested things civil. Literally new information comes out about this stuff monthly, so I do not blame him for being up to date on all the journals. Just remember we learn more about more about these ancient creatures (pokemon or dinosaurs? You decide!) all the time, and in another hundred years we will continue to look back and think "wow that was a wack theory, at least they were trying their best". That or just "wow, idiots" but I'm hopeful someone future scientist will take pitty.
I love arctozolt, they're so cute, and they even have the sniffles because the zolt part isn't used to the cold. AHHHHHHH. And their shaking generates its electricity
Hmm, alot of Ice-types naturally shiver too despite wielding cold. Cubchoo & Snorunt come to mind. Would imagine that perhaps "Pokemon Logic" it shivering is a good thing?
The poor thing is in pain, dude.
When I saw these fossils for the first time.
*Sees Arctovish*
Me: Oh, that's cool! I want it!
*Sees other fossils*
*turns game off*
Dracovish is Top tier now
Did you remember to save?
@@jenniferbarrows9099 Hopefully not so he can delete its existance xD
In is copy of the game at least
Get pokemon shield
Arctovish is the only Gen 8 Fossil Pokemon that looks complete. It is the only one content with it's existence.
take the fossils to someone who knows what they are doing, like the OTHER REGION'S fossil researchers who don't need a whole skeleton to revive the whole pokemon.
Give those things to roark or byron they know what their doing they even have fossils as their main pokemon.
Actually this regions professor evidently has a better Resurrection machine since they don't have the rock type so that means they don't retain the fossil aspect of them meaning that they're basically perfectly resurrected and the only thing bad about them is how their bodies are put together
@@DivineDEC no actually whats most likely happening is that the "main" type of each half of the fossil are overriding the rock part, meaning if we actually had a full mon of the vish or zolt would be water rock or electric rock respectfully
@@DivineDEC ok that's just a theory
They probably have the info already, like tons of papers and other scientific resources before actually "going production" with the fossil revival.
One theory is that the fossils weren't being revived, they're creating a new pokemon based on their understanding of the fossil sample with modern pokemon models (Jurassic Park style)
I love how Dracozolt and Arctozolt look like Pikachu as a velociraptor.
Bone Wars. Not to be confused with the Skeleton War.
*Also no to be confused with Boner wars.*
Yes, the Inspiration is Good BUT THE EXECUTION IS TERRRRRIBLE!!
You can't just do that!
It's nice to refer something interesting in your games but THIS?!
This is opening/spawning so many Plot Holes and Questions and whatnot!
Why is this Possible? Why can you create Life like this, what implications does it have for Crimes (even done by the Protagonist?!) and whatnot else!
I can't even list all the Problems these beings existing opens up! And yeah, Pokemon Fusions, a dump fan-feature is one of them indeed!!
I really don't like these Pokemon existing! It would have been alright if some NPC would just talk about this Subject, but Pokemon actually existing like this?! NO! Redcon that! NOW!
@@slevinchannel7589 you need s chill pill
**Megalovania intensifies**
I have a gun!
For the longest time, I never realized Arctovish’s head is upside down...
Me too!
I just hope the dlc reveals that we can find the other halves of the fossils so we can finally have their normal forms. This way both players will be happy.
well if we go by the fact of the ice fossil being in tundra then each expansion area might have different fossils than main land galar
@person person obvious disappointment
If they had given us the other halves think logically about how many new Pokémon that actually would have been.
Pure Draco
Dracoarcto
Dracovish
Dracozolt
Pure Arcto
Arctodraco
Arctovish
Arctozolt
Pure Vish
Vishdraco
Visharcto
Vishzolt
Pure Zolt
Zoltdraco
Zoltarcto
Zoltvish
I think that would be all of them, needless to say there was no way they would be adding 12 new fossils.
(Though I still feel having a pure for each would have made sense, ah well maybe in the future)
It didn’t due to game freak’s laziness and prioritizing the stupid legendaries over the incomplete fossils that need to be fixed and the past gen fossils are just treated like regular pokemon. Freaking overpriced, overhyped garbage ass “expansion” dlc
You know, with the Diamond/Pearl remakes, there could be the Bone Wars equivalent with Cara arguing with Byron, who notices these fossil Pokemon and tries to reassemble them to the right forms and he and Cara would battle with their respective forms to see which one is right. Just food for thought.
Sounds legit, Byron probably would know his stuff seeing as his ace Pokémon is a fossil (Bastiodon).
I mean god knows I love the fossil pokemon and the concept behind them in this generation, but there's NO denying that every single one of them is an act against god, and asking Cara Liss to make one for you is basically making yourself an accomplice in some VERY SERIOUS ETHICAL CRIMES
if nothing else, I hope Pokemon Gun eventually lets us recreate the ACTUAL versions of these fossils later on, maybe even giving us the back halves of fossils to mix-and-match with will give us a bunch more combinations of Moral Sins. (honestly I just want the full version of Zolt. I need my pikaraptor ;A;)
God isn’t in galar, it’s fine.
Omnimegas this what happen when you don’t put god in the game
@@troncho1385 if the region its based on has had a struggle throught history what religion it was that might explain what why arceus wasn't there
Ah, but how could they be against god when one of them is God? Eh?
Lord Helix wants to know your location.
@@cc21234 Ah! Forgive me, Weedle! Thy horn shall ever be praised!
If you dont write RIP on your tombstone you will be drafted to the bone wars
Eduardo JS
*Threatening Bone Rattle*
Someone needs to forget to write RIP on mine.
It's all fun and games until they send out the Ankylosaurs.
Anybody remember those weird Pokegods that were fusions of different Pokemons? Like:
-Venustoise
-Stonebro
-Articzapmewtres
-Ratichu
In a million years from now when the next era of Pokemon happens and the first 807 become extinct, the scientists in those times might just end up making them.
Ratichu did exist though, it was gorochu and venustoise was in the ghastly episode of pokemon anime.
Imagine being like an archeologist in like the year 4000, seeing an alligator skull then putting it on a cheetah skeleton and being like “that look cool”
I wish you would've covered one of my biggest questions about these: Why the hell do the dex entries talk about them as if they really lived?
Because Cara Liss probably made a bunch of stuff up.
Because Pokedex entries are written by a 10-year old "Pokemon Master".
@@catnip333 like dracovish's description saying that it could run really fast but at the same time needs water to breathe. it shouldn't be possible
These are assumptions made based on the fossils.
a joke about the early study of fossils it was Common to come up with ridiculous reasons the creature would die out with no real evidence
Now here is where you are WRONG! Arcto is not a walrus, it is a PLESIOSSAURUS, it is called PLESIO in spanish and that's why it is called a DINO in English. The body is small but i'm sure it would have a long neck. Even some fan arts show how it could be and it fits perfectly.
This is an example of how it could actually look like:
i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/656/380/6ab.jpg
He even mentioned the whole ELASMOSAURUS with the head in the wrong place and called the plesiosaurus fossil a walrus. I think he was a little too influenced by fanart of people portraying it as a walrus instead of trying to look at this extra stuff.
@@lighteriumart Personally, I think it has less to do with fanart and more to with Lockstin's bad habit of inconsistent thought process. In this case, he thought to check the names of the Pokemon themselves in different languages, but not the names of the items that made them. And this is far from the first time he's been inconsistent in some way. He really needs to work on that.
@Super Top Secret Area In japanese is also called the Fossilized Plesiosaur, so the spanish translation is accurate.
I'd like to add to this hypothesis by adding that the other candidates have the wrong type of tail fluke. Walrus's are horizontal, and both Ichtosaurs and Mosasaurs have a strong downward bend near the end of the tail to form the bottom half of a vertical tail fluke. Plesiosaurs are suspected to have a broader variety, which would make them the strongest candidate.
So this is what Galar thinks of fusion
slucarios did you just comment two separate Steven universe quotes back to back
Chrisvenn Bowman _yes_
DNA splicers is what unova thinks is pokemon fusion
it could've worked ive seen a artist depiction of what these guy if the mismatching was fixed
@bryan diaz varela … No thanks … I rather not looks like something shou tucker and hp lovecraft made
According to the sword pokedex Dracovish is just insanely powerful, it says he hunted all his prey until he went extinct
They all look to be in pain
- if they ever introduce the extra pieces - I hope there's a way to "evolve" them into their proper forms.
Fans: could we pleaaasseee have the orig-
Game Freak: sure. (removes the fusions and adds nothing)
Fans: BUT WE-
Game Freak: yes.
Someone really needs to make sure they learn a lesson.
Fun Fact: The T-rex from Jurassic park originally was even MORE inaccurate than in the movie!
My comp professor back in college used to work special effects on the film and one of his favorite stories was always working on that damn T-rex. Apparently the original model they filmed with the toes were bright purple and NO ONE on the set wanted to fix it! Even during shooting it was always "Don't worry, we'll fix it in post" (A note for any aspiring film makers: *NEVER* utter this phrase out loud unless you want to be murdered by your post production) He actually had to go in and fix the toes in post. Quite literally re-shooting several shots with the correct dino feet just so he could have a decent looking composite (and I mean a composite in the 1990's definition of the term, not the modern process), and we're talking post-production technology and compositing way back in 1993 so I can only imagine how much of a pain that was to comp just to change the toe color.
Bit of fun film trivia for you~ X3
Yay
CyberSurferXD 20:30
Kinda ike this dude
Not to mention they originally wanted to the the raptors snake tongues. Smh.
These are the embodiment of “Just because there’s an idea behind it, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea”
Imo this is a great idea. They look rediculous and messed up, but it adds a charm to them. The history behind the designs is also interesting so I approve Gen 8's fossil pokemon.
@@DemonOfShadows66 but they are so sad tho, I want their REAL bodies to exist
@@whatTFisThis That's part of the morally gray area of reviving these pokemon this way. In the next game we'll probably have the bottom half of Zolt and Vish and the top half of Arcto and Draco. We might even be able to create more monstrosities and remake the real original versions too.
“It was not by my hand that I am given flesh. I was called here by HUMANS!”
“WHO WISHED TO PAY ME TRIBUTE!!!”
As a total paleontology nerd myself I was so excited to see this video.
Well, the Jurassic Park Velociraptors were more based on the larger Deinonychus, but Michael Crichton used the Velociraptor name because he thought it felt "more dramatic". The book version of Dilophosaurus was more accurate, bigger and no frill (though it still spit poison), it was made smaller in the movie so it wouldn't steal the thunder of the raptors.
Mewtwo had every right to be mad at biological engineering then.
The Utah Raptor was pretty big, about the size of the velociraptors portrayed in Jurassic Park.
Tbh, Arctozolt doesn't seem very sad. He seems uncharacteristically happy regardless of his condition.
It’s not happy at all. Stop defending awful designs
Ok for the most part it's a solid video but there are MAJOR errors I have to address, coming from a Paleontological background.
Firstly: The Bone Wars happened AFTER the Crystal Palace construction. The CP was based on the earliest reconstructions of dinosaurs, hence the much more lizard-like reconstructions of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. By the time the Bone Wars happens dinosaurs were already starting to be reconstructed more like the upright walking, tail dragging forms that were made popular in Harryhausen films, so the reason the CP reconstructions were bad were because they were from the earliest days of paleontology, NOT the result of the Bone Wars.
Secondly some of your justifications for the original forms aren't good. I still think the stegosaur interpretation is correct due to the large size, prominent backward pointing ischium and pubis (the "spike" coming out under the tail, which is smaller in pachycephalosaurs proportionally), and obviously the plates, which actually are more triangular in most stegosaur species. The whole "dracorex" interpretation is confusing since "Zolt" is clearly NOT from any known ceolorosaurian dinosaur name, and "Vish" just references the fact it's a fish and doesn't come from any part of the name "Dunkelosteus". Also no dinosaurs had elephantine feet, that is an outdated reconstruction. Even stegosaurus feet are closer to how they're presented in "Draco-". If anything the names reflect the types more than what they were from. "-vish" clearly comes from fish, which it was, but is also because fish are purely aquatic animals. "Arcto-" Reflects the ice type because of the Arctic. "-zolt" reflects the electric type, as in a jolt of electricity. And "Draco-" comes from the fact it's a dragon type. Quick side note, the Japanese often refer to dinosaurs as dragons, there's even a submarine in the Japan naval fleet called Kenryū , which means "Sword Dragon" and is nicknamed "Stegosaurus". As for the Arcto half... you completely forgot 2 major and famous types of marine reptiles that fit that body shape perfectly: the pliosaurs and plesiosaurs. Not only were pleiosaurs among the earliest described marine reptiles and portrayed alongside icthyosaurs in the earliest paleo art, we also know they had a small fluke on their short tails and would have used their long flippers for propulsion. Now I don't know if it's a pliosaur or plesiosaur as all the major differences are in the front half, but the more rounded shape of the flippers is a bit closer to plesiosaurs, compared to the much thinner and pointed flippers of pliosaurs. The walrus depiction doesn't fit in the slightest, especially since there aren't even that many distinct fossil walruses to be based on. Also the whole "Dino fossil" joke fits better since marine reptiles and pterosaurs are often mislabeled as "swimming and flying dinosaurs". Your description of zolt was pretty on point though, I will give you that.
All in all I hope these 4 fossils are purged from future pokemon games. Replace them with the real forms and get these abominations against nature out of my sight. Not only do they look awful but they grossly oversimplify early paleontology which, as you said, was people trying to make sense of things no one has ever seen. I have never hated any pokemon design more than these four. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Fun fact: Dracorex is actually just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurs and/or Stygimoloch.
The biological implications of not only these Pokemon but potentially every Pokemon are also fascinating.
Like Dracovish. It's head is connected to it's damn tail. Biologically, that's wack.
I find it weirdly impressive that Cara Liss actually made it capable of surviving in that state. Though I'm also afraid to find out how she managed it.
@@MrAuthor3DS we should be afraid of Cara. Science can and will go too far
I like to think that the lungs and important organs of Vish are all located around its head. I mean it does have a rather big head, and the tail end of Draco sure as heck isn't supplying any organs like that.
@@burgermeister8261 well, how about everything from the neck down? It's neck is its tail, and it's throat would need to lead to it's stomach, and intestines and all the other important bits. The Draco ain't supplying that. Especially from the tail, upwards
@@LeandroIsCool This is a good point, one that I cant answer within reason lol.
I’m curious to see how the anime handles the fossil Pokémon
The police are still tracking down the scientist Cara Liss. She was last seen outside Stow-on-Side. The police have urged people not to allow her access to fossils. Ash doesn't listen and he gets a Dracozolt. Ash is now considered an accomplice of Cara Liss for crimes against pokemon.
Imagine Ash coming across the one route and there's just a ton of the fossil pokemon wandering around cause Cara Liss went way to far
@@OriginalGameteer that would be heaven
I don't like where this is going...
Heads up Lockstin! There's a fair amount of mixup in terms of the content in the video. While I understand that Dinosaur pronunciations can be....awkward, there's a bunch of facts in this video that actually aren't true.
First of all Dracorex. It's name is actually Dracorex Hogwartsia, not 'Hogwartis', although that could have just been a mistake during the script process. But the bigger problem with it is the family. 'Draconis', as a family, does not exist, as Dracorex is part of the Pachycephalosaurus family. It's also not a Maniraptoran, which is what Dromaeosaurids (Like what Zolt is) is. Dracorex is a Ornithiscian, whereas Maniraptorans are Sauriscians.
Now for the tail part. It's 'Dragon' association and name could very easily be from the fact that Stegosaurids (Which it's highly likely to be based off of) are most commonly found in China, which, typically a lot of Dinosaurs dug up in China get the 'Long' suffix, as in Chinese for Dragon.
In terms of 'Arcto', Arcto seems to be a Plesiosaurus or Pliosaurus, which had short tails (With flukes, like what Arcto has). To add to this, the fact that Arctozolt walks but Arctovish swims could be a nod to the outdated belief that Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs could haul themselves up onto land, something we know wasn't actually possible. And as a fun little extra bit of info, Arctozolt is walking upright in an unrealistic posture for a Dinosaur, possibly in reference to the outdated depiction of 'tail dragging' or 'Kangaroo posture' that was common until the Dinosaur renaissance of the 60's.
The Jurassic Park velociraptors are actually based on Utah raptors, but the people making the movie either got confused or thought Velociraptor sounded cooler
i hope when the dlc comes out that we can get the other halves of the fossils so we can get the correct ones
You know what I like about these fossil Pokemon? They're not half rock this time around.
Thank god for that.
If we get the halfs' true forms in a future game, you bet they would be part Rock.
Instead, they're half each other
Dude same that pissed me off that the fossil pokemon were ALWAYS rock type
The 4 fossil Pokémon assembled correctly will be
Velocizolt/Electrozolt
Dunkleovish/Aquovish
Dracostego
Arctosaur(It looked like Mosasaur if you ask me)
The Arcto- one reminds me of a Plesiosaur.
Arcto is a bird
Glob Herman that's zolt
Zolt was a bird, like archeopteryx, or maybe a small flying theropod, like microraptor/tetrapteryx
Rito CP fossilized fish is -vish
Fossilized drake is Draco-
Fossilized Dino is -zolt
And fossilized Bird is Arcto-
As someone who was an avid dinosaur fossil lover when I was younger, hearing about how people sawed a trex skull in half just makes me sick.
"and we're on the path to doing it again"
that hits different now.
20:40 "By all known laws of aviation, zolts should not be able to fly. But the zolt does not care what humans think is possible"
If there's anything I can say 'bout Gen 8, it's that the pokemon's got pretty good concepts and designs... certainly could of had more of 'em tho.
Originally, I thought these pokemon were absolute monstrosities and don't deserve this suffering. But now, Dracovish is my baby. I named mine Pörthing.
They still don't deserve this suffering, but I still love them.
This fossils are straight up body horror, I love them!
I love the smile on Dracozolt and Arctozolt.
“ hey guys, check it out. I have LEGS now, this is awesome! “
Um no these Pokémon are in constant pain
"It's a little dinosaur pikachu!"
Putting it that way has made me dislike...zolt? We only see half of it, so I'll call it zolt.
12:00 is that why the exposed mid-section of dracozolt is electric yellow while on dracovish it's the same colour as the rest of the body?
I think you mean 11:54 actually-
I wonder if the other halves of the fossils ended up in the mega evolution universe..
Jam a puzzle piece hard enough and it will fit....
It won’t look pretty thou
Don't
[King Nothing]
Fun fact!
In the Jurassic Park novels its explained that utahraptor and Velociraptor were lumped into the same species/group and so the Velociraptors in Jurassic park are Utahraptors but named as Velociraptors due to how the scientific community named species in that series.
Utahraptors are... terrifying
I think it would be cool if Galarian fossil Pokémon had evolve forms which streamlined their hodge podge parts together into a more cohesive creature.
Am I the only one who really liked these new fossil Pokémon? Yeah they're eternally suffering but the more jabs at paleontologists I see the more I get to appreciate their designs. Plus they all just look good to me on their own. Idk maybe I'm a sadist but I plan on using these guys in my various playthroughs of Sw&Sh. Was gonna use an Arctozolt on my first run actually, but I have Shield and I didn't know I could get all 4 fossil types until it was too late.
I really like them too, especially dracovish. I really hope they make more of these "Lego-Fossils"
I like them too.
i love them too.
Same here, I kinda like the Zoltan.
I absolutely love them!
I just want to put them back together the right way
No
Teacher: What are you laughing at?
Me: Nothing.
My brain: Dracovish
I can relate
Okay but like anime Dracovish is a sweetheart. Game Dracovish clearly wanted to stay dead. I'm so sorry for all four of these guys
This is why Dracozolt is my favorite Pokémon. We’re both out of place and in constant existential agony
The fossil revivers name in Pokemon sword and shield makes a lot of sense because fossils back in the early days of paleontology were frankensteined together to create abominations.
I think we will get the other halves in a future game.
Why do you think they are making dlc?
@@marshalldakota9562 MONEY
Dracovish might be my favorite Gen 8 Pokemon, he's doofy and I love him and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Nobody:
Seriously not even a single soul:
Not even Lockstin and Gnoggin:
Lockstin and Gnoggin: 1:00 Bone wars...
Also Lockstin and Gnoggin:
10:20
I don't want to be that guy but in the books Hammond was the one who wanted the dinosaurs to be accurate and Dr Wu wanted them to be more interesting
Finally, we can make Mewthree after all these years!
Just a little Mew foot bone here, and a Mewtwo tail there.... oh and a mew tail instead of Mewtwo's neck thing......
Does anyone have a spare clefairy?
5:58
Utahraptor and Austroraptor: Bout to end this mans whole career
Dienonychus too
12:01 Now that I think about it that makes sense because to me it's like they took the front of one dinosaur and the back of another and glued them together. But I will say that while I like this little nod to old paleontology I am kinda surprised that the region based on the place where the first Dinosaurs where discovered doesn't have a Megalosaur and Iguanadon Pokémon.
I would love to see the next generation that includes fossils go into the idea of the Jurassic Park way of making pokemon by having incomplete fossils that you have to combine with dna from already existing pokemon (maybe introduce a single frog-like pokemon whose characteristics build into each fossil in a subtle way or have each fossil have a pokemon that is somewhat similar to it that builds onto it, like combining an aquatic fossil with Sharpedo dna and it ends up being this Mosasaur with a face or coloration of sharpedo).
Please no more incomplete fossils. They need to fix the terrible gen 8 ones and make actual good fossil pokemon designs and no mockeries of fossil pokemon like paradox pokemon
Imagine dying and waking up millions of years later superglued to half of another Pokémon