Can't believe archeopteryx had such a modest color pallet after all those children's books illustrations convinced me it looked liked a peacock that fell in rainbow colored paint
+Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis You can blame Discovery Channel for the Megalodon thing. For an educational channel, they sure do spread a lot of lies when "educating" people. It's a shame too. It and its sister channels used to be really informative. Also I think you guys should be a little bit easier on some people. People aren't going to know everything. I think it's better if a person asks questions, even if they're wrong or seem rather stupid, because asking questions is a good way to learn. If a person makes a mistake, they can be corrected. Calling a person stupid or getting too frustrated with their questions may accidentally and potentially deter them away from wanting to learn in the first place. We all start off fresh not knowing much afterall.
+LORD BUMINGTON and, if you read his statement carefully, he said that we know what dinosaurs look like because we have birds. He's talking about avian dinosaurs. The ones still alive today. Non-avian dinosaurs are the ones that went extinct.
Using modern day apex predators to rule out greens in T-rex does not work, because modern apex predators are all mammals with hair. Unlike feathers, hair is impossible to be green, blue, or purple due to its molecular structure. (In the animal kingdom blues and greens are almost always made with micro crystal structures, which are impossible to have in hairs.) T-rex may very well have had green feathers for camouflage; an option mammals don't have.
haytham Messaoudi Yeah, I guess that would work. :) That reminds me, Guild Wars 2 has feathered raptors, of which some variations are based on modern birds (e.g. the Eagle Raptor and the Vulture Raptor)
Well, if you look at the environment it could of hunted like a lion or bear not that it is one or not.and if you want to say "aren't birds a better example?" Yes but no, cause the tyrant hunts like a lion not a hawk or a hummingbird.
Small correction: Sinosauropteryx was actually the first dinosaur published for the colour to be known, but as the study on it was at Bristol University and the Anchiornis one was at Yale, many American news vendors hailed the later as the first dinosaur to be discovered with colour. Both papers were published in quick succession, so it is an easy mistake to make
That's actually correct. Trey is so stupid enough to make this mistake, he probably didn't even check twice or even 3 times to make sure the information he's presenting was accurate.
I will say they are similar in appearance both having the spines and short legs and if they are new to the species I can't blame them, but if the listened a tad bit more
The thing about coloring similar to that of modern animals are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs: birds. Birds have all sorts of striking colors and they might give us a clue about dinosaur colors. Male dinosaurs might develop bright colors during the breeding season, or in the case of some herbivorous dinosaurs they might have bright colors all year round like a peacock or pheasant. Perhaps colors played a part in social communication, whether on the feathers or exposed skin of dinosaurs.
There should be a reboot of that documentary series "walking with" In fact i reckon they should do it every ten years or so just to have it up to date. I know a lot of people still refer to dinosaurs to the walking with dinosaurs documentary and Jurassic park (Jurassic park was also fantastical and not based of fact.) which is out dated and mostly based on what we knew about dinosaurs back then (1990's - early 2000's)
I went to see the live show in manchester once. I believe the original narrator was there. It was epic. The extinction event happened and the lifesized brontosaurus feel to the ground wuth an actual rumble. It was... Eeeeepiccccccc
+Mauricio Alvarado In a few words, we have absolutely no idea. We don't even have proof that they had evolved a syrinx or larynx to make any noises. As far as we know, they could have been completely quiet, but it seems unlikely considering some things like the Parosaurolophus's skull.
I was thinking about this, what would dinosaurs look like if there was no mass extinctions. Would the T.rex evolve to have longer arms or no arms? Would raptors evolve to fly/glide or stay land bound? Trey, I would like to know your thoughts on this subject.
Raptors evolving gliding powers would be like if we evolved fur and lived in trees. Dromaeosaurs are land bound because they came from gliding dromaeosaurs
I have a speculative theory that says that dinosaurs changed color patterns throughout the seasons, some dinosaurs would have bright colors in the mating season and duller colors in the other months, like modern day arctic hares and foxes.
Christian Bontempo This probably happened with at least some polar dinosaurs, like Cyro and Yutyranus (sorry for any misspellings, I'm on mobile), as modern day polar dinosaurs such as partridges do this.
The new anti Arstotzka Union wait what? there's three examples of animals alive today who do it in this thread alone and one is a bird so how can you just dismiss this as if he's saying something crazy and outlandish? Its perfectly plausible, maybe Yutarranus had white and light brown feathers for most of the year then when mating season comes about they grow an extra set of colourful plumage for display, heck thinking about it male deer can drop their antlers and regrow them, nature shows the concept is possible, possibility usually translates to actuality when ol mama nature is involved, i think its a great theory.
I've always thought that too. And fact birds have blood vessels going into their feathers that plump up, gloss & brighten colors during matting times. Alsi depression and winter colors fade i have seen. Many animals with fur are similar. The black patch in my Sheppard would disaaper every winter. Furless animals skins also go through changes. So what ever the theories, very plausible they did in fact change
I would also like to know your opinion on Alistair Mackay's question. Do you think that theropods had lips that covered their teeth? I currently think that the majority of them might have had lips, I'm not sure yet for Spinosaurids since they spent so much of their time in/around water. I think that the topic might help you make a pretty interesting video.
It's possible that T.rex and other big theropods are tan, brown, etc., but I have two main issues with comparing T.rex color to mammalian carnivore color. 1. Green, blue, purple, and all that crap is impossible in hair. Another commenter explained this better. 2. Zebras, antelopes, gnu, and deer, the primary prey of big cats and bears across the world, are color blind, making tan or brown a reliable option. All dinosaurs probably had color vision, including the hadrosaurs that T.rex ate. T.rex could have been anywhere from tan to brown to maybe even green, but stripes are something that they probably did have, since it would be excellent camouflage in the redwood forests of Hell Creek. This is all just speculation though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Henrik Aga in 2119 we might even get onto genetically creating the velociraptors- and accurately sized and coloured!!! if only we could live to see that day....
+Hadrosaur838 Not if they've been isolated from Paleontology. A lot people these days are too preoccupied with their lives and other things that they really don't have the time to learn about ancient life everyday; you know how many times when I talk about dinosaurs people can't even remember the names of the most famous ones like Brachiosaurus and Triceratops? They usually refer to these iconic giants as "the ones with the long necks", "the one with the three horns", in fact it's gotten so bad people are forgetting Allosaurus. We just need to give this people sometime and hemp educate them more rather bash the upstarts. Those who refuse to listen well they can leave.
Mr. N That probably has more to do with the fact knowing the name of some animal that lived millions upon millions of years ago is just completely useless information for anyone who doesn't have an interest in the topic. I'm not trying to say that paleontology is useless, because its definitely not, just that lacking that knowledge is not going to hamper the day to day functionality of pretty much the majority of the population in any meaningful way. But I agree, anyone who says or pretends to have a vested interest in the topic should make an understandable effort to keep himself/ herself informed.
@@TheJPworld Priorities; was it useless to know the name of Tyrannosaurus Rex or the Wooly Mammoth? Was it also useless to know the names of countless events and individuals from Human history? No it was not. …. it did for Jurassic Park (the newer installments)…. paleontological communities too. No I didn't say "enforce" it upon the individual. We should try and have patience not every person who loves dinosaurs is going to study them 24/7... sad, but it's true. It is also our part to help educate them in the best way possible, but most Paleontologists, nor Dinosaur Events at your school or zoo help provide those resources that would make it fun; and the average human being is all about entertainment.
I don't know how practical or even likely this is, but I saw a CGI reconstruction of T. rex that was primarily black but had a stark white coloration on its face that gave it a chilling skull-like visage. I really liked that design.
As the "feather thing" with dinosaurs started all artists made parrots out of them. There are crows,eagls,vultures and running birds....that doesn't look like a fluffy 70s disco party... But 90% of paleo artists still make dinosaurs look awkward when feathers are involved...
Looks like we can now add _Psittacosaurus_ to the list of dinosaurs with more or less known colorations: www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/14/scientists-reveal-most-accurate-depiction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-created
I hate the old reconstructions of dinosaurs, with random colors, like green, red, orange, etc. I personally like brown or tan dinosaurs, because they seem more realistic. modern birds normally have browns, tans, reds, blacks, etc and i think maybe some dinosaurs could be black and white, or some could have red crests, along with some types of mating displays. I think we shouldn't rule out that Mammals couldn't be a comparison since Birds and Mammals are pretty similar in color when you think about it. Although some birds are green or blue, it seems unlikely, since Neoaves can tolerate pigments better than other dinosaurs.
We've also gotten close with a certain pterosaur called Pterorhynchus; while we still have no actual colors, we do know that its crest had a striped pattern on it. I used to copy living animals with my coloration for dinosaurs (you should see my old, parrot-based ceratopsians, they looked so cool!), but now I've been getting more creative. I like to make my sauropods particularly colorful, seeing as they were so big that they didn't need to hide and were plant eaters that didn't need to sneak. I also like making plesiosaurs fairly colorful, like modern tropical marine animals.
Wow this is remarkable, I always thought that it would take years to figure out dinosaur colours I never thought I would be able to know how beautiful these creatures really were.
Thank you your videos are amazing I never thought in my wildest dreams as a child of the 70ts 80ts we would know and find out so much about these creatures looks colour's for me mind blown lol
I love the mosasaur colour scheme and the fact that it shows how it took on a more blubbery and stream-lined body showing how it was a lot more whale like than crocodilian basically a cetacean mixed with a monitor lizard. Just Amazing! I also love the pigment of the microraptor showing a much more crow like colouration and body plan instead of a full on bipedal long legged dromaeosaur like how it’s depicted in popular media it’s simply fantastic!
This is very cool and I wish more makers of TV shows, movies, and games would pay attention to such things. About modern big muscular predators... They have to hide from prey animals with very little in the way of color vision. If dinosaurs had better color vision, or even just a different set of colors, it might be well worth it to be green and two shades of brown instead of just three shades of brown.
Lots of mammals like cats hunt prey with good color vison (birds). Even birds that hunt birds are not green. Of the various green birds, few have any camouflage patterns and none are predators of large animals.
Akav Akaku This is an excellent point. Cats may be the most colorful of mammals (because they hunt birds?) but I have yet to see a green cat. A green cat would make for a cool house pet, but yeah.
***** I like to imagine Mei long with calico cat coloring. And maybe a hidden flash of green which can be used for display purposes. But if and when we find out what colors they actually were, I will have to adjust.
Spinosaurus definitely has to be the most mind boggling dinousar... It's tail suggests aquatic lifestlye, it's body suggests terrestrial lifestyle. We have no clue how this animal might have lived and hunted because of that. Some paleontologists believe the animal was semi aquatic like a beaver or a crodocile but it's body shape would make it hard for the species to stay afloat and balanced.... The tail is super effective in aquatic propulsion though (at least on small scales) and it has to mean the animal lived or spent a lot of time in water.... Everyone is baffled
Sir you need to do a video on the new gravity falls episode, as it reveals quite a bit on bill, which most of your theories from another video were proven correct, so as the person who obviously has come the closest to figuring out what bill is please do another vid on him as quick as possible, so trey ADRESS your people (fanbase)
Benjamin Macdonald From what I've heard, T-Rex was an opportunistic feeder, (I could be wrong on the term itself, if I am, correct me and please don't bite my head off) both hunting and scavenging, taking advantage of whatever resources it could.
Most modern day big scavengers hunt, and most big hunters scavange. It almost certainly did both. That being said, t. rex was probably a scavenger most of the time. Being so huge it could scare other predators from their kill.
In trey's top thirteen dinosaur facts he talks about an ornithopod fossil and a triceratops fossil that both had T-Rex bite marks that started to heal, showing these animals were attacked while they were alive.
Fun fact about the coloration of the dinosaurs! Specifically about how the melanin affects the strengths of the feathers. The reason why dinosaurs, specifically flying/gliding would have black wings or wingtips is due to the fact that darker coloration would strengthen the wings!
You when I look at a T.Rex or Allosaurus I always see them be vividly colored in blues, oranges, greys or tans adorned with gnarly looking color markings from stripes to spots or blotches or swirls especially on the skull, to bring out their ferocity and stand out from most theropods while still keeping their countershade or camouflage advantage.
You know one thing I realized, most carnivoria that lived in forest areas tend to have black color on them like Jaguars, leopards,Tigers , American black bear, Asianic black bear, sun bear, pandas, raccoons even red pandas tend to pose a black or mix with black color.It could be possible that T.rex, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurs, Daspleteosaurs, Alectosaurus could have been Black color or mix with a black color pattern.
I personally think completely disregarding "bright colors" is a HUGE mistake. Looking at lions and bears is a great idea. But since birds are more related to dinosaurs then... a bear. Let's take a look at them. Search up "Exotic Birds" and you'll notice a lot of Green, Red, Blue. I want to get a Macaw later and that is exactly their color. Wild Canary's are Bright Yellow, Doves are completely white, cardinal's are bright red. So... in the context of looking toward "Relatives" I think it's safe to say a good few of them had bright colors. Because you know... Bears and Lions aren't related to Dinosaurs
Najla Kahla The point was to illustrate that him throwing away the idea of "Bright colors" would be very "Un-scientific" and would be a bad idea to simply ignore something like that.
+Dieter Gaudlitz Now this is true, but let's consider the "Niche" as mentioned in the comment before yours. Look at tropical forests. Some birds have very bright colors, very fitting for it's environment. If we had a Dinosaur who's habitat consisted of a similar attributes, it would be safe to assume that they would be the same in blending in it's environment. I'm not stating that Dinosaurs can't be boring colors. I'm willing to be most of them were. But like I originally stated, to completely disregard the idea is beyond anyone and we shouldn't make such as strong statement until we know ALL the facts. Kinda like the whole "Feathers" thing. Dinosaur George, a renowned Paleontologist, says that it's not possible that ALL dinosaurs were covered in feathers. We even know this is a possibility with people speculating that Carnotaurus was completely scales.
+K Universe I dont know modern day predatory dinos like Hawks, Falcons and Eagles really lack bright and flashy colors. Still not impossible just saying. :)
I had no idea about sinornithosaurus having a red coloring pattern, which makes me happy since the sinornithosaurus I included in my children's comic book also happen to have a red color!
***** What has to do this fact with my suggestion? I'm just curious to see how much scientifically accurate (or inaccurate in this case) is the Skull Island.
+S3rp3nte I don't really see what the point of this would be. King Kong (2005) was never meant to be a scientifically accurate film. Peter Jackson has even gone out of his way many times to admit that he never intended to make a scientific movie. There are interviews with him explaining that his King Kong is more in the vein of a fantasy/adventure movie.
nosapian677 Ok, but i would like to see in anycase, just for fun. Also, do you know that there were actually a documentary that try to scientifically explain the Skull Island. And even Jurassic Park wasn't even meant to be a scientifically accurate too (at example, they have make smaller the Dilophosaurus or bigger the Velociraptor).
I've never heard about a Skull Island documentary, not that I'm surprised. There are plenty of documentaries based on non-scientific concepts. Discovery has done a documentary on Megalodon, and even Dragons. Just because something has a documentary doesn't make it true. As for Jurassic Park, that was somewhat accurate for it's time, but I think it's also important to remember it's a science fiction movie first and foremost. it's not meant to be some hard-fact film, it's entertainment, and people are well aware of that. I don't know where people get this idea that Jurassic Park was supposed to be 100% factual. Neither Crichton nor Speilberg intended for it to be so.
+Logan Register I doubt Kerry meant a that it evolved into a modern whale, she probably more so questioned if it might have evolved into a whale like creature. Kind of like how the Ichthyosaurus is a reptile that resembled a dolphin.
I think the answer is another question - What colors were prehistoric plants? Add in some social adaptations, and general outline-breaking stripes & spots for the rest. Yep, that's what you said.
I can't wait until your next Over the Garden Wall video. I also thought of another good idea for a Paleontology related video. I think you should make a video about baby dinosaurs and how they potentially behaved and looked like. I've seen a lot of depictions of them usually looking just like adult dinosaurs but smaller which is kind of a pet peeve of mine considering a majority of baby animals (especially baby birds) look vastly different to their adult counterparts in both coloration and body proportions.
If I may rebuff a little, just add this into consideration. Under intense conditions, melanosomes degrade and shrink over time and non-melanin pigment structures like carotenoids vanish completely. This leaves us only with structures that had melanin, so we can’t say for sure that archaeopteryx was all black for example. The structures that would allow yellows, oranges, and greens could have disintegrated over millions of years. We simply can’t be sure until new technology arises that can find other clues about coloration beyond melanosomes. I mean, we can also assume coloration based on diet as many birds get pigment from food sources, like how the yellow breast of a meadowlark is derived from the plants it eats.
Generally speaking yea it would make sense for the larger predators to be camouflaged as best they can whereas a lot of creatures with vibrant colour patterns are poisonous as a way to ward off prey or animals that are mostly free of predators and have an environment where finding a mate is more of a priority.
I think t rex colours would be based around it's habitat, as you said. To be honest, dark brown with earthy green hints and a black belly would be extremely useful for camouflage. Lions live in savannahs, so their coat is golden, while bears live in forests and their fur is dark brown
Watching your videos always make me so happy. I love learning more about dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures and its always so fascinating to watch.
I recall reading somewhere that research on Ichthyosaurus fossils concluded these animals were, in fact, reddish-brown in color. That was quite a while ago, though, so that conclusion may be outdated. Still, it's amazing that in these cases we're now capable of knowing for sure how they would have looked.
well i actually think your dino vids are the best thing in your channel! i don't even remember what other vids you upload! so wtf people don't be silly and be unsubscribing! is not like you are paying or even losing much time, just don't watch whatever you don't like sheeez! we are almost 100 000 :)
Possibly the first large herbivorous dinosaur with known colour, the Sauropelta (a North American nodosaur) was a rusty red on top and pale cream on its underbelly! This countershading was to help protect it from Deinonychus and Acrocanthosaurus.
"Imagine a bird with teeth"
A goose. You're talking about a goose.
Those are like saw blade teeth. Not Dental teeth.
Geese are scary
Geese and Swans are the absolute worst.
They will rip your toes open to the flesh, just out of spite. Evil creatures.
Dinosaurs = giant geese confirmed
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T-rex might have been black? That's badass!
I find a dark pigmented rex much more terrifying than a green one
Agreed.
Barney the purple carnivorous trex
its said he also possessed a ankle monitor and liked to rob other dinosaurs for cash.
MrAnimepredator Bet he had no idea who his father was.
I thought our generation was beyond this. A dinosaur's skin color doesn't matter, look at the content of their character!
Bruh
Hahaha underrated comment
Well played
Ok Boomer
People are dinosaur racist
Can't believe archeopteryx had such a modest color pallet after all those children's books illustrations convinced me it looked liked a peacock that fell in rainbow colored paint
I know i'm 6 years late but have heard of caihong?
Well, it's 2019... Would it be far-fetched to ask for an update on dinosaur color discoveries? :}
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Unfortunately he didn’t make it yet
Same id really like to know! I’m sure since 2015 there’s been loads more info
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Ok, heres a good question... what would dinosaurs have tasted like? Will it be the cliche "tastes like chicken"?
+Locksoli It probably would vary depending on the species.
And before any smart aleck says "birds are dinosaurs!!!" we know. I'm pretty sure he's asking about the extinct ones.
*S T O P T H E C H I C K E N S J O K E S*
Just like everything else
@@papaidoceuteamamuito5975 stop trying to be a dictator
0.07 Waht? People think Dimetrodon evolved into spinosaurus? But it clearly went extinct in the permian.
+Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis Yeah people kinda are not too smart
ANd dont we have lots of fossils of dimetrodon. and then the fossils end about 250 mya?
Its kinda like where people said megalodon is still alive.
+Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis You can blame Discovery Channel for the Megalodon thing. For an educational channel, they sure do spread a lot of lies when "educating" people. It's a shame too. It and its sister channels used to be really informative.
Also I think you guys should be a little bit easier on some people. People aren't going to know everything. I think it's better if a person asks questions, even if they're wrong or seem rather stupid, because asking questions is a good way to learn. If a person makes a mistake, they can be corrected. Calling a person stupid or getting too frustrated with their questions may accidentally and potentially deter them away from wanting to learn in the first place. We all start off fresh not knowing much afterall.
But ihow could you think an animal that died in the permian evolved into a animal that lived in the mesozoic?
Everyone knows what dinosaurs look like, who hasn't seen a bird?
+LORD BUMINGTON birds are dinosaurs *facepalm*
+LORD BUMINGTON Not exactly. Even during the Jurassic period dinosaurs were found with some type of feathers
+LORD BUMINGTON and, if you read his statement carefully, he said that we know what dinosaurs look like because we have birds. He's talking about avian dinosaurs. The ones still alive today. Non-avian dinosaurs are the ones that went extinct.
+LORD BUMINGTON dude dont argue dinosaurs look like birds fether less dino fan
+LORD BUMINGTON sorry
Using modern day apex predators to rule out greens in T-rex does not work, because modern apex predators are all mammals with hair.
Unlike feathers, hair is impossible to be green, blue, or purple due to its molecular structure. (In the animal kingdom blues and greens are almost always made with micro crystal structures, which are impossible to have in hairs.) T-rex may very well have had green feathers for camouflage; an option mammals don't have.
I think you should perhaps use birds of prey as a colour example.
haytham Messaoudi Yeah, I guess that would work. :)
That reminds me, Guild Wars 2 has feathered raptors, of which some variations are based on modern birds (e.g. the Eagle Raptor and the Vulture Raptor)
Even then, birds of prey were brown, not green.
Well, if you look at the environment it could of hunted like a lion or bear not that it is one or not.and if you want to say "aren't birds a better example?" Yes but no, cause the tyrant hunts like a lion not a hawk or a hummingbird.
Using birds as an example of coloration doesn't make sense either, since they have a very different life style than dinosaurs.
Small correction: Sinosauropteryx was actually the first dinosaur published for the colour to be known, but as the study on it was at Bristol University and the Anchiornis one was at Yale, many American news vendors hailed the later as the first dinosaur to be discovered with colour. Both papers were published in quick succession, so it is an easy mistake to make
Mistakes are inevitable!
@@wetube6513 yes almost impossible to avoid
That's actually correct. Trey is so stupid enough to make this mistake, he probably didn't even check twice or even 3 times to make sure the information he's presenting was accurate.
@@BigfootOBrien dude this was 8 years ago why are you still hung up on a minor mistake
"People asked if Dimetrodon is a relative of Spinosaurus"
I'll go bash my head against a brick wall now....
Make that several..
+DinoBoy612 That's like asking if a crocodile is a relative of a panther,in fact,it basically is............................
I don't really see how they are related at all? Lol I guess if you went super far back but meh.
As for what you actually said, yes.
I will say they are similar in appearance both having the spines and short legs and if they are new to the species I can't blame them, but if the listened a tad bit more
People are just really dumb
We know some people were dropped as babies. But these people were clearly thrown at a wall.
The thing about coloring similar to that of modern animals are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs: birds. Birds have all sorts of striking colors and they might give us a clue about dinosaur colors. Male dinosaurs might develop bright colors during the breeding season, or in the case of some herbivorous dinosaurs they might have bright colors all year round like a peacock or pheasant. Perhaps colors played a part in social communication, whether on the feathers or exposed skin of dinosaurs.
Birds predator
There should be a reboot of that documentary series "walking with" In fact i reckon they should do it every ten years or so just to have it up to date.
I know a lot of people still refer to dinosaurs to the walking with dinosaurs documentary and Jurassic park (Jurassic park was also fantastical and not based of fact.) which is out dated and mostly based on what we knew about dinosaurs back then (1990's - early 2000's)
I went to see the live show in manchester once. I believe the original narrator was there. It was epic. The extinction event happened and the lifesized brontosaurus feel to the ground wuth an actual rumble. It was... Eeeeepiccccccc
Well we got Prehistoric Planet now.
Hey trey can you do a video on what prehistoric animals probably sounded like? I really want to know what T. rex sounds like.
+Mauricio Alvarado In a few words, we have absolutely no idea. We don't even have proof that they had evolved a syrinx or larynx to make any noises. As far as we know, they could have been completely quiet, but it seems unlikely considering some things like the Parosaurolophus's skull.
+Mauricio Alvarado bird sounds duh but maybe deeper bird sounds
since trex is more related to birds i would guess it make a closer sound to a cassowary or those bigger birds
According to my childhood, the T. Rex said "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family"
probably a deeper sound of an eagle or it was probably silent since it hunted, or it had to communicate and used the deeper version of eagle squack
I was thinking about this, what would dinosaurs look like if there was no mass extinctions. Would the T.rex evolve to have longer arms or no arms? Would raptors evolve to fly/glide or stay land bound? Trey, I would like to know your thoughts on this subject.
Raptors evolving gliding powers would be like if we evolved fur and lived in trees. Dromaeosaurs are land bound because they came from gliding dromaeosaurs
I have a speculative theory that says that dinosaurs changed color patterns throughout the seasons, some dinosaurs would have bright colors in the mating season and duller colors in the other months, like modern day arctic hares and foxes.
That makes sense, I think it's very plausible.
Christian Bontempo This probably happened with at least some polar dinosaurs, like Cyro and Yutyranus (sorry for any misspellings, I'm on mobile), as modern day polar dinosaurs such as partridges do this.
The new anti Arstotzka Union wait what? there's three examples of animals alive today who do it in this thread alone and one is a bird so how can you just dismiss this as if he's saying something crazy and outlandish? Its perfectly plausible, maybe Yutarranus had white and light brown feathers for most of the year then when mating season comes about they grow an extra set of colourful plumage for display, heck thinking about it male deer can drop their antlers and regrow them, nature shows the concept is possible, possibility usually translates to actuality when ol mama nature is involved, i think its a great theory.
I've always thought that too. And fact birds have blood vessels going into their feathers that plump up, gloss & brighten colors during matting times. Alsi depression and winter colors fade i have seen. Many animals with fur are similar. The black patch in my Sheppard would disaaper every winter. Furless animals skins also go through changes. So what ever the theories, very plausible they did in fact change
@@DotDotDot0272 doesn't that mean your calling partridge and arctic hares seasons? 🤨
i love that your giving people info about dinosaurs hope you make more paleo profile
No problem! and I will
Hi Trey can you please do a paleo profile on argentavis magnificens.
Thanks :))
+TREY the Explainer ,can you make a smilodon and koolasuchus vídeos
Wich colour had Dunkleosteus (i know it isn't a dionosaur but a placoderm)
+TREY the Explainer it would have been cool if the dinosaurs were multicoloured
I would also like to know your opinion on Alistair Mackay's question. Do you think that theropods had lips that covered their teeth? I currently think that the majority of them might have had lips, I'm not sure yet for Spinosaurids since they spent so much of their time in/around water. I think that the topic might help you make a pretty interesting video.
That would have been horrifying. And I like it.
It's possible that T.rex and other big theropods are tan, brown, etc., but I have two main issues with comparing T.rex color to mammalian carnivore color.
1. Green, blue, purple, and all that crap is impossible in hair. Another commenter explained this better.
2. Zebras, antelopes, gnu, and deer, the primary prey of big cats and bears across the world, are color blind, making tan or brown a reliable option. All dinosaurs probably had color vision, including the hadrosaurs that T.rex ate.
T.rex could have been anywhere from tan to brown to maybe even green, but stripes are something that they probably did have, since it would be excellent camouflage in the redwood forests of Hell Creek. This is all just speculation though, so take it with a grain of salt.
think of science in 40 years we will know so mutch about dinosaurs
or not cuz people will rebel to make dinos featherless again
pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/06/16/new-study-proves-tyrannosaurus-rex-had-scaly-lizard-skin/
Oh its already happening
#KeepDinosaursScaly
Henrik Aga in 2119 we might even get onto genetically creating the velociraptors- and accurately sized and coloured!!! if only we could live to see that day....
Water Nebula I read that as "keep dinosaurs satan..." at first
Do a video on the accuracy of ARK SURVIVAL EVOLVED :D
OMG that video would long!
It would take 2 hours to do, hell, it could be a movie
*thick syrupy rage*
Best one would be spinosaurus
Not even the most loyal fan would watch a video 3 days long.
Whoever said that dimetrodon evolved into spinosaurus or vise versa is sad as hell.
+Hadrosaur838 Not if they've been isolated from Paleontology. A lot people these days are too preoccupied with their lives and other things that they really don't have the time to learn about ancient life everyday; you know how many times when I talk about dinosaurs people can't even remember the names of the most famous ones like Brachiosaurus and Triceratops? They usually refer to these iconic giants as "the ones with the long necks", "the one with the three horns", in fact it's gotten so bad people are forgetting Allosaurus.
We just need to give this people sometime and hemp educate them more rather bash the upstarts. Those who refuse to listen well they can leave.
Mr. N That probably has more to do with the fact knowing the name of some animal that lived millions upon millions of years ago is just completely useless information for anyone who doesn't have an interest in the topic.
I'm not trying to say that paleontology is useless, because its definitely not, just that lacking that knowledge is not going to hamper the day to day functionality of pretty much the majority of the population in any meaningful way.
But I agree, anyone who says or pretends to have a vested interest in the topic should make an understandable effort to keep himself/ herself informed.
@@TheMightyN you're breathtaking.
@@TheJPworld Priorities; was it useless to know the name of Tyrannosaurus Rex or the Wooly Mammoth? Was it also useless to know the names of countless events and individuals from Human history? No it was not.
…. it did for Jurassic Park (the newer installments)…. paleontological communities too.
No I didn't say "enforce" it upon the individual. We should try and have patience not every person who loves dinosaurs is going to study them 24/7... sad, but it's true. It is also our part to help educate them in the best way possible, but most Paleontologists, nor Dinosaur Events at your school or zoo help provide those resources that would make it fun; and the average human being is all about entertainment.
@@gangweedernigga4012 Wow a whole year and people look at this comment. Thank you E)
Please make more paleontology videos, I love your channel...
Thanks!
+TREY the Explainer hey trey can u do a paleo profile on koolasuchus
+TREY the Explainer Also if Spinosaurus had feather would they be duck like I mean like water proof
I don't know how practical or even likely this is, but I saw a CGI reconstruction of T. rex that was primarily black but had a stark white coloration on its face that gave it a chilling skull-like visage. I really liked that design.
I know what you're talking about. You're thinking of the Tyrannosaurus from Dinosaur Revolution.
Ah, yes, you're right! Isn't that such a cool design?!
Strix182 Yes! It's just so dark and menacing! It fits Tyrannosaurus well!
@@DrizzyDrew47 grimatyrannosaurus reaperex
That T-Rex in the thumbnail looks like he’s about to lecture me on how the earth is actually a cube.
As the "feather thing" with dinosaurs started all artists made parrots out of them.
There are crows,eagls,vultures and running birds....that doesn't look like a fluffy 70s disco party...
But 90% of paleo artists still make dinosaurs look awkward when feathers are involved...
"We will never know what colors dinosaurs are"
Borealopelta: *laughs in melanosomes*
Strange your current subscriber count is 90,459. Now it's 90,460:)
+Gary Busususaurus Thanks!
Chips Dubbo ¿
Tayden Butler ?
I love the fact that Dimetrodon had a giant rat like tail because it just makes it seem like a big rat which is just awesome!
Not a cat but a...CAPYBARA
Spino looks like an otter but I don't know
The true color of the T-Rex is in a wavelength we cannot see. To us, it would’ve been completely invisible.
If that were true, then we still would see a full black silhouette of a T-Rex. An object that does not send visible wavelenghts is black.
@@juanausensi499 black people be like
Trey can the next paleo profile be on the aquatic koolasuchus
Pixel Master kool aid saurus
Looks like we can now add _Psittacosaurus_ to the list of dinosaurs with more or less known colorations: www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/14/scientists-reveal-most-accurate-depiction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-created
I hate the old reconstructions of dinosaurs, with random colors, like green, red, orange, etc. I personally like brown or tan dinosaurs, because they seem more realistic.
modern birds normally have browns, tans, reds, blacks, etc and i think maybe some dinosaurs could be black and white, or some could have red crests, along with some types of mating displays. I think we shouldn't rule out that Mammals couldn't be a comparison since Birds and Mammals are pretty similar in color when you think about it.
Although some birds are green or blue, it seems unlikely, since Neoaves can tolerate pigments better than other dinosaurs.
Now we know what a Tyrannosaurus Rex looked like!
Their primarily brown, and black, possessing cat-like patterns. And finally, it had orange eyebrows.
Paleo Profile: Parasaurolophus!!
is my favorite dinosaur
I know that some of these videos are around 5 years old but it’s still really cool to learn new stuff. Thank you for giving us this information
Paleo Profile: Appalachiosaurus. plz i fna
***** It was a joke. :P
It is a tyrannosaur that isint well known
I was so happy to see that dinosaurs actually had vibrant pretty colors instead of the plain brown or black of earlier days
Can you do a video on the Carolina Butcher the crocodile that walked on 2 legs.
At least we know that some dinosaurs, had evidence of colors in the fossil rock.
Imagine this popping up in your recommended for the first ever time. I understand nothing 😺
We've also gotten close with a certain pterosaur called Pterorhynchus; while we still have no actual colors, we do know that its crest had a striped pattern on it.
I used to copy living animals with my coloration for dinosaurs (you should see my old, parrot-based ceratopsians, they looked so cool!), but now I've been getting more creative. I like to make my sauropods particularly colorful, seeing as they were so big that they didn't need to hide and were plant eaters that didn't need to sneak. I also like making plesiosaurs fairly colorful, like modern tropical marine animals.
watching this in 2019 and was startled to hear "here we are in 2015"
me in 2021
So, basically a case of use LOGIC. Therefore, triceratops (and other large ceratopsans) WERE NOT colored like a parrot.
i love bears, can you do an episode all about bears and its devolution animals?
Lmao
"Loves bears" I read this comment while watching a documentary whit a tiger killing and eating a brown bear
Wow this is remarkable, I always thought that it would take years to figure out dinosaur colours I never thought I would be able to know how beautiful these creatures really were.
Thank you your videos are amazing I never thought in my wildest dreams as a child of the 70ts 80ts we would know and find out so much about these creatures looks colour's for me mind blown lol
Thank you!
I'm glad you made this video, I was unaware we had any definitive info on coloration.
3:27 holy heck it’s a chicken
I love the mosasaur colour scheme and the fact that it shows how it took on a more blubbery and stream-lined body showing how it was a lot more whale like than crocodilian basically a cetacean mixed with a monitor lizard. Just Amazing! I also love the pigment of the microraptor showing a much more crow like colouration and body plan instead of a full on bipedal long legged dromaeosaur like how it’s depicted in popular media it’s simply fantastic!
New evidence shows that T. Rex’s didn’t have feathers
@@vulturemeat1974 to be fair, Trex did a sort of "cooling ventilation system" In it's nose
This is very cool and I wish more makers of TV shows, movies, and games would pay attention to such things.
About modern big muscular predators...
They have to hide from prey animals with very little in the way of color vision. If dinosaurs had better color vision, or even just a different set of colors, it might be well worth it to be green and two shades of brown instead of just three shades of brown.
Lots of mammals like cats hunt prey with good color vison (birds). Even birds that hunt birds are not green. Of the various green birds, few have any camouflage patterns and none are predators of large animals.
Akav Akaku
This is an excellent point. Cats may be the most colorful of mammals (because they hunt birds?) but I have yet to see a green cat.
A green cat would make for a cool house pet, but yeah.
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I like to imagine Mei long with calico cat coloring. And maybe a hidden flash of green which can be used for display purposes.
But if and when we find out what colors they actually were, I will have to adjust.
How about a video on dinosaur skin. You mentioned there is evidence that some was exposed.
Spinosaurus definitely has to be the most mind boggling dinousar... It's tail suggests aquatic lifestlye, it's body suggests terrestrial lifestyle. We have no clue how this animal might have lived and hunted because of that. Some paleontologists believe the animal was semi aquatic like a beaver or a crodocile but it's body shape would make it hard for the species to stay afloat and balanced.... The tail is super effective in aquatic propulsion though (at least on small scales) and it has to mean the animal lived or spent a lot of time in water.... Everyone is baffled
Sir you need to do a video on the new gravity falls episode, as it reveals quite a bit on bill, which most of your theories from another video were proven correct, so as the person who obviously has come the closest to figuring out what bill is please do another vid on him as quick as possible, so trey ADRESS your people (fanbase)
+Luke Duran I can do a video... I am very busy right now
+TREY the Explainer can do paleo profile do microposaurus
I had a nightmare of the Trex image staring straight at the audience, the dark colors and the sight of that carnivore looking straight at me, oh boy.
That Mark Witton picture of the T.Rex is fantastic ! Really moody i love it !
+Connor Tyler I love Mark Witton's work!
TREY the Explainer just followed his blog and asked when and where to buy his new book, looks like its gonna be awesome!
What about the Carnotaurus skin pieces they found?
what do you mean by that
+Spino Czar stop talking
+Dude058 i dont think they have analized it yet or its to hard,they also found iguanadon's skin pieces in like the 2009s,havent heard about them
Cooliostuff what did i do?
+Dude058 Very small, and found on an insignificant part of the body.
It so strange that something as simple as colour can make a creature seem so much more real and believable.
could you do "T-rex predetor or scavenger"
Benjamin Macdonald I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that they think it did both, just which ever was more convenient at the time.
Benjamin Macdonald From what I've heard, T-Rex was an opportunistic feeder, (I could be wrong on the term itself, if I am, correct me and please don't bite my head off) both hunting and scavenging, taking advantage of whatever resources it could.
Most modern day big scavengers hunt, and most big hunters scavange. It almost certainly did both. That being said, t. rex was probably a scavenger most of the time. Being so huge it could scare other predators from their kill.
In trey's top thirteen dinosaur facts he talks about an ornithopod fossil and a triceratops fossil that both had T-Rex bite marks that started to heal, showing these animals were attacked while they were alive.
Fun fact about the coloration of the dinosaurs! Specifically about how the melanin affects the strengths of the feathers. The reason why dinosaurs, specifically flying/gliding would have black wings or wingtips is due to the fact that darker coloration would strengthen the wings!
The T.rex shown at 8:18 looks sooo cool. Fluffy T.rexes really do look better than the JP scaly one.
And they're so much more real!
In my opinion you make one of the most interesting and epic videos on RUclips.
Every time I watch your videos I feel like I where set back in time. :)
Awesome thank you you just made my day ^^
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You say nitch I'm almost certain your tryna say "niche" if so it's pronounced "neesh"
You when I look at a T.Rex or Allosaurus I always see them be vividly colored in blues, oranges, greys or tans adorned with gnarly looking color markings from stripes to spots or blotches or swirls especially on the skull, to bring out their ferocity and stand out from most theropods while still keeping their countershade or camouflage advantage.
You know one thing I realized, most carnivoria that lived in forest areas tend to have black color on them like Jaguars, leopards,Tigers , American black bear, Asianic black bear, sun bear, pandas, raccoons even red pandas tend to pose a black or mix with black color.It could be possible that T.rex, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurs, Daspleteosaurs, Alectosaurus could have been Black color or mix with a black color pattern.
I personally think completely disregarding "bright colors" is a HUGE mistake. Looking at lions and bears is a great idea. But since birds are more related to dinosaurs then... a bear. Let's take a look at them. Search up "Exotic Birds" and you'll notice a lot of Green, Red, Blue. I want to get a Macaw later and that is exactly their color. Wild Canary's are Bright Yellow, Doves are completely white, cardinal's are bright red.
So... in the context of looking toward "Relatives" I think it's safe to say a good few of them had bright colors. Because you know... Bears and Lions aren't related to Dinosaurs
he never said they were closely related.He said they occupied a similar niche.
Najla Kahla The point was to illustrate that him throwing away the idea of "Bright colors" would be very "Un-scientific" and would be a bad idea to simply ignore something like that.
+Dieter Gaudlitz Now this is true, but let's consider the "Niche" as mentioned in the comment before yours. Look at tropical forests. Some birds have very bright colors, very fitting for it's environment. If we had a Dinosaur who's habitat consisted of a similar attributes, it would be safe to assume that they would be the same in blending in it's environment. I'm not stating that Dinosaurs can't be boring colors. I'm willing to be most of them were. But like I originally stated, to completely disregard the idea is beyond anyone and we shouldn't make such as strong statement until we know ALL the facts. Kinda like the whole "Feathers" thing. Dinosaur George, a renowned Paleontologist, says that it's not possible that ALL dinosaurs were covered in feathers. We even know this is a possibility with people speculating that Carnotaurus was completely scales.
+K Universe I dont know modern day predatory dinos like Hawks, Falcons and Eagles really lack bright and flashy colors. Still not impossible just saying. :)
+Dieter Gaudlitz Cassowarys may have black feathers, but they also have colourful necks.
Tyrannosaurus Rex might have been the colour of modern day crocodilians
I had no idea about sinornithosaurus having a red coloring pattern, which makes me happy since the sinornithosaurus I included in my children's comic book also happen to have a red color!
Very cool video.
Scientific Inaccuracies/Issues:
Skull Island (King Kong 2005)
+S3rp3nte Thank you!
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What has to do this fact with my suggestion?
I'm just curious to see how much scientifically accurate (or inaccurate in this case) is the Skull Island.
+S3rp3nte
I don't really see what the point of this would be. King Kong (2005) was never meant to be a scientifically accurate film. Peter Jackson has even gone out of his way many times to admit that he never intended to make a scientific movie. There are interviews with him explaining that his King Kong is more in the vein of a fantasy/adventure movie.
nosapian677
Ok, but i would like to see in anycase, just for fun.
Also, do you know that there were actually a documentary that try to scientifically explain the Skull Island.
And even Jurassic Park wasn't even meant to be a scientifically accurate too (at example, they have make smaller the Dilophosaurus or bigger the Velociraptor).
I've never heard about a Skull Island documentary, not that I'm surprised. There are plenty of documentaries based on non-scientific concepts. Discovery has done a documentary on Megalodon, and even Dragons. Just because something has a documentary doesn't make it true.
As for Jurassic Park, that was somewhat accurate for it's time, but I think it's also important to remember it's a science fiction movie first and foremost. it's not meant to be some hard-fact film, it's entertainment, and people are well aware of that. I don't know where people get this idea that Jurassic Park was supposed to be 100% factual. Neither Crichton nor Speilberg intended for it to be so.
5:04 - I really like these illustrations - especially the ones by Emily Willoughby.
Why if maybe spinosaurs evolved into a type of whale maybe it fully evolved to stay in the water
+Kerry Sauriol not sure about that croc have been around longer than dinos and they barely change the body design
+Kerry Sauriol if spinosaur move into the ocean maybe but in river and swamp area they don't need that much of change to adjust
+Logan Register I doubt Kerry meant a that it evolved into a modern whale, she probably more so questioned if it might have evolved into a whale like creature. Kind of like how the Ichthyosaurus is a reptile that resembled a dolphin.
+AgentDRJ That's what i was answering :D
I thought dinosaurs would be more birds like textures, and I think I was right!
T-rex is the most powerful dinosaur because he can say the N-word
0:07 spino with a tadpole tail... this guy predicted it :0
:O
0:04 when you are a huge fan of Pokemon evolutions 😂👍❤️👌
They look like normal animals now when you added color
I think the answer is another question - What colors were prehistoric plants? Add in some social adaptations, and general outline-breaking stripes & spots for the rest. Yep, that's what you said.
I can't wait until your next Over the Garden Wall video.
I also thought of another good idea for a Paleontology related video. I think you should make a video about baby dinosaurs and how they potentially behaved and looked like. I've seen a lot of depictions of them usually looking just like adult dinosaurs but smaller which is kind of a pet peeve of mine considering a majority of baby animals (especially baby birds) look vastly different to their adult counterparts in both coloration and body proportions.
If I may rebuff a little, just add this into consideration. Under intense conditions, melanosomes degrade and shrink over time and non-melanin pigment structures like carotenoids vanish completely. This leaves us only with structures that had melanin, so we can’t say for sure that archaeopteryx was all black for example. The structures that would allow yellows, oranges, and greens could have disintegrated over millions of years. We simply can’t be sure until new technology arises that can find other clues about coloration beyond melanosomes. I mean, we can also assume coloration based on diet as many birds get pigment from food sources, like how the yellow breast of a meadowlark is derived from the plants it eats.
That thumbnail is severely unsettling
Generally speaking yea it would make sense for the larger predators to be camouflaged as best they can whereas a lot of creatures with vibrant colour patterns are poisonous as a way to ward off prey or animals that are mostly free of predators and have an environment where finding a mate is more of a priority.
I think t rex colours would be based around it's habitat, as you said. To be honest, dark brown with earthy green hints and a black belly would be extremely useful for camouflage. Lions live in savannahs, so their coat is golden, while bears live in forests and their fur is dark brown
you heart breaker, jurassic Park chaos effect series colour is how I want dinosaurs to look like. great video, very informative, a+
Watching your videos always make me so happy. I love learning more about dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures and its always so fascinating to watch.
A brown T-rex would be more like what I imagine T-rex's colors would be like, like what Rexy from Jurassic Park/ World since she was brown colored.
Yuss
Except with feathers
It would be closer to a grey colour and yes it would be very feathered
And the feathers would be brown
How come all the humans included in pictures for scale are just chilling instead of running like hell?
I recall reading somewhere that research on Ichthyosaurus fossils concluded these animals were, in fact, reddish-brown in color. That was quite a while ago, though, so that conclusion may be outdated. Still, it's amazing that in these cases we're now capable of knowing for sure how they would have looked.
well i actually think your dino vids are the best thing in your channel! i don't even remember what other vids you upload!
so wtf people don't be silly and be unsubscribing! is not like you are paying or even losing much time,
just don't watch whatever you don't like sheeez! we are almost 100 000 :)
That picture of the black T-Rex staring into the camera seriously gives me the creeps!
a good follow up to this would be "what sounds did dinosaurs make?"
Trey, have you seen that that rhamphorynchus fossil with the fish! Probably one of the most amazing fossils I've ever seen!
I really want to know, what was grass like when it first evolved and what did it evolve from. And I also really want to know about early mammals
Yeah the "Did Dimetrodon evolve into Spinosaurus?" and vice versa kinda made Trey feel bad.
The trex in the thumbnail was CHONKY
Great video as always. I really like learning more about Dinosaurs. The little kid in me has risen again.
Great!
I love the thumbnail. It's terrifyingly realistic. Does anyone know the artist?
Possibly the first large herbivorous dinosaur with known colour, the Sauropelta (a North American nodosaur) was a rusty red on top and pale cream on its underbelly! This countershading was to help protect it from Deinonychus and Acrocanthosaurus.
Modern Apex predator aren’t green because they can’t produce those colors, so tree might have been green