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"Octopus Skeletons" I read in the Halloween Isle, However all that was in front of me was a box of Beaks. This concludes my two sentence horror story I hope you all enjoy
It's probably because the artists are actually vested in doing research because they have to make those somewhat convincing, while regular animal skeletons only have to resemble the living prototype which actually leads them astray even further.
Ya know, if you really think about it, these incorrect skeletons are _more_ spooky than correct skeletons. Because some of them would probably be disturbingly grotesque if they were live animals.
And whoever or whatever "made" them must've had a lot of small dead animals around to take apart and reassemble in grotesquely different shapes. A witch with a raven is one thing. A witch with a cat skeleton isn't much spookier. But a witch with a spider made of rabbit bones is horrifying.
The government is trying to hide the existence of mothman. They called that skeleton a "butterfly skeleton" to push everyone off the trail to the conclusion.
I've finally worked out the "spider skeleton" decorations. They aren't the skeletons OF spiders. They are spiders MADE OF bones! Like, reanimated bones from graveyards, formed into a creepy spider shape
bogleech. in his halloween bestiary (speculative monsters based on halloween decorations like this) speculated that spider skeletons. or any arthropod skeletons. are in fact the spirits of arthropods possessing vertebrate bones. mixing. matching. and contorting whatever they find into whatever form they need. so thus spiders with human finger bones for legs and ribcage-like builds for abdomens. among all sorts of other abberations.
“Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia” is an excellent goblin sentiment. Clint makes me grin all the way through this video. This is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! ADDENDUM: I’m pretty sure the point of reference for the butterfly skeleton was the Pokémon Butterfree.
I can almost guarantee the artists *did* look at the skeletons in question, since artists extensively study anatomy, but if they produced an accurate product, would get told by corporate, "What is that?! Customers won't recognize that as a bird skeleton! Who would buy that?" or "too expensive to manufacture! Use less bones!" and they'd have to go back and make something stupid that "looks" like that animal to laypeople. Don't blame the artists, man! 😂
I work with artists and they actually have me evaluate to see if they missed or misinterpreted anatomy in amount that somebody who's really familiar with the animal would find offensive. Specifically I'm looking at the diagnostic characteristics, the characteristics that really make that animal identifiable as that animal. It's a fine balance between artistic license and making sure that the animal reads as the correct animal and doesn't have anything that is really stand out incorrect. Biologists are going to notice things that many artists will end up missing. There's a difference between specifically studying one species for a long time to master drawing it and producing a lot of commercial art quickly. Not every artist actually has somebody to consult with to see if they've hit the broad strokes that are going to really stand out to people who are familiar. So it's not just a matter of corporate it's also just a matter of time. There is also of course the narratives that these things are actually made by necromancers putting together human bones which changes things a bit when you do an evaluation. And those cases if I were to be asked to consult on a project like this I would be looking to make sure that the individual bones looked realistic and the overall appearance was recognizable rather than the correct anatomy for the animal it was mimicking.
@darcieclements4880 fair enough. But you're only hired to consult by people who actually care if the final product is accurate or not lol. I guess what I mean isn't that every artist will naturally nail the anatomy of every species without help, but that any professional artist could do better than this if they were actually encouraged to be accurate & given the time to research. I assume the toy company makes their artists crank out designs as fast as possible and probably discourages accuracy if it means it's more expensive to manufacture or doesn't look as "cool" as skeleton octopus 😆
Maybe they were adapted from horns? Reptiles don't typically have external ears, so maybe it made do with the external structures its body already had to convergently evolve them.
I suspect the awesomely-accurate Frog skeleton may have been made through the astounding cost saving process of simply casting/3D-scanning a real frog skeleton, then letting an artist make some adjustments (like the eyes)
..gotta admit, that new skeleton octopus is kinda adorable in a mildly horrifying way. I'm reminded of Sid's baby doll/metal crab from Toy Story. And you should call that cat Scrungley 😂
"Scrungley" gets my vote as well! "Scrungled" is my and my sister's favorite term for something that is just ... not right and messed up in a weird way, so "Scrungley" perfectly fits the cat!
@@maryt.3273 haha my mom and I use it to describe how our dog looks when he gets his face all smooshed up as he's napping. He'll wake up all wrinkly and bleary eyed like he doesn't know what century he's in. Scrungly boy 😂
@@ClintsReptiles my broski, hi clint.. when you showed us the cobra skeleton.. i only thought of two giant snakes.. "dragon wars" movie featured the giant basilisk with the hooded face and correct skeleton system and the twin giant cobras from the movie "gods of egypt" who chased down the main female/male protagnist.. out of a thousand snake movies, they got it right.. on your off time google the images and/or watch the movie they are actually decent,i gave them both a solid B+
Oh yeah that would be a pretty easy one to do too cuz it's not too expensive. He could actually get in depth a little bit better with some of the different species.
Okay, but legit, I would *love* to see more speculative evolution videos from this channel! Imagine if someone who knows their stuff as much as Clint was in charge of writing a natural history of dragons and their relating clades? That would be the definition of awesome!
Has Clint ever considered a necromancer's area of effect death magic that is active at all times and impedes him from seeing living butterfly because it dies and rots if he gets too close? He goes on and on about these decorations not being anatomically correct, yet the way he describes sorcerers of the undead isn't scientifically accurate necromancy.
The cat's name is Screeeeech. The butterfly is not a butterfly but an infant Mothman, well known extraterrestrials that don't develop for limbs until their 13th year. The dragon skeleton is from the first dragons discovered on the planet Pern. They were later genetically altered to be much larger. I am pleased to clear these things up for you.
I would love to see Clint do a similar reaction to AI generated images of animals! I stumble across them all the time while doing Google searches. At first, there's just something uncanny about a certain image, but then you start to notice the backward-facing rear feet and unnatural scale pattern of a lizard or binocular vision on a pigeon. I'd love to see Clint's initial reaction to seeing some of those images. Maybe even the crew could put in some really bad ones, and Clint has to guess what it was supposed to be. I think it would be super fun and a great chance to teach about animal physiology!
@@ClintsReptiles I'd be thrilled if you decided to do it! Much love to you all. Thanks for what you do- I strongly believe it's a force for positive change!
Are we sure these are bone ears? They do superficially resemble the fleshy external ears of many mammals, but it's not that unusual for horned animals to have multiple pairs of horns. I can only speculate about the reason for the unusual shape of the horn core on the smaller pair in this case, maybe that groove up the middle was associated with some kind of display structure, like inflatable air sacs?
It is actually fairly common for butterflys to have only 4 functional (and clearly visible) legs, with one pair of legs being small, reduced or even vestigial and such hard to see and not used as legs. Only 2 legs is of course not a thing
22:56 - "he's also empty inside" - relatable Ahhh I love this time of year and the annual Halloween decoration skeleton feature is one of my highlights. 💚
I love these videos. Been happy every October they've come out. They've got "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong" vibes. Though you're a lot more tolerant of inaccuracies. Thanks Clint!
"He's got the sloped forehead and reduced braincase of a proto human. Frankly I am astounded he knew how to communicate to his human handler to post his comment. Clearly this person had a small brain and did not possess the intellectual capacity of a real human." Heh kidding.
Before I was a subscriber I saw a tarantula "skeleton" at a local store. I was appalled! I was absolutely delighted when RUclips recommended the original "Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations" a couple years later. My delight increased when you started the video with a spider "skeleton". Now I want to make a list of all the "skeletons" in your first 3 videos to have the next time I'm perusing Halloween decorations.
I got the same dragon skeleton recently! I remember taking a look and thinking they did a decent job at solving the problem of having to connect 6 limbs to a body that should only have four. It looks like the front legs are attached directly to the ribcage with a hip like joint, rather than to the shoulder blades, and the wings are connected to the shoulder blades. No idea whether that would work in practice, and it certainly doesn't seem like something that would evolve from 4-legged animals, but I thought it was a good idea.
Yes I look forward to it the moment that the previous years won ends. I get a kick out of seeing these every year in the store and even before Clint was making these videos I was going over the anatomy with my friends for fun at the store. I love these videos.
My understanding is that these bone creations are actually all made from parts of human skeletons that some crazy necromancer has reconfigured together into the rough form of animals and then enchanted. That's my favorite like version of the explanation of like all bone weird anatomy critters. If I didn't have this I think I probably would have lost my mind over a decade ago and these things first started appearing, lol. I actually have enough friends that do museum specimen preparation that will when things go wrong with the preparation do things like this for art that it seems fairly plausible to me.
*Clint brings out dinosaur skeleton* "hmmm, looks like deinonychus" *Clint confirms it's deinonychus* "AWWWW YEAH, thanks Alphabet of Dinosaurs book I had as a kid!"
I've had the dragon skeleton sitting on one of my snake cages for a few years! When I first found it I geeked out over the keeled sternum too! Definitely one of the best animal skeleton decorations out there. Great vid as always!
The "butterfly" skeleton at 21:34 is probably based off of "butterfree" (the pokemon). It has the two large hind legs and the huge eyes, but it's missing the front legs/arms/hands, and the wings are made of bone.
(Best Read with a Southern Lawyer accent) Clint. The so called... ahem... butterfly skeleton. Is, CLEARLY, not a butterfly. Ahem... cough cough. What you have there, Sir, is... Ahem. A classic Mothman Skeleton. You are forgiven for your ignorance. :) Such a fun video :) I love these.
I'm super impressed that none of the dinosaurs had mammal butts, at least that's what the museum I work at calls it when the pelvis is human like. Seen both a theropod and triceratops with such a condition
Hey man I’m so excited to come to your facility on Thursday! You have been such a big inspiration for me and many more. I started watching your videos around the start of Covid and they really helped me through those tough times. Happy grand opening and thank you for inspiring and helping so many people!
Your enthusiasm for both the surprisingly good and astoundingly horrendous is wonderful. You throw in so many fascinating details about the different animals, too. And congrats on your lucky find of a real dragon skeleton! A rare thing indeed. PS, I think you should name the cat Fry Pan, because he looks like he's been smacked in the face with one.
Clint I can honestly say I have seen an uprising in inaccurate skeletons since you made the first video. 😂. The species list keeps growing every year. I think at this point its all for you. 😂
In my experience regarding the production of toys and novelty items, costs are cut by companies through the re-use of molds and parts to assemble something new. People in production are not so much asked to look at an actual skeleton. It's more like they are asked to look at the existing parts, see what they can create with the molds the company has, and add the bare minimum of new parts to cut costs. It also has to do with how advanced their mold process is, and whether or not they are using computer modeling. This would explain the disparity between accurate aspects and inaccurate aspects. Not that they aren't getting the skeletons horribly wrong to begin with in many cases, but as a toy collector, I am always informing myself as to where companies cut costs in the production of certain figures, and I'm willing to bet these halloween decoration companies do the same. The more accurate ones are likely ones where the artist actually was asked to design something from scratch, rather than designing around the reuse of existing parts and molds.
I would love to see a series of videos featuring various mythological creatures rated as pets based on either AI estimates or just on how they’re depicted in various media.
I look forward to these videos every year! I also have a small collection of "anatomically silly" skeletons that I add to every year. This year I'm holding out for the Spirit Halloween snail skeleton. 🤣
I have been looking forward to this video for months. I propose "Punchline" as the name for the black cat- because as soon as it appears, everyone starts laughing!
That impossible spider skeleton you hold up at 0:20 has been an awesome decoration in my fish tank for years. I filled its abdomen with melted marbles to keep it from floating, and to look like internal organs within the “ribs”.
the frog skeleton reminds me an awful lot of a 'frog dissection' kit I had as a kid. it had this little skeleton and plastic organs that you layered together in a mold and filled with this dark green gelatin. when it was set, you dissected your little frog. it made for a fun Halloween thing afterward, filling it with lime jello, sans the plastic bits.
OMG!! I have the dragon from the thumbnail! I was working as a cashier at a grocery store two years ago, and a family came through my line and decided they didn't want him because he was missing a foot. I'm such a sucker for dragons and underdogs, so I bought him. His name is Bartok the Tenacious, and he's been with me ever since, even through 2022 in which I lived in 3 states and 4 houses/apartments. I did have to glue his remaining front foot on because those suckers truly love to pop off. But i love him 🧡🧡
I can’t stop laughing at that cat even though I’ve seen it around 5 times now I remember when you said you got it from the “snakes don’t have skeletons store”
looking at the neck and skull of the "griffon", I wonder if its actually an ancient griffon from the pliostocine, combining an ancestor of cats and dogs with some species of terror bird. Maybe the skull shows its even older, more akin to that of gastornis, and clearly the feet indicate a lifestyle of living in trees grasping branches, then swooping down to pick off small ancient horses. increadible speculative biology on the evolution of the griffon from these artists, stellar job
The dragon, falfalcorsetail, and mermaid from last year are my favorite honestly. Clint's out here letting us know the real from the really remarkable! Maybe there's more of these kinds of skeletons out there left to cover than the run-of-the-mill kind?
I saw a pretty normal “snake” skeleton for sale this year. Immediately thought about one of the previous years, where someone insisted to you that there weren’t any snake skeletons because they don’t have bones. I wonder what they think now? And I wonder if someone in the fake skeleton business saw that video?
Hey Clint, just wanted to comment and let you know I absolutely love your dinosaur series of videos, I watched through them all over the last day or so and they're some of my favorite content you've out out, despite me being 10 months late with alot of the videos woops. They're so insightful, educational and just generally a really good time, I've always adored researching and understanding more about dinosaurs so I found your videos perfect for me, especially your Tyrannosaurid focused one ;). I hope you'll consider doing them for 2023, and yaknow, wouldn't be opposed to just generally alot more dinosaur-themed videos throughout the year(s!). Love what you do man, thanks for being a great educator!
the fact that this dragon has external ears and the wings of fire dragons have external ears makes me feel like Tui Sutherland has special information we don't know about
I have something to admit: I’m the necromancer who has been making all these things. I can’t help it! I want an octopus, but what am I to do? So, I improvise.
Okay I think I missed the announcement of when you got the biology PhD, congrats. I never continued with titles after the baseline and I just kept studying it all on my own, but I also totally respect and understand the interest for professional educators continuing to go up the ranks, so grats on the PhD, sorry I missed the announcement. Seems like at that level you should really consider starting to do some research papers. I have piles and piles of research that need to be turned into papers but since my day job as an engineer is also pretty taxing I haven't ever gotten around to put in the papers together. I really do encourage you to consider you know actually writing up some papers because goodness gracious we need some really good ones done for so many species the research publication is so far behind. I know that you're focus is primarily on the RUclips videos and the education as a professor but I would love to you know see if you would do some papers and if you need any data I'd certainly be up for helping with that part. I've always been really good at collecting data it's just actually submitting things to journals I suck at, lol. I'm sure there's probably plenty of others that are in a similar boat so maybe look around and see if you could get in on some of that because certainly PhD level experience with understanding the whole process of submitting papers would be awesome for a lot of people who have been continuing to do science but have been out of school for a couple of decades without submitting papers. Heck you could even do some videos on how to go about doing it that'd be cool.
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I honestly mean this in the best way possible.... You're the adult Blippi. Super informative, fun, animated, (and you look similar), I love your content. 😅
Hi Clint! Great video! When you said, "Hyoid bone , it reminded me about something I learned watching "Forensic Files". A broken or crushed Hyoid bone tells the detectives their victim had been strangled. Like you said, it's situated at the root of the tongue in front of our neck and the larynx. Ta-Da!!🎈✨️🎉 Now y'all can go about your day feeling safe 😊and satisfied🎉
Part of me feels bad laughing at the uneducated people who created those terribly inaccurate Halloween decorations but at the same time the other side of me finds it way too funny to not laugh at
Had to create an account just to say I saw that Halloween Cat and immediately thought "That's not a cat, that's an Aye-Aye." It's definitely a Daubentonia madagascariensis, the rodent-like teeth are a dead giveaway. They got the feet wrong though!
Your horrible Halloween decorations video 2 years ago is what lead me to finding your channel and ive watched all of your videos since! Its nice to have been a fan for 2 years now! I can't wait for Dinosaur December!!!
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can you do a video on best aquatic lizards please
You should watch velocipastor
We can call the cat Clifton
"Octopus Skeletons"
I read in the Halloween Isle, However all that was in front of me was a box of Beaks.
This concludes my two sentence horror story I hope you all enjoy
You should call the cat pretty kitty because it would be ironic because it's obviously not pretty it's Cringingly frightening!
It's so ironic how the second most accurate skeleton was a skeleton of a mythical creature.
Ah yes, a mythical creature. I, as a fellow flightless, four limbed mammal, am amused by the completely fictional skeleton of the mighty dragon.
@@danielwesley5051I have 6 limbs weakling, get on my level
It's probably because the artists are actually vested in doing research because they have to make those somewhat convincing, while regular animal skeletons only have to resemble the living prototype which actually leads them astray even further.
@@DzinkyDzink
I honestly assumed they were made that way on purpose. They take massive liberties so kids can actually recognize the animal
That person really liked skeletons and really likes dragons or there’s no way they would have gotten it that right
I'm 80% certain that the "butterfly" skeleton is actually a fossilized baby Mothman.
As Mothman himself, I can confirm this. That was my son, he died an untimely tragic death 😔
@@ImTired17sorry to hear that
Nah thats explains about internal skeleton that even butterfly dont have
Yep
You poor thing! If you need a distraction, dogs are needed
I hope awful Halloween animal skeletons continue to be manufactured solely for the continuation of this series.
Clint's the only thing stopping the companies that make theese from shutting down🗣🗣
Probably
The Halloween industrial complex is real!
I don't think they'll stop anytime soon 😂.
they ain’t stopping bro 😂
I saw a baby vampire last time I was at target
With a deep voice too 💀
Ya know, if you really think about it, these incorrect skeletons are _more_ spooky than correct skeletons. Because some of them would probably be disturbingly grotesque if they were live animals.
True
And whoever or whatever "made" them must've had a lot of small dead animals around to take apart and reassemble in grotesquely different shapes.
A witch with a raven is one thing. A witch with a cat skeleton isn't much spookier. But a witch with a spider made of rabbit bones is horrifying.
That butterfly skeleton is definitely a moth man skeleton, they must have just got them mixed up
Rare baby mothman specimen! Cover it in some dirt and dim lighting, and we could have a conspiracy video on our hands. /j
Shhhh...don't let them know we exist! We've already had our cover blown by Local58!
The government is trying to hide the existence of mothman. They called that skeleton a "butterfly skeleton" to push everyone off the trail to the conclusion.
YES! And I must own one.
MOTHERA!!!!
That cat looks like a medieval painting of a cat. I can' t imagine it being called anything besides Gustav
Looks like a Bartholomew to me
Petition for the cat to now be called Gustav!
I've finally worked out the "spider skeleton" decorations. They aren't the skeletons OF spiders. They are spiders MADE OF bones! Like, reanimated bones from graveyards, formed into a creepy spider shape
Necromancer theory
Bone spider lore
The Necro wizard Balthazaar animated them to fight his enemies
bogleech. in his halloween bestiary (speculative monsters based on halloween decorations like this) speculated that spider skeletons. or any arthropod skeletons. are in fact the spirits of arthropods possessing vertebrate bones. mixing. matching. and contorting whatever they find into whatever form they need. so thus spiders with human finger bones for legs and ribcage-like builds for abdomens. among all sorts of other abberations.
@@justanothermook6348 but where did the Octopus get the bone suckers?
“Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia” is an excellent goblin sentiment. Clint makes me grin all the way through this video. This is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! ADDENDUM: I’m pretty sure the point of reference for the butterfly skeleton was the Pokémon Butterfree.
I can almost guarantee the artists *did* look at the skeletons in question, since artists extensively study anatomy, but if they produced an accurate product, would get told by corporate, "What is that?! Customers won't recognize that as a bird skeleton! Who would buy that?" or "too expensive to manufacture! Use less bones!" and they'd have to go back and make something stupid that "looks" like that animal to laypeople.
Don't blame the artists, man! 😂
This is definitely what happens when the marketing department gets involved in any kind of design process. lol
I work with artists and they actually have me evaluate to see if they missed or misinterpreted anatomy in amount that somebody who's really familiar with the animal would find offensive. Specifically I'm looking at the diagnostic characteristics, the characteristics that really make that animal identifiable as that animal. It's a fine balance between artistic license and making sure that the animal reads as the correct animal and doesn't have anything that is really stand out incorrect. Biologists are going to notice things that many artists will end up missing. There's a difference between specifically studying one species for a long time to master drawing it and producing a lot of commercial art quickly. Not every artist actually has somebody to consult with to see if they've hit the broad strokes that are going to really stand out to people who are familiar. So it's not just a matter of corporate it's also just a matter of time. There is also of course the narratives that these things are actually made by necromancers putting together human bones which changes things a bit when you do an evaluation. And those cases if I were to be asked to consult on a project like this I would be looking to make sure that the individual bones looked realistic and the overall appearance was recognizable rather than the correct anatomy for the animal it was mimicking.
no.
@@darcieclements4880yes, but bony feathers...bony feathers...
@darcieclements4880 fair enough. But you're only hired to consult by people who actually care if the final product is accurate or not lol.
I guess what I mean isn't that every artist will naturally nail the anatomy of every species without help, but that any professional artist could do better than this if they were actually encouraged to be accurate & given the time to research.
I assume the toy company makes their artists crank out designs as fast as possible and probably discourages accuracy if it means it's more expensive to manufacture or doesn't look as "cool" as skeleton octopus 😆
Maybe it's just me, but I love the idea that dragons have hard ears that are mistaken for another set of horns.
True. The artist had obviously seen a real dragon.
Bone ears would be a cool adaptation
What if they are in fact another set of horns that are only located next to the ears?
Maybe they were adapted from horns? Reptiles don't typically have external ears, so maybe it made do with the external structures its body already had to convergently evolve them.
Looks like the skeleton of a mountain dragon from Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real/The Last Dragon.
I suspect the awesomely-accurate Frog skeleton may have been made through the astounding cost saving process of simply casting/3D-scanning a real frog skeleton, then letting an artist make some adjustments (like the eyes)
And for toad skeleton too. Thus explain about the presence of bumps on the skeleton, despite on actual toad this bumps only exists in skin surface
Clint: "I would like for avian wing skeletons and sternums to be portrayed properly!"
*The monkey's paw curls*
The next one he receives in the mail will be accurate all right
There’s going to be some scratches coming from inside of the box
I love that cat so much! It looks like it was made by someone who has never seen a cat before.
Maybe it is made by someone seeing that taxidermied lion from the 17th century
Maybe they used a medieval cat painting as a reference. xD
@@mariepindstruplinde1671 Oh my god. I had to look it up. It's wonderfully atrocious.
It looks like a taxidermy made by someone who has never seen a cat before
Because inaccuracy is more fun
..gotta admit, that new skeleton octopus is kinda adorable in a mildly horrifying way. I'm reminded of Sid's baby doll/metal crab from Toy Story. And you should call that cat Scrungley 😂
"Scrungley" gets my vote as well! "Scrungled" is my and my sister's favorite term for something that is just ... not right and messed up in a weird way, so "Scrungley" perfectly fits the cat!
Scrungley is the perfect name for his whacky looking squirrel cat
@@maryt.3273 haha my mom and I use it to describe how our dog looks when he gets his face all smooshed up as he's napping. He'll wake up all wrinkly and bleary eyed like he doesn't know what century he's in. Scrungly boy 😂
@@RealElongatedMuskrat In fairness, that is also how I react to waking up from a face-smooshing nap 😂
They reminded me of the baby alien from Men in Black lol.
Makes me want to hunt down more weird skeletons for next year
Please do!
@@ClintsReptilesyou should get an armadillo and make a video about them
@@ClintsReptiles my broski, hi clint.. when you showed us the cobra skeleton.. i only thought of two giant snakes.. "dragon wars" movie featured the giant basilisk with the hooded face and correct skeleton system and the twin giant cobras from the movie "gods of egypt" who chased down the main female/male protagnist.. out of a thousand snake movies, they got it right.. on your off time google the images and/or watch the movie they are actually decent,i gave them both a solid B+
@@ClintsReptiles I found a skeleton fly! And a skeleton beetle. Which I of course bought them. And there's a duck skeleton I've found, gonna buy it!
@@AHunterInTheShadowsdangit I was gonna say that bc I found one too!
I loved how you held up nothing for the worst snake skeleton.
However bad those other skeletons are - they're better than nothing!
every year around this time I'm reminded that a crossover between clint's reptiles and your dinosaurs are wrong would be incredible
as an avid viewer of both of these channels, I concur, enthusiastically so.
Clint, have you considered that the terrible butterfly skeleton is actually an exceptionally good mothman skeleton?
You should do a phylogenetic video on cats from the terrifying tiger to our beloved house cat as a Halloween special!
Oh yeah that would be a pretty easy one to do too cuz it's not too expensive. He could actually get in depth a little bit better with some of the different species.
Okay, but legit, I would *love* to see more speculative evolution videos from this channel! Imagine if someone who knows their stuff as much as Clint was in charge of writing a natural history of dragons and their relating clades? That would be the definition of awesome!
I love that no matter how many times you see that cat, you can't help but laugh at it, and your laughter is infectious.
Clint's annoyance from some of these skeletons is amazing. This series is great and needs to continue with future Halloweens.
Has Clint ever considered a necromancer's area of effect death magic that is active at all times and impedes him from seeing living butterfly because it dies and rots if he gets too close? He goes on and on about these decorations not being anatomically correct, yet the way he describes sorcerers of the undead isn't scientifically accurate necromancy.
I would love to see Clint release anatomically accurate animal skeleton figurines
The cat's name is Screeeeech.
The butterfly is not a butterfly but an infant Mothman, well known extraterrestrials that don't develop for limbs until their 13th year.
The dragon skeleton is from the first dragons discovered on the planet Pern. They were later genetically altered to be much larger.
I am pleased to clear these things up for you.
Awww, a fire lizard!
Thank you so much
Now all we need is a dragon skeleton that looks like Ridley.
I’ve come to look forward to this so much each year!
Me too , & btw love Sophia Patrillo 😉
I would love to see Clint do a similar reaction to AI generated images of animals! I stumble across them all the time while doing Google searches. At first, there's just something uncanny about a certain image, but then you start to notice the backward-facing rear feet and unnatural scale pattern of a lizard or binocular vision on a pigeon.
I'd love to see Clint's initial reaction to seeing some of those images. Maybe even the crew could put in some really bad ones, and Clint has to guess what it was supposed to be. I think it would be super fun and a great chance to teach about animal physiology!
That's a very good idea!
@@ClintsReptiles I'd be thrilled if you decided to do it! Much love to you all. Thanks for what you do- I strongly believe it's a force for positive change!
Are we sure these are bone ears? They do superficially resemble the fleshy external ears of many mammals, but it's not that unusual for horned animals to have multiple pairs of horns. I can only speculate about the reason for the unusual shape of the horn core on the smaller pair in this case, maybe that groove up the middle was associated with some kind of display structure, like inflatable air sacs?
The breakdown of the dragon skeleton had me grinning like a fool 😁
It is actually fairly common for butterflys to have only 4 functional (and clearly visible) legs, with one pair of legs being small, reduced or even vestigial and such hard to see and not used as legs.
Only 2 legs is of course not a thing
22:56 - "he's also empty inside" - relatable
Ahhh I love this time of year and the annual Halloween decoration skeleton feature is one of my highlights. 💚
I think in defence of the 'butterfly', it's basically just a really teeny mothman and actually kinda cute 😄
I love these videos. Been happy every October they've come out. They've got "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong" vibes. Though you're a lot more tolerant of inaccuracies. Thanks Clint!
I can't wait for Clint to review my skeleton some future Halloween! Gotta see how accurate I am!
Found the necromancer!
"He's got the sloped forehead and reduced braincase of a proto human. Frankly I am astounded he knew how to communicate to his human handler to post his comment. Clearly this person had a small brain and did not possess the intellectual capacity of a real human." Heh kidding.
Before I was a subscriber I saw a tarantula "skeleton" at a local store. I was appalled! I was absolutely delighted when RUclips recommended the original "Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations" a couple years later. My delight increased when you started the video with a spider "skeleton".
Now I want to make a list of all the "skeletons" in your first 3 videos to have the next time I'm perusing Halloween decorations.
I freaking love this series, and I'm so very glad that the "cat" has become a running gag.
I got the same dragon skeleton recently! I remember taking a look and thinking they did a decent job at solving the problem of having to connect 6 limbs to a body that should only have four. It looks like the front legs are attached directly to the ribcage with a hip like joint, rather than to the shoulder blades, and the wings are connected to the shoulder blades. No idea whether that would work in practice, and it certainly doesn't seem like something that would evolve from 4-legged animals, but I thought it was a good idea.
I've been looking forward to this all year!! Thanks Clint.
Me too! Thank you for watching!
Yes I look forward to it the moment that the previous years won ends. I get a kick out of seeing these every year in the store and even before Clint was making these videos I was going over the anatomy with my friends for fun at the store. I love these videos.
IT'S FINALLY HERE! I wait for this video series every single year! They're probably my favorite thing on RUclips!
"It's almost like it isn't that hard!" This had me laughing. Great job to the person who was able to use Google to reference a frog skeleton.
21:33
That's no butterfly, that's a pixie!
My understanding is that these bone creations are actually all made from parts of human skeletons that some crazy necromancer has reconfigured together into the rough form of animals and then enchanted. That's my favorite like version of the explanation of like all bone weird anatomy critters. If I didn't have this I think I probably would have lost my mind over a decade ago and these things first started appearing, lol. I actually have enough friends that do museum specimen preparation that will when things go wrong with the preparation do things like this for art that it seems fairly plausible to me.
*Clint brings out dinosaur skeleton* "hmmm, looks like deinonychus"
*Clint confirms it's deinonychus* "AWWWW YEAH, thanks Alphabet of Dinosaurs book I had as a kid!"
I've had the dragon skeleton sitting on one of my snake cages for a few years! When I first found it I geeked out over the keeled sternum too! Definitely one of the best animal skeleton decorations out there. Great vid as always!
Yay! It's not really the Halloween season without Clint's take on the decorations. The cat is At At.
The "butterfly" skeleton at 21:34 is probably based off of "butterfree" (the pokemon). It has the two large hind legs and the huge eyes, but it's missing the front legs/arms/hands, and the wings are made of bone.
I thought I'd seen that face on a butterfly before, you're right! It's not an earth butterfly at all, but one from
The World of Pokemon
(Best Read with a Southern Lawyer accent) Clint. The so called... ahem... butterfly skeleton. Is, CLEARLY, not a butterfly. Ahem... cough cough. What you have there, Sir, is... Ahem. A classic Mothman Skeleton. You are forgiven for your ignorance. :) Such a fun video :) I love these.
After seeing some of those skeletons, i assure you, necromancers can do WAYY better 😭😭😭
I'm super impressed that none of the dinosaurs had mammal butts, at least that's what the museum I work at calls it when the pelvis is human like. Seen both a theropod and triceratops with such a condition
I love the opportunities for teaching actual animal facts and anatomy this series allows.
I want that cat squirrel hybrid. It is like something out of Lovecraft's novels, lording over the other teratological nightmares.
Hey man I’m so excited to come to your facility on Thursday! You have been such a big inspiration for me and many more. I started watching your videos around the start of Covid and they really helped me through those tough times.
Happy grand opening and thank you for inspiring and helping so many people!
Your enthusiasm for both the surprisingly good and astoundingly horrendous is wonderful. You throw in so many fascinating details about the different animals, too. And congrats on your lucky find of a real dragon skeleton! A rare thing indeed. PS, I think you should name the cat Fry Pan, because he looks like he's been smacked in the face with one.
Clint I can honestly say I have seen an uprising in inaccurate skeletons since you made the first video. 😂. The species list keeps growing every year. I think at this point its all for you. 😂
With the elongated cheek spikes, we might as well call it Tryracopentasaurotops.
Butterfly skeleton is adorable!! Like something from an old fantasy film for children
21:20 I really hope that isn't a terrible taxidermy
Nope, it's a shitty, plastic-polyester abomination mascarading as a rodent-toothed cat.
In my experience regarding the production of toys and novelty items, costs are cut by companies through the re-use of molds and parts to assemble something new. People in production are not so much asked to look at an actual skeleton. It's more like they are asked to look at the existing parts, see what they can create with the molds the company has, and add the bare minimum of new parts to cut costs. It also has to do with how advanced their mold process is, and whether or not they are using computer modeling.
This would explain the disparity between accurate aspects and inaccurate aspects. Not that they aren't getting the skeletons horribly wrong to begin with in many cases, but as a toy collector, I am always informing myself as to where companies cut costs in the production of certain figures, and I'm willing to bet these halloween decoration companies do the same.
The more accurate ones are likely ones where the artist actually was asked to design something from scratch, rather than designing around the reuse of existing parts and molds.
ah yes, my favorite time of year, inaccurate plastic skeleton season
I feel like Clint is underappreciated, certified legend. Also, awesome sponsor.
I would love to see a series of videos featuring various mythological creatures rated as pets based on either AI estimates or just on how they’re depicted in various media.
I look forward to these videos every year! I also have a small collection of "anatomically silly" skeletons that I add to every year. This year I'm holding out for the Spirit Halloween snail skeleton. 🤣
I have been looking forward to this video for months. I propose "Punchline" as the name for the black cat- because as soon as it appears, everyone starts laughing!
I just watched the one from a couple years ago! I can't believe you uploaded this literally 2 hours after I watched it!
Oh no...
I laughed out loud at the "Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia."
What am I becoming?!?
That impossible spider skeleton you hold up at 0:20 has been an awesome decoration in my fish tank for years. I filled its abdomen with melted marbles to keep it from floating, and to look like internal organs within the “ribs”.
the frog skeleton reminds me an awful lot of a 'frog dissection' kit I had as a kid. it had this little skeleton and plastic organs that you layered together in a mold and filled with this dark green gelatin. when it was set, you dissected your little frog. it made for a fun Halloween thing afterward, filling it with lime jello, sans the plastic bits.
OMG!! I have the dragon from the thumbnail! I was working as a cashier at a grocery store two years ago, and a family came through my line and decided they didn't want him because he was missing a foot. I'm such a sucker for dragons and underdogs, so I bought him. His name is Bartok the Tenacious, and he's been with me ever since, even through 2022 in which I lived in 3 states and 4 houses/apartments. I did have to glue his remaining front foot on because those suckers truly love to pop off. But i love him 🧡🧡
I would die for Bartok the Tenacious.
I can’t stop laughing at that cat even though I’ve seen it around 5 times now
I remember when you said you got it from the “snakes don’t have skeletons store”
Clearly, the necromancer gave the skeleton octopus molars instead of suckers!
Eeeeeeew haha that's hilarious and disgusting
looking at the neck and skull of the "griffon", I wonder if its actually an ancient griffon from the pliostocine, combining an ancestor of cats and dogs with some species of terror bird. Maybe the skull shows its even older, more akin to that of gastornis, and clearly the feet indicate a lifestyle of living in trees grasping branches, then swooping down to pick off small ancient horses. increadible speculative biology on the evolution of the griffon from these artists, stellar job
Imagine those boned butterflies hurling through the air toward unsuspecting flowers. I think our favorite kitty may have been knocked out by one.
I like how, on the bird at the beginning, the skull looks an awful lot like those birdlike masks worn by the Angel Sachiel in _Evangelion._
I saw "skeleton" spiders in real life in a cheap nick nack shop a few days ago! I laughed out loud, it's so ridiculous!
The dragon, falfalcorsetail, and mermaid from last year are my favorite honestly. Clint's out here letting us know the real from the really remarkable! Maybe there's more of these kinds of skeletons out there left to cover than the run-of-the-mill kind?
Would like to see a chimera skeleton or a gargoyle skeleton in the future.
I knew a lot of animal skeleton designs for Halloween were trash, but I learned a couple things new this fine morning.
I saw a pretty normal “snake” skeleton for sale this year. Immediately thought about one of the previous years, where someone insisted to you that there weren’t any snake skeletons because they don’t have bones. I wonder what they think now? And I wonder if someone in the fake skeleton business saw that video?
I love the “these are the other two” when you talked about the snake lol
I was confused until I remembered the snakes have no skeletons thing 😭
Man I'm always surprised at how hard i need to laugh at the cat it always gets me i just can't look at it
Hey Clint, just wanted to comment and let you know I absolutely love your dinosaur series of videos, I watched through them all over the last day or so and they're some of my favorite content you've out out, despite me being 10 months late with alot of the videos woops. They're so insightful, educational and just generally a really good time, I've always adored researching and understanding more about dinosaurs so I found your videos perfect for me, especially your Tyrannosaurid focused one ;). I hope you'll consider doing them for 2023, and yaknow, wouldn't be opposed to just generally alot more dinosaur-themed videos throughout the year(s!). Love what you do man, thanks for being a great educator!
Would love your take on those Peruvian alien mummies! 😂
the fact that this dragon has external ears and the wings of fire dragons have external ears makes me feel like Tui Sutherland has special information we don't know about
I squealed like a lil girl when I saw this notification. These are always a hoot!
I have something to admit: I’m the necromancer who has been making all these things. I can’t help it! I want an octopus, but what am I to do? So, I improvise.
Okay I think I missed the announcement of when you got the biology PhD, congrats. I never continued with titles after the baseline and I just kept studying it all on my own, but I also totally respect and understand the interest for professional educators continuing to go up the ranks, so grats on the PhD, sorry I missed the announcement. Seems like at that level you should really consider starting to do some research papers. I have piles and piles of research that need to be turned into papers but since my day job as an engineer is also pretty taxing I haven't ever gotten around to put in the papers together. I really do encourage you to consider you know actually writing up some papers because goodness gracious we need some really good ones done for so many species the research publication is so far behind. I know that you're focus is primarily on the RUclips videos and the education as a professor but I would love to you know see if you would do some papers and if you need any data I'd certainly be up for helping with that part. I've always been really good at collecting data it's just actually submitting things to journals I suck at, lol. I'm sure there's probably plenty of others that are in a similar boat so maybe look around and see if you could get in on some of that because certainly PhD level experience with understanding the whole process of submitting papers would be awesome for a lot of people who have been continuing to do science but have been out of school for a couple of decades without submitting papers. Heck you could even do some videos on how to go about doing it that'd be cool.
Our local pet store has a "spider skeleton" displayed in one of their terrariums, together with a couple snake plushies... :|
Looooove these skeleton videos. Animal anatomy fascinates me!
I love the Fahlo bracelets. I got a shark bracelet, and mine was Boo as well, but the tracker deactivated, so they gave me another shark named Chum. He’s also a hammerhead, but not a great one, off the east coast. I appreciate the specials they have where they’ll send you a free one and you just pay shipping, it makes me glad to help conservation
Yay!!! My ridiculous butterfly alien made the cut!!! 💀👽🦋
I honestly mean this in the best way possible.... You're the adult Blippi. Super informative, fun, animated, (and you look similar), I love your content. 😅
Hi Clint! Great video! When you said, "Hyoid bone , it reminded me about something I learned watching "Forensic Files". A broken or crushed Hyoid bone tells the detectives their victim had been strangled. Like you said, it's situated at the root of the tongue in front of our neck and the larynx. Ta-Da!!🎈✨️🎉 Now y'all can go about your day feeling safe 😊and satisfied🎉
I think kitty needs to be called Greebo (bad ass cat from Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
Many new parrot owners learn the hard way about how long a parrot neck actually is.
17:08 THAT THING IS SO CUTE IM GOING TO CRY
It reminds me of the hairless rats we used to have as pets in my house 🥲🥹
Part of me feels bad laughing at the uneducated people who created those terribly inaccurate Halloween decorations but at the same time the other side of me finds it way too funny to not laugh at
I’m imagining some artist looking at a real skeleton and going, “Well, THAT’S not creepy enough. Let me see what I can do….”
Had to create an account just to say I saw that Halloween Cat and immediately thought "That's not a cat, that's an Aye-Aye."
It's definitely a Daubentonia madagascariensis, the rodent-like teeth are a dead giveaway. They got the feet wrong though!
I live one town away in Provo, Utah and I'm so excited for the opening next week! Keep it up Clint!
I like how when Clint is doing a video that non reptile people would likely watch (like this one) he introduces himself and what he does.
Can you imagine them selling an accurate octopus skeleton and it’s just a beak
Your horrible Halloween decorations video 2 years ago is what lead me to finding your channel and ive watched all of your videos since!
Its nice to have been a fan for 2 years now! I can't wait for Dinosaur December!!!