Ha, this series isn't cancelled. It just takes a very long time to make with only 2 people and the level of animation and research that gets put into it.
The prime example of an allosaurus's tough life is the fossil that has been nick-named "Big Al". It is almost perfectly preserved and shows signs of something like 30 injuries, including a severely broken and infected middle toe. The people who created the "Walking With" series created a spin-off documentary dedicated entirely to what Big Al's life might have been, followed by a making of where they explore the palaeontology of Allosaur's in general.
I remember there was this online simulation based off of that Big Al spin-off documentary, and you had to start as a baby Big Al, and could only go after animals like lizards or frogs otherwise you’d get brutally killed. Maybe it was because I was young when I played it, but it was so easy to die lol
@@TmRnBn Also, in scrabble, last time I checked, you can only have a maximum of 7 letters per turn, so such a large word would take multiple turns to make, and likely the individual to start it will not be the one to finish it.
I noticed in the tricolor flag in the background, there's silhouettes of every Mesozoic animal that appeared on the show. Blue is Cretaceous, Red is Jurassic and Green is Triassic.
pretty strange, because in the international chronostratigraphic chart, the cretaceous is coloured green, jurassic blue and triassic not red but purple
Vulcano Probably limited to the flag they could find for the set. I’m sure the specific colors used are not meant to conflict with the chronostratigraphic chart.
I'm glad you guys are back. I have always loved your seemingly unscripted rambles, it really feels like Steve knows and loves what he is talking about by heart. I hope you guys keep on doing more of these! As a paleoartist I find your videos refreshing!
I remember seeing these amazing dinosaur models in Wal-mart one time. They were super accurate and beautifully made. And several parts of their bodies moved. I wanted at least one so bad but I couldn't afford it. When I came back about a month later with enough money they were all gone. I was so pissed.
“Yup, modern archaeologists thrive on destruction; the more fire and earthquakes, well, the better.” - Simon Whistler Apparently the same applies to palaeontologists.
I just discovered your remarkable program this morning, and you are AMAZING. Your exploration of one of my favorite dinos was without a doubt the most educational and illuminating things I've ever seen about Allosaurus, and if all my college professors were as interesting as you, I probably wouldn't have flunked out of school.
I just watch this series over and over and over waiting for the next one. XD it’s like YDAW fills the same role as all the Dino documentaries I watched on repeat as a kid.
The Primal Earth -Dinosaurs, science, and more! Great! Hope it reaches them in time! (Although considering the amount of time in between episodes, I think we're good)
A Riccio I know I saw logan on Friday and am seeing it again soon, but I'd say that spiderman homecoming, guardian of the galaxy vol. 2 or Star Wars 8 would be the most hyped film of the year
This is an amazingly well put together episode. My favorite episode so far. The animation has improved. And the visuals really help in understanding The connections and flow of the episode was a ride from start to finish.
Yeah I don't think ARK's depiction dinosaurs and other animals are trying to be accurate. I mean the Mammoth's tusks are covered in thorns and split into 2 at the end.
Id be okay with that as much as i love playing the game. But there needs to be a warning so people know you arent hating on the game simply being more historically accurate
I love these videos so much. The more you learn about these animals the more interesting they become. That's true with most all things in science but this is what I love. I wish I had a Hadrosaurus foulkii toy to send in so you could talk about that species and the history behind one of the most important dinosaur fossils ever found. I even got to see the reel thing in the collections of the Academy of Sciences in Philly!
What do you think of the idea that the Allosaurus may have "grazed" its prey? I read somewhere recently that it may have been possible due to the large gape of the jaw and the musculature of the neck that an Allosaurus could have walked upside a large sauropod and hacked out a chunk of flesh and carried on, leaving the sauropod a few pounds lighter but alive.
I mean, I'm no biologist or paleontologist, but that sounds really likely. Especially if Allosaurus is more of a solitary animal as is suggested in the video, then there's no way that they'd be able to process all of the Diplodocus meat, even though they have to expend immense amounts of energy to take it down. Grazing seems more cost efficient, the only thing it doesn't explain is the stress fractures and other life stressors seen it its feet and arms.
That sound really really unlikely. It is a big animal it cant live by scraps and each one of those would be extremely dangerous the sauropod won't be standing there.
I love this series so much! I hope you do an episode on pretty much any Azhdarchidae family member eventually. I don't know much about dinosaurs and they are my favorite out of all the dinosaurs I've seen so far.
Please keep making these! I think this deserves its own channel. I'd be happy to support something like this on Patreon. You don't need to have all this cool animation every time. Don't get me wrong. I really do love how these videos look! You could make some simpler ones about other dinosaur related stuff too. Just a thought. Thanks for the content guys!
I would guess that so many dino toys have tails on the ground is for balance, unlike a real dino, the plastic or rubber is a constant weight, try to get one to balance on 2 feet consistently in manufacture. Try it with making a Plasticine model. (or should that be Pleistocene)
I agree, the tail on the ground thing is mostly an easy way for the toy manufacturer to get the toy to stand. They can probably get it to balance on two feet alone but I think that it would take a bit more R&D than they'd be willing to spend time and money on and I imagine that most of the kids that would buy these toys wouldn't want to spend the time to carefully balance them to stand, not to mention that the slightest bump on the table/shelf they're standing on would knock them over.
To be honest, I'd prefer to either have a base, or just have it a tripod by balancing on it's arm, but the best-case scenario is just to have it balance (maybe with a detachable base to help, just in case).
I love this show. My sister made me a stegosaurus doll that is super cute, but super incorrect after watching your videos :D Glad there is a new one out. Wish I could have sent in my stegosaurus before you covered them. It's one of a kind, home made. My sister is a seamstress :)
bravo...justm. bravo. guys I adore this series and considered the carnotaurus episode to be amaIng but thus is above and beyond the single best video I have seen on youtube. from the information and the presenter seriously stepping up their game something considerable and the animation..oh my god you guys have outdone yourselves!!thank you so much for making this!
Another great episode! It's always fascinating learning new details on dinosaurs. I especially love the animations showcasing the change between the toy/outdated depictions and the current ones.
I need a book of quotes from this show, "it can control the flipity flop of its tail" and "it's I'm about to hug something pose might be accurate" being the top ones. I think you guys need to get this show on like animal planet or something, so funny and informative as well as being made by like 2 guys, favorite thing on RUclips. Keep it up guys!
Great video as always, animations were fantastic! Also, fascinating explanation for all those fossils. Makes me wonder what other kinds of life dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures lived that we may never know about.
love it! the visual aids where great and the lifestyle lessons where very interesting. i wouldn't mind just a "dino did you know" style series, disregard the toys.
I always love your intros man. You give it such a lovely lighthearted attitude. My son isn't around anymore and I accept that now but feel him laugh when I watch your goofy intros
you've certainly made them a lot more fascinating than they had been for me previously... I know you're probably pressed for time as it is, but let me put an idea that you might consider: bonebed sites like the one you describe here.. there are hundreds of them, each with their own story to tell, and it would be interesting to do a video similar to the ending of this one on the "choicer" ones... Still hoping for a vid on Leopluridon (i know, not a dinosaur) or maybe on one cambrian fauna (also not dinosaurs)....Ananomalocaris I find utterly fascinating.... Regardless of what you choose, i'll be watching! I've enjoyed all your series so far....
I think the Allosaurus might jump and bite a larger prey in areas where it could grab and slice and tear to iniciate a lot of bleeding to weaken the prey hitting over and over until it collapes instead of grabbing and holding on. Just my thoughts.
I keep thinking of a pack of wolves. Lots of small, fast bites targeting limbs over a long chase to take down large prey. The deep S-curve on the neck could facilitate fast strikes that keep you just out of range of kicks and other defenses.
Or even both. As the image shows one grabbing onto the neck of a sauropod, it might hitch a ride for a moment, getting a quick bite for now, and a freshly injured target for later. That goes on for a while until the massive animal finally collapses and that specific allosaurus has to defend it's catch.
I just saw my first Allosaurus specimen a few weeks ago at University of Wyoming, they have a gorgeous skeleton on display next to their Apatosaurus. I thought the flat head was a distortion that happened during fossilization but no, apparently Allosaurus just had a weird skinny head! It's a very interestingly proportioned creature with those longer-than-most arms and long skinny skull.
Great video, thank you so much for your work!! It is absolutely amazing to learn about the real -life detective work that paleontology gives us. That study of a single water hole could yield up so much information on a snapshot of animals from 150 million years ago. It just boggles the mind. What an awesome creature Allosaurus was. And there's still so much to learn.
Your videos are so interesting, I keep going in thinking, I am not watching half an hour of a guy talk about allosaurus. But here we are, it was all gravy!
Boy oh boy do I have a bunch of ideas to illustrate (and I still owe you guys that carnotaurus ;) ). Also* the unpublished SVP description of of the artery that supplied blood to that region in the lacrimal only stated it was possibly the support for a display structure. Nothing affirmative. So anything goes for now, until the paper (hopefully) is published. Keep up the great work, chaps!
Wow! You actually drew a picture (or did a paper cut-out) of an Allosauros vomiting! I've never seen that before, but it actually illustrated your point quite well. Allosauros is one of my favorites, too!
Allosaurus was one of my favourites as a kid, and I theorised very similarly to you guys. It's great to sort of confirm that I wasn't just guessing outta thin air, haha. I have a friend whom I used to discuss dinosaur behavior with too, and Allosaurus was frequently discussed and brought in as a comparison to show that not all large carnivores were clumsy hulks.
Saw an allosaur skeletton exhibit in Paris a few days ago, along with a diplodocus, carnotaurus and a sarcosuchus. Those things are really a sight to behold
Just got home from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It was a trip I wanted to go on since I was 11, I am now 38 (in a week). Dreams can come true! My kids loved it almost as much as I did :)
I'll probably be visiting you guys soon and I'll bring my ceolophysis and velociraptor toy for the show. And you guys never disappoint with these episodes:)
Just found this channel and binge it right now. I like that you put more time into your animations to make the models more lively, but here you overdo it a little in some places I think. For example at 10:24 the jerking of the whole upper body makes it harder to see what exactly is being morphed. The movements are great and fun to watch, but imho the model should be stationary during the morphing for clarity.
Guys amazing work on this one! I just hope the increased animation wont make the process too much slower. :T Any idea where on the internet there would be the best and most up to date resources on dinosaurs? Thanks for doing such a good work on my favorite and keep up the good work!
Allosaurus is my favourite dino, but do to it being much less popular than other dinos, especially the dinosaurs of the 3rd period like the T-rex and Triceratops, etc., I never could find much about it. Like I'd be reading encyclopedia after encyclopedia about dinosaurs and the Allosaurus would always, if mentioned at all, be glanced over in a few lines, to have room to talk about everyone's favourite- Tyrannosaurus rex. I too have toys of Allosaurus and had no idea how wrong they were at representing it. So thank you for the informative video, you just earned a sub.
Big al 2 will be permanently on display at the university of Zurich (entrance free!) from the 19th of March onwards! I was present for its remount and it looks fantastic! :)
I've had tendon avulsion. OUCH INDEED. For months. What an interesting series! Glad I found it! I would have never thought as a kid complaining about these inaccuracies that I'd see someone someday on the internet calling them on their shit! Therapod fistbump!
I want to note that this model was first made in 1988. Which doesnt excuse a lot of the inaccuracies mentioned but it does give it a bit more perspective as to why it may have been SO inaccurate.
1. Allie hugs prey 2. Allie sets jaws in prey, not as hatchet blow, but biting in, perhaps selecting a specific location to get maximum bite impact. 3a) Allie uses powerful neck motion to worry jaws methodically in struggling prey OR 3b) Bite is the anchor point for the powerful hind legs to rake the prey instead, like a cat.
Hi Steven: I noticed that you often compare models of dinosaurs in the same pose as if they were knockoffs of the better model. I'm not saying they could never be that, but as a sometimes model maker I can say that the first models produced have better resolution than the later ones because the molds wear out w/ use. They pick up flaws on the skin surface and between the rubber mold and the plaster or fiberglass case that the rubber forms fit into. The flaws come from studio crud or washing/scrubbing to clean the crud out. All of that deforms the rubber mold slightly and later production shows it.
They're my favorite theropod! Everybody loves the Tyrannosaurus, but so many don't know about Allosaurus! I learned about this dino from the old "Land Of the Lost" show. They had a dino they named "Alice".
Thanks god I thought you guys got cancelled. Love it as always
Ha, this series isn't cancelled. It just takes a very long time to make with only 2 people and the level of animation and research that gets put into it.
+thegeekgroup The animation was amazing this episode! Love the series, guys
Pretty sure you didn't mean it but just had to say it: the music is reminding me of Super Paper Mario. This is a good thing. :D
This is one of my favorite series of videos! I can't give much but I just subbed to you guys on Patreon.
Well thank you! Glad you enjoy it so much! :)
"It's so much more than 'that one that isn't t-rex'" YESSS! As a HUGE allosaurus fan I cannot agree more!
I feel the same about Carnotaurus. Such a unique animal
When you're a fan of a dead animal
@@abrahamlincoln9160 ..You're a fan of a dead animal too
@@abrahamlincoln9160 who said I'm dead
@@YohanathanD slim leg sausage
The prime example of an allosaurus's tough life is the fossil that has been nick-named "Big Al". It is almost perfectly preserved and shows signs of something like 30 injuries, including a severely broken and infected middle toe. The people who created the "Walking With" series created a spin-off documentary dedicated entirely to what Big Al's life might have been, followed by a making of where they explore the palaeontology of Allosaur's in general.
I haven't personally been able to see his skeleton but I hope to one day
Also broken jaw where his jaw got destroyed yet still lived to adulthood
@@Marouu1 is Broken Jaw like a real specimen of Allosaurus though? I can't see it in the internet
i have never emotionally recovered from that episode of wwd
I remember there was this online simulation based off of that Big Al spin-off documentary, and you had to start as a baby Big Al, and could only go after animals like lizards or frogs otherwise you’d get brutally killed. Maybe it was because I was young when I played it, but it was so easy to die lol
"never play scrabble with a biologist" wise words indeed
or any scientist in general
Me: sonytarunasurs
Scientist: Tyrannosaurus?
Me : HOLY GUACAMOLE HOW
However, many scrabble aficionados use their specific dictionary and will not accept words from the real (science) world.
@@TmRnBn Also, in scrabble, last time I checked, you can only have a maximum of 7 letters per turn, so such a large word would take multiple turns to make, and likely the individual to start it will not be the one to finish it.
Lol
Huggable Allosaurus!
I love the animation style, how the dinosaur reacts to being made anatomically accurate. It's so adorable!
Looks painful
I find it hilarious that an animal whose name literally means “different reptile” has become such a catch-all “default” generic theropod.
All-o-saurus
Now we know bro really WAS built different
if anything, "different reptile" applies to spinosaurus
I noticed in the tricolor flag in the background, there's silhouettes of every Mesozoic animal that appeared on the show. Blue is Cretaceous, Red is Jurassic and Green is Triassic.
pretty strange, because in the international chronostratigraphic chart, the cretaceous is coloured green, jurassic blue and triassic not red but purple
Damn so that's what it is!!!! I kept wondering which gender/orientation flag it could be 🤦🏻
Vulcano
Probably limited to the flag they could find for the set. I’m sure the specific colors used are not meant to conflict with the chronostratigraphic chart.
I saw that but didn’t realize what the colors meant, thank you
@@cerberaodollam Dinosaur Pride flag
I'm glad you guys are back. I have always loved your seemingly unscripted rambles, it really feels like Steve knows and loves what he is talking about by heart. I hope you guys keep on doing more of these! As a paleoartist I find your videos refreshing!
Paleoartist?
Zombeef he makes art about prehistoric fauna and flora duh :D
Dr sattler I assume , oh wait she was a paliobotanist
*botanist
His long disappointed pauses were so funny
Awww Allosaurus was a hugger
The hug of death.
The hugger of death.
that will kill you...
*getting torn apart*
Aww good allosaurus
*bleeding everywhere*
Good boi
@@wickedhouston5538 doesn't seem like the case in the isle
I remember seeing these amazing dinosaur models in Wal-mart one time. They were super accurate and beautifully made. And several parts of their bodies moved. I wanted at least one so bad but I couldn't afford it. When I came back about a month later with enough money they were all gone. I was so pissed.
Could they have been "Beasts of the Mesozoic"? That's a poseable dinosaur toy line that focuses on scientifically accurate dinosaur action figures.
Drought. Good news for paleontologists and bad news for Allosaurus.
A drought is when there is a shortage of water
“Yup, modern archaeologists thrive on destruction; the more fire and earthquakes, well, the better.” - Simon Whistler
Apparently the same applies to palaeontologists.
RIP Big Al!
Long live Stumpy!!
Wait he died!? Noooooo
F
The Poke'Saurus ;-;
The time you take to do the research and animation really shows. This is a fantastic series.
I just discovered your remarkable program this morning, and you are AMAZING. Your exploration of one of my favorite dinos was without a doubt the most educational and illuminating things I've ever seen about Allosaurus, and if all my college professors were as interesting as you, I probably wouldn't have flunked out of school.
I love the new movement in the animations!
Same.
I just watch this series over and over and over waiting for the next one. XD it’s like YDAW fills the same role as all the Dino documentaries I watched on repeat as a kid.
Do ceratosaurus please, I feel like it is super underrated and is always overlooked by allosaurus.
Yeah same with Torvosaurus
It's crazy to think that we lived closer towards the T-Rex than the T-Rex live to the stegosaurus
I gotta say I love the YDAW series I can't tell you how often I re-re-re-rewatch episodes
Can someone please send these amazing people a ceratosaurus?
I'm rooting around in my old toy bin rn!
i just sent them one lat wendsday!
The Primal Earth -Dinosaurs, science, and more! Great! Hope it reaches them in time! (Although considering the amount of time in between episodes, I think we're good)
I would so like that! It's basically the Jurassic Horned King.
I really like and admire how you put in actual sources and credit them along with providing links for us to see them.
The most hyped film of 2017 is out
what is it?
AvPGaming 002 This
A Riccio I know I saw logan on Friday and am seeing it again soon, but I'd say that spiderman homecoming, guardian of the galaxy vol. 2 or Star Wars 8 would be the most hyped film of the year
Trystan Nield k
A Riccio 10/10
I agree.
This is an amazingly well put together episode. My favorite episode so far.
The animation has improved. And the visuals really help in understanding
The connections and flow of the episode was a ride from start to finish.
I love this show, it's so funny and I learn lots. I'd like to see Baryonyx or Utahraptor which is my fave. Looking forward to more!
As someone who lives near the modern upthrusting of the Morrison(on the east side of it, anyway,)...
It's still that damn arid.
The old Carnegie Collection Allosaurus'! I have them both, such nostalgia!
BionicleSaurus omg it's you!!i love your videos!
Good to see ya bionicle.
Hi bro
Goodness graces
Can you do a YDAW segment on the "ARK: Survival Evolved" game? They have many inaccuracies and I'd like to see you tackle such a popular game.
TheGuyThatAteTheHat yea
I totally agree!! I would love to hear your thought on the game.
Second this. Still popular, would be very interested in this
Yeah I don't think ARK's depiction dinosaurs and other animals are trying to be accurate. I mean the Mammoth's tusks are covered in thorns and split into 2 at the end.
Id be okay with that as much as i love playing the game. But there needs to be a warning so people know you arent hating on the game simply being more historically accurate
I love these videos so much. The more you learn about these animals the more interesting they become. That's true with most all things in science but this is what I love. I wish I had a Hadrosaurus foulkii toy to send in so you could talk about that species and the history behind one of the most important dinosaur fossils ever found. I even got to see the reel thing in the collections of the Academy of Sciences in Philly!
What do you think of the idea that the Allosaurus may have "grazed" its prey? I read somewhere recently that it may have been possible due to the large gape of the jaw and the musculature of the neck that an Allosaurus could have walked upside a large sauropod and hacked out a chunk of flesh and carried on, leaving the sauropod a few pounds lighter but alive.
Pretty sure mapusaurus was thought to do that to Argentinasaurus as well
I mean, I'm no biologist or paleontologist, but that sounds really likely. Especially if Allosaurus is more of a solitary animal as is suggested in the video, then there's no way that they'd be able to process all of the Diplodocus meat, even though they have to expend immense amounts of energy to take it down. Grazing seems more cost efficient, the only thing it doesn't explain is the stress fractures and other life stressors seen it its feet and arms.
That sound really really unlikely. It is a big animal it cant live by scraps and each one of those would be extremely dangerous the sauropod won't be standing there.
That is how cookie cutter sharks eat, I think that it would be high risk though, an allosaurus would not be able to sneak up on another Dino easily.
25:14 Cerato: I NEED AN ADULT Allo: I am an adult....
I need a different adult. lol
Allo : My name literally means different...
Nihar Gawand
Cerato, “Well then.............. shoot”
Unexpected DBZA reference is unexpected
you have no ideas how much I love this series! I could listen to Steve break dinosaurs dwn all day! and I have lol
I love this series so much! I hope you do an episode on pretty much any Azhdarchidae family member eventually. I don't know much about dinosaurs and they are my favorite out of all the dinosaurs I've seen so far.
Please keep making these! I think this deserves its own channel. I'd be happy to support something like this on Patreon. You don't need to have all this cool animation every time. Don't get me wrong. I really do love how these videos look! You could make some simpler ones about other dinosaur related stuff too. Just a thought. Thanks for the content guys!
There IS a whole channel! Check it out: www.youtube.com/@YourDinosaursAreWrong
I would guess that so many dino toys have tails on the ground is for balance, unlike a real dino, the plastic or rubber is a constant weight, try to get one to balance on 2 feet consistently in manufacture.
Try it with making a Plasticine model. (or should that be Pleistocene)
That pun physically hurt, I'll have you know.
Ohhhh lord that was a terrible pun. Never stop.
I agree, the tail on the ground thing is mostly an easy way for the toy manufacturer to get the toy to stand. They can probably get it to balance on two feet alone but I think that it would take a bit more R&D than they'd be willing to spend time and money on and I imagine that most of the kids that would buy these toys wouldn't want to spend the time to carefully balance them to stand, not to mention that the slightest bump on the table/shelf they're standing on would knock them over.
I just stuck their feet in the carpet so they would "stand less stupid". XD There is always a way!
To be honest, I'd prefer to either have a base, or just have it a tripod by balancing on it's arm, but the best-case scenario is just to have it balance (maybe with a detachable base to help, just in case).
I love this show. My sister made me a stegosaurus doll that is super cute, but super incorrect after watching your videos :D
Glad there is a new one out. Wish I could have sent in my stegosaurus before you covered them. It's one of a kind, home made. My sister is a seamstress :)
The "I'm-about-to-hug-something pose" sounds so cute
bravo...justm. bravo. guys I adore this series and considered the carnotaurus episode to be amaIng but thus is above and beyond the single best video I have seen on youtube. from the information and the presenter seriously stepping up their game something considerable and the animation..oh my god you guys have outdone yourselves!!thank you so much for making this!
"a tendon rips off a bit of bone...ow" very ow indeed! I had that on my knee as a kid (soccer accident).
When he talked about the ripping carcasses and turning its head upside down at 19:55 reminded me of how a vultures rips the carcass
I love how.... animated, the animation is becoming!
Another great episode! It's always fascinating learning new details on dinosaurs. I especially love the animations showcasing the change between the toy/outdated depictions and the current ones.
I need a book of quotes from this show, "it can control the flipity flop of its tail" and "it's I'm about to hug something pose might be accurate" being the top ones. I think you guys need to get this show on like animal planet or something, so funny and informative as well as being made by like 2 guys, favorite thing on RUclips. Keep it up guys!
Great video as always, animations were fantastic! Also, fascinating explanation for all those fossils. Makes me wonder what other kinds of life dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures lived that we may never know about.
Can You do Cryolophosaurus ellioti, it's my favorite dinosaur because of its uniqueness and that it is the only theropod discovered in Antarctica
Richard Nixon if he could find a toy or someone send him a toy
It's my second favorite dinosaur
My first is baryonyx
In Antarctica? Now you piqued my interest.
dalton411970 there was no ice back then
Richard Nixon How did they even discover fossils in Antarctica? I thought it was a heavily protected zone.
love it! the visual aids where great and the lifestyle lessons where very interesting. i wouldn't mind just a "dino did you know" style series, disregard the toys.
I always love your intros man. You give it such a lovely lighthearted attitude. My son isn't around anymore and I accept that now but feel him laugh when I watch your goofy intros
He would be proud of you talking about him here. RUclips comments can be merciless, yet here you are. Fistbumb bro
This is honestly some of my favorite content on youtube.
you've certainly made them a lot more fascinating than they had been for me previously... I know you're probably pressed for time as it is, but let me put an idea that you might consider: bonebed sites like the one you describe here.. there are hundreds of them, each with their own story to tell, and it would be interesting to do a video similar to the ending of this one on the "choicer" ones...
Still hoping for a vid on Leopluridon (i know, not a dinosaur) or maybe on one cambrian fauna (also not dinosaurs)....Ananomalocaris I find utterly fascinating....
Regardless of what you choose, i'll be watching! I've enjoyed all your series so far....
I really want that skull. How much was it? Are they still being sold?
I 3D printed that here at our makerspace; the files in the link are CC0, and can be worked with using Blender, which is open-source.
Steven Bellettini Just checked my comment. Thanks so much for you reply!
REALLY love this episode, you basically made me learn some interesting facts/speculation on _Allosaurus_, specifically its extreme ecosystem!
"No living creature uses it's head as a hatchet"
How about woodpeckers? Well, not a HATCHET but still.
You kindve just answered your own question
I think that's a very different sort of motion to what is hypothesized for the allosaurus. More like a jackhammer than a hatchet.
You just made my day
Not a whole lot of animals have a bite force weaker than an animal a tenth of their size, either
Seriemas and terror birds use something like a hatchet bite but since they’re birds, I’d just say pecking.
Never stop making these, chaps! They keep getting better and better, keep up the amazing work.
Awesome. I love how you describe the environment at the time of that formation.
I think the Allosaurus might jump and bite a larger prey in areas where it could grab and slice and tear to iniciate a lot of bleeding to weaken the prey hitting over and over until it collapes instead of grabbing and holding on. Just my thoughts.
I keep thinking of a pack of wolves. Lots of small, fast bites targeting limbs over a long chase to take down large prey. The deep S-curve on the neck could facilitate fast strikes that keep you just out of range of kicks and other defenses.
Or even both. As the image shows one grabbing onto the neck of a sauropod, it might hitch a ride for a moment, getting a quick bite for now, and a freshly injured target for later.
That goes on for a while until the massive animal finally collapses and that specific allosaurus has to defend it's catch.
I just saw my first Allosaurus specimen a few weeks ago at University of Wyoming, they have a gorgeous skeleton on display next to their Apatosaurus. I thought the flat head was a distortion that happened during fossilization but no, apparently Allosaurus just had a weird skinny head! It's a very interestingly proportioned creature with those longer-than-most arms and long skinny skull.
I've been looking for a series like this since the beginning of RUclips. Excellent work all round. Well Done!
Great video, thank you so much for your work!! It is absolutely amazing to learn about the real -life detective work that paleontology gives us. That study of a single water hole could yield up so much information on a snapshot of animals from 150 million years ago. It just boggles the mind. What an awesome creature Allosaurus was. And there's still so much to learn.
Your videos are so interesting, I keep going in thinking, I am not watching half an hour of a guy talk about allosaurus. But here we are, it was all gravy!
Boy oh boy do I have a bunch of ideas to illustrate (and I still owe you guys that carnotaurus ;) ). Also* the unpublished SVP description of of the artery that supplied blood to that region in the lacrimal only stated it was possibly the support for a display structure. Nothing affirmative. So anything goes for now, until the paper (hopefully) is published. Keep up the great work, chaps!
I had to watch this one again.
Thank you for sharing this information so well.
Cheers my friend
Thank you! :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Could you explain the ecology ( habitat, prey, hunting style) of more theropods, if possible. Thanks.
You know it gets technical when you hear about dinosaurs being able to control the flippedyflop of their tails... 🦕
Wow! You actually drew a picture (or did a paper cut-out) of an Allosauros vomiting! I've never seen that before, but it actually illustrated your point quite well. Allosauros is one of my favorites, too!
This is a great video. Loving the detail you've gone to in this.
Love this channel, props on having a Therizinosaurus in the background!
Allosaurus was one of my favourites as a kid, and I theorised very similarly to you guys. It's great to sort of confirm that I wasn't just guessing outta thin air, haha. I have a friend whom I used to discuss dinosaur behavior with too, and Allosaurus was frequently discussed and brought in as a comparison to show that not all large carnivores were clumsy hulks.
Saw an allosaur skeletton exhibit in Paris a few days ago, along with a diplodocus, carnotaurus and a sarcosuchus. Those things are really a sight to behold
Just got home from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. It was a trip I wanted to go on since I was 11, I am now 38 (in a week). Dreams can come true! My kids loved it almost as much as I did :)
Animals with long, strong necks twist a lot too. I’m thinking allosaurus was a savage, the messiest of the carnivores
Happy to see that this series is still alive.
keep it coming don't discontinue this series
I'll probably be visiting you guys soon and I'll bring my ceolophysis and velociraptor toy for the show. And you guys never disappoint with these episodes:)
Just found this channel and binge it right now. I like that you put more time into your animations to make the models more lively, but here you overdo it a little in some places I think. For example at 10:24 the jerking of the whole upper body makes it harder to see what exactly is being morphed. The movements are great and fun to watch, but imho the model should be stationary during the morphing for clarity.
Guys amazing work on this one! I just hope the increased animation wont make the process too much slower. :T Any idea where on the internet there would be the best and most up to date resources on dinosaurs? Thanks for doing such a good work on my favorite and keep up the good work!
I loved this so much! Thank you for sharing this information with us!
I know it just happened a few hours ago, but if/when you have time, could you please talk about the whole Ornithoscelida thing?
this is such a polished episode, I love it
I like what you guys did with the background! Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods :D
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D'awww. That is some adorable carnage.
Speaking of "Allosaurus peers," I'd love to see comments on both Ceratosaurus and Torvosaurus.
I'm not sure how many Torvosaurus toys there are out there.
Allosaurus is my favourite dino, but do to it being much less popular than other dinos, especially the dinosaurs of the 3rd period like the T-rex and Triceratops, etc., I never could find much about it. Like I'd be reading encyclopedia after encyclopedia about dinosaurs and the Allosaurus would always, if mentioned at all, be glanced over in a few lines, to have room to talk about everyone's favourite- Tyrannosaurus rex. I too have toys of Allosaurus and had no idea how wrong they were at representing it. So thank you for the informative video, you just earned a sub.
Please, do Triassic dinosaurs. And sorry for taking so long with those drawings, I'm in a new school and it is taking pretty much all my time...
I used to have a Herrerasaurus toy, maybe I can find it somehow in the Clutter Room of my house...
Katya T. Super awesome!
the entrance gags are so cute. I love him getting mildly startled by child pranks
i LOVE THE ANIMATION
I found you lastnight and I’ve already watched six episodes and plugged you to four friends. I’m in my late 20s but I feel like I’m 12 again.
OMG I was just thinking about YDAW when looking at my allosaurus papo toy ! True story ! :D
Big al 2 will be permanently on display at the university of Zurich (entrance free!) from the 19th of March onwards! I was present for its remount and it looks fantastic! :)
I've had tendon avulsion. OUCH INDEED. For months. What an interesting series! Glad I found it! I would have never thought as a kid complaining about these inaccuracies that I'd see someone someday on the internet calling them on their shit! Therapod fistbump!
I am going to send in Ceratosaurus, Saurolophus, and an Ankylosaurid.
Wonderful episode! I really like the changes you made to the animation. Is that skull you were using to demonstrate the bite 3d printed?
I want to note that this model was first made in 1988. Which doesnt excuse a lot of the inaccuracies mentioned but it does give it a bit more perspective as to why it may have been SO inaccurate.
The animation in this series is just phenomenal. I take so many screenshots every episode lol
1. Allie hugs prey
2. Allie sets jaws in prey, not as hatchet blow, but biting in, perhaps selecting a specific location to get maximum bite impact.
3a) Allie uses powerful neck motion to worry jaws methodically in struggling prey OR
3b) Bite is the anchor point for the powerful hind legs to rake the prey instead, like a cat.
I'd like to see an episode on a hadrosaur like edmontosaurus or corythosaurus
The music is adorable for this show
I had two models of the green variety as a child ! They were some of my favourites !
This was both excruciatingly boring and astonishingly fascinating at the ssame time. Awesome! Thank you.
Hi Steven: I noticed that you often compare models of dinosaurs in the same pose as if they were knockoffs of the better model. I'm not saying they could never be that, but as a sometimes model maker I can say that the first models produced have better resolution than the later ones because the molds wear out w/ use. They pick up flaws on the skin surface and between the rubber mold and the plaster or fiberglass case that the rubber forms fit into. The flaws come from studio crud or washing/scrubbing to clean the crud out. All of that deforms the rubber mold slightly and later production shows it.
As a suggestion, an episode focusing on ancient reptilian predators of the sea such as the Mososaurus and Elasmasaurus, would be fairly interesting.
They're my favorite theropod! Everybody loves the Tyrannosaurus, but so many don't know about Allosaurus! I learned about this dino from the old "Land Of the Lost" show. They had a dino they named "Alice".