Mounted Skeletons at The Field Museum: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #23
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- thensi.org/ - We happened to go to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and of course Steven had things to say about some of the displays. The museum was kind enough to let us film comments about their Brachiosaurus, "Apatosaurus," Patagotitan, some exciting Antarctic dinosaurs, and of course Tyrannosaurus. Mounted skeletons have advantages over illustrations or models, but they're no more immune to ongoing science.
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"It's exciting just that people went to Antarctica and came back with fossils instead of corpses"
Savage, yet hilarious. Also, historically accurate.
At least they didn’t come back with a deadly mimic microorganism. Or did they?
@@Katarn84 DUN DUN DUUNNN
Well to be fair that’s still technically “corpses”
Steve is officially the equivalent of a rock star in my world.
BionicleSaurus helloooooooooooooooo
I love how Steve’s excited body movement carries throughout his body. He looks like a little kid waiting to go to the bathroom at all times.
Oh my god, you have LEGS! It’s always a pleasure to see these videos!
Thats evolution dude.
He evolved them over the years of this channel.
did he have feet too?
The question is...
Were they restored correctly?
As a young father I hope this guy is who my kids want to watch and be like. So much genuine passion and excitement.
I just realized that "YDAW" sounds like "Why though" which is actually pretty fitting if you think about it
Thank you for existing
Natalia Jagielska Polska?!
Super cool episode! Don't have a museum near me that has dinosaur mounts so I really liked this video.
TensaWolf the closest that I know of that has a couple is in another state
All these people who worship millionaire 25 year old vloggers, and then there’s me, worshipping the thunder wizard, Steven
What about not worshipping any human being? That makes no sense.
@@JesusProtects Reminds me of that time Charleton Heston jumped those guys asses for worshipping that golden idol....man he sure was pissed.
Would that make him a 'Brontosorcerer'? hehe
WHAT
You guys were at the Field?!
Dude I live 10 minutes from there! We coulda talked about dinosaurs, dammit! XD You gotta announce this stuff before hand!
Things were kinda fast-paced for us that weekend. We had found out we'd even be in Chicago a few days earlier, and on a whim I messaged the museum to see if we might be able to have permission to shoot something. Our schedule the day-of only allowed for a few hours to shoot. We hope to come back and do more when our shooting schedule opens back up though, so in the future maybe we'll announce it and see what happens! --Elizabeth
The Field Museum? I was just there on Memorial Day (about a week ago now)! Such a cool place! Too bad they no longer had Cryolophosaurus up, but I did get to see the new “fat Sue,” so I guess that makes up for it! 😆
That Patagotitan in the lobby, Maximo, is impressive as all hell! They even had a 3-D movie about him when we were there, which wasn’t nearly long enough, but still a fun watch. It’s hard to believe something that large ever roamed the Earth, but it obviously did. Wish I could have seen it live - y’know, without the carnivores threatening my very existence.
Mounted Skeletons at the Field Museum sounds like a good setup for a D&D campaign
Aaaaaand consider this stolen for my game.
Necromancer "The Bard is at it again!"
How did Steve survive after seeing so many SPOOKY SCARY DINO SKELETONS
Spooky scary skeletons will shimmer down your spine
Send shivers down my spine*
@@chernobylresident7436 Send shivers down your spine*
Steven belletini is a national treasure.
It's kinda cool how my country was home of a lot of the biggest animals ever, including (so far) THE largest sauropod we know of. Overall there was just a lot of huge sauropods in Argentina, though I wonder why that was the case.
I seriously need to see Sue in person before I die, that's on my bucket list.
Giganotosaurus, one of the biggest theropods ever, also lived in Argentina
Sue is definitely impressive in person, but Máximo even moreso in my humble opinion.
I moved out of Chicagoland before they took Sue out of the main hall, and really miss this amazing museum. It feels really good being able to see what the Field is up to without peering at still photos. I really hope you get a chance to hit the Field again once Sue is fully mounted, that would be awesome.
My family was frankly skeptical about her re-mount. We were all there the day they revealed Sue's original mount (the woman Sue who found the dinosaur Sue was really nice. I unwittingly sat next to her in the audience for something. She had her dog Skywalker with her. We chatted while we were waiting for the thing to start, I didn't even know who she was until she stood to be acknowledged. I still remember her. I was tiny, and she probably doesn't remember me, but she was really patient and kind) and so we had some pre-established loyalty/nostalgia about the previous mount. It did help that I could explain to everyone in my family how far we've come since that year in terms of knowing where important pieces go, etc.
My family still live near there, I'll certainly be ordering them to the new Sue mount at some point so I can see their pictures and hear their descriptions at least.
Being far from things you're interested in can be really obnoxious.
Thanks for the link at the end! Stoked to see you talking about skeletal mounts!!!!
No problem! Love that your contest got so many excellent entries--Csotonyi's Archaeopteryx piece literally made me gasp.
This is seriously one of my all time fav series on RUclips
Great to see you doing this at museums and talking about how the mounts have evolved over the decades. Would love to see you go to the Science Museum of Minnesota (located in downtown St. Paul) and tell us what you think about the ones they have mounted which include a Diplodocus, Stegosaurus, and their oldest one being a Triceratops originally assembled in the mid 1960s.
This change of scenery is really cool and refreshing, great video!
Dude! You from Chicago?! Field Museum was one of my favorite places when I was a kid there! Thank you for making this video!
We're actually based in SouthWest Michigan. :) Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I’m thinking of going to the field museum this summer,and I hope I might see you there!
From Gorgosaurus to Tyrannosaurus to Patagotitan. I love how dinosaur displays have changed in my lifetime.
Really enjoyed this installment of YDAW. I'm British, so I'm sadly used to a lesser concetration of dinosaur museums. I love the Natural History Museum in London, but their dinosaur section is sorely in need of an update. They even removed the famous Diplodocus from the main hall! Sad times for a dino fan in the UK. I'd love to visit the Chicago Field Museum, it looks incredible.
It would be absolutely awesome to see Steven’s take on the borealopelta markmitchelli specimen at the Royal Tyrell
You should do something about cryolophosaurus actually, the mystery whether it's in dilo or allo family is very interesting, I wanna hear your opinion on it!
According to Peter Mackovicky, one of the discoverers, it's a Dilophosaurid.
He’s so excited and happy to be there this is adorable
I seriously could listen and watch steve all day!
i love the field museum. i was there last summer when they had the jurassic world experience thing. i thought it would be an exhibit about how they made the movie and i walked in and there was a giant parasaurolophus in my face and i was like wwwwwwwwuuuuuuuuuutttt
I caught your use of "they" when referring to Sue. I appreciate that. ^^
I mean its gender is pretty uncertain so until new evidence i will call it a she
@@lasemanamayor9396 Their sex is uncertain, so calling them either he or she would potentially be inaccurate. Also, the lack of a neuter singular pronoun that's polite to use in reference to people has always been a frustrating blind spot in the English language which can cause miscommunication, so I'm all for any measures taken to introduce one, especially one that's already an English pronoun.
Actually when I was last there the plaque said it’s a male specimen, but named after the awesome lady who discovered it 😁
@@MolecularMachine they has always been singular and plural in English, just not in recent common usage
@@golddragonette7795 Like 500 years ago "you" was only a plural word. "Thee" and "thou" were the singular versions of "you". That's why we say "you are" instead of "you is". If "you" was a singular word it would be followed by "is" but it isn't, because it's a plural word. Eventually the singular use became super common but it's still followed by "are" even though that grammatically makes no sense. Now the same thing is happening to "they".
My dad told me that this summer he’s going to take me to the field museum and I am excited to see all the wonderful prehistoric creatures
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and visited that museum many times. Great to see they are updating some of the dinosaurs to reflect changes in knowledge and theories.
I think it would be nice if you did some episodes on your home state's museums, in particular the Cranbrook Institute of Science and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History once it reopens at it's new location. If Ohio is the place you'd like to go, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is one that's on the precipice of renovating and updating all it's exhibits in a few years from now.
Oh we have ideas we're going to work on pursuing, don't worry. ;)
In the mean time I continue making episodes of my podcast Prehistory: A Traveler's Guide and perhaps I'll do some museum reviews on some of those. Mostly I'm interviewing paleontologists and people who've worked on dinosaur movies and the like.
I'd love to see that new Patagotitan skeleton the next time I visit the Field Museum, and I'm glad they're still keeping Sue up and running. I'd also love to check out that Antarctic Dinosaurs exhibit if I ever get the chance.
I was hoping for a new episode for a long time. This is even better! I so want to visit that museum!
I was visiting Chicago about 5 weeks ago and the field museum was certainly a highlight
Been to the Field Museum many times in my youth, and even once about 3-4 years ago or so. My favorite museum, and one of the more local to me.
i love cryolophosaurus. any therapod with a fancy ornament ont he skull is just easy to pick as a favorite. and seeing you next to the massive titanosaurid bones just shows how truly small we are.
These are my fav vids on the whole of youtube I think.
That makes you my fav youtuber!
So informative, fun and interesting. Thanks again for another great vid!
New YDAW, and at the Field Museum? That is absolutely Amazing! Thank you!
Geez the postage on these toys must have been outrageous!
Another fantastic video mate, its great to see someone so enthused and passionate and real about some of what I would imagine to be the most beautiful animals to walk this earth :) Your a well educated and damn informative bloke and its always an absolute pleasure to watch your videos! Thanks for being you :D
Today is my birthday, and this is an extra present! Woohoo!
Happy Birthday!
chinmoy808 me too :)
Happy Bday!
The day I'm reading this is my birthday! Cheers!
Visited the Field Museum for many decades. Albertosaurus in the lobby ended up stairs the the dinosaur gallery and now is named Daspletosaurus. Saw Sue the T. rex last in 2010 then in the main gallery, she's moved up stairs in her own special exhibit for a new giant sauropod Patagotitan in the main entrance gallery. First visited the museum in 1966 and could pet the Lions of Tsavo exhibit mountings back then. I remember when I first saw the mounts I thought" wow someone shot the heck out of them" not knowing the story about John Henry Pattersons amazing history.
So interesting to hear about SUE. I had no idea the skeleton mount had be updated, but I knew it was being relocated to another room.
Yes, I think Antarctic and Australian dinosaurs are very interesting! I wish you did one of them for a YDAW.
What a great video!
Please come to London and correct the exhibits here. You’d be surprised if not shocked by the amount of inaccuracy that are present in the models and facts
Good to see you guys again!
great video, I had no idea patagotitan was so complete!
yet, I expected more criticism on its mount, because whenever I see any tinatosaur reconstruction, I always think they look odd, like something's wrong, like bad plastic toys of "generic" sauropods. They don't look believable as living creatures, more like built-up static constructions, and pose feels wacky.
Great video! Any plans to visit the Natural History Museum in London for the same kind of video?
I'm always so excited when a new episode of this comes out.
I love how excited he looks!! Very wholesome!
I loved that lil pro-Sauropod, I said to myself "Aw it's so cute" then you said you thought it was cute and I laughed. glad to know I'm normal lol.
Very cool and nice different video of the channel! Nice talk of the mounted skeletons in the Field Museum and about their facts as well! :D
Wow. The last time I was at the Field Museum, the main display at the front of Stanley Hall was actually the Albertosaurus and Lambeosaurus pairing. I understand that now they have amended the same setup to denote that the reconstructed Albertosaurus was actually a Daspletosaurus, but at the time, it was still labeled Albertosaurus. Also, the first time I went there, the posture was more upright a la Godzilla... and the last 2 times, I went, the amended modern understanding of Tyrannosaurid posture had been applied to the then still Albertosaurus.
I am so buying that merch! And I love how for once you go out and find a museum to talk about. Your officially cooler than that guy from brave wilderness.
Fantastic video! I wish it was longer, but thank you so much for what you were able to share with us!
Could you guys come down to Houston and critique the natural science museum mounts/reconstructions? It ain't much but its nice to get recognition. There's a whole section dedicated to fossilized trees and how pretty it looks.
Docent here! Awesome that you got to come!
Does the Berlin Giraffititan mount have the same shoulder problem?
I only call our diplodocid Apatosaurus just so that the ghost of Elmer Riggs doesn't go after me.
Mackovicky told me he wanted a more erect stance, but the only available space for Sue was the old 3D theater on the second floor, so they had to keep the crouch. it's disappointing but hopefully since it's a more enclosed area Sue won't look as small as they did in the old hall.
I'd love to see other museum visits-The American, the Carnegie, the LAMNH, Austin, Academy of Sciences, National Monument, Utah State, Denver, etc.
always get exited when seeing these videos pop up in my notifications, keep up the amazing work, it is super fascinating
This was a really exciting episode, thank you! Seeing the mounts really put things in perspective in a way diagrams and toys cannot.
Awesome video and great merchandise... your illustration skills are superb!!!!
I frickin love this series.
I love to see a Yutyrannus episode and perhaps a bit of a discussion on the controversy of feathers on it's descendants like T-Rex and Tarbosaurus (Bell Paper)
Always a good day when a new YDAW video comes out! Love the field trip 😁
Finally!! I always look forward to YDAW videos.
What an awesome episode!
9:50
that really puts things into perspective
awesome!
Saw Sue in the main hall at the Field museum like 3 years ago, loved the modern, dynamic pose. Pity she's not there currently.
I'm a few years late to the party, but this is my favorite episode!
i love the field museum sm
Aww man I was hoping you’d do Daspletosaurus, my favorite Tyrannosaurid after Tarbosaurus
This is probably a really silly comment but I just wanted to say- thank you so much for using they/them for SUE! I really loved when SUE's twitter posted that update and it means a lot to little nonbinary armchair palaeoecologist me
I really need to see the Antarctic dinosaurs exhibit when I go back to Illinois over Christmas.
Could you do a video on amphicoelias fragillimus? The lost specimen, the size speculation, what estimate is most reasonable, appearence, etc?
This is an awesome episode! I would like to see more content like this.
YES ! I want this show to keep going forever !
I was wondering what was going on with crylophosaurus in primal carnage and tv shows it looked more like a dilophosaurs but it started out as a allosaurs looking dino I like the direction their takeing with the new skeleton with the mixed allo and dilo style head looks more cooler lol like that plus it fills the gap between dilophosaur and allosaur dinosaurs that came one after another dilophosaurs early Jurassic and allosaurs late Jurassic crylophosaurus would have been in the middle Jurassic a veary interesting find. Also a cool thing to do would be your dinosaurs are wrong on videogames a cool idea for the series.
Can you please review the fleshed out model of sue at the Denver Museum of Science? It looks horribly off to me. The femur seems too short, the knee too high (when compared w their skeleton). I know they’ve updated the gastralia but it seems like it’s chest is absurdly large now, to the point that I cannot imagine the tail would actually function as a proper counterbalance. I need to know, WE need to know!
I was really disappointed to see that the Museum of Natural History hasn't updated their dinosaurs to match knowledge we've known for 50 years!
Someday I will fly over to America and visit this amazing museum 😍
I guess I will have to visit the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago should I ever go there (And to this day I regret not having visited the Museum of Natural History in London, UK when I had the chance.. but my time there was limited, and I went for the British Museum instead).
I went to the Natural History Museum this year and was very disappointed in it's dinosaur exhibit. Looked like most of the exhibits were very out of date/in disrepair.
Great video! Have you done mosasaurus on this series? I know it’s not a dinosaur but it’s often included with dinos
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH, KEEP IT UP 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I didn't know that Brontosaurus was back. That's cool.
This might be a dumb question, but I wonder if the long spines under the Patagotitan's neck vertebrae are ossified tendons, does that mean they could move when the animal was alive? Just looking at it, it looks like the animal couldn't bend it's neck down.
Yes! IT LIVES!
Happy you're back.
My friend Anthony and I are planning on going to see the big al exhibit and pay homage to our favorite dinosaur
how did i miss this one!!!!
still the best show on youtube
Great video! I loved it so much!
As always, incredible work!
It's like watching a kid in a toy store :)
I was trying to compare your footage with my own pictures of Sue I took several years ago, but alas, I didn't take them at the right angle for a good comparison :/
Personally I would love to see an episode on the dinosaurs from the game The Isle
I have many happy memories of the Field Museum, going back over 50 years. I understand why they have to update their mounts, but I long for the mounts from my childhood, inaccurate as they may have been. Science marches on, and it is more important for the children of today to get accurate information than for old geeks like me to walk down memory lane.....
Last I heard, they were having a problem figuring out who owned Sue and had the skeleton in storage somewhere. Has something changed?
great episode !