26 Facts About Fossils

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025

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  • @doddjustin
    @doddjustin 5 лет назад +13

    Would definitely watch a Space Jam remake but with prehistoric birds instead of cartoon characters.

  • @samcopus1
    @samcopus1 5 лет назад +24

    Gonna honestly say this is a move in the right direction. The real life demo is cool and it isn't sponsored by Discover in a super obnoxious way.

    • @happypasta6
      @happypasta6 5 лет назад

      samcopus1 Right just don’t click on any of the ones labeled “scatterbrained” or if you do just be prepared to have to skip passed the “ sponsored”part (i.e. just a long ad)

  • @EddieVanAidan
    @EddieVanAidan 5 лет назад +7

    Ah yes filming in the ancient fossilised Saucepan room. Under appreciated but always one of my faves.

  • @kevcas1212
    @kevcas1212 5 лет назад +4

    LOL "It might be time to hand over the family credit card" 🔥

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +1

      I mean, if it had been *real* fossilized poo, sure- drop $10,000 without a 2nd thought...

  • @Paid2Help
    @Paid2Help 5 лет назад +1

    I've never seen your channel.. my friend is subscribed to you but never watches your vids.. I was scrolling through his subscriptions and found this vid and watched it and love the host! So now I'm going back to watch all your past stuff and notice she's not in all of them.. so I've digested pretty much every one she's in cause I like her so much and don't like John for some reason.. it's so weird to see the people comment here that they don't enjoy her.. my message to her is . Don't let the people who say negative stuff throw you off! I think you are cool and love watching you and your cute hand movements!

  • @77heraclitus
    @77heraclitus Год назад

    wonderful!!

  • @happyfacefries
    @happyfacefries 5 лет назад +2

    I liked Carl a lot. Can we some how feature him again?

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +1

      Carl is the best! We'd definitely love to work with him again, but he's a pretty busy guy so it'll probably be a minute.

  • @judykteich9738
    @judykteich9738 4 года назад +1

    Nice

  • @jennygrankin
    @jennygrankin 5 лет назад +2

    Favorite scientific discovery of 2019: the Homo luzonensis bone fragments are discovered to come from a new species of hominid. Another great was the first photo ever of a black hole by Event Horizon.

  • @terrellreynolds8422
    @terrellreynolds8422 4 года назад

    Thank you this is so helpful!

  • @nathanflannery3031
    @nathanflannery3031 5 лет назад +8

    "The Big Bone Room"
    The 12 year old part of my brain can't help but point out the euphemism.

    • @Quinnknights
      @Quinnknights 5 лет назад +1

      Both Me & my Wife giggled every time Big-Bone was said.

    • @tzkelley
      @tzkelley 5 лет назад

      Yep. She’s a bit on the hefty side.

    • @LB-il3se
      @LB-il3se 5 лет назад +2

      @@tzkelley yeah what a lardasss amirite or amirite. Fuck I hate women.

  • @dewaynegunter2955
    @dewaynegunter2955 3 года назад

    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, interestingly something you may see on it

  • @breiannabass2356
    @breiannabass2356 2 года назад

    You are exactly right Amtra1778

  • @emmapark8530
    @emmapark8530 5 лет назад +2

    I live near the Jurassic coast in Dorset,which is famous for the fossil hunter mary anning. There is many discoveries around the world of fossils not just in the u.s or in uk

    • @emmapark8530
      @emmapark8530 5 лет назад

      Please look up about the Jurassic coast and dorset

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +1

      @@emmapark8530 We actually had a fact about Mary Anning, who sounds pretty awesome, but it didn't make it past fact check (if you're curious, some say that "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is about her, though the evidence tying her to it is, in our fact checker's words, "weak." )

    • @emmapark8530
      @emmapark8530 5 лет назад +1

      I think and believe it as true as her family were very very poor and she sold curiosities in her dad's shop probably including sea shells,the beaches along the south west of England including dorset is a mixture of sand and stones,and its against the law to steal stones from chesil beach which is not far from Lyme Regis which was mary anning home...strange fact

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +1

      @@emmapark8530 Ha, love the local info! Unfortunately unless we can source it reasonably well from multiple outlets, we err on the side of caution (though you can always catch when a possibly-erroneous "fact" is too much fun for us to leave behind. That's when we break out phrases like "Some say" "The legend goes..." etc.)

    • @emmapark8530
      @emmapark8530 5 лет назад +1

      Very true.that's history or facts for you,it for most part is here say.....but if using were going to ask most peoplefrom Dorset or Lyme Regis about mary anning they would say with a doubt that the she sells sea shells story is true.don't know if you have seen it but there's so called a movie out at sometime based loosely on her. Another useless fact is that mary mary quite contrary is based on mary the first and the killing of protestants

  • @godnoble
    @godnoble 5 лет назад +1

    2019 discovery: people hate videos that claim to be educational yet seem to be written in large part by their sponsor. Wait nevermind, we've known people hate infomercials for a long time.

  • @gordybishop2375
    @gordybishop2375 5 лет назад +1

    Great show. You talk so fast though. Is there some kind of time limit your trying to fit into?

    • @austinshoupe1506
      @austinshoupe1506 5 лет назад

      It's a common youtube style. There's often self imposed limits, like the vlogbrothers 4 minute limit, but that's not universal. For the most part, there's just a love for fast paced speech in these videos. Mental Floss picked it up from John Green (who probably got it from Ze Frank). Early CGP Grey videos did the same.

    • @gordybishop2375
      @gordybishop2375 5 лет назад

      Just wonder why if true they want to handcuff themselves like that.

    • @austinshoupe1506
      @austinshoupe1506 5 лет назад

      @@gordybishop2375 it's not handcuffing. It's a successful style. Short, quick, and energetic. Keeps videos from dragging.

  • @BlackVoidsRevenge
    @BlackVoidsRevenge 5 лет назад +3

    It seems that the audio mix on these videos has been off lately. They are way more quiet that the other videos I watch, and I can hardly hear the intro music. Anyone else notice this?

  • @LeonardGr
    @LeonardGr 5 лет назад +1

    So prehistoric birds have feathers pressed on fossils, then will researchers go back to excavation place and search pressed T-rexes scales

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +1

      I'm not sure if it's a matter of going back so much as being aware of what to look for and constructing ever-more-accurate models based on the available evidence. Dilong paradoxus was the first member of the tyrannosaurus family found with feathers, and since then much larger members of the family have been ID'ed with feathers. When we went to AMNH to see their T-rex exhibit earlier this year, they had feathers on both the juvenile and adult models (but, to my knowledge, no T. rex has been found w/ feathers).

  • @sharonstrider206
    @sharonstrider206 2 года назад

    i think fossil are cool

  • @Mockturtlesoup1
    @Mockturtlesoup1 5 лет назад +2

    yea, but nuh-uh, cuz jesus.

  • @runnininthe80s84
    @runnininthe80s84 4 года назад

    Is there any way to call confirm that a fossil or a 10,000 yrs plus just by the composition?

  • @charmcrafter7587
    @charmcrafter7587 5 лет назад

    I can not imagine any living person seeing two tusks on an elephant. Or wooly mammoth.. n saying.. oh... a giant person

  • @evlmpyr
    @evlmpyr 5 лет назад +2

    Flood

  • @peterlervik1640
    @peterlervik1640 5 лет назад +11

    Still not a fan of this mental floss. John had more character and the format was concise and informative instead of long and drawn out

    • @austinshoupe1506
      @austinshoupe1506 5 лет назад

      It was a very similar format... This is just slightly more formalized and people seem to struggle with any host that's not Hank or John. She also pulled back the mania a little.

    • @Paid2Help
      @Paid2Help 5 лет назад

      I like her so much! She's so cute and I love the way she talks! I'm watching John right now cause of Auto play and he just seems disheveled to me.. his hair is wacky and his voice is not attractive to me at all..

    • @peterlervik1640
      @peterlervik1640 5 лет назад

      @@Paid2Help that's part of his charm...

    • @peterlervik1640
      @peterlervik1640 5 лет назад

      @@austinshoupe1506 the mania is the best part

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 5 лет назад

      Then why are you watching

  • @tzkelley
    @tzkelley 5 лет назад +1

    “Big Bone Room”. Seems appropriate.

  • @seanbaugh3239
    @seanbaugh3239 5 лет назад +3

    *#1 Fact About Fossils :*
    A Fossil of a piece of corn was found in the boxer shorts of the remains of a Homo sapiens idaltu, dated to around 195, 000 years ago and found in Omo Kibish, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 , it indicated an eastern African origin for humans at around 200, 000 years ago.🤔
    *Sidenote :* The game of *"pull my finger"* has been discovered to have originated at around the same time. (Coincidence ???)
    *The More You Know🌈🌟*
    *"NUFF SAID"*

  • @rparl
    @rparl 5 лет назад +1

    Why are there cast iron frying pans behind her head?

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +4

      Where else are you going to cook the brontosaurus steaks?

  • @fzgarcia12
    @fzgarcia12 5 лет назад +5

    So scientific, yet using imperial... METRIC! Please!

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +4

      Gah! I resolved to at least put metric equivalents in all the videos, but my blinkered American mind didn't even register that we were using feet/pounds/etc. in this video. Metric equivalents moving forward! For real this time!

    • @tzkelley
      @tzkelley 5 лет назад +1

      Fuck metric. Learn how to divide.

    • @dreadpirateroberts3481
      @dreadpirateroberts3481 5 лет назад +1

      What she said: a 3-foot-tall parrot weighting 15 pounds.
      What I heard: a 6-shaftment-tall parrot weighting half a slug.

    • @tzkelley
      @tzkelley 5 лет назад

      Dread Pirate Roberts when someone uses the French units of measure, that were forced down the throats of the Brits (who subsequently caved to the French), to put a man on the moon, then we can have the discussion of the need for a system of measurements where the entirety of one’s math skills is moving a decimal left and right.

    • @dreadpirateroberts3481
      @dreadpirateroberts3481 5 лет назад

      @@tzkelley I was only commenting on how foreign it sounded to me, no need to be offended...

  • @alwayslfg791
    @alwayslfg791 5 лет назад +1

    Where's hank at?

  • @Kaneanite
    @Kaneanite 5 лет назад +1

    No mention of SUE the T. rex? Fine, then you don't get a like. 😝

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад +2

      We wanted to talk about Sue, but Carl threatened to "shank us with a Megalodon tooth"-apparently there's some kind of turf war between AMNH and the Field Museum. (ok, just in case I completely made that up, here's a Sue fact: her $8.4 million skeleton was the highest price ever paid for a fossil, and the Field Museum's winning bid included contributions from the McDonald’s Corporation and Walt Disney World Resort. Photos of Sue riding Space Mountain are currently unavailable to the public.)

    • @Kaneanite
      @Kaneanite 5 лет назад +1

      @@MentalFloss Say no more, i've seen what goes down on museum Twitter. It is frightening, educational, but very frightening.

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  5 лет назад

      @@Kaneanite

  • @albee_4ever
    @albee_4ever 5 лет назад +3

    Stop moving your hands so much

    • @austinshoupe1506
      @austinshoupe1506 5 лет назад +1

      So, just stand there? Where do you people come from? Just watch. deal with your own neurosis.
      Can't seem to put a women in an information video without everyone bitching about the dumbest things.

    • @Paid2Help
      @Paid2Help 5 лет назад

      I like her hand movements..

  • @knifetoucher
    @knifetoucher 5 лет назад

    Not a good video to watch while you're eating. Didn't expect there to be as much poop and bloated corpse talk.

  • @s2bula
    @s2bula 5 лет назад

    The word "fossil" is not a real word anymore.

  • @CrzyMFT
    @CrzyMFT 5 лет назад

    I see way up your nose.