Dinosaur Coloration: No Longer a Mystery?

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
  • Yes I have finally tackled this totally original subject that has never been done before…totally.
    Despite numerous videos already discussing this subject, I figured I’d talk about dinosaur coloration since there is a lot of interesting information within. From what cells are responsible for colors, how the cells produce said color, and of course what color dinosaurs were! I hope you all enjoyed!
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    “Cowboy Acoustic Folk” - Infraction
    “Soulwisp” - Stone Ocean
    “Castles of the North” - TeknoAXE
    “Sao Meo Orchestral Mix” - Doug Maxwell & Zac Zinger

Комментарии • 38

  • @Vallibonavenitrix
    @Vallibonavenitrix 3 месяца назад +19

    Artist here, as someone who recently finished Jurassic june, I can say that yes most animals do have pretty generic patterns but theyre are some that have really cool patterns for referencing! Birds are a good example such as cassowaries, toucans and bitterns etc...

  • @jeffbenton6183
    @jeffbenton6183 2 месяца назад +11

    That last bit of advice was extra funny to me for a particular reason.
    Any time I'm recommended a new channel, I always worry that its some kind of AI channel. I can usually tell about halfway through the first video (sometimes even quicker than that). The video I watched immediately before this one was clearly AI, so I'm never watching one from their channel again. It was already clear to me by then that this channel is one of the good ones, and then the demonstration on how that AI bot broke literally every rule you set out was icing on the cake!

  • @apm77
    @apm77 3 месяца назад +41

    I've heard people speculate about the colour of sauropods, arguing that because they are so large in adulthood that there's no point even trying to blend in, they might as well go all in on colourful displays. I don't think this speculation is entirely serious, though, and obviously camouflage is essential for juvenile sauropods, but you can have fun imagining that. I wonder which dinosaurs palaeontologists would be most excited about being able to see in colour.

    • @kalo8524
      @kalo8524 3 месяца назад +4

      Some could have had something like deer, bright white spots or something that later became brown.

    • @yaruyaru
      @yaruyaru 3 месяца назад

      maybe they were coloured according to the local megaflora? 🤔

    • @zakaryloreto6526
      @zakaryloreto6526 3 месяца назад +4

      Probably only change color when sexually mature, I’d always imagine them with spots like giraffes.

    • @scorpiovenator_4736
      @scorpiovenator_4736 3 месяца назад +3

      I always said that they would be pale colors like elephants and rhinos with colorful necks and tails

    • @JustinCase807
      @JustinCase807 Месяц назад

      Elephants are big, and not neon orange. Hmmm...

  • @greenghoul157
    @greenghoul157 2 месяца назад +8

    That nodosaur fossil looks so well preserved that it looks like it's sleeping

  • @dagoodboy6424
    @dagoodboy6424 3 месяца назад +3

    Yeah i remember reading about archeoptryx colors. I think theres also a grey hadrosaur and brachlophosaurus which was brown n white.

  • @mustachetwirler7617
    @mustachetwirler7617 3 месяца назад +16

    I gave your video a like the moment you said this at 6:19 !

  • @badshibari6707
    @badshibari6707 3 месяца назад +3

    Your videos are awesome! Can't wait for you to get more eyes on your videos. Awesome stuff!

  • @aum3.146
    @aum3.146 2 месяца назад

    At last! Colors and patterns.

  • @greywolf7577
    @greywolf7577 2 месяца назад +1

    In nine days, he has almost doubled his number of subscribers.

  • @calebsmith2362
    @calebsmith2362 2 месяца назад

    While countershading certainly applies to both modern and prehistoric animals, I feel it's important to emphasize just to what extent modern animals should be utilized as a analog. Just because tigers have orange and black stripes and are top predators today doesn't mean that Mesozoic predators should look this way. There are paleo artists who have taken this to the extreme. For example, the giant panda is a taxonomically carnivorous mammal adapted to an herbivorous diet. Therizinosaurs and pandas both share a carnivorous ancestry that transitioned into herbivory. This shouldn't suggest the former would have black and white coloration. It sounds ridiculous but I've met paleo artists who operate under this same logic.

  • @AustinThomasPhD
    @AustinThomasPhD 2 месяца назад

    I just came from a video where soft tissue and blood vessels were preserved in a carboniferous fish, preserving the pattern. Wild stuff.

  • @ARandomPaleoartist
    @ARandomPaleoartist  3 месяца назад +5

    Happy 4th of July! 🧨🎇🎆🇺🇸

  • @bkjeong4302
    @bkjeong4302 2 месяца назад +1

    TBH way too many people nowadays ignore camouflage and think dinosaurs were always insanely brilliant because “muh colour vision”. Even with Microraptor it’s important to note that it was ecologically nothing like iridescent black birds today and that its coloration might have been (in fact, probably was) for entirely different purposes.

    • @ostracostio64
      @ostracostio64 2 месяца назад

      Why do modern animals have that coloring?

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 2 месяца назад +1

      @@ostracostio64
      Modern iridescent black birds are coloured that way for display.
      But they are also open-country, highly social omnivores, while Microraptor was a forest-living, presumably solitary carnivore far more akin to a raptor in ecology.

    • @AncientWildTV
      @AncientWildTV 25 дней назад

      @@bkjeong4302 How do we differentiate between the potential purposes of coloration in extinct species like Microraptor versus modern animals??

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 25 дней назад +1

      @@AncientWildTV
      Mostly ecological niche. We already knew that Microraptor was nothing like corvids in ecology.

  • @relaxingthesoulmind1879
    @relaxingthesoulmind1879 2 месяца назад

    Nice Video You explain Everything Great about Colors of Dinos. I like the ending no Ai 😂❤❤❤

  • @MariaTeresa-b1q
    @MariaTeresa-b1q 2 месяца назад +1

    The first dinosaur is cute😊😊😊😊

  • @riotbreaker3506
    @riotbreaker3506 2 месяца назад +1

    I imagine dinosaurs were pretty colorful, many animals in nature feature vivid coloration and patterns. Raccoons, tigers, cassowaries, monitors, etc. Even humans are striped, though we can't usually see them.

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 2 месяца назад

      Tigers are coloured that way for camouflage, not for display..

    • @riotbreaker3506
      @riotbreaker3506 2 месяца назад

      @@bkjeong4302 didn't say they were for display

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 2 месяца назад

      @@riotbreaker3506
      Yeah but you implied that they were with your wording.
      Also, raccoons aren’t exactly brightly coloured: they have striking patterns but nothing especially vivid.

    • @riotbreaker3506
      @riotbreaker3506 2 месяца назад +1

      @@bkjeong4302 are monitors and humans vividly colored for display? My point was that all animals possess diverse colors and pattern variation. Sinosauropteryx itself had a very raccoon-like pattern

    • @j.m.w.5064
      @j.m.w.5064 2 месяца назад

      ​@@bkjeong4302No, he did not imply that. It was literally said "vivid colours and patterns". And raccoons 🦝 do feature a contrasty pattern. Nobody said they are highly saturated. You're really confusing.

  • @GreenPoint_one
    @GreenPoint_one 2 месяца назад +1

    Its not color but wasnt their a duckbilled dinosaur with skin pattern preserved? Its not colors but its nice to look at :3

  • @colinmathura-jeffree9829
    @colinmathura-jeffree9829 17 дней назад

    ❤ Any lucon skin cour for Apex Stegosaurus?

  • @AbandonedAccount4
    @AbandonedAccount4 2 месяца назад

    How to draw scales its hard to draw scales on dinosaurs