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Is there a possibility that the plesiosaurs and the other marine ones were actually fat or blubbery especially on the neck? I think they would've had less water resistance when swimming to... Hmmm
As a child, i had one of those flatpack wooden skeleton kits of a Dimetradon. According to the box it came in, it was a dinosaur, but I knew better. The box also showed the other "dinosaur" skeletons you could get, including a pteranodon, and a woolly mammoth.
@@Leo08x I always found it funny that fully _half_ of the original Power Rangers got their powers from non-dinosaurs, despite the show _explicitly_ calling them Dinosaurs. One of them wasn't even a real animal, let alone a dinosaur.
@@RabblesTheBinx Super Sentai (The show Power Rangers is an adaptation of) has this issue in EVERY single dinosaur themed team, the closer they got to a full dinosaur team was in Kyoryuger (which was adapted as PR Dino Cahrge and Dino Super Charge) but they screwed it up by having a Pteranodon and a Plesiosaur later on, but to be fair I think the one that MMPR was based on (Zyuranger) was about fantasy and prehistoric animals, not just dinosaurs.
@@Leo08x Oh, I know. The reason I picked MMPR was because Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger specifically used the wooly mammoth (changed to mastodon in Power Rangers) and smilodon on the team.
My grandpa found a fossilized mosasaur when he was a boy. It was located on their old property and a crew from one of the big local colleges came out to dig it up. I love hearing about them!
It works the opposite for me. His cheerfulness or what it could be called is highly irritating puts me on worse mood. I tolerate it like bad background music on some other videos because rest of the content is good.
Fun fact I used to work as a first aider, and I had a partner whose favourite question to keep a patient talking (Especially a young patient) was to ask what their favourite dinosaur was.
@@pierre-samuelroux9364 well, the question served its purpose of getting the patient engaged in conversation! Tending to wounds unfortunately isn't the best time to correct misinformation on ancient extinct animals.
I need a video where Clint goes through different famous cryptids and breaks down what clades they would belong in and discussing how they might relate to other animals (or showing that they are likely to be a real animal that is mistaken as a cryptid)
could happen but the thing is cryptids are often a combination of species. often from totaly different families. like the mothman. i think most are mistaken known species but a lot of them are probably just things like shadows of trees or trees mistaken for a shape of an animal or something. and that image has people's brain make something crazy out of it.
Eh, if Clint did cryptid-related videos there are only two ways I can imagine it going, either he'd take a methodical scientific approach and trigger a large number of his fans, or he'd just become another Trey/EDGE/AVNJ
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 Like the mothman, which was probably mistaken from an owl (seen at night, very sudden appearance and mixed with fear). A large white owl, I forgot what kind it was. But I watched a documentary about it, and about the first people who claimed to have seen it and how that story grew.
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 He could easily say that the resemblance to one of the creatures is convergent evolution, like maybe Mothman is a mammal that looks a bit like a moth.
I'm sure a lot of you know this but, as a classicist I'm obligated to point out: the Greek word 'deinos' isn't well translated as simply 'terrible'. It can mean clever, awe-inspiring or terrifying. It's often used to describe Gods and supernatural encounters.
I love these phylogeny/paleobiology videos by Clint! Most of these are already known information for me personally, but the way Clint can explain them elegantly and entertainingly is an education by itself! So I am here in these videos to learn how to educate and explain things from Clint, might be handy in the future if I don't fail this first semester of graduate school... :D
@@ClintsReptiles I'm in my first semester of the MSc of Biology at the KU Leuven, Belgium :D I am from Vietnam, and my bachelor in Hungary resulted in my first paper getting published in Ecology Letters (Ngo, Almasi, Barta and Tokolyi 2021). We worked on Hydra and the trade-off between reproduction and survival in relation to a higher body size, it was very interesting. But due to COVID and restrictions, I stayed from university for like 2 years, so now being back to studying feels like trying to do a marathon with rusty hinges for joints... :D I'm not sure what system/taxa I will focus on next, as I am now also a frequent birdwatcher and a somewhat trained insect taxidermist... Probably something insect related for my thesis since the KU Leuven is stronger in entomology than either Hydra or avian dinosaurs.... I guess I will focus on surviving this first semester for now :D
That sounds amazing! Hang in there. I was out of school four years before I started my M.S.. It was tough to get back into the school mindset, but I got there and you will too. Just keep running!
The really important questions, like 'What's your favorite dinosaur?'. Truly, I feel seen. As does 6-year old me who couldn't shut up about dinosaurs to save their life.
Favorite dinosaur (since you asked) : Anchiornis. Because for me as a kid who loved dinosaurs, the one universally accepted fact was that we would never really know the colors/skin patterns of dinosaurs in life, just wasn’t possible. When as an adult I leaned that we had fossilized melanosomes that could bring this animal to life for us in a way that I thought was impossible - it was a unbelievably awesome demonstration of how cool and advanced science is :)
I’m proud of myself for knowing that Dimetrodon was a synapsid and not a diapsid. Thank you Clint for teaching us all about life, both extinct and extant.
Great video as always Clint! I'm Greek so I'd just want to clarify that Dinosaur doesn't not mean terrible as much as mighty lizard. The word is "Δεινόσαυρος" from "Δεινός" meaning mighty, great or terrible and "Σαύρα" meaning lizard. So Dinosaur is a perfect name because it literally means cool lizard!
wow.... this is the perfect combination of not outdated, informative, and accessible for non-specialists including children. i am honestly impressed and surprised to have found something of such high quality on youtube. shame that i don't know many English speaking or learning children or other paleontology enthusiasts like myself. still, immensly grateful for your work!
I'm 61 years old, and when I was a child, my Dad was very much interested in dinosaurs. Living in New York City then, we had easy access to what at the time was probably the largest display of skeletons open to the public at the time. He even worked for Disney during the setup of the 1965 World's Fair, who did the large display of animatronic dinosaurs there. When I was a young adult, I read Robert Bakker's book which proposed the likelihood that many dinosaurs were endothermic, rather than exothermic. But still I'm continually amazed at the evolving taxonomy of dinosaurs (and those that we now know were not necessarily dinosaurs) as the research continues.
love dinosaurs, they've always been one of my favorite creatures to learn about, but any prehistoric animals are fascinating to learn about, thank you for making this video, keep up the good work.
Really cool video, but I definitely could have used some family trees (like in the last dinosaur video) to better understand how far away all the non-dino's are from being actual dino's
Now Clint’s gotta be angry at the group of lizards, excluding snakes and excluding mosasaurs because snakes are obviously invertebrates, and mosasaurs are obviously dinosaurs!
Sarcasm? You mean the group of vertebrates known as humans who believe that lizards exclude snakes and monitors because of their misunderstandings of what animals constitute dinosaurs and which do not?
@@dondragmer2412 and the Halloween skeleton video where the person at the Halloween store told Clint they don’t make snake skeleton props because snakes don’t have any bones lol
@@katelillo1932 the cat from that video might have actually been a lizard though. or at least made not by a cat owner but a bearded dragon owner or something.
A really comprehensive and informative paleobiology video that's leagues more educational and interesting than channels dedicated to paleobiology. I had been wondering why certain species evolved vertical or horizontal flukes/tail fins for a while, and you explained the working theory very clearly. Excellent, well-researched video.
I think the zeitgeist on discussions of these things is fascinating. Growing up in the 90s, the plesiosaurs and pliosaurs (especially liopleurodon) were the hot things. They are cool, huge, bizarre looking and amazing. Mosasaurs was something barely talked about as a kid. Meanwhile icthyosaurs were known because they had fantastic remains including one GIVING BIRTH TO LIVE YOUNG. In these times, this video summing up perfectly, my home boy liopleurodon doesn't even get a mention, and mosasurs are the hottest coolest thing in the conversation.
Hearing that Plesiosaurs are reasonably-related to turtles makes a lot of sense. Take a longer-necked turtle (or even a common snapping turtle), toss it on a sea turtle, and un-fuse the shell back to standard ribs, and ta-da, Plesiosaur.
I'm loving this series and can't wait for more!! This episode taught my 6 year old dino-fan that some of his favorite species aren't dinosaurs. But that doesn't make them any less cool!
Not necessarily my favorite ancient marine reptile that is erroneously called a Dinosaur, but I have to give credit to Pliosaurus funkei. It was truly amazing and impressive and was given one of the coolest scientific names of all time. And after initially being given the popular name "Predator X" it is really cool that it's scientific name isn't a step down from that video game type name.
Just discovered this channel and I love how enthusiastic Clint is about the subject matter he presents! Wonderful videos with fantastic information! Would be super helpful to also see phylogenetic diagrams in these videos to help give a visual of relatedness.
Clint has the superpower to make literally any animal sound exciting just by his own personality showing through while describing things. It truly is one of my favorite things to look forward to every week.
Liopleurodon is by far my favorite plesiosaur. When there was all that hype about Predator X, I was snookered in. My favorite flying creature was Rhamphorynchus. I just really dug the tail and leaf shape at the end. And my toy packs had Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus in them, so my Dimetrodon was the boy, and the Edaph was his wife. Thanks for the video.
It's cool how Archosaurs evolved the ability to fly _two times,_ which is a big deal considering how rare it is. The only other animals that I can think of that have the ability to fly are various insects and bats.
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I wonder, if you used all of the linked videos in Clint's Reptiles videos can you make a video clade? If each linked video is part of the family. I probably wouldn't work, but it would be funny if it could.
I love that dimetrodon is on this list. Whenever someone ask me what my favorite dinosaur is, I give the my favorite carnivore, carcaradontasaurus, and my favorite herbivore, ankylosaurus, or I tell them my favorite prehistoric reptile, which I always specify, which is dimetrodon. I did some research on them too, because of this, and found they are very distant ancestors of humans, which you mentioned. I love these videos and you make them so fun! I would love you to keep making these list!
One of my new personal favourite non-dinosaurs from the Mesozoic is Lisowicia from the Late Triassic, which was very recently discovered in Poland. A distant relative of mammals that look somewhat like a cross between a reptile and a hippo but with the size of an elephant. And these may have been hunted by some of the earliest giant theropods that lived at the same time, which were about the size of Allosaurus and which were discovered in nearby southern Sweden so recently that they don't even have an official scientific name yet. The Late Triassic is definitely about to become one of my favourite epochs.
The Mosasaur is my favorite Not-a-dinosaur. The Proto-mosasaur which it evolved from looks exactly like a monitor, and apparently its this wide mouth and flexible throat and long tail that helped them transition into such excellent sea predators.
the funnest thing i've learned about pterosaurs recently, is that a bunch of them had their scapulae anchored to fused thoracic vertebrae (a "notarium"), in a manner not _entirely_ unlike how the pelvic girdle is anchored to and fused with the sacrum
Started playing ARK recently and I dig this, and fear Dimetrodon (actually Spinosaur, based on spawn maps of the game) I watched a Japanese marine biologist + fisherman + chef + wonderful person combination (by the name Masaru) take apart a deceased alligator and can confirm that the crocodilian are AWESOME. He's done plenty of sharks too, all safely and legally of course.
Thank you a million times for making this video. I've been teaching people over and over through the years about these groups and how they are not related to dinosaurs. It's so nice to have mass media cover this content too and make my life easier. Plus as a scientific community, isn't it time we start renaming animals with archaic names that don't make any sense anymore?! Dinosaurs are the worst name to give them!
I'm curious about the "side to side" vs "up and down" movement on the case of the Spinosaur, since they are dinosaurs but with a tail clearly adapted to side to side propulsion. Was it just a readaptation on the tail to move side to side or did they move their entire spine this way?
To be fair about dinosaurs being "terrible lizards", the terrible part is (I'm fairly sure) a bit of drift in meaning - words coming from "terror" has had a bit of a habit of that, so with modern usages it might be more accurate to say "terrifying lizards", and while not lizards some dinosaurs would certainly be terrifying to see walking around in your vicinity!
@@azhdarchidae66 "terror" _is_ the latin word, and it has an identical definition; either "a feeling of great fear," or "an object that inspires fear or dread". It's a noun that comes from the verb "terrere", which means "to frighten".
I would love to see you make a video about the semi-erect posture of crocodilians. It is fascinating how they have the side-to-side spinal movement for swimming, but also the up-and-down movement when galloping on land like a mammal.
Love watchin Clint’s videos when I’m feelin lonely. Even when im not alone he’s fascinating but these videos are delightful company! Always so excited about the same things i get hyped about 😩
Hey Clint, any chance you'd someday make a video about Asian Grass Lizards (Takydromus sexlineatus)? I've watched virtually all of your videos and they're spectacular, so I'd really love to see you make one about my all-time favorite lizard.
What you said about body stance affecting the tail orientation of secondarily aquatic tetrapods is interesting, considering that _Spinosaurs,_ one of the few highly aquatic dinosaurs, had a vertical tail paddle.
Clint just wanted to thank you for producing these amazing videos. Exactly 1 year ago you got me hooked on reptiles with your "there is no way reptiles are the best pet" video. I used to think that were gross and now I stand by them and absolutely love them. I'm also looking to get a snake soon and naming it clint. Thankyou! You stinkin rad guy!✨️🌟
Clint, the word Terrible in old French and English actually mean "causing terror, dread or frightful" So terrible lizards mean lizards that cause terror, which is a pretty fitting name. Aside from the "lizard" part. Love your videos man, keep up the good works.
it's not even *that* old... it's like the 19C usage, when Ivan the Terrible was more like "ivan the awesome" than "ivan the awful". so "terrible" lizards were more like "awe-inspiring/awesome" lizards. but they're still not lizards xD
@@alveolate is it even that old? I'm sure I've seen it used that way more recently too, and I _always_ interpreted that way in both "terrible lizard" and "Ivan the Terrible".
I love dimetrodon, and I always have. I knew it wasn't a dinosaur but a pre-mammal already when I was like 10. :) They are so cool. And it's crazy to think how long ago they existed. :)
Somewhat hoping you cover a couple of the main crocodilians that existed in prehistoric times in a separate video, namely the T-rex sized Deinosuchus (which I believe is infinitely cooler than any dinosaur) and the equally enormous Purussaurus. Funny how a caiman capable of devouring dinosaurs evolved several million years after, during the age of mammals. The fact that even filter-feeding crocodilians evolved at several points in time really illustrates how incredibly successful these animals are.
I remember my mind being blown many years ago when some kid in school who was apparently more well informed than I was at the time told me that dimetrodon wasn't actually a true dinosaur. But none of these other creatures that you also mention not being classified as dinosaurs never really blew my mind in much the same way though.
At least it doesn't need a heat lamp and won't drop its tail 😂 Otherwise instant 0 out of 5 for Handleability, Availability and Upfront costs, but +1,000,000 points for awesomeness.
when they first classified dinosaurs as dinosaurs they had simple descriptions for them like: reptile-looking, fossils, large (optional), sharp things, bird genus (optional)
My favorite dinosaur actually has 2 answers. Traditionally, I have said Dinonychus, however, recent discoveries have made me start saying Yi Qi, which is basically a tiny wyvern! Also, while not a dinosaur, Thanatosdrakon gets an honorable mention for having the most badass scientific name ever!
I guess the appropriateness of the “terrible” in “terrible lizard” depends on how you interpret the word. A lot of words like awesome and awful or terrific and terrible have changed meaning quite a bit over time, so it might just mean that they’re large and impressive and “great”. I’d never thought of how word meanings changing could impact animal and creature names. Interesting thought.
I love that we get to see a Mosasaurus in the Jurassic World Films, introducing the audience to a whole new Prehistoric Creature. Sucks that they can only remember it by calling it the " Water Dinosaur " or " Fish Dinosaur ".
I like your happy, enthusiastic demeanor when discussing animals big and small. You're like Mr. Rogers crossed with Steve Irwin, and I mean that in the best way.
I am absolutely eating this content up. I need to just start asking people what their favorite dinosaur is. I remember seeing that video on velociraptors and going wait what?! When I was a kid, T-Rex was my go to. After Jurassic Park, the "Not Velociraptor" became my favorite. :D
I’m new here, just clicked on this, it’s currently December 7th, and learning that there’s a “Dinosaur December” as an avid Dino fan, has just made this month even better 😍 Ohhhh my coworkers are gonna haaaaaate me because I won’t shut up about dinos this month 🤣
I love that 3/5 of the original Power Ranger DinoZords weren't actually dinosaurs. It's like if Voltron were made out of a lion, a panther, and then like a rat terrier, an iguana and a parakeet
I truly couldn't agree more !! Too much adult conversation includes celebrities, and alot of other b.s not enough about history and just because your not a kid anymore doesn't mean you can't have your favourite dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures! My favourites have always been tyrannosaurus rex, ankylosaurus and baryonyx walkeri, but mosasaurs are truly epic such as tylosaurus and mosaurus hoffmani. Other favourites are smilodon fatalis and phorusracus and other terror birds. Love your channel Clint!!!
Thank you. Glad you're sharing information about these amazing prehistorics. I liked how you compared mosasaurs to monitors. Aren't they very close in relation?
As a 33 years old dinosaur-fan since I was 5, I thank you for this video! I remember having dinosaur-magazines for kids where those creatures were represented as dinosaurs, so I guess popular stuff about dinosaurs went wrong...
Terrible is used in the old sense, as in they inspire terror. Not that they suck. Just like aweful/awful used to mean inspiring awe and horrible used to mean the same as horrific, inspiring horror
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Pterosaurs would be excellent at drinking tea. Pinky up!
Do Emus make good pets?
Hey Clint! Love your videos! Do you mind if you make a video about pet jerboas. I can’t find any good info and your the guy to go to for info! Thanks!
Is there a possibility that the plesiosaurs and the other marine ones were actually fat or blubbery especially on the neck? I think they would've had less water resistance when swimming to... Hmmm
@@ANT96-x8d Yes they are fine can be a bit gutsy for food but bring them up from young and teach them!
As a child, i had one of those flatpack wooden skeleton kits of a Dimetradon. According to the box it came in, it was a dinosaur, but I knew better. The box also showed the other "dinosaur" skeletons you could get, including a pteranodon, and a woolly mammoth.
Ah yes everyone's favorite dinosaur, the Woolly Mammoth, so sad they didn't have the Smilodon too, that was MY favorite dinosaur
@@Leo08xor why not the ammonite wich was great dinosaur too 😂
@@Leo08x I always found it funny that fully _half_ of the original Power Rangers got their powers from non-dinosaurs, despite the show _explicitly_ calling them Dinosaurs. One of them wasn't even a real animal, let alone a dinosaur.
@@RabblesTheBinx Super Sentai (The show Power Rangers is an adaptation of) has this issue in EVERY single dinosaur themed team, the closer they got to a full dinosaur team was in Kyoryuger (which was adapted as PR Dino Cahrge and Dino Super Charge) but they screwed it up by having a Pteranodon and a Plesiosaur later on, but to be fair I think the one that MMPR was based on (Zyuranger) was about fantasy and prehistoric animals, not just dinosaurs.
@@Leo08x Oh, I know. The reason I picked MMPR was because Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger specifically used the wooly mammoth (changed to mastodon in Power Rangers) and smilodon on the team.
Mosasaurs deserve so much more credit as a type of lizard.
In most websites they only say that mosasaurs are squamates related to lizards and snakes instead of being lizards themselves which I find arbitrary
@@dinotyrannus its the same thing is saying birds are descendants of dinosaurs and not actual dinosaurs
it deserves the suffix -saurus more than other prehistoric reptiles
@@dahlgalai that just made me think- basilocetus wouldn’t be that bad of a name.
My grandpa found a fossilized mosasaur when he was a boy. It was located on their old property and a crew from one of the big local colleges came out to dig it up. I love hearing about them!
Seeing Clint after a long day of studies makes me happy because he is a cheerful person
I don't know how he can be cheerful after studying. It always made me irritable.
It works the opposite for me. His cheerfulness or what it could be called is highly irritating puts me on worse mood.
I tolerate it like bad background music on some other videos because rest of the content is good.
I would have LOVED to have had Clint as my Biology teacher! He would have made learning so much fun!
@@chitlitlah well if you study something you don’t like you’ll be mad
Fun fact
I used to work as a first aider, and I had a partner whose favourite question to keep a patient talking (Especially a young patient) was to ask what their favourite dinosaur was.
What was the best response? You ever get anyone who answers with like a C-lister dinosaur.
@@fragile4408 it would usually be younger patients, so we heard a lot of T Rex, but we got a few raptors and even one mosasaur
@@Zivon96mosa not dinosaur like at all
@@pierre-samuelroux9364 well, the question served its purpose of getting the patient engaged in conversation! Tending to wounds unfortunately isn't the best time to correct misinformation on ancient extinct animals.
@@TheSightOfTheStars hm yea ok interesting
I need a video where Clint goes through different famous cryptids and breaks down what clades they would belong in and discussing how they might relate to other animals (or showing that they are likely to be a real animal that is mistaken as a cryptid)
could happen but the thing is cryptids are often a combination of species. often from totaly different families. like the mothman. i think most are mistaken known species but a lot of them are probably just things like shadows of trees or trees mistaken for a shape of an animal or something. and that image has people's brain make something crazy out of it.
Eh, if Clint did cryptid-related videos there are only two ways I can imagine it going, either he'd take a methodical scientific approach and trigger a large number of his fans, or he'd just become another Trey/EDGE/AVNJ
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 Like the mothman, which was probably mistaken from an owl (seen at night, very sudden appearance and mixed with fear). A large white owl, I forgot what kind it was. But I watched a documentary about it, and about the first people who claimed to have seen it and how that story grew.
@@theflyingdutchguy9870 He could easily say that the resemblance to one of the creatures is convergent evolution, like maybe Mothman is a mammal that looks a bit like a moth.
I want him to talk about the giant green squirrel
I'm sure a lot of you know this but, as a classicist I'm obligated to point out: the Greek word 'deinos' isn't well translated as simply 'terrible'. It can mean clever, awe-inspiring or terrifying. It's often used to describe Gods and supernatural encounters.
Well, terrible in english doesn't just mean something like "horrible" but can also mean something "mighty." And yes, I'm sure you know that as well
Additionally, terrible had more of a "mighty" nuance at the point that the term dinosaur was coined.
Is that at all related to theos or theus or whatever other similar word?
Ivan the Terrible? Anyone?
I love these phylogeny/paleobiology videos by Clint! Most of these are already known information for me personally, but the way Clint can explain them elegantly and entertainingly is an education by itself! So I am here in these videos to learn how to educate and explain things from Clint, might be handy in the future if I don't fail this first semester of graduate school... :D
Thank you so much! What are you studying?
@@ClintsReptiles I'm in my first semester of the MSc of Biology at the KU Leuven, Belgium :D
I am from Vietnam, and my bachelor in Hungary resulted in my first paper getting published in Ecology Letters (Ngo, Almasi, Barta and Tokolyi 2021). We worked on Hydra and the trade-off between reproduction and survival in relation to a higher body size, it was very interesting.
But due to COVID and restrictions, I stayed from university for like 2 years, so now being back to studying feels like trying to do a marathon with rusty hinges for joints... :D
I'm not sure what system/taxa I will focus on next, as I am now also a frequent birdwatcher and a somewhat trained insect taxidermist... Probably something insect related for my thesis since the KU Leuven is stronger in entomology than either Hydra or avian dinosaurs.... I guess I will focus on surviving this first semester for now :D
That sounds amazing! Hang in there. I was out of school four years before I started my M.S.. It was tough to get back into the school mindset, but I got there and you will too. Just keep running!
@@ClintsReptiles Did birds evolve from dinosaurs? if they did they are dinosaurs!
@@ClintsReptiles thank you Clint!!
The really important questions, like 'What's your favorite dinosaur?'.
Truly, I feel seen. As does 6-year old me who couldn't shut up about dinosaurs to save their life.
It's the Pachycephalosaur for me, btw.
Your opinion is interesting but mines is the Therizinosaurus or Carnotaurus
@@kevinhuang8750 Good choices!
@@Syurtpiutha -us.
Mine is the hippo-walking Spinosaurus (I said hippo-walking because hippos walk underwater instead of swimming and Spinosaurus had very dense bones.)
Favorite dinosaur (since you asked) : Anchiornis. Because for me as a kid who loved dinosaurs, the one universally accepted fact was that we would never really know the colors/skin patterns of dinosaurs in life, just wasn’t possible. When as an adult I leaned that we had fossilized melanosomes that could bring this animal to life for us in a way that I thought was impossible - it was a unbelievably awesome demonstration of how cool and advanced science is :)
I wish every month was Dinosaur December. This channel just gets better and better
maybe dinosaur day could be any day ending in "day" 😃
you could just put each of the animals on this list in front of a fitting month name
like mosasaurid may
I’m proud of myself for knowing that Dimetrodon was a synapsid and not a diapsid. Thank you Clint for teaching us all about life, both extinct and extant.
I just love dinosaur december. You've made my december so much more cooler, interesting, ... Greetings from Slovenia
Great video as always Clint! I'm Greek so I'd just want to clarify that Dinosaur doesn't not mean terrible as much as mighty lizard. The word is "Δεινόσαυρος" from "Δεινός" meaning mighty, great or terrible and "Σαύρα" meaning lizard. So Dinosaur is a perfect name because it literally means cool lizard!
Terrible can also mean mighty, however that use of the word has become less common
Mighty, cool, terrifying 😉 lizard works...let's go with that 😁
wow.... this is the perfect combination of not outdated, informative, and accessible for non-specialists including children. i am honestly impressed and surprised to have found something of such high quality on youtube. shame that i don't know many English speaking or learning children or other paleontology enthusiasts like myself. still, immensly grateful for your work!
I'm 61 years old, and when I was a child, my Dad was very much interested in dinosaurs. Living in New York City then, we had easy access to what at the time was probably the largest display of skeletons open to the public at the time. He even worked for Disney during the setup of the 1965 World's Fair, who did the large display of animatronic dinosaurs there. When I was a young adult, I read Robert Bakker's book which proposed the likelihood that many dinosaurs were endothermic, rather than exothermic. But still I'm continually amazed at the evolving taxonomy of dinosaurs (and those that we now know were not necessarily dinosaurs) as the research continues.
love dinosaurs, they've always been one of my favorite creatures to learn about, but any prehistoric animals are fascinating to learn about, thank you for making this video, keep up the good work.
Paleontology is a fun field of knowledge to explore, I loved it since before kindergarten, and now I'm in university and loved it even more
For some reason when I read your name, I read it as GoBlinking instead of GoblinKing.
Really cool video, but I definitely could have used some family trees (like in the last dinosaur video) to better understand how far away all the non-dino's are from being actual dino's
yes I would have appreciated that as well.
Now Clint’s gotta be angry at the group of lizards, excluding snakes and excluding mosasaurs because snakes are obviously invertebrates, and mosasaurs are obviously dinosaurs!
Only serious fans of this channel will have any idea what you're talking about!
Sarcasm? You mean the group of vertebrates known as humans who believe that lizards exclude snakes and monitors because of their misunderstandings of what animals constitute dinosaurs and which do not?
@@dondragmer2412 and the Halloween skeleton video where the person at the Halloween store told Clint they don’t make snake skeleton props because snakes don’t have any bones lol
@@katelillo1932 the cat from that video might have actually been a lizard though.
or at least made not by a cat owner but a bearded dragon owner or something.
😂😂
Clint finds all animal species to be "one of the coolest animals ever". And that is wholesome. 💞
because they are if you look properly at them
A really comprehensive and informative paleobiology video that's leagues more educational and interesting than channels dedicated to paleobiology. I had been wondering why certain species evolved vertical or horizontal flukes/tail fins for a while, and you explained the working theory very clearly. Excellent, well-researched video.
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed getting to dive into this topic.
I think the zeitgeist on discussions of these things is fascinating.
Growing up in the 90s, the plesiosaurs and pliosaurs (especially liopleurodon) were the hot things. They are cool, huge, bizarre looking and amazing. Mosasaurs was something barely talked about as a kid. Meanwhile icthyosaurs were known because they had fantastic remains including one GIVING BIRTH TO LIVE YOUNG.
In these times, this video summing up perfectly, my home boy liopleurodon doesn't even get a mention, and mosasurs are the hottest coolest thing in the conversation.
Random animal: exists or existed
Clint: well this is one of the coolest animals that ever existed and probably one of my favorite if not my favorite
Hearing that Plesiosaurs are reasonably-related to turtles makes a lot of sense. Take a longer-necked turtle (or even a common snapping turtle), toss it on a sea turtle, and un-fuse the shell back to standard ribs, and ta-da, Plesiosaur.
I'm loving this series and can't wait for more!! This episode taught my 6 year old dino-fan that some of his favorite species aren't dinosaurs. But that doesn't make them any less cool!
Not necessarily my favorite ancient marine reptile that is erroneously called a Dinosaur, but I have to give credit to Pliosaurus funkei. It was truly amazing and impressive and was given one of the coolest scientific names of all time. And after initially being given the popular name "Predator X" it is really cool that it's scientific name isn't a step down from that video game type name.
Just discovered this channel and I love how enthusiastic Clint is about the subject matter he presents! Wonderful videos with fantastic information! Would be super helpful to also see phylogenetic diagrams in these videos to help give a visual of relatedness.
Clint has the superpower to make literally any animal sound exciting just by his own personality showing through while describing things. It truly is one of my favorite things to look forward to every week.
Liopleurodon is by far my favorite plesiosaur. When there was all that hype about Predator X, I was snookered in. My favorite flying creature was Rhamphorynchus. I just really dug the tail and leaf shape at the end. And my toy packs had Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus in them, so my Dimetrodon was the boy, and the Edaph was his wife. Thanks for the video.
It's cool how Archosaurs evolved the ability to fly _two times,_ which is a big deal considering how rare it is. The only other animals that I can think of that have the ability to fly are various insects and bats.
Big thanks to Ridge for sending all these awesome wallets and the daily driver kit - and supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out! > ridge.com/clint
I wonder, if you used all of the linked videos in Clint's Reptiles videos can you make a video clade? If each linked video is part of the family.
I probably wouldn't work, but it would be funny if it could.
I love that dimetrodon is on this list. Whenever someone ask me what my favorite dinosaur is, I give the my favorite carnivore, carcaradontasaurus, and my favorite herbivore, ankylosaurus, or I tell them my favorite prehistoric reptile, which I always specify, which is dimetrodon. I did some research on them too, because of this, and found they are very distant ancestors of humans, which you mentioned. I love these videos and you make them so fun! I would love you to keep making these list!
I guess technically though, I should say it's my favorite synapsid
dont tell any of your friends the synapsid part tho
@@azhdarchidae66 dont worry. Most friends won't ask. They are afraid of having to listen to another tangent on dinosaurs.😉
16:46 Land Crocodiles are quite fascinating! That's why they keep coming up on my channel!
One of my new personal favourite non-dinosaurs from the Mesozoic is Lisowicia from the Late Triassic, which was very recently discovered in Poland. A distant relative of mammals that look somewhat like a cross between a reptile and a hippo but with the size of an elephant. And these may have been hunted by some of the earliest giant theropods that lived at the same time, which were about the size of Allosaurus and which were discovered in nearby southern Sweden so recently that they don't even have an official scientific name yet. The Late Triassic is definitely about to become one of my favourite epochs.
This channel is more informative than most other channels on this subject.
The Mosasaur is my favorite Not-a-dinosaur. The Proto-mosasaur which it evolved from looks exactly like a monitor, and apparently its this wide mouth and flexible throat and long tail that helped them transition into such excellent sea predators.
the funnest thing i've learned about pterosaurs recently, is that a bunch of them had their scapulae anchored to fused thoracic vertebrae (a "notarium"), in a manner not _entirely_ unlike how the pelvic girdle is anchored to and fused with the sacrum
Started playing ARK recently and I dig this, and fear Dimetrodon (actually Spinosaur, based on spawn maps of the game)
I watched a Japanese marine biologist + fisherman + chef + wonderful person combination (by the name Masaru) take apart a deceased alligator and can confirm that the crocodilian are AWESOME. He's done plenty of sharks too, all safely and legally of course.
Clint might be my favorite RUclipsr. Super stoked to hear about sarcosuchus later this month
Thank you a million times for making this video. I've been teaching people over and over through the years about these groups and how they are not related to dinosaurs. It's so nice to have mass media cover this content too and make my life easier. Plus as a scientific community, isn't it time we start renaming animals with archaic names that don't make any sense anymore?! Dinosaurs are the worst name to give them!
I'm curious about the "side to side" vs "up and down" movement on the case of the Spinosaur, since they are dinosaurs but with a tail clearly adapted to side to side propulsion. Was it just a readaptation on the tail to move side to side or did they move their entire spine this way?
That bit about the vertical versus horizontal evolution of spine movement just blew my mind. I never noticed it!
To be fair about dinosaurs being "terrible lizards", the terrible part is (I'm fairly sure) a bit of drift in meaning - words coming from "terror" has had a bit of a habit of that, so with modern usages it might be more accurate to say "terrifying lizards", and while not lizards some dinosaurs would certainly be terrifying to see walking around in your vicinity!
I think it's less that they are terrifying and more that they were formidable and powerful. As in the old phrase 'great and terrible'.
Don't terrible and terrific come from the same root?
@@NitroIndigo yes, from terror (or whatever the probably latin word is)
Be surprised ypu walk along dinosaurs:birds
@@azhdarchidae66 "terror" _is_ the latin word, and it has an identical definition; either "a feeling of great fear," or "an object that inspires fear or dread". It's a noun that comes from the verb "terrere", which means "to frighten".
These phylogeny videos are so awesome! Especially excited for that extinction one you mentioned at the end😊
T-Rex, the best pet dinosaur? I'm guessing a 0 for availability, but what is it's handleability, care, hardiness, and upfront costs?
Dinosaur December is one of the best things on this channel!
My favorite 'dinosaur' is Baryonyx. I use them as inspiration for dragon drawings sometimes.
They can say whatever they want, one of my favorite videos so far. Ty Clint!
I would love to see you make a video about the semi-erect posture of crocodilians. It is fascinating how they have the side-to-side spinal movement for swimming, but also the up-and-down movement when galloping on land like a mammal.
I really love your consistent commitment to cladistic precision!
I live for the “Well hi there!”
Love watchin Clint’s videos when I’m feelin lonely. Even when im not alone he’s fascinating but these videos are delightful company! Always so excited about the same things i get hyped about 😩
Happy dinosaur December Clint & crew. 🐦🦕🦖
I love these videos! Clint is so good at explaining biology, and his energy and enthusiasm for these topics really shows!
Hey Clint, any chance you'd someday make a video about Asian Grass Lizards (Takydromus sexlineatus)? I've watched virtually all of your videos and they're spectacular, so I'd really love to see you make one about my all-time favorite lizard.
Saw the Spinosaurus in the thumbnail.
And then i was like "oh lord did the new studies come out" XD
Same! 🤣
What you said about body stance affecting the tail orientation of secondarily aquatic tetrapods is interesting, considering that _Spinosaurs,_ one of the few highly aquatic dinosaurs, had a vertical tail paddle.
Clint just wanted to thank you for producing these amazing videos. Exactly 1 year ago you got me hooked on reptiles with your "there is no way reptiles are the best pet" video. I used to think that were gross and now I stand by them and absolutely love them. I'm also looking to get a snake soon and naming it clint. Thankyou! You stinkin rad guy!✨️🌟
Cool!
Clint, the word Terrible in old French and English actually mean "causing terror, dread or frightful"
So terrible lizards mean lizards that cause terror, which is a pretty fitting name. Aside from the "lizard" part.
Love your videos man, keep up the good works.
it's not even *that* old... it's like the 19C usage, when Ivan the Terrible was more like "ivan the awesome" than "ivan the awful". so "terrible" lizards were more like "awe-inspiring/awesome" lizards.
but they're still not lizards xD
@@alveolate is it even that old?
I'm sure I've seen it used that way more recently too, and I _always_ interpreted that way in both "terrible lizard" and "Ivan the Terrible".
Your enthusiasm is so infectious.
I love dimetrodon, and I always have. I knew it wasn't a dinosaur but a pre-mammal already when I was like 10. :) They are so cool. And it's crazy to think how long ago they existed. :)
The bucket of dinosaurs I got for my 8th birthday had all of these in it, but it also had several prehistoric mammals as well.
Somewhat hoping you cover a couple of the main crocodilians that existed in prehistoric times in a separate video, namely the T-rex sized Deinosuchus (which I believe is infinitely cooler than any dinosaur) and the equally enormous Purussaurus. Funny how a caiman capable of devouring dinosaurs evolved several million years after, during the age of mammals. The fact that even filter-feeding crocodilians evolved at several points in time really illustrates how incredibly successful these animals are.
I remember my mind being blown many years ago when some kid in school who was apparently more well informed than I was at the time told me that dimetrodon wasn't actually a true dinosaur. But none of these other creatures that you also mention not being classified as dinosaurs never really blew my mind in much the same way though.
Mosasaurus Hoffmani, the best pet lizard for you.
At least it doesn't need a heat lamp and won't drop its tail 😂
Otherwise instant 0 out of 5 for Handleability, Availability and Upfront costs, but +1,000,000 points for awesomeness.
Clint is always charming and his presentations are always interesting and insightful
I'm glad he chose "probably not though" instead of "obviously not though" or "definitely not though" at 13:19
when they first classified dinosaurs as dinosaurs they had simple descriptions for them like:
reptile-looking, fossils, large (optional), sharp things, bird genus (optional)
My favorite dinosaur actually has 2 answers. Traditionally, I have said Dinonychus, however, recent discoveries have made me start saying Yi Qi, which is basically a tiny wyvern! Also, while not a dinosaur, Thanatosdrakon gets an honorable mention for having the most badass scientific name ever!
My grandma always told me, "I don't care what they tell you in school, dimetrodons are dinosaurs"
I guess the appropriateness of the “terrible” in “terrible lizard” depends on how you interpret the word. A lot of words like awesome and awful or terrific and terrible have changed meaning quite a bit over time, so it might just mean that they’re large and impressive and “great”. I’d never thought of how word meanings changing could impact animal and creature names. Interesting thought.
Dinosaur December is amazing. Thank you Clint and team!
I love that we get to see a Mosasaurus in the Jurassic World Films, introducing the audience to a whole new Prehistoric Creature.
Sucks that they can only remember it by calling it the " Water Dinosaur " or " Fish Dinosaur ".
I like your happy, enthusiastic demeanor when discussing animals big and small. You're like Mr. Rogers crossed with Steve Irwin, and I mean that in the best way.
I am absolutely eating this content up. I need to just start asking people what their favorite dinosaur is. I remember seeing that video on velociraptors and going wait what?! When I was a kid, T-Rex was my go to. After Jurassic Park, the "Not Velociraptor" became my favorite. :D
I’m new here, just clicked on this, it’s currently December 7th, and learning that there’s a “Dinosaur December” as an avid Dino fan, has just made this month even better 😍
Ohhhh my coworkers are gonna haaaaaate me because I won’t shut up about dinos this month 🤣
The Chicxulub hype is real
Spoiler alert lol
I love that 3/5 of the original Power Ranger DinoZords weren't actually dinosaurs.
It's like if Voltron were made out of a lion, a panther, and then like a rat terrier, an iguana and a parakeet
Still the best show on RUclips..TY Clint's Reptiles.
The statement Dinosaurs are not lizards so yes they are "terrible lizards". Great statement
"terrible reptil "
@@parakeorex I'm not understanding your comment, please elabrate
I truly couldn't agree more !! Too much adult conversation includes celebrities, and alot of other b.s not enough about history and just because your not a kid anymore doesn't mean you can't have your favourite dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures! My favourites have always been tyrannosaurus rex, ankylosaurus and baryonyx walkeri, but mosasaurs are truly epic such as tylosaurus and mosaurus hoffmani. Other favourites are smilodon fatalis and phorusracus and other terror birds. Love your channel Clint!!!
Why can't you hear a pterodactyl use the bathroom? Because the p is silent!
Usually I dislike goofy, loud and over-friendly people (especially presenters), but you are somewhat likeable. Good video, subbed.
Clint, l love this. I was a dinosaur girl in a world of horse girls and n ow I'm a dino adult. Thank you!
Thank you. Glad you're sharing information about these amazing prehistorics.
I liked how you compared mosasaurs to monitors. Aren't they very close in relation?
Dinosaurs are not terrible lizards they’re terrible at being lizards
Whoa! The tail form evolution explaination is such an incredibly cool fact 😮
Stumbled upon this video randomly. You sir, have more then earned my subscription. I look forward to learning more from you in the future.
As a 33 years old dinosaur-fan since I was 5, I thank you for this video!
I remember having dinosaur-magazines for kids where those creatures were represented as dinosaurs, so I guess popular stuff about dinosaurs went wrong...
This was needed, thank you so much!
Your videos are so well made you are my inspiration for everything reptile.
That was a great and informative video. Thanks I enjoyed watching it.
My favourite Dinosaur is Yutyrannus. It used to be Carnotaurus but then I discovered the the Yuti and was sold!
Exceptional videos this month. Keep it up
Thank you for your videos Clint!!! Love all of them!!
My son is loving these videos. He really wants one only about the giant theropods. Thank you for such informative content!
I never thought about it like that but now that you mentioned it the Plesiosaur does look a lot like a prehistoric sea turtle without a shell :D
Terrible is used in the old sense, as in they inspire terror. Not that they suck. Just like aweful/awful used to mean inspiring awe and horrible used to mean the same as horrific, inspiring horror
Loving dinosaur December, Clint can we please have a dinosaur January too 🎄🖖
Jurassic January??
@@ClintsReptiles Jurassic January. AWESOME yes please 🙏
@@ClintsReptiles
Jurassic January
Fishy February
Mammal March
Avian April
@@kritiandsiddharthaswedding "of Mice and May"