5 Amazing "Dinosaurs" That Can't Be Your Favorite Dinosaur

[@ClintsReptiles]

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[@jebVlogs556]

#ClintsReptiles Basilesaurus and Triceratops 😅are my favorite dinosaurs 🦖🦕

[@gangofgreenhorns2672]

Can you do a video on how birds evolved to become warm-blooded?

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

❤Want a ridge wallet so bad, maybe someday when I can afford it! Love the channel Clint, your videos are the best!! Always learn something new!

[@ZeFroz3n0ne907]

How is Gus-Gus doing?

[@angelmorales8603]

It would be fun a list of "The best pet dinosaur?" but with actual extinct animals

[@daniellependock2554]

Yes! I nominate bulbasaurus 😂 Edit: I know Bulbasaurus is NOT a dinosaur. I was focused on the "Actual extinct animals" part of the comment I was responding to. Sorry for the confusion. I am a sleep deprived nerd.

[@timitnyre5831]

Yes!

[@nightlunastar]

I saw Photoshoped pictures with humans and their velociraptor pet

[@Firestar-TV]

Carolina Parakeet 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🦜

[@lambybunny7173]

@@daniellependock2554bulbasaurus isn't a dinosaur actually it's a therapsid :]

[@Oldtanktapper]

Always loved Ray Bradbury’s quote when it comes to adults and dinosaurs: “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

[@Kingbimmy]

I will literally leave a conversation if a person has no interest in my two main passions, space, and dinosaurs. To a lesser degree, nirclear physics. I’ll be sad but I want leave the convo 😭

[@dplocksmith91]

Space, prehistoric life, and genetics. Those are my favorite topics.

[@justusb.plorer8773]

A common error that plagues many reconstructions of Megalodon is that's depicted as basically just a bigger great white shark. This is because we used to think they were closely related, but more recent studies recover Megalodon as a member of the genus Otodus, which are lamniformes, but belong to their own family, otodontidae. Anatomically, Megalodon differed from the great white shark in having a more slender, elongated build and proportionately larger caudal and pectoral fins.

[@Serucipe]

All we have is teeth, man. It could have looked like anything.

[@justusb.plorer8773]

@@Serucipe You make two claims in this comment, both of which are wrong. While we don't have a complete skeleton for megalodon, we do have some vertrbrae in addition to the numerous teeth. Second, it could not have looked like anything, due to the requirements for macropredation and the constraints of hydrodynamics. We might not be sure about all of the details, but we have good understanding of the big picture.

[@Erlik0_89]

When you think about it, it makes sense tho. When people think of a big shark, they think of the biggest shark they know of (which is usually the great white). They then just upscale it because they think that both sharks serve the same niches.

[@barrybarlowe5640]

I have not found any fosile discoveries of Megalodon, aside from teeth and some vertebrae. The THEORY of some researchers of a separate family is not set in stone.

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@@Serucipe zoomer response , yawn

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Basilosaurus has a rather funny reason why it has such a name (meaning "King Lizard"). Because when it was found, they thought it was some kind of massive reptile. So it was labelled as such. But due to the rules of taxonomy, when it was later found to be a mammal instead...the name had to stick. If you screw up with naming an animal, your shame is permanent. Also surprised Dimetrodon didn't pop up. A lot of people label it as a dinosaur or lump it in with them or even depict them together. But Dimetrodon lived millions of years before dinosaurs, and was a basal mammal, splitting off from reptiles long before dinosaurs arrived.

[@NitroIndigo]

He mentioned Dimetrodon in a previous video about animals mistaken for dinosaurs.

[@scorpionking2580]

Dimetrodon wasn't a basal mammal, but a basal synapsid

[@munafruit]

i support zeuglodon personally!

[@jaschabull2365]

Right up there with Apidium, which was named after the mythological bull, Apis from Ancient Egypt due to the first fossil being considered a bovine fossil before eventually turning out to come from a primate.

[@psychokinrazalon]

Dimetrodon paleoart tends to give it a very reptilian appearance. I wonder if that’s where the confusion lies.

[@haslittle8078]

My favorite dinosaur is definitely Aerodactyl. We even have an excellent idea of what it was like in ancient times thanks to the tireless work of the Cinnabar Island cloning team.

[@lazerbeam134]

Aerodactyl is not a dinosaur Pokemon it is based on a Pteranodon lol. The best dinosaur Pokemon is Tyrantrum

[@GjoobAndSkarmory]

@@lazerbeam134 amaura better

[@dahlgalai]

​@@GjoobAndSkarmoryi would choose archeops if it lwasn't a defeatist

[@evangeloevoxi]

My favorite dinosaur is Charizard

[@Noodlezz95]

my favourite dinosaur is dodrio

[@zemlidrakona2915]

By far, the most popular dinosaur that isn't a dinosaur is Dimetrodon. It's been included in toy plastic dinosaur packs for years.

[@ClintsReptiles]

It was on the last list.

[@lovepeople777]

Um, is pterandon a joke to you?

[@zemlidrakona2915]

@@lovepeople777 Errrr what?

[@Mag3.1415]

⁠​⁠@@zemlidrakona2915they were referencing a meme, saying that pteranodons aren’t dinosaurs and they are (arguably) more popular than the dimetrodon.

[@zemlidrakona2915]

@@Mag3.1415 OK, but they are at least from the Mesozoic and are diapsids. Dimetrodon is from the Paliozoic and is a Synapsid. Also kids generally don't call them Pteranodons. They call them Pterodactyls as a group even though that's technically wrong.

[@MrHugemoth]

Favorite dinosaur is the raven. In Death Valley they have learned how operate water faucets in the campgrounds so they can get a drink. They also understand how zippers work on motorcycle luggage so they can get in and look for food.

[@moukidelmar]

Favorite extant dinosaur: Crow Favorite extinct dinosaur: T-rex Favorite non-dinosaur prehistoric reptile: Tapejara Favorite prehistoric animal still alive today: Horseshoe Crab Favorite extinct prehistorict animal: Wooly Mammoth *Bonus* Most interesting prehistoric creature I would love a video on: Terror Birds, they're relationship to Gastrornis if any, their evolution from surviving Cretaceous birds, and their distribution

[@markcobuzzi826]

If I was making a similar list for myself, these below would be my entries… *Favorite Prehistoric Dinosaur Overall:* T. rex *Favorite Prehistoric Flightless Avian Dinosaur:* Phorusrhachids in general *Favorite Prehistoric Flighted Dinosaur:* Toss-up between the non-avian Microraptor and the avian Argentavis or Pelagornis *Favorite Dinosaur To Become Extinct During Recorded History Overall:* Aepyornis maximus (or maybe elephant birds in general) *Favorite Extant Flightless Dinosaur:* Penguins in general *Favorite Extant Flighted Dinosaur:* Way too many for me to conclusively narrow down *Favorite Terrestrial/Semi-Aquatic Non-Dinosaurian Reptile:* The extinct/extant crocodilians in general *Favorite Fully Aquatic Non-Dinosaurian Reptile:* Mosasaurus (maybe other mosasaurs in general too, such as Tylosaurus) *Favorite Flying Non-Dinosaurian Reptile:* Hatzegopteryx *Favorite Non-Reptilian Animal of All Time:* Toss-up between elephants in general (both extant genera and extinct genera like Mammuthus and Palaeoloxodon), domestic dogs, and giant squid (specifically Architeuthis dux)

[@jahimuddin2306]

Here is my list: Extant dinosaur: Cassowary Extinct dinosaur: Stegosaurus Non dinosaur extinct reptile: Shonisaur Non dinosaur extant reptile: American Alligator Favorite extant prehistoric animal: Great White Shark Favorite extinct animal: Cretoxyrhina

[@Fahrenheit4051]

Technically, humans are a prehistoric animal still alive today.

[@BFSOM]

Extant: Red Tail Hawk Extinct: Deinonychus, Carnotaurus or T-Rex (can't decide) Extinct prehistoric reptile: Quetzalcoatlus Extant prehistoric animal: jellyfish Extinct prehistoric animal: Moa

[@DJFracus]

does the woolly mammoth really count as "prehistoric" when it actually existed after the invention of writing (history)?

[@Eldrisaur]

I once knew a guy who INSISTED that woolly mammoths were dinosaurs. No matter how much I tried to explain what a dinosaur was, he would refuse. Mind you this man was a grown-ass adult.

[@TristanTodd-kk9um]

I don't think he was very smart then.

[@MogoMojo-50]

what did he say while insisting its a dinosaur

[@flechedesneiges5114]

My brother's got an examiner (to a national level test) explaining to him during the exam that mammals have been struck by extinction at the same time as dinosaurs. ToT What can you do against these people ? ToT

[@marmalade8915]

Same energy as me having to explain to my mom that whales are mammald

[@howlingarmadillo]

I went to the Royal Tyrell Museum a couple months ago and saw a dunkleosteus skull on display there and was blown away by how big they were! Always pictured them being like, maybe 6 feet or so, certainly large but not crazy, and instead I was seeing a skull big enough to eat me without much trouble. Definitely have a lot more respect/fear for those absolute monsters now.

[@meg2831]

It's my favorite fish of all time. They are so cool.

[@briantonkin7737]

They have had a reduced size projection since then sadly

[@howlingarmadillo]

@@briantonkin7737 Curious what you mean by this. Like, are they suspecting that the fish's body/head ratio is different now? Because you can tell me they're supposed to be smaller but that doesn't exactly make the skull I was standing next to shrink, it was definitely big enough to eat me, lol.

[@briantonkin7737]

@howlingarmadillo, yes, the head to body ratio estimates are what has "changed". Granted, until they get a full imprint fossil, take everything with grains of salt @paleoanalysis , has a good short on it

[@piltdownfilms]

I end up watching their lecture series on youtube from time to time. I think it would be very cool to visit but it would be quite a trip for me.

[@lashamartashvili]

I have two favourite dinosaurs: turkey for its taste and hummingbird for its beauty and cuteness.

[@marcoasturias8520]

Extinct dinosaurs

[@HorriblePaleoartist]

​@@marcoasturias8520birds are dinosaurs

[@dplocksmith91]

I prefer chicken to turkey.

[@aadityapandey4399]

I like the flightless cormorant because well…just look at it’s eyes

[@marcoasturias8520]

@@HorriblePaleoartist but they're extant dinosaurs, wait for them all die out.

[@serpenticular6990]

It’s not quite Dinosaur December.. But is there really anything wrong with that? I adore this paleontological content and I’d like to recommend a phylogeny video covering extinct mammals too! The evolution of whales, perhaps?

[@thereptile586]

It’s Dinovember!!

[@ClintsReptiles]

Great suggestion!

[@Spinofaarus_boi]

It’s also Nigersaurus November

[@Doomguyhunter1]

We need mammal March next year! And arthropod april!

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

No-Dino-vember,

[@fnglert]

My favorite dinosaur is Microraptor. Very underrated imo. And very unique.

[@mathildetanghe865]

Same! Such a cute lil fella

[@Nigel_BC]

Solid choice!

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Yeah, it's pet-sized.

[@julianozaur444]

A good choice

[@wildflower1397]

Yes! I wish I could figure out more about the actual size and characteristics, as supported by science. There are so many awesome illustrations of them online, but I have no clue how accurate they are.

[@xergiok2322]

To the average Joe, 'dinosaur' just means 'something that existed long ago'.

[@amaureaLua]

I think the frequency with which Clint uses the term "non-avian dinosaur" is a great demonstration of the *usefulness* of paraphyletic groups, despite his aversion to them. Sure, phyla are the most well-motivated in general, but exceptional sub-groups exist, and it's useful to have terms both for them and the rest. For example, as demonstrated by Clint himself, it's very useful to be able to talk about the non-avian dinosaurs. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue though. I wish we had a proper name for them.

[@aneasteregg8171]

We do. It's "Dinosaurs". Anyone who goes off about birds technically being dinosaurs is just an annoying pedant.

[@Hytheter]

@@aneasteregg8171 Agreed. Saying "non-avian dinosaurs" is like saying "non-tetrapod bony fish". Everyone knows what you mean without specifying as such. It makes much more sense to specify when you're including them (eg "dinosaurs, including birds") than the other way around.

[@isaacbruner65]

It's also kind of odd to talk about the extinction of the "non-avian" dinosaurs because most avialan dinosaurs and mesozoic birds also went extinct. So it's the extinction of the "non-avian and most avian" dinosaurs. Doesn't really roll off the tongue. I'm honestly not sure how they classify what dinosaurs are avian. Avialans or members of Aves? No matter how you slice it, most avian dinosaurs did go extinct.

[@mikaderhacker2869]

​@@isaacbruner65 To include them you could say mesozoic dinosaurs.

[@ankhels]

Honestly, this is the ONE channel/creator that I've found to be *truly* worth the Patreon subscription, and more so at the highest tier. I mean, it includes 1 extra video for EVERY video - talk about value!! I've subbed to a few other places, but generally end up removing them because it's just not worth it. When money's tight, this is the one sub I never consider removing. I absolutely LOVE the Patreon extra videos. Thanks Clint!! Edit to add: I was originally commenting this on the Patreon extra for this vid, but wanted to put it here instead to convince more people to join up if anyone's like me and hesitant to join Patreons in general. ♥️

[@ClintsReptiles]

Wow, thank you for that feedback! We so appreciate all that you do to help us make this channel better. I'm so happy that we are giving enough back to make it a mutually beneficial exchange.

[@margodphd]

It's the first Patreon I'm hitting once my stipend hits then. For now it's...well, let's just say I considered eating the agar plates for microcultures. I'm thankful I haven't switched to particle physics, can't imagine eating any of that stuff.

[@ankhels]

@@margodphd Oof. I'm sorry you're in that position. I know grad school can be extremely expensive and depending on your field/"major" (for lack of a better word), having a paying job at the same time can be quite tough if not impossible without delaying your degree. Obviously necessities come first! But later on when you do have the extra funds, I can't recommend this channel enough! The Patreon Extras are generally around ~10-20min (give or take a few) extra content from each vid and the discussions in them are very illuminating! Good luck on your PhD! ♥️

[@margodphd]

@@ankhels Thanks ❤️ It's actually my... second one, and I'm still paying off debt from having to self publish papers as the subject of my study went against politics in my country at the time heavily. Life got so much more expensive in my country that even with my mom's help we're barely holding on. But hey, what can you do. I gave up on my dreams before, and I won't do it again. If I wasn't elderly for this life period I could maybe squish in some hours of ...Pole dancing? Or something? (Waitressing wouldn't even pay for my gas to and from work) but I found out that energy levels exponentially decrease after 30. ❤️ for encouragement, have a wonderful day!

[@matthewhaynes509]

To muddy the waters for you a bit, Clint, there’s also Purussaurus, a caiman from the Miocene that was around the same size as Deinosuchus. We’re not sure which is bigger. -a paleontologist

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

I've heart that a recent study downsized Purussaurus. I haven't read the paper myself though.

[@matthewhaynes509]

@@eliburry-schnepp6012 oh huh I hadn’t heard about that

[@Fede_99]

​@@matthewhaynes509they downsized the largest species to around 9 meters. They also downsized the largest species of Mourasuchus (previously thought to be around 9-10 m to around 6)

[@neasulavuori4955]

I'm endlessly entertained by the fact that in my language "Puru" means bite- (as in bite-something due to the language structure), so this directly translats to Biteysaurus

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

@@neasulavuori4955 Hahaha amazing

[@OkeanosZT2]

Glad to hear the correction about Sarcosuchus! The only thing I would note is that you say Sarcosuchus is not a crocodilian but a pseudosuchian, as if they are two separate groups. Rather ironically, true crocodilians are part of pseudosuchia ("false crocodiles") so Deinosuchus is both a pseudosuchian _and_ a crocodilian, whilst Sarcosuchus is a pseudosuchian that sits outside of crocodylia (specifically a tethysuchian that sits in either pholidosauridae or elosuchidae, depending on the phylogeny you use). Oh, and one slight correction is that Deinosuchus wasn't in Alligatoridae itself, it was a basal alligatoroid which means it was closer related to alligators than any other living crocodilians, but wasn't actually part of that group!

[@Snow-Willow]

My favorite Dino was always parasaurolophus. I had a toy one when I was a kid that was bright orange with a purple back and I fell in love with it and played with that toy all the time. I've had that childhood fondness for it ever since.

[@madsgrams2069]

One small correction: Deinosuchus only holds the title of largest crocodilian because it has better fossil remains (ironically, since it lived in the Mesozoic and not the Cenozoic, like the other contender), but it has SERIOUS competition from the Miocene cayman, Purrusaurus, which is only known from skull remains, but some paleontologists place it at a size of 12 m long, so quite possibly even bigger than Deinosuchus. BTW, my favorite dinosaur is Dakotaraptor.

[@marekdzurenko3449]

I hate to rain on your parade but Dakotaraptor might be a fossil chimaera and thus an invalid taxon.

[@madsgrams2069]

@@marekdzurenko3449 Yes, but the overgrown Deinonychus-like dromaesaurid of the Hell Creek formation still exists as a species (forgot its name) and it's still awesome. This is just specualation, though. It''s been more than 8 years and Dakotaraptor is still a valid taxon.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

I love abelisaurids and dromeasaurs in general

[@JustSomeDude42]

I’m actively struggling to come up with a fake dinosaur so I’m gonna go with Paraceratherium because it’s basically as close to a mammalian sauropod as we are going to get.

[@OlessanYT]

Basilosaurus has the name it has ("king lizard") because its fossils were initially interpreted as a dinosaur or large marine reptile! To be fair, it's pretty serpentine.

[@jebVlogs556]

To be fair, it's part of the "macro-evolution" the blending of reptilian and mammalian creatures

[@JLAvey]

Might be a good idea to rename the species Basilocetus or something like that.

[@Macfoin]

@@JLAvey please. That confuses me to this day.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

@@JLAvey Unfortunately, that's not how the naming system works. When the discoverer realized it was a mammal, he tried to rename it Zeuglodon, but because of the rules of nomenclature, it didn't stick. He'd already published the first name, and by ICZN rules you can't rename a taxon just because the name doesn't accurately describe it, hence why the clade Clint mentioned in this video, Pseudosuchia (meaning "false crocodiles"), also includes, uh, real crocodiles.😅

[@N.Sniper]

I do think that it has to be renamed to avoid confusion.

[@maxtube444]

I’ve learnt that it’s better to ask “what’s your favorite extinct/prehistoric animal?” because that way I won’t get incredibly annoyed lol

[@XunXun-l9m]

You ruined my chance to say the african gray parrot

[@TheInvisibleMan-06]

Clint, as a massive dinosaur fan I would just like to say, I love that you’re encouraging people to express childlike love for dinosaurs well past childhood, I agree entirely that too many people think dinosaurs aren’t incredible and not enough people ask what everyone’s favorite dinosaur is, so I would like to do 2 things 1: my favorite dinosaur of all time is Dilophosaurus 2: what is your favorite dinosaur anyone who’s reading this comment?

[@TheInvisibleMan-06]

@@kimberlyrichardson5943 all very good picks

[@patrikvukelic6427]

Allosaurus

[@leighmclellan8925]

Hm… favorite actual dinosaur is a Kentrasaurus Favorite non-Dino is undoubtedly the Dunkleosteus XD

[@lirachonyr]

Kiwi bird.

[@Zananos]

Compsognathus! I love the lil guys! So sassy. I always imagined they would have small dog syndrome.

[@chieftain2515]

“It’s a crying shame that we aren’t asked that more in our adult life” I fucking love you dude! I have asked so many people that question and i have never gotten any other answer than T-rex and Velociraptor

[@toddlytodd]

Can't wait to learn more about the Triassic! From what little I know about it was the age of crazy Crocodylomorphs. Also, have more a list of favorites because they're all so stinkin rad but Carnotaurus, Deinonychus, Microraptor, Therizinosaurus, Amargasaurus, and Allosaurus are high on the list.

[@bricksloth6920]

My favorite as a kid was always ankylosaurus, but I also really like parasaurolophus.

[@jimmux_v0]

Hell yeah, ankylosaurus! You know nobody messed with it, and I bet you could put a really comfy saddle situation on its back, then roam around, smacking haters with that club tail. What's not to love?

[@nattalavyapari]

A man of culture 😍

[@CoraCreates]

ANKYLOSAURUS FOR LIFE, BAYBEEEE

[@braidenmarques4275]

The video game Ark: Survival Evolved (and its recent remaster) have probably affected what counts as a dinosaur to most people. Considering most peoples surface level knowledge and how every animal in that game is just referred to by the community as dinosaurs, as well as the inclusion of all 5 of these animals in that game, I strongly believe it has shifted the modern outlook on what dinosaurs are. Fantastic and educational video!

[@cookie856]

... I saw some people be "and for your informations, I know NOT all of them are dinos, it's just sound better and is faster to say than animals!" XD Now that was in French

[@jakkaljakobie8774]

I love ark so much (I'm loading in as I type this) but it's grasp on dinosaurs is so bad it's almost comical. There are some really cool lore reasons they're so inaccurate, but a lot of people don't even know this game has lore, so...

[@RE4Merchant]

All prehistoric animals can be "dinos" but not all "dinos" are actual dinosaurs?

[@trevorle7382]

⁠​⁠@@jakkaljakobie8774how is the game’s grasp on dino bad? And where in the lore is very inaccurate?

[@jakkaljakobie8774]

@@trevorle7382 the game bases many of the dinosaur models off actual species, but deviates and puts it's own spin on them. For example, the spinosaurus received a TLC update many years ago to reflect it's new body form, but was never updated to change the tail. Jerboas are real, extant animals, but the one in game looks nothing like real life (it's even cuter imo), but the carno is pretty spot on. To explain these changes, the dino dossier lists them as different made-up sub species. This gets more egregious with other dinos. The dilophosaur is modeled off the Jurassic Park version, and has nothing to do with the real life counterpart aside from the head crests. Lore-wise, this is justified through explaining that the dinosaurs are genetically engineered from scratch, and they are doing so hundreds or even thousands of years in the future. The dino dossiers we get in game are written by one of the game's major lore characters, and they are usually accurate to real gameplay but sometimes things got patched and the dossier was never updated to reflect the changes.

[@anAngeal]

When I was a kid we went to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and saw an exhibit on sarcosuchus; I think it was relatively recently discovered. They called it ‘super croc.’ Amazing how much we learn as time goes on.

[@ritawilbur6128]

What I learned from this video - and which has me freaking out - is that MAMMOTHS WERE ALIVE WHEN THE PYRAMIDS WERE BUILT?!?!?!?! Mind. Blown. My favorite dinosaur is Pachycephalosaurus. I'm pretty sure that one is a dinosaur.

[@LincolnDWard]

Yup! Only in remote parts of northernmost Siberia, but they were still hanging in there!

[@shroomyk]

I'm unreasonably and unexpectedly super excited to see a full length movie made by Clint about taxonomy and phylogenetics. I used to be a bigger science nerd as a kid, which fell to the wayside in high school and beyond, but I've been getting obsessed about the larger scope of history of our planet.

[@lollertoaster]

I didn't really care about Megalodon but now that you mentioned it - yes, one the coolest thing to be alive. Marine giants are impressive but marine giant predators are even more impressive, since they rely on active predation to feed and eat less "efficient" nutrients, since they are further from the sun in the food chain. If giant beiline whales look like something that shouldn't be possible to exist, giant predators feeding on them and thriving shouldn't exist even more.

[@LoarvicLoarvic]

I don't understand the hype about megalodon. It's just big shark. Why not mosasaurus, or cronosaurus for example?

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Megalodon was the tyrannosaurus of the ocean. It had the strongest bite force of any animal to live. That is so cool and awesome to me.

[@isaacbruner65]

​@@LoarvicLoarvicMesozoic marine reptiles need more love

[@ballinhandpythons9704]

You are not lying about your dinosaur shirt. I have it, and the first time I wore it out shopping, at least 5 people answered it without me even asking lol...

[@ClintsReptiles]

It's the best shirt ever!!!

[@Derrythe01]

Honestly, I fell in love with velociraptor back when Jurassic Park came out and very soon after learned what real velociraptors were and loved them even more.

[@Garian9]

That ending had me rolling. Your excitement and enthusiasm for animals is incredibly charming and infectious. Thanks for being awesome.

[@patrickbrandtspaceship]

My favourite used to be Troodon, but since that turned out not to be a thing I'd now say Pectinodon, cause it's a Troodontid that starts with a P and has a really cool design in Prehistoric Planet.

[@captaint.tearex9279]

Deinocheirus. I love that giant, goofy, nightmare duck.

[@BlackDouglas1000]

I go with Styracosaurus for it's spectacular frill. It is also a unicorn which helps. Elasmotherium, not a dinosaur, and no one asked is my favorite unicorn. Having grown up in the 70s we were delightfully bombarded with all manner of dinosaur stuff. Land of the Lost and Aurora model kits are still fresh in my heart and mind.

[@xandyhubbard3754]

Worth noting that Otodus megalodon is not actually a member of the family Lamnidae but of Otodontidae, a closely related family in the order Lamniformes who's closest living relatives are the lamnids.

[@SuperLitFam]

Probably the Deinocheirus, such a strange creature, I always thought it was a Therizinosauridae, but it isn't when I did a bit more research on it for fun. It was an Ornithomimosaur which I thought was pretty cool

[@ourlordandsaviorsquirtle3278]

DUCK SUPREMACY

[@EcoNBeBop]

Duck fans unite!!

[@andrewguest3047]

ALL HAIT THE DUCK

[@SageandDust]

I'm friends with and went on several dinosaur bone digs in Hell Creek with the guy who first positively identified the original Titanoboa vertebrate. Also cleaned fossils from that dig, though mostly of a crocodile skeleton. One guy from our team even found baby titanoboa bones by a belly rib of that croc while cleaning it, meaning our croc had a baby titanoboa in its stomach when it died!

[@donakahorse]

my favorite dinosaur is the spinosaurus, that's one tricksy dinosaur, constantly changing as we gain more knowledge. how cool is that? A fun aside with the Dunleosteus. My friend, Mike Durkalec, is the biologist for the Rocky River Metroparks, when Jeremy Wade came to hunt for that particular river monster. we renamed the dunkleoseus locally. It shall henceforth be known as the durkleosteus. lol

[@N.Sniper]

I liked the spino in JP3 and the real one actually turned out to be much more interesting being an actual aquatic Dinosaur. Although JP3 did have a scene with it in the water, which actually makes a lot of sense compared to the real Spino.

[@gamerprincess9567]

My favorite dinosaur has always been the triceratops. It still is but as I've gotten older, I've included all of the triceratops relatives too. I just think they're all beautiful and fascinating

[@cinderefell1399]

I rarely comment on videos. Mostly just like them, but I have to say that your videos are wonderful. You're enthusiastic and full of energy and love for what you talk about. You never sound burnt out on it- truly, you love talking about all these animals. And I love watching your videos because of that.

[@maxattacks25]

I truly love the enthusiasm being shown; from the outside, you clearly seem to have studied the right thing.

[@Orcanaria21]

My favorite has been deinonychus since I was a kid. So you can imagine how excited I was when I watched your video about the raptors in Jurassic Park. By far one of my favorite videos of all time. Thanks for that Clint 😊

[@Yellowpangolin]

My favourite non-avian dinosaur is Sauroposeidon. It's such a graceful yet fearsome being. But my favourite of all dinosaurs is the ostrich. They're just so cute!

[@pixelfire86]

My favorite dinosaur would probably be therizinosaurus. They're just so unique!

[@kingjerrodthelion]

🦁. @pixelfire86. Did u love how it was portrayed in JW Dominion, lol. 🤭

[@comrade1158]

So excited for the coming pseudosuchian video. I’m researching Triassic pseudosichains for my undergraduate degree and they are such interesting animals that more need to know about. Plus scientists used to think they evolved into T. rex.

[@kalanivernon7273]

My favorite dinosaur is the Rainbow Lorikeet. My favorite nonavian dinosaur is Microraptor.

[@Ge_sus]

I cannot put into words how excited i am about every single video. This channel is just pure happieness for me

[@Ittybits2405]

My favorite dinosaur is the ankylosaurus (because of the Disney movie's portrayal) and the most terrifying to me is the Saurophaganax purely from its threatening appearance. I also love the Sauroposeidon because it's very impressive and truly deserving of its cool name (lizard earthquake god).

[@hypoaktivnaovca]

With this selection, it feels like a lot of people who've played Ark: Survival Evolved have been talking to you. 😂 My favourite dinosaur is probably Baryonyx (hard to pick one, really), cause it's a neat sleek theropod. Also quite nicely rendered in Ark.

[@curtiswfranks]

Your philosophy about learning is inspiring.

[@GarrettPetersen]

I've personally seen both your example photos of mammoths: the mammoth replica at the Royal BC Museum and Luba (which also visited the Royal BC Museum, briefly). Very cool creatures, and a prime candidate to be brought back to life as soon as our technology allows it.

[@KatieDeGo]

Ahhhh my adult Saturday morning cartoons by Clint ❤

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

The people who think mammoths are dinosaurs need help ASAP

[@-Khepri]

Well it's kinda like how some girls don't know the difference between Marvel and DC they just aren't as educated as others and that's okay

[@TristanTodd-kk9um]

Definitely.

[@OlessanYT]

Fun trivia: the last woolly mammoths, living on islands, lived until the same time period that Egypt and Sumer were coming into power, and when cuneiform first arose. Meanwhile, the aurochs, the wild cattle that most domestics are descended from, survived until the 1600s, around the same time that electricity developed as a technology.

[@jebVlogs556]

Last ice age was around 1500-1600s,you are correct 💯😅

[@ktbmk]

@@jebVlogs556 are you drunk. OP put 2 diff periods, the ice age for mammoth and 1500-1600 for aurochs

[@slipstreamxr3763]

@@jebVlogs556 You're mistaking the last ice age with the little ice age.

[@LucasMorettoD]

So, if mammoths were still alive somewhere in the world when humanity was developing the first writing sistems, this means that technically they're not prehistoric animals?

[@JubioHDX]

@@LucasMorettoD while true, these mammoths were completely isolated and away from humans, so they were only seen by humans in pre-history. So unless you count cave paintings as written documentation (which you actually can if you want, to be fair) then theyre still prehistoric

[@Borkomora]

12:21 haha that's awesome that you're using animation footage from the isle! love that game, definitely my favorite dino game on the market

[@g1sunstreaker584]

I've never seen this channel before but the happiness and excitement absolutely glowing off this dude is so enjoyable. definitely watching more.

[@Gutswitdaboof710]

I love clints vids for two main reasons. They’re super informative and he doesn’t spam us with ad breaks. I respect you Clint. Mush love and keep on educating🍄🖤☮️

[@naomiseraphina9718]

When I was a child, Dimetrodon was usually included in books about dinosaurs and in packs of toy dinosaurs, so for quite a number of years, I thought of her as my favorite dinosaur, but sadly that cannot be, as I learned later. So, for many years now, my favorite dinosaur has been the Triceratops. Why? Because I had a terrifying dream about a family of albino Triceratops(es?) in which I learned more about them than I had ever known before from books. When I started fact-checking my dream, I discovered that everything I experienced in the dream-world was probably accurate. Now, having "met" them, I can say with confidence that Triceratops is not only my favorite dinosaur, but also that were one of the full-grown bull Triceratops(es?) to actually get into a scrap with a T-Rex, my money would be on the Triceratops to win, every time! The largest of the creatures I met in my dream was not only much bigger than an elephant, it was also insanely territorial and violent! They may have been herbivores, but those Triceratops creatures were extremely aggressive! I think that any wise T-Rex would have stayed well out of their way. Apologies for the oversharing! I love your channel, and it brings out my inner paleo-enthusiast. --N

[@Linkous12]

I had the same experience with Dimetrodon growing up. I sometimes think they got Spinosaurus and Dimetrodon mixed up.

[@silverjade10]

Like the hippos of the dinosaurs! Or the zebras! Or the giant anteaters!

[@markcobuzzi826]

The Triceratops, Spinosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus are my top 3 favorite non-avian dinosaur genera. So as a self-proclaimed fellow Triceratops fan, I concur.

[@Mr.RobotHead]

Dimetrodon is absolutely my favorite non-dinosaur "dinosaur".

[@JonBrase]

If you look at a Dimetrodon skull, you can see how close it is to mammals.

[@JaxanOBirdy]

My favourite dinosaur is Edmontosaurus, the reputation it gets as a weak prey item really makes me feel for it

[@SnivyDoll]

I really love hadrosaurs, and among them my favourite is shantungosaurus, apparently thee largest non-sauropod dinosaur, really cool

[@caitlinsnowfrost8244]

I think my favorite non-avian dinosaur is either velociraptor (even if it's a cliche answer- I absolutely loved its counterpart in the Fossil Fighters game, V-Raptor!), or Oviraptor (I kind of feel bad about how we misunderstood it.)

[@Isaac-The-Colubrid]

Friendly reminder #14 to make a video about North American rat snake taxonomy.

[@mindibun8160]

The amount of times I've had to explain the, "all corn snakes are rat snakes, but not all rat snakes are corn snakes..." 😑 We need this video.

[@TheJLAMAR23]

Do a video on crocodilomorphs! I find them and the ancient “reptiles” fascinating.

[@KateeAngel]

Parrots (all psittaciformes) and crows (esp. grey crow) are my favourite dinosaurs

[@Happter-N-Friends]

My favourite dinosaur is the velociraptor. Cute lil feathery lil guys. It'd probably also be one of the most sustainable to have as a pet, though you'd probably have to get at least 3 because they were social creatures.

[@titansnakehistoric5814]

I lit up when you mentioned Dunkleosteus. One theory about how it hunted was while chasing, once it got close enough, it'd open it's jaws so fast that suction would occur

[@YunxiaoChu]

So¿

[@jacent.4982]

My favorite is the Therizinosaurus. There's so much about it that I adore. The talons, the feathers, it's a very interesting animal.

[@chriswhinery925]

Yes, therizinosaurs are my favorites too. Those looooooooong claws are so amazing. And the fact that it had those perfect weapons but wasn't a predatory carnivore is so intriguing.

[@666Daheretic]

Therizinosaurus is highly guessed on what it looks like though. They never found many good fossils of them aside from the forelimb skeleton. We really have no idea what they really looked like hence so many different depictions of therizinosaurus. That being said going on what we do know and what people hypothesize about them they are as well my favorite.

[@vexandivine4036]

Archeopteryx small feathery bird thing has always been my default answer.

[@raye0826]

Same!! I've always been drawn to Archaeopteryx! 💜

[@malusignatius]

Favourite non-avian dinosaur: Linheraptor, if only because of the figure I have of one. I'm a big fan of the Dromaeosaurs in general. As for Megalodon, I'd find it hysterically funny if it turns out that Megalodon was a regular-size or small shark, just with ridiculously massive buck teeth.

[@markcobuzzi826]

Funny enough, that may have possibly happened with Dunkleosteus. There is a new debate going on now, whether it was a giant and long fish with a relatively small armored head, or a short and round-bodied fish with a relatively giant armored head.

[@malusignatius]

@@markcobuzzi826 Very true that. I kinda like the shorter interpretation... Gives it a very pitbull look IMO.

[@5610winston]

My favorite dinosaur is the turkey, carefully roasted and on a platter alongside a dish of corn bread herb stuffing with pecans, giblet gravy, candied sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, baked squash, and apple pie. In other words, in its natural habitat.

[@ashleyselman5949]

My favorite dinosaur as common as it may be is the spinosaurus. I love the more modern iterations of how the spinosaurus looked. I love how it has a paddle tail now and walked on all fours. It looks so cool! Oh I also love the deinoychus

[@DarkGodSeti]

This video taught me megalodon is my favorite, non-avian dinosaur. Thanks Clint! (Had to...) Edit: One thing I will ad though. One peeve of mine is arthropleura consistently described as a centipede... to me it is quite obviously a millipede (being a fan and owner of a centipede), they have lack toxicognaths, etc. (finally have a reason put that word in a sentence!!!). Have any prehistoric giant centipede been ever found of equal size(ish)? I have found little to no information and constantly get athropelura...

[@qynoi42]

I just found out one of my favorite dinosaurs isn't a dinosaur. Plesiosaurus still has a special place in my heart. Also fond of achaeopteryx, which a quick search tells me is actually a dinosaur.

[@stax6092]

YAAAASSS! Feature Length Documentary. Am so excited to see it. Do people actually mistake Woolly Mammoth for a Dinosaur? That can't be real. As for my Favourite Dinosaur I am probably inclined to pick Utah Raptor.

[@NealMarcusPavia]

As a dinosaur fan, I can confirm that examples of every dinosaur fan's favorite dinosaurs are Aegirocassis, Cameroceras, and Inostrancevia

[@heathero.7643]

Ceratopsians are my favorite family of dinosaurs, but I can’t choose one amongst the family to be my top dino. I just love all the horn/frill patterns and recreations of them. If I had to choose a singular dinosaur to put above all others, I would probably, very hesitantly, say parasaurolophus. Their massive hollow crests and ability to be both quadrupedal and bipedal is pretty cool. I’ve always imagined that, come breeding season, they acted a lot like elk, with the males trumpeting as loudly and as long as possible in order to win over their own harem of females.

[@jonathanpilcher337]

My favorite are probably ankylosaurids. I mean c'mon, they were walking tanks that often had tail clubs to bash in skulls. They were also amongst the low browsers that beat out the stegosaurids and replaced them

[@bluerose235]

Favourite dinosaur - Troodon. If only so many people didn’t think ‘dinosaur’ meant ‘any large prehistoric animal they can think of’ 😅

[@toddlytodd]

Well, the bad news is that taxon was very recently invalidated. The specimens identified as Troodon were moved to Pectinodon and Latenivenatrix. The family is still called Troodontidae as they can't rename that though. They are super cool dinos though.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

@@toddlytodd Also Stenonychosaurus.

[@azhdarchidae66]

@@toddlytodd and latenivenatrix has been synonymized with stenonychosaurus, while pectinodon suffers the same issue as troodon with its holotype being a tooth

[@titanofserpents4315]

I appreciate you not only mentioning woolly mammoths but also Columbian mammoths as well! Maybe you should do some videos on the Pleistocene.

[@vault1310]

Not a dinosaur, but a marine reptile. Gotta love the mosasaurus which must have been a terrifying beast!

[@oyoo3323]

Would you also say it is your favourite lizard?

[@louiscypher4186]

My favorite dinosaur is Quetzalcoatlus, Yes i (now) know they aren't dinosaurs. But they were in Dinotopia and as a kid i always wanted to ride one.

[@curtiswfranks]

Secretarybirds are probably my favorite dinosaurs, by ceratopsians were super cool.

[@oldschooldragon2473]

I was expecting this to be about things like the Brontosaurus, maybe the typical 'pterosaurs and pliosaurs aren't dinosaurs', maybe Dimetrodons... I didn't imagine there were people out there calling sharks and mammals their favourite dinosaurs.

[@YunxiaoChu]

But brontosaurus is a dinosaur

[@oldschooldragon2473]

​@@YunxiaoChu True! I was referring to the fact that for some time Brontosaurus was just thought to be the same species as Apatosaurus

[@YunxiaoChu]

@ ahh yes

[@JenWOneNnifer]

My favorite extinct dinosaur is Archaeopteryx. My favorite extant dinosaurs are vultures - especially the New World vultures and condors (Cathartidae). But their Old World cousins through convergent evolution (Accipitridae) are awfully spiffy, too. Unfortunately, over half of vulture species around the world are seriously threatened. Yes, partly due to the usual anthropogenic causes, but they're especially at risk from intentional and accidental poisoning. Life on a human-dominated planet is hard when you're a scavenger and not especially charismatic.

[@MadBlue2112]

My favorite dinosaur, ever since I've been a kid, is Ankylosaurus.

[@BudDinktrap]

Ayy, fellow Ankylosaurus enjoyer.

[@GIAdvocate]

I don't know why your videos started popping up in my suggestions, but watching them has reignited my love of dinosaurs that I had as a child, so thank you for that. ❤ My favorite dinosaur is maiasaura.

[@makoto_is_me]

My favourite dinosaurs would be the Ceratopsia, I don’t really have a favourite amongst them but the smaller ones are sort of cute.

[@Corvus31]

Terror birds (a dinosaur). Please do a video about terror birds. I love them.

[@IulianDobrinescu-yp8ks]

I second that. Terror birds deserve to be talked about more.

[@rexon31]

defo there awesome @@IulianDobrinescu-yp8ks

[@toddlytodd]

I agree. We need more terror birds in our lives.

[@wildflower1397]

I wish I had a snapshot of what I was taught about dinosaurs in school during the 80's. It would be fascinating to see how much of it was actually correct. 😂

[@ronnycook3569]

I still have my copy of Richard Moody's "A Natural History of Dinosaurs" (from 1977ish) and … it's an interesting comparison. The sauropods are still shown as swamp dwellers, Spinosaurus is basically a scaled-down Dimetrodon, dinosaur tails were still shown as dragging on the ground, and the only feathers were on the panel for Archaeopteryx. The Chicxulub iridium discoveries were still in the future so the reason for the extinctions was still unknown.

[@wildflower1397]

@@ronnycook3569 That sounds about right, lol. It makes you wonder if kids a few generations from now will be taught about the foolish people who used to believe dinosaurs had feathers. Sometimes I struggle to find the line between what science has determined as fact, and what scientists believe to be true because they don't know about gaps in their knowledge. Sonetimes I wish there was public school for adults to go unlearn what we had carefully drilled into our heads as kids. 😂

[@RavenIsAnArtist]

Everyone thinks I sound insane when I say "what if we grind someone up and shape their remains as their ancient relatives" But as soon as I talk about dino nuggets, everyone's on board..

[@ronnycook3569]

Reminds me of "A Statue for Father" by Asimov, in which a clutch of dinosaur eggs are accidentally retrieved as part of a time travel experiment, and the scientist responsible winds up creating a massive fried-dinosaur franchise. (And is enormously regretful that they're remembered for that rather than for their otherwise unsuccessful attempts at time travel.)

[@thatoneostrich1595]

11:57 this came as a surprise to me too, however deinosuchus weighs around 5 metric tonnes whilst sarcosuchus up to 4.3 metric tonnes making deinosuchus larger in weight/bulk but sarcosuchus is larger in length.

[@thomasmarais5008]

literally broke out into a massive grin and a fit of giggles when you said you were going to be making a pseudosuchian video :D hands down my favourite group of critters

[@carafurry7862]

I feel like the average use of dinosaur is anything that existed long enough to have a fossil of +dodo. What's your favorite fossilized species just doesn't have the same ring to it. My favorite crocodilian is simosuchus. The most adorable squish ever. 😍 A dinosaur that's always fascinated me was Oviraptor. At first they thought it stole eggs, then they relised it was a great mother, unlike most dinosaurs who pooped some eggs and wandered off.

[@МомчилНазъров]

Clint you make very nice detailed videos with mostly accurate scientific information. I learned so much from this channel thank you for that. My favorite dinosaurs are Ankylosaur and Alosaur.

[@LockerSmacker]

Mine is a maip macrothorax

[@BurningBlazeBaguette]

Your content was there for me in the bad times, now that its here for the good times too, i wish nothing but the best blessings for you.