About Fossil Pokemon

I review all the fossil Pokemon before sharing my own designs.
(Anodukes is supposed to be Fighting type instead of Psychic btw.)
Thank you to @lewthree8520 and @FCPlaythroughs for the gameplay footage
Learn more through the links below:
Ammonites: www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-i...
Trilobites: www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geo...
Pterosaur: • Pterosaurs 101 | Natio...
Crinoids: • Crinoid facts: sea lil...
Anomalocaris: • Anomalocaris: Earth's ...
Archaeopteryx: • The Raptor That Made U...
Archelon: • The Return of Giant Sk...
Bouba/Kiki Effect: • Which Is "Bouba", and ...
Tyrannosaurus Rex: idk, they're pretty popular in media already... here's a video of them fighting bears • 15.000 BEARS vs 1.000 ...
Amargasaurus Sail or Spines?: • Amargasaurus -- Spikes...
Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park: • The Scientifically Ina...
La Brea Tar Pits: • Exploring the La Brea ...
Hallucigenia: • Hallucigenia: The worm...
Why were Screensavers developed?: • What Happened To Scree...
Carcinization: • Why Do Things Keep Evo...
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[@Main_account_at]

They are bones

[@ktpt7158]

As someone who has seen bones, I can indeed say those are bones

[@pufrmel]

So true!!

[@Rajclaw]

You are bones

[@InfinityBarn]

So true bestie

[@gibbsterV]

I can in fact confirm after careful and heavy research that they are indeed bones

[@CoralReaper707]

Fossil Pokemon have so much potential. There's just so many weird paths you could go down.

[@homebank7764]

Ikr like there’s so many extinct animals that can turn into Pokémon

[@artimist0315]

That's true, yet I still think it's better for them to keep weird/impressive creatures as inspirations, otherwise we would lose a lot of unicness.

[@theAAtiger]

I have the concept of a mechanic where you could turn Pokemon into it's prehistoric form or ancestral form and future form (but mostly prehistoric since I'm a Paleontology enthusiasm) and a whole new region where it got froze in time and all the prehistoric Pokemon stay the same at it was

[@jeffbrownstain]

@@theAAtiger So Scarlet and Violet?

[@theAAtiger]

@@jeffbrownstain yea, it was SV but I feel like it's lean more into Paleontology side, not just "Mystery creatures brought back from the past or future", like the whole region is just Jurassic Park/World but Pokemon

[@witchingstar]

As a former linguist and a current museum educator at one of the museums featured in this video, I love this video SO much 👏 Very well done explaining the bouba and kiki effect. I adore your lineless art so much and the designs of your Fakemon!!

[@witchingstar]

If you're looking for a super easy linguistics concept to adapt into a Fakemon, might I suggest Jean Berko Gleason's wug test? Wugs are very, very cute.

[@gillriet773]

I ADORE the fact that gf decided not to give the water typing to Cradily and Armaldo just because they're marine lifeforms. I genuinely can't describe how much I appreciate that. We need more of it.

[@Zerox_Z21]

The crystal palace dinosaurs were actually reasonably good attempts at scientific accuracy for the time period! I've always wanted to see Pokemon based off of them. The likely inspiration for the mixed up fossil Pokemon is the inciting incident of the Bone Wars. Edward Drinker Cope showed his friend, Othniel Marsh, his new discovery: Elasmosaurus. Marsh took one look at it an immediately laughed at Cope, pointing out that he had put the skull on the end of the tail. This notorious incident kicked off their entire rivalry and I would think is the likely explanation for the mix'n'match Pokemon. I will die on the hills that Kabuto/ps are horseshoe crabs. They share so much more in common with them than they do trilobites.

[@CoralReaper707]

Oooh. More trilobites would be welcome!

[@RebelChipMunk]

I wish actual geology was taught like this hehe, nice and simple, and lots of interesting information, well organized, and just fun to watch.

[@TYsdrawkcaB]

its not geology dude...

[@croixcris]

I like how tripirt's name is a palindrome referencing how it's the same front and back but Halludrome completely abandons that naming scheme and it loses the symmetry. Very fitting evolution

[@marchadow3957]

emordullaH

[@DivineBanana]

Wow you blew my mind, I woulda missed all that.

[@The7thLysineinyourDNA]

Hallucullah

[@vee8101]

As just sort of a word of advice - from someone making their own creature collecting game, merging the ground and rock type can end up being a bad idea in the long run due to type matchups - soft mud and a hard stone will resist and be strong against vastly different things and it can result in the Geo type being lopsided. I also tried to merge them in my game and eventually decided it was for the best to split them up for type matchups’ sake.

[@parasitex5]

Water / Ice, Steel (different types of metal), and Grass (a pliable leaf full of water vs a dry wooden trunk) are very different substances too. Element types won't ever match perfectly as they're a simplification of the real world. Some amount of suspension of disbelief is required for good gameplay.

[@dragonlogos1]

@@parasitex5 yeah but that the thing. Let’s stick to Pokémon, rock and ground types do very different things gameplay wise. rock is more for countering specific types, ground is more general. Move pools include less rock moves and more ground. And really it also adds weaknesses or to add defenses to particular mons which is how the game works. These games are an elaborate version of rock paper scissors and you can’t just remove scissors from the game without some massive effort to re- balance not just the types but moves and stats.

[@nicolasturetta7959]

At the end It would be the same water/grass/steel/fighting/ice weakness while having normal/Flying/bug/Fire/poison/ resistances, Electric immunity and Fairy/dragon/Ghost/psychic/dark and "Geo" dealing neutral damage, It wouldn't be a big issue imho

[@dragonlogos1]

@@nicolasturetta7959 go play with a type coverage Pokédex calculator rock hits 26.7% of the Pokédex super effectively Ground hits 27% Together they hit 47% of the Pokédex super effectively. In other words over half their coverage is not overlapping. And only 8 Pokémon resist both types This games balance is very complicated. types are very difficult to mess and especially when design problems can lay dormant until one little thing one new move, one Pokémon with the right states and its balance is gone with no checks.

[@nidohime6233]

In many traditions there only had the earth element and the rest are just variations, while in chinese culture they made metal and wood as separated things from earth. Its all depends on how you balances types ingame.

[@WSNO]

Something that i very much like about the Hoenn fossil Pokémon is they really embody the land and sea theme of the story of Ruby/Sapphire. They're both Pokémon that lived in the water, but neither are water types. One can theorize upon how the decisions of Archie and Maxie and their teams of either expanding the sea or the land and how that would affect the Lileep and Anorith as they went from ancient to modern times. And where does the living fossil Relicanth play in?

[@WSNO]

Your fossil pokemon are brilliant, by the way

[@nidohime6233]

Another nod with paleonthology is the presence of sea creatures fossils in the desert sugests the place used to be a sea millions of years ago, like in real life Sahara.

[@KappaWaffleHouse]

Showing your fakemons fossil instead of the regular silhouette like in the other videos was a really nice touch

[@aurahoneydew9607]

When you realize that we had not just one but two missed chances for nonrock fossil Pokemon. The Tundra DLC has a sector where they didn't go extinct so could have had versions of them that evolved naturally and Scarlet is about time travel so could have had primal version of them plucked from the past.

[@Melecie]

though we did get nonrock fossil pokémon before all those

[@aurahoneydew9607]

@@Melecie yeah but they had that whole wrong fossils put together theme going.

[@brysonbarnett4]

I totally agree with you that the 1v1 match up between a generation's fossils/exclusives shouldn't be the deciding factor. However I think it's worth mentioning that with Cradily and Armaldo's type match up, both take one of the other's type neutral and are weak to the other. Armaldo is hit neutral by grass and is weak to rock, while Cradily is hit neutral by rock and weak to bug.

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

Equallity

[@SilentWuffer]

Amongus reference made me jump lol

[@beerypollens]

Same and at 4:20 too

[@toony_studios77700]

AMONGUS

[@mauroperez2848]

The fossil pokemon are cool in that you look at them and wonder what they was like in the past. It was mentioned that the fossilization process is why they all share the rock type, minus the gen 8 fossils. I still love the gen 8 fossil pokemon for the mix-and-match concept. I do agree that I don't see it being repeated unless we get the completed versions of the fossil fragments. Your fossil pokemon look amazing and I love how you based them around brains vs brawn. My favorite has to be Halludrome because I love how bizarre Hallucgenia looks. It looks so alien that I'm surprised we haven't had an official fossil pokemon based on it. This is a minor thing to point out, but the type icons for Anodukes has the symbol for psychic instead of fighting.

[@n0rtist]

Thank you for pointing out the mistake; I'll add it to the description!

[@_marshP]

If the "fossil pokemon are rock type because of the defossilization process" thing is true, I would love to see ice fossils become the ice-type, or the tar fossils possibly gaining the fire-type (or maybe grass type or some ability that has it swap between the 2)?

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

@@n0rtist thanks

[@frankorious534]

Where did you read that the fossilization is why they are rock types? I thought the gen 8 fossils debunked it

[@j.b.5422]

@@frankorious534 I'd assume that the gen 8 fossils lack the rock type, because the gen 8 fossil scientist lady, actually made a better revival machine, but made mistakes in gathering the right pieces to revive

[@schaffs2]

The mix and match aspect of the Gen 8 Fossils are based on England’s Bone wars, where decades ago people really wanted to brag about how they had the newer and better fossils so they rushed to make “””new””” fossils by just putting different fossil bones together and calling them new

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

The Bone wars occurred in the United States not in the United Kingdom.

[@bigredmonster0799]

The bone wars weren't English though. It was a conflict between two American paleontologists, namely Othniel Charles Marsh and Edmund Drinker Cope.

[@artimist0315]

Your designs were really interesting ! I like that those aren't just very popular dinosaurs but actually unknown yet interesting creatures. It won't stop me from wondering what a Pokémon based on parasaurolophus or ankylosaurus could look like, but I really like discovering new inspirations for designs.

[@jaschabull2365]

Charmeleon always looked like a parasaurolophus to me (though I guess it doesn't really act all that much like one). And torterra always seemed to have a bit of ankylosaur in it, particularly the head, even if it is pretty clearly mostly world turtle.

[@Ben-wu3or]

this is dope. I love how your fossils put a spin on the "fast sweeper vs. slow wall" pattern, with one being fast but defensive and the other being slow but offensive. very creative!

[@kinglyzebra6417]

Kabuto/Kabutops is my favorite "psuedo bug type", provides so much coverage to the actual type while blending in perfectly

[@wxo_5057]

I am currently in love with the Soft Piano Jurassic Park theme he used

[@nunyabiznes33]

I really enjoyed digging fossils in Sinnoh. I think it was the best way of getting fossilmons.

[@umwha]

Hi, I’m SO interested to see how you combine rock and ground into geo type. Combining those two is something I’ve thought about alot, but couldn’t figure out how it would work in practice. I’d love to see other thoughts you have about type matchups.

[@mateonemec6975]

the amoongSUS moment was pure gold. i love the work you put into these, they are innovative and a fresh take into mons.

[@snappingshrimp235]

I just want to appreciate all the poke-doodles you make. You make the cutest cuter and the edgiest (somehow) cute AND edgy.

[@jonathonwright7278]

I just want to say I appreciate how well these videos are put together. They’re so easy to watch visually with great clips and graphics and to listen to with such interesting anecdotes ✨ well done man, keep going

[@a-little-sunshine]

Recently discovered your videos and love them!! Your voice is so soothing to listen to, while also keeping me so absorbed in the topic. Thank you for making these for us to enjoy :)

[@garg4531]

A speedy supporter partnered with a tanky attacker sounds like a neat idea, and shows how gameplay styles can effect choices! Also I love the idea of referencing that old screensaver, especially the nostalgia as I LOVED watching that thing as a kid! x’D

[@AWE-Nessy]

got a little sus at 4:20

[@inumari3703]

That was a really well made and paced video buddy! A good watch!

[@berugitv3562]

your thumbnails are always so cute and scrunkly and eepy keep up the good work

[@stompsalot]

OMG I just saw the PBS crab special earlier today! 😃 This video made me smile bc of how much I've always loved the fossil-mons ^_^

[@kaet8333]

Gotta say, I love your artstyle. It's so adorable and unique

[@ocyrus8295]

Great video. Love your art style.

[@nbg-almighty3701]

I love your artstyle, its very unique and interesting to see

[@dragonitetamer2298]

I love your videos so much, they make me feel like when I first picked up the games in 2010!!

[@babysophie102]

I love your thumbnails and this is a great video! Will be checking out more of your stuff. Keep it up!

[@neolappis8798]

6:22 I love the picture of rowlet with the disappointed “gen seven had no fossils”

[@iLikeDucks_]

Another banger of a video, really glad i found this channel

[@starlightela]

wow your illustrations are SO nice, pleasing to look at, and super duper cute!!!!

[@errortrossity]

As a paleontology nerd, I love how you used the concept of carcinization for a pokemon, it's really creative and just gave me a boost of serotonin, thanks for that.

[@TheGhostVenom]

Wonderful designs - it has roots in science, biology, but looks great and captures the imagination - well done :)

[@A.R_69]

I know this is out of topic, but I would like to say that you did a REALLY GREAT job at auto battlemon!

[@DVNGXR]

Would be cool if they put a jurassic park in one of the games. Basically, a crazy rich scientist builds a theme park on an island filled with all of the revived fossil pokemon. Then you can go there(maybe post-game) and catch them sort of like the safari zone or other in game catching parks.

[@mrwhatcanido4942]

Fantastic fossil concepts

[@kingdoppless2938]

Whoever makes the thumbnail art has a cool style that really works well with pokemon

[@gorshe74]

this truly is about fossil pokemon!!!

[@gabrielemanderioli2113]

I love your take on fossil Pokémon much more than some other official ones I feel like yours have way more cradily-bility

[@OskarDoesStuff]

GOD I LOVE THESE CUTE LITTLE POKEMON ILLUSTRATIONS

[@this_commenter_had_a_stroke]

The tripirt line could alternatively get the contraty ability, since that ability does tie in with the theme of not knowing how this mon's oriented, especially since others mons that have it are malamar, a mon that evolves by turning upside down, and lurantis, which has the gimmick of real life orchid mantises, except completely flipped around to have a flower that looks like an insect. And as much as I'm sorry for taking malamar's signature move... come on, the move "topsy-turvy" would fit this mon very well (It's not like Grapploct didn't already take the opportunity to snag it as well)

[@amnay7379]

I really like you art style. nice video continue like that.

[@IanGilleson]

I absaloutly adore your art style.

[@justinbrul6711]

I havent finished the video yet! But im sure itll be entertaining, ur content of pokemon and science is so fun! Given science is my fav Subject!

[@pueohoot543]

Wow I really really liked your fossils concepts and designs!! I wish they were real!

[@lucassolomon1079]

I like how you took the kiki vs bouba idea, and flipped it, having the bouba be your attacker and kiki your support.

[@Ohhhwehere]

what a lovely video❤ You now got a new subscriber 😊😊

[@easykillish]

Love the first fossil Pokémon I truly appreciate your designs and the ideas behind them you should really think about worldbuilding a world full of collectable creatures

[@The7thLysineinyourDNA]

Love the jurassic park leitmotif in the beginning.

[@AdeptCharon]

Correction on a little detail: Carracosta is Water/Rock, not Rock/Water. So while having the same combination of types as Kabuto/Omanyte, it's technically a reverse one, as Water seems to be meant as the more important of Carracostas types. Thr order doesn't matter mechanically (yet), but it definitely has some reasoning tied to the concept/design of a Pokémon. And since you are making your own monster game, that could be an opportunity to explore the idea of the order of elements mattering in some gane mechanic way.

[@woodsyjones]

Omanyte, Omastar, and Kabutops are some of my favorite mons of all time…Omanyte line especially!

[@RobloxFilmsAndAnimations]

Fossil pokemon are SO FRIDGING under rated. Atleast paradox pokemon exist

[@itsgaimtoduel695]

I love the art style!

[@Charmander603]

OMG I cannot state how much I adore the Jurassic Park theme done in Pokemon style

[@user-bb9dh3ic8h]

Amazing art work .

[@lunarumbreon7699]

I’m so glad the ice picture is just “boy am I glad he’s frozen in there and we’re out here”

[@alguienquemiracosas1540]

First I love the Jurassic park refference at the start

[@somehelluvafanboy8357]

A topic you could tackle in a future video is Version Exclusives or counterparts in general, outside of legendaries for the most part, since that's an integral part of the Pokémon games

[@dragonboyjgh]

Alola has no fossils because Hawaii basically has no fossils. Igneous Rock, it's a volcanic island chain. As for Paldea, they probably felt it stepped on Past Paradox's toes.

[@somehelluvafanboy8357]

Side note: It's just my opinion, but Rock and Ground should remain separated imo, since it creates some unbalancing on the type chart (plus, it makes it have 17 types and I'm kind of an even number type of person (except when it ends on 5, 5 is cool))

[@dannycat3970]

Fistikolt and Anodukes are many things I've been looking for in a pokemon but haven't found. Big fan of crustaceans AND fighting types, so Big ups 💪

[@MumboJ]

The bit about Amargasaurus having either fins or thorns makes me want two different fossil mon created from the same fossil depending on which restoration technique you choose (or which interpretation of the spiny worm you believe). Also, now I want a humanshape pokemon that just evolves into a crab for no reason. xD

[@aldebaran_]

I love the illustrations!

[@gerald2508]

Cool designs, nice video. Fossils are chosen to become pokemon based on their importance to paleontology, other sciences, and popjlar culture. Lockstin and Gnoggin did a video explaining why each of them were chosen.

[@DuskyPredator]

The best kind of idea for the fossils is that none of them are actually accurate to what the original Pokemon was like. This is why so many of them are rock, they gained it from being a Pokemon artificially created from fossils/rocks. In that way the mismatch Gala fossils are actually not that different from the rest. None of the Pokemon preserved in fossil have their complete genome, so it is either filled in from the rock, or what the scientists had presume would be the closest. It could create a potential interesting idea in the future of having variants more accurate to the original creature, which could only be gained from time travel. It has felt like they have been a bit inconsistencies in showing wild fossil pokemon and the like.

[@rye1076]

The images used for the pokemon are so cute and adorable!

[@lukero818]

I love paleontology and I LOOVE the fossil Pokémon they’re so interesting. I love how my favorite game has fossil animals too, that you can play with even

[@steelersMIZ]

Those designs are great!

[@joshalbert5904]

the art in this video is gorgeous

[@Moosh_]

The reason Alola doesn’t have any fossils is because the Hawaiian island chain is to young to have any fossils formed on the island.

[@cobeylyons6672]

But there's fossils in the water near Hawaii

[@smellysugar8825]

me when i spread misinformation online

[@robbieq7814]

Alola is not just Hawaii, but more like “pacific island” region.

[@smellysugar8825]

@Robbie Q exactly, im a native māori New Zealander and we have fossils here. idk what this fulla is on about

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

That's super not true

[@GoodBoyGaming-fj6zp]

I did not know about hallucinogenia before this. I'm happy I learned about it, though!

[@DivineBanana]

I know Pokemon already made the archaeopteryx inspired mon, but i really hope you have some ideas for similar mons! Id love to see your take on one of my favourite fossil animal! Or perhaps some similar fossil, such as microraptor!

[@sandradermark8463]

The -vish head from Gen 8 is a Dunkleosteus... That was why it gave me the déjà-vu!

[@aspiringwayfarer]

I just wanna say I love your videos n0rtist! thanks for making them.

[@theboiyouddate5722]

If you wanna see some cool fossil Pokemon, you should check out subjectively's fakemon. I think you'd like them a lot. Also I'm so happy you made a hallucigenia as a pokemon, it looks so cool!!!

[@sandradermark8463]

Oh, I remember that Microsoft Windows screensaver from my tweenage years in the late 90s/early 00s! That colourful CGI cube...

[@dylanyapindo9827]

When talking about fossil pokemon i always interested on pokemon like mamoswine and raelicanth because they really have the prehistoric core design

[@Solis_Pulchrus]

A fossil pokemon that would be cool to see is one where the modern day version of it has a small chance of holding a fossil that can revive its prehistoric version.

[@HaZZb97]

The Jurassic Park theme nod at the start is awesome

[@LTD538]

I want a fossil pokemon that is an actual prehistoric version of a current pokemon. Give us something like a prehistoric garchomp line or something that is even stronger, but maybe has an extra drawback which is the reason they went extinct (and to keep it balanced)

[@MorbidGames666]

Although your fossil pokemon are awesome I would think keeping them based around a more simple prehistoric creature still works best. Enjoyed watching the whole video and im definitely subscribing.

[@anglure3617]

Having the gen 1 and gen 3 fossilmons (excluding aerodactyl) be prehistoric invertebrates was so cool and unique, I've always been pretty upset that from gen 4 onward they doubled down on the dinosaurs. Lots of regular mons are already dinosaurs anyway, we don't need them hogging the limelight in pokemon too!!! I do think the gen 8 fossils have an ingenious gimmick though, I do wonder what other kinds of ideas they have for future fossil pokemon. Also I would like to note that the "Arcto" half of the gen 8 fossils is in fact meant to be a plesiosaur; in Korean the "Fossilized Dino" that's used to represent it is straight up called "long neck". I find that interesting as it potentially suggests an ancient ancestor of Lapras, and the tail fluke would still be accurate as we DO have evidence for plesiosaurs with tail flukes. I also find it hilarious though, because it means that the animal's most defining feature (its long neck) is the part that's also just completely absent in this pokemon representation.

[@MrBobxxl]

in my heart relicanth is also a fossil pokemon, even if it managed to not get extinct

[@coolguy4709]

Would love to see a precambrian-based fossil pokemon but I understand how that wouldn't be appealing. The next best things would be Tannuella/Orthoceras and Opabinia.

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

One note; the PBS video *did not* start the Carcinisation memes, it was in *response* to the meme that already existed online, it merely projected it from the niches of marine scientist-adjacent spaces online to the general public at large. I can distinctly remember seeing multiple Carcinisation memes all the way back in 2015 on Tumblr, and iirc, the posts were even older, one dating back to 2013.

[@The_PokeSaurus]

I really hope Gamefreak brings Fossil Pokemon back, and a part of me hopes they don't do anything too gimmicky, but I'd rather they be gimmicky than never come back.

[@yungo1rst]

my favourite honorary member of the fossil group is relicanth. A Pokémon that was once believed to have been extinct. The species has not changed its form for 100 million years. It walks on the seafloor using its pectoral fins. It was fortuitously discovered during a deep sea expedition. Its teeth have atrophied, so it now survives on microscopic organisms it sucks up.

[@aaronlosey7201]

I really hope you keep the spine fossil, that design is way too cool. I'd have Halludrome on my team in a heartbeat.

[@TayTay-fk2oe]

Can I just say, thank you for the Kingdom Hearts Remixes for background music.

[@chigau2533]

Currently the sail hypothesis for amargasaurus is considered highly unlikely; it seems that they actually had sharp keratin sheaths over the bone to make for an impressive defense against predators, since amargasaurus was one of the smaller sauropods. Meanwhile recent evidence suggests tyrannosaurus had feathers, and therefore ironically, if they were scientifically accurate, tyrantrum would be soft and fluffy while auroras would be hard and spiky!

[@EduardoPerez-py8dx]

Great video!

[@fokspoks]

Cradily, Rampardos, Carracosta and Aurorus are my fav fossils.

[@boi2255]

0:05 all hail the mighty holy helix