Cynodonts: Mammals Before Mammals

[@diebesgrab]

“Meaning that I, as well as everyone watching this video, are technically cynodonts.” How do you know I’m not watching this with my pet octopus, huh?

[@norarivkis2513]

Or your cockatiel.

[@AnonymousTranquility]

Large bodied carnivorous mammal relatives in the Triassic? How’d I not know about this until now? Great work doc!

[@Tuishimi]

Sometimes I just close my eyes and listen to "Dr. Polaris" and the background music. Very soothing.

[@Reyma777]

I was taught that the first true mammals are cynodonts with a lower jaw composed of solely the dentary bone. However, I now see an increasing amount of debate as to which advanced cynodonts can be considered true mammals.

[@miguelisaurusbruh1158]

Yooo that's my art on the thumbnail!!

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

you are very talented

[@Morrison-saber-tooth]

Hope you will get credit

[@miguelisaurusbruh1158]

@@Morrison-saber-tooth I didn't :/

[@bastianriveros1432]

@dr.polaris6423

[@ridleyroid9060]

bump for pin

[@rursus8354]

My cynodont just asked me for some food.

[@eybaza6018]

Dog? Cat? Girlfriend?

[@troutinspace5427]

@@eybaza6018the answer could be any of these 3

[@noahmcconnell5560]

@@eybaza6018hahahaha

[@Tuishimi]

@@eybaza6018 Bat? Rat? Platypus? I am banking on girlfriend.

[@eybaza6018]

@Tuishimi Perry the platypus?? I hope so as well as that's a good scenario

[@Xnaut314]

It's good to see that cynodonts of the Triassic were also able to prove the mammalian body plan wasn't inherently "inferior" to archosarian and dinosaur competition during the Mesozoic. You could even argue that mammaliform cynodonts were recognizable as mammals before even dinosaurs evolved distinctly recognizable bodies from other archosaurs.

[@justinianthegreat1444]

If we are inferior to archosaurs, why are we pushing archosaurs to endangerment and serve archosaurs in our fast food chains? Checkmate archosaurs

[@norarivkis2513]

​@@justinianthegreat1444 In fairness, we serve cynodonts in our fast food restaurants too.

[@andythegoatman694]

Love me some trassic stem mammals the good dr always brings a cure for an itch

[@andythegoatman694]

Wait hold on HARD PAUSE i didnt think that through in the wording but refuse to erase it😂 😅

[@erichtomanek4739]

Make Cynodonts Great Again!

[@Michigander269]

Happy to hear that intro again! 😅🤙

[@LuisAldamiz]

They made us possible, these little and big guys are our actual creators (ancestors), what I find extremely fascinating. I could watch a whole series on cynodons and early mammal evolution, really: about the most underrated (and to some extent poorly understood) branch of science. So many people studying religion or dinosaurs and so few studying these ancestors of us!

[@b.a.erlebacher1139]

A lot of early mammalian or pre-mammalian fossils were found in the last few decades, and some of them are volcanic victims from northern China in fantastically good condition. So this is a lot of relatively new stuff, very exciting!

[@MarkVrem]

Cynodonts spoke Dacian. But the Romans killed them all.

[@Tuishimi]

@@MarkVrem lol!

[@Dylan-Hooton]

When will you make cryptid videos again?

[@RafaCB0987]

Love your videos

[@ecurewitz]

Keep up the good work

[@bensantos3882]

Did all cynodonts lay eggs at this time or do we even know if they had cloacas?

[@filippozauc]

Great video, as always

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Man really makes you aware of how much mammals/synapsids have lost

[@flightlesslord2688]

some bigger cynodonts taking on early dinosaurs like Herrerasaurus paints a pretty cool image. Side note, I adore that art of Megalosaurus by Witton.

[@justskip4595]

If I could suggest ideas, hedgehogs or turtles and tortoises would be interesting. I have seen videos of modern species but don't remember dedicated videos of their history.

[@HogBurger]

Been a hot minute since I watched this channel

[@sirduckoufthenorth]

Does anyone else get weird subbass from the audio at particular times

[@posticusmaximus1739]

I do

[@Джозд]

I wonder they have visible ears...or took aquatic niches

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

Hey Dr. Polaris, right after the evolution and the history of the Megalosaurs, why don't you get to think of a suggestion and creating a KZbin Videos all about the evolution and the history of the Prehistoric Marine Reptiles called the Protostegidae (Protostegas), the Extinct Marine Testudines (Turtles) that may have thought to be are the relatives to the Extant Leatherback Sea Turtles, such as Archelon, Atlantochelys, Bouliachelys, Calcarichelys, Chelosphargis, Cratochelone, Desmatochelys, Iserosaurus, Kansastega, Notochelone, Protostega, Rhinochelys, Santanachelys, Teguliscapha, Terlinguachelys, Pneumatoarthrus, and Ocepechelon in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍👍

[@posticusmaximus1739]

There's audio issues. Like a row rumbling bass noise in the background

[@CoralReaper707]

Cynodont gaming LET"S GOOOO

[@scorpiovenator_4736]

Hello Cynodont Bretheren

[@adamgallyot9063]

Wooo I'm early

[@NickHart-t4e]

Thanks for sharing such valuable information! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@t-r-e-x452]

Final profile of 2024 will be on Megalosaurus, THE first dinosaur.

[@faolitaruna]

7:55 Thrinaxodon had shorter teeth than a house cat's, so why draw them sticking out?

[@1998topornik]

So we are all cynodonths?

[@SomeBioniclewithaLaptop-w7s]

My cynodont is a very good boy.

[@VanBurenOfficial]

Weasel pride

[@WebFanNY]

Our former Cynodont overlords should be proud 😊 how their kids grew up to become modern Cyno do humans.

[@jakejake708]

Don't feed the cynodont after midnight.

[@IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous]

I suggestion; do away with the creepy pulsating base sound that was in this video. The creepy music can stay but that pulsating base made me go insane! Is there construction going on? No. Are the Russians invading? No. What is that sound!?

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Glad that's not just me! Thought it might be my headphones

[@Mr.M3447]

Talk about dinosaurus