Halszkaraptor the Aquatic Duck Dinosaur

There have been a string of discoveries in the past decade placing dinosaurs in aquatic habitats and none were as well adapted as the water as spinosaurus. However, another much smaller and perhaps equally aquatic dinosaur was named in 2015, called halszkaraptor. It was a raptor but due to its aquatic habitat it developed many features seen on modern aquatic birds.
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[@567secret]

There's a few other semi-aquatic duck-like dinosaurs. One of which is a duck.

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haha :D

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But a duck is always duck-like 👌 💯

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A duck billed duck

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I love theropsids

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Geese still have that raptor attitude

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Quinten Labruyere Any child who has tried to cross a farm yard with geese in it knows that one.

[@ecurewitz]

swans too

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@jeanferdi but even bigger jerks

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There so aggressive😒

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[@extatixz]

I love the idea of a convergently evolved duck. Dinosaurs never cease to amaze me

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Well dinosaurs had been around for so long, that they have pretty much filled every niche possible before and most likely every animal today has convergently evolved on a body plan a dinosaur once used.

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@@salty1564 an in me

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@@salty1564 now I can't stop thinking about anime characters convergently evolving with dinosaurs

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@@_H0X Considering how spiky most anime protag's hair is, they're all obviously evolved from stegosaurs

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The splash sound from the intro, followed by the click, gives me an inexplicable feeling of peace

[@temple1111]

same

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geese and swans haven’t forgotten about their raptor ancestors

[@TheDeadmanTT]

Anyone who has ever fought a duck will tell you that ducks are the real dinos.

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I mean you can see that they want to tear you to shreds, but they just don't have the power lmao

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All birds are actually dinosaurs

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I'd be too busy thinking about the delicious meal I'm about to eat to think of dinos.

[@raulmt4]

The fact that two different groups of dromaeosaurs (Halszkaraptorinae and Unenlagiinae) evolved to become fish eaters fascinates me

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Dinosaurs really did rule the Earth

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After all ...back then full spaces in ecosystem Were occupied by Dino's 😘

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Raúl MT convergent evolution be like that

[@azrielmoha6877]

Honestly, I'm not surprised if there's more undiscovered fish eater and semi aquatic dinosaurs out thete. I mean nowadays, birds alone have many not closely related lineages that evolved as fish eater, like egrets, ibis, storks, kingfishers, to name a few.

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Convergent evolution happens quite often. Wings evolved independently multiple times. As I believe did eyes. On other habitable planets in the universe it is very likely there are organisms that look a lot like ones that have existed on earth, like birds, bats, and bees, because the laws of physics will drive evolution towards the biological structures, like wings, that work the best.

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If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, it's a dinosaur.

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Me, a Pole: Po wodzie pływa, holszkaraptor się nazywa (a famous riddle goes "[what is it], it swims on water, and is called >>duck

[@GallowglassVT]

Looking at modern day geese today, not much has changed since the Halszkaraptor days.

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Greece are meaner .

[@richardputz3233]

That’s not right should have been GEESE .

[@savannahrae9122]

Goose raptor 😍 Nature and it's ideal niche filling attributes are so amazing 🥰

[@eddie-roo]

Well, much did change, geese evolved these features independently

[@auradzrts691]

So peace was never an option since the beginning of time.

[@pixell0ve19]

Halszkaraptor is apparently named after my grandmother, Halszka Osmólska, who was a Polish scientist studing dinosaurs. I didn't know there is a prehistoric animal named after her name, but I guess I found out about something cool today =)

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What the duck?

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@Pixel_love really ?? It's such an interesting point :3

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According to wikipedia, there wasn't just one animal named after her, Wiki lists like 5 different animals... that's quite an accomplishment ! Not to mention all of the other recognitions she received, that's a cool grandma.

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Rest In Peace, mate (1938-2007)

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An ancient duck dinosaur? That’s pretty cool, yup yup yup. Yes I’m awful.

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I also remembered there was a snapping turtle ankylosaurus , that Trey the Explainer profecized as "The Carnivorus Ornitischian"

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Was bored with my KZbin home page until I saw "aquatic duck dinosaur" in a title. You win at making KZbin interesting today. A goose with dinosaur legs -- and it's not even fictional!

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This little duck dinosaur is the dang cutest thing I've ever seen.

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Until it snaps one of your fingers off

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An Attenborough in the making, for sure! 👍🏼

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When I first saw the title i miss read it as 'awkward duck dinosaur'

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I mean, it kinda is

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That raptor named Mahakala made me chuckle a bit. In Finnish, maha means belly and kala means fish.

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Halszkaraptor: Saved from the Fossil Black Market Awesome video! Loved learning about their teeny tails causing them hold their necks in the 'S' shape.

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So uhm There's this dinosaur And so like uhmm *duck with claws*

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Oh so a goose?

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Noooo

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Wait, what's the difference!? Geese still act as if they have a killer claw!

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[@pugnastyy2586]

A little off topic, but while I was watching this video (btw I'm sitting outside) a road runner bird jumps into my yard and catches a grasshopper and gets away. It reminded me so much of a raptor. Dromaeosaurids are my favorite dinosaurs and I find them so interesting.

[@mikifauns]

It's weird to think Halszkaraptor was technically replaced niche-wise by another dinosaur (waterfowl).

[@muhamadsayyidabidin3906]

And IIRC true waterfowl already exist in the late Cretaceous

[@LimeyLassen]

Kinda like placental mammals replacing marsupials and monotremes

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@@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 “but it is not considered to be a direct ancestor of them”

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Her name was Ducky and, after joining a ragtag crew of orphans named Petrie, Cera, Littlefoot, and Spike, she goes on a quest to find the Great Valley. All Paleontologists, I'm sure, are aware of this part of our natural history.

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Are we not going to talk about how the guy had a skull with paintbrushes sticking out of it at 1:31

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Alright, lets talk about it

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Halzskaraptor's last words were rumored to be "You're Despicable!"

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[@semaj_5022]

This is officially one of my top five favorite dinosaurs now. I'm not even entirely sure why. It's kind of adorable though thinking that there was basically a duck dinosaur long before the dinosaur, duck.

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*You should do a video on Xiphactinus, it was a predatory fish that lived during the Cretaceous Period, it looked very menacing and I wouldn’t want to be in the sea with it* 😅

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I think Xiphactinus was a great fish

[@artiefufkin88]

Been waiting for this one! Halszaraptor is among the most underrated dinosaurs out there. Those things were straight ballin' man. When they came around, things were different. They straight up changed the game when it came to the life aquatic. Wasn't nothing the same when they came around. I'd like to think they never truly died, but rather became ducks instead. A gangsta came dream, tho; a gansta came dream :)

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Whenever I watch the ducks at the lake waddle up onto the shore... Proud descendants of the mighty dinosaurs. I shall feed you my stale cheese puffs.

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That's one ferocious duck!

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[@graciliraptor3990]

sooo convergent evolution? Again? XD lovin' it. Halszka is super cute too

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I'm totally shocked because I thought that raptors were living in the forests like microraptor or deserts like velociraptor

[@muhamadsayyidabidin3906]

Raptor occupied many different niches don't they?

[@theprehistorichubert9448]

@@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 yeah but the aquatic raptor is one of the strangest raptors

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I choose to believe they sound exactly like modern geese

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Very interesting.

[@thevomitleague4335]

This is like a movie trailer for a goose.

[@fungaleyes]

I think this is my new favourite dinosaur

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Thanks

[@mikehawk4388]

Just what a goose or swan needs. More teeth & claws. A very successful body template, no doubt!

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Really cool fossils, glad to know the world has always had to deal with ducks

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OK

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Wow that is pretty cool

[@eeelorde9962]

Would love this dino in the isle or any dino game

[@brobamathegreat7527]

Did you know? There is a very strange species of aquatic ankylosaurus.

[@vladimirlagos2688]

Yeah, about the last thing you would expect in the watet.

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Citation needed.

[@socialhermit7144]

Unfortunately if I remenber correctly this theory was debunked 😢

[@davidegaruti2582]

Let them fight

[@TPPuser]

@@socialhermit7144 right there isnt a known aquatic ankylosaur

[@zieckenbritz811]

Pls talk about the ambopteryx

[@michaelsimko7694]

This dinosaur closely resembles waterfowl. It has a goose's and swan's neck. Mergansers dive to feed on fish, with small aquatic rodents and reptiles occasionally being consumed. Mergansers also have saw-like bills to help grip prey. Most swans and geese are very aggressive and will attack humans and other birds and animals. Other waterbirds this specie somewhat resembles include cormorants and penguins.

[@emilandreasson9670]

Fuck it, Halszkaraptor is my new favorite dinosaur!

[@christosvoskresye]

But what is the best way to cook them?

[@cesarvidelac]

Thank God angry ducks don't have that claws

[@MisterDutch93]

The concept of a goose with large flesh tearing claws highly disturbs me.

[@Lethal_Giggles]

Everyone: Wow an aquatic duck dinosaur! Me: You can be a fossil dealer!?

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It *Was* Super effective

[@eschwarz1003]

how TH do they even ID Halszkaraptorines much less new species of them like Halsanpes and Mahakala with such limited remains!!?? (like a tiny piece of skull and leg bone for Halsanpes) Can you do, (maybe I missed), vids on detailed procedure?

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I wonder if Flightless or semiaquatic pterosaurs were evolutionary possible after all, there are flightless birds today and birds are literally dinosaurs that convergently evolved with pterosaurs.

[@NeP516]

6:25 We only know Hulsanpes from 2 bones?? How can scientists then theorize about this animal and even draw it??? On that note, a video about paleoart would be cool. There's a missconception caused by a post showing how a goose would look if they gave it the same treatment as a fossil, but it skips several important steps.

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when they only know the animal from a few bones, they base the rest on close relatives. And yeah, a video about paleoart and fossil reconstruction woul be cool :p

[@NeP516]

@@thea_kober Knowing which are his relatives and sketching the species from 2 bones is so cool it sounds impossible!

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@@NeP516 They didn't say 2 bones specifically, but "partial remains". You can easily identify a species by just a few bones, in this case, it looks like it had part of its ankle as well. If you know anything about the ankle, is that there are lots of tiny specific bones for that.

[@NeP516]

@@fluffy3640 I searched it, and the species is known by "...a partial braincase fragment and the right metatarsus composed by the second, third and fourth metatarsals and three pedal phalanges from an apparently immature individual..." I didn't know that the ankle is so useful for differentiating animals, that's amazing! Thanks

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1:30 Ouaaaiiiis !! Un gars de chez moi🇨🇵

[@reanyory]

Is there any chance of you making a video about the aquatic ankylosaurus?

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

My only quibble with this video is that at 3:50 when the narrator says Halskaraptor's forelimbs were like "the wings of swimming and diving birds like penguins", the video shows a puffin. Surely there was stock footage of a penguin available. I still love Halskaraptor as The "Duck" of Death. (Apologies to Gene Hackman's insult of Richard Harris in "Unforgiven".) But those long legs and neck strike me more as a wading adaptation like a heron, rather than an actively swimming pescatarian.

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What about lurdusaurus being potentially Simi aquatic in the same way a hippo is.

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Could you do a vid about the thunderbirds?

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I'm just gonna watch dinosaur video before I sleep. I can't be the only one doing this.

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So a Geese with a giant craw in it's feet... cool 😬

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Do a Dino evolution series

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Could there be a video about the evolution of reef fish?

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Good deal

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" it is a beautiful day is Jurassic park, and you, are a horrible Halzkaraptor"

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Drug lord: Pablo Escobar Fossil lord: François Escuillié Are we sure we're not in an early 2000s cartoon?

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Goose Raptor 😍

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I've been looking forward to this

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Me too!!!

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*Halszkaraptor lookin' for grapes.*

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What music do you use?

[@nicholazburkinton3856]

Me trying to pronounce the title. Halssss~ Halskaptor... Halsakptor... Watching the video.. oh... Halszkaraptor(Halshkaptor)

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"goose on dinosaur legs" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Can we get a video on the Meridiungulata family?

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did they honk or quack?

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The super-long-necked sauropods, such as Mamenchisaurus, could have walked with their necks in an “S” pattern as well to maintain a proper gait balance, if skeletally supported.

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Looks like Kirk Cameron was wrong, the crocoduck WAS real after all.