Maiasaura | The Loveable Mother of Dinosaurs

Maiasaura | The Loveable Mother of Dinosaurs | Dino Basics

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@iceyixicold 11 ай бұрын

omg am i first here :0 also do you have like a list of dinos you wanna do?

@DinoBasics 11 ай бұрын

I have a list of viewer requested dinosaurs, which almost all episodes are taken from. I only really do dinosaurs outside that list for special events or holidays, like this.

@CaptainCretaceous91 11 ай бұрын

I usually associate Maiasaura with Mother's Day, but adding it for today makes sense too.

@DinoBasics 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, finding love dinosaurs was trickier than I thought. So I just chose Maiasaura, ideally for a Mother's Day special, but oh well

@CaptainCretaceous91 11 ай бұрын

@@DinoBasics I heard T-Rex 🦖 was a good parent l, so that be some compensation.

@anthonybusch4407 11 ай бұрын

@@CaptainCretaceous91, Correct, in fact, lots of Dinosaurs, both well-known and unheard of, are known to be good parents.

@hcollins9941 11 ай бұрын

Here’s an interesting bit of information on maiasaura. Maiasaura is one of the few dinosaurs whose fossils were sent into space by NASA!

@anthonybusch4407 11 ай бұрын

Now, this is a dinosaur that I am familiar with. Maiasaura is one of the largest hadrosaurs and most loving and nurturing parents of all time. It lived in the western United States of North America, during the Late Cretaceous period, around 75 to 70 million years ago. As a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, and a herbivore, it was large, growing up to 9 - 10 meters in length, weighing up to 3 - 4 tons, and had the typical hadrosaurid flat beak and thick nose. Inside its duck-like bill, were hundreds of tightly-packed flat teeth for chewing and grinding up tough fibrous plants that it ate. It walked both on two or four legs and seemed to have no defense from predators, though its heavy muscular tail and its herd behavior both could have been one. These herds were quite large and could have been made up of as much as 10,000 individuals. It got its name from the term good mother lizards. This hint at the name comes from direct evidence that indicates, they cared for their hatchlings, one of the more rarer direct evidence that we've encountered in the Cretaceous Paleontological Record, a rare sight among dinosaurs, primarily in the herbivorous group however. It had a small, spiky crest in front of its eyes. The crests may have been used in headbutting contests between males over females during the breeding season, for lacking the majestic headgear of its related animals. The fleshy bumps are equally impressive. Alas, the bony less fragile headgear of this hadrosaurid must've supported more stability. Just like other Hadrosaurids though, it may have also slapped necks together during mating season as well. As mentioned before, it lived in herds and it raised its young in nesting colonies. The nests in the colonies were packed close together, like those of modern seabirds, with the gap between the nests being around 23 feet; less than the length of the adult animal. The nests were made of earth and had 30 to 40 eggs laid in a round or coiled pattern. The eggs were about the size of ostrich eggs. The eggs were incubated by the heat caused by rotting vegetation placed into the nest by the parents, rather than a parent sitting on the nest. Fossils of baby Maiasaura show that, when they hatched, their legs were not fully developed and thus they could not leave the nest. Fossils also show that their teeth were partly worn, which means that the adults brought food to the nest. The hatchlings grew from a size of 16 to 58 inches long in the span of their first year. At this point, or perhaps after another year, the animal left the nest. This high rate of growth may mean they were warm blooded. The hatchlings had different facial proportions from the adults, with larger eyes and a shorter snout. These traits are associated with cuteness and are common in animals that depend on their parents when they are young. It lived in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta, in forests and swamps, and also, on fertile open fields and plains, and would’ve lived alongside fellow herbivores, such as Hypacrosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Einiosaurus, Chasmosaurus, Centrosaurus and Orodromeus, as well as predatory carnivores, such as Troodon and Daspletosaurus. From my experience, it is famously known from The Land Before Time franchise, the Documentary TV Series, Dinosaur Planet (2003), from the fourth and final episode, Little Das’ Hunt, as the characters, Buck and Blaze, the Anime TV Series, Dinosaur King (2009), as Mia and her son, Shep, the educational TV Show, Dinosaur Train (2009), the educational TV Series, Dino Dana (2017), and most recently, the All-New Netflix Original Documentary Series, Life On Our Planet (2023). Beyond these, it has also appeared in variety of the Jurassic Movies’ video games, such as Operation Genesis (2003), Alive (2018), and Evolution 1 & 2 (2018/21), as well as The Isle (2015), Saurian (2017), Path of Titans (2020) and soon enough, Prehistoric Kingdom (2022). Anyways, it’s great to hear from you again, can’t wait to see you again in two days, and… Happy Valentine’s Day!

@DinoBasics 11 ай бұрын

Same to you!

@hcollins9941 11 ай бұрын

@anthonybusch4407 One thing to change, Maiasaura is not in Path of Titans.

@anthonybusch4407 11 ай бұрын

⁠Thanks, Man.