March 2024 - Paleontology in Review

[@p00bix]

One of my favorite things about the YT paleontology community is that they really put in the effort to publicize newly-released papers in the field, without resorting to clickbait or dumbing-down the explanation to the point that it ceases to actually be accurate. Thank you for playing your HUGE part in this PaleoChatter!

[@Mythil]

These month-in-review videos are my favorite. It's a great way to keep up with the latest research for those of us with less free time.

[@bewtspeeder]

Love the eurypterus specimen in the background!

[@WebFanNY]

Thanks for the Paleo-update!

[@ChrisFixedKitty]

This is the ONLY way I'd be able to keep up. Thanks so much for doing these!

[@tinyelvenmitten1774]

Thank you yet again for a great overview of Palaentology! ^-^

[@alexw.7097]

I love that you do both monthly and yearly reviews, I feel like I get to know more of the very specific stuff from the monthly videos, and then the bigger cooler stuff from the yearly ones. But I also love the individual videos. Pretty much anything you put out I really appreciate 😅 You strike an excellent balance for me of "interesting and passionate presenter of information I enjoy learning about while I'm awake" and "a lovely soft, chill vibe that's really great for sleeping to as well." But I'm just throwing my two cents in as well, seeing as others are letting you know how much they like the monthly reviews, and I know you've mentioned that they're a lot of work to put together. Take care!

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad you enjoy the content!

[@creatureking-theoriginal1068]

a lot of interesting things this month thanks for the recap ™

[@nita7703]

I love this end of month reviews!

[@rebeccasirrine947]

Really enjoy these month-in-review videos!

[@kevinberrien745]

Love the monthy updates!

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad you like them!

[@rflameng]

At about 04:29 there is a graph comparing bones and interpreting relatively small differences as evidence of them belonging to different species. This makes me wonder. How do paleontologists account for the possibly very significant differences between individuals of the same species? If you were to compare the skeletons and derive the musculatures of, say, a 4'10" Olympic gymnast, a 7'1" NBA player, a sinewy long distance runner and the average Western non sporting couch potato human person, would you conclude these are four specimens of the same species or four related species sharing a common ancestor?

[@cw7429]

Great video as always!

[@entity_unknown_]

The middle Jurassic is an interesting time. Few large predators, look up what happened to Mars at this time it was nuked. I guess it's ironic this history was lost 170 million years ago and Mars was turned into a desert before carnivorous theropods evolved to prey on what was

[@vestofholding]

Combining what you were saying about identifying animals from their surprisingly detailed teeth, and the database of 3D models of vertebrae, it makes me wonder if we could combine the two ideas and toss all that data into an AI to help identify animals from a couple of bones, or at least what group of animals it could likely be close to.

[@RaptorChatter]

I don't know about an AI, but certainly some learning model could be figured out.

[@vestofholding]

@@RaptorChatter Fair! I didn't mean to imply it would be a large language model like ChatGPT, just generally that it could be an interesting machine learning problem.

[@barrybarlowe5640]

Just a thought: Early on in Earth's development, the crust was thinner. Did the outer surface stay in one place with respect to the axis of planetary rotation? Or sis it slide around. What is "North" might not have been North, then. When know there have been massive tectonic shifts, but what if the crust - as the entire skin of the Earth - shifted from time to time. I'd like someone to address that.

[@thevoiceharmonic]

You had me worried when you said it was March 2023

[@RaptorChatter]

Yeah, I just misspoke, whoops

[@napalmholocaust9093]

All the European birds from Shakespeare were dumped by the hundreds on several occasions either in Baltimore or N.Y. about 200 years ago or less. They did not all die.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Maybe Philly.

[@RaptorChatter]

Yes, and their climate was fairly similar, and they could become widespread rapidly.

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

Aw, no Indoconodon?

[@chandradeepkumar8437]

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