I knew utahraptors were big but knowing that theyre bigger than polar bears suddenly put them into perspective
@athos9293 Жыл бұрын
Imagine hugging it on the belly
@kevinavila7551 Жыл бұрын
I’m saying! They were massive.
@Someone-wall2 ай бұрын
@@athos9293I like the way you think
@athos92932 ай бұрын
@@Someone-wall yes, all wide and smooth and feathery and warm and soft belly (would have to train them to let hug or put hand)
@joakos11224 жыл бұрын
I think Komodo dragons are a good analogy for how some species have juveniles that are mostly arboreal but become terrestrial as they age
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
Yes that's good point I didn't think of that
@TheDcraft3 жыл бұрын
There's bears.
@raptor5034 Жыл бұрын
@@mothlightmedia1936 hi i watch your channel
@timjung6404 жыл бұрын
Criminally underrated and overlooked channel.
@djpagla12944 жыл бұрын
True
@djpagla12944 жыл бұрын
Disapointing
@pldcanfly4 жыл бұрын
There ya go :) 100!
@James-yl6zm4 жыл бұрын
Criminally is overuse as a word FOR this
@ProximaCentauri884 жыл бұрын
What would be "overrated"? PBS and How To Be Smart?
@batspidey76114 жыл бұрын
Getting eaten alive by a dinosaurified bird of prey is much more scary than a giant bipedal lizard trying to slash you with its claws.
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
I thought so too
@williamjordan55544 жыл бұрын
Bears do it too.
@IRex-wm9pd4 жыл бұрын
I'll pass on both thanks.
@aboomination8974 жыл бұрын
i'd hate to be in any of those situations
@567secret4 жыл бұрын
All birds of prey are dinosaurs.
@d.c.monday41534 жыл бұрын
They have terrible claws because they never cut them or file them smooth. No chiropodists or podiatrists in those days you see.
@jl.77394 жыл бұрын
Now I imagine raptors with fancy glitter toenail extensions. You know that’s what some people would do if you could have them as pets today.
@giovannicruz26454 жыл бұрын
@@jl.7739 lmao they run up to a raptor and knock it out and keep it in a jurrasic park cage lol
@oerlikon20mm293 жыл бұрын
@@jl.7739 oh I know a few girls with things like that, I often wonder how they wipe themselves after using the bathroom
@rjcmick4 жыл бұрын
the thought that baby raptors flew around while the adults hunted on the ground is so cool to me.
@johndoherty4874 жыл бұрын
They lacked the wing length and breast muscles to be capable of lifting off or maintaining flight. But they could have shortly glided from tree to tree.
@rjcmick4 жыл бұрын
@@johndoherty487 oh dang :(
@garethbaus54714 жыл бұрын
More like the baby's would probably have the ability use their wings as a climbing assist and could possibly glide from a high point to avoid a predator if necessary but still cool.
@Dragrath13 жыл бұрын
while the big raptors probably couldn't fly there are some close relatives like microraptor which were much better proportioned for flight. Also even if they did fly since they are bipedal lift would likely have been initiated from their legs as this seems to be a conserved property among known vertebrates with powered flight wing muscles are for maintaining flight. Regardless Dromaeosauridae as a whole tended to be very close to the thresholds for powered flight with some species supporting the proportions and musculature to potentially fly but those were much smaller dromaeosaurs which morphologically seem to have had their claws much more strongly adapted for climbing and or perching rather than piercing. It thus is still a possibility some might have flown perhaps as transitional species between the arboreal hunters that were likely predominately insectivores and the larger ground dwelling hunters more likely to go after larger vertebrate prey
@marinomele45753 жыл бұрын
This is actually a quite popular theory. Especially if you think the implication this has: raptor chicks hid on tree branches, while their mum hunts - something like cheetahs can do. This would've been a simple yet great way to improve their offspring survivability, keeping the younglings safe. Yet... sadly... this is pure speculation... especially because there's no proof of them being even semi-arboreal in any shape or form.
@jeremycanard54204 жыл бұрын
This differential flight theory based on age development is interesting. My chickens when young flew onto shed tops and low tree branches. Now older they are more ground based.
@ninjadogs33892 жыл бұрын
I was thinking this same thing, and while the adult chickens can still get some good height (one of my girls likes to fly up to my shoulder) she could definitely fly a lot better when she was a young chick.
@stevenkobb1562 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of Komodo dragons. When young, they are agile climbers, which helps them avoid being eaten by adults. When grown, they are too heavy to climb.
@RCSVirginia3 жыл бұрын
"Grandmother, what big claws you have." "The better to tear you apart, my dear."
@Phoenixash-delfuego3 жыл бұрын
"Grandmother, what big claws you have." "Stop your cheek young lady and keep rubbing my feet."
@sleestakmcbong75934 жыл бұрын
Sounds very plausible! Young monitor lizards and even Komodo Dragons spend their youth on trees and the bigger they get the less they spent their times being arboreal.
@alicewilloughby43183 жыл бұрын
Sleestak McBong, I didn't know this and it's really interesting!
@VenomQuill2 жыл бұрын
Isn't it because older dragons will eat them? Wouldn't it be fascinating if young raptors had to climb away from established raptors, and could only come down and join hunts as adults that were too big to be eaten by other raptors?
@hankskorpio58574 жыл бұрын
Whats with the lil oblong dot in the upper left center of the screen?
@Narglestopia4 жыл бұрын
I kept trying to wipe it off 😅
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
I know what they are now. They're an editing error. They turn into the green lines on the map and they should be triggered to turn on at the moment the map came on but i must have missed them while checking the video over so they play about 40 seconds early. There's not much I can do about it now haha, hopefully they weren't too annoying
@yerokaasregor4 жыл бұрын
I didn’t even notice it until I seen your comment, thanks a lot I can’t stop looking at it now😅😂😂
@watchdealer114 жыл бұрын
@@mothlightmedia1936 You are a thorough, dude. I would've been happy with "it was an error" 😂
@bobbymobay4 жыл бұрын
I've been trying to clean the screen for 5 minutes.......lol.....before realizing.....lol!
@GerardWay4President4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t mind having the chicken-sized raptor as a pet. I shall name him Pokey.
@jaisanatanrashtra70354 жыл бұрын
Also it can kill small kids in you house 😂 so nice pets they are 😁
@barryhumphreys20834 жыл бұрын
Pokey says my owner was tasty.
@windhelmguard52954 жыл бұрын
@@jaisanatanrashtra7035 so can cats and dogs.
@HowlingWolf5184 жыл бұрын
I'd go with Petey myself.
@jl.77394 жыл бұрын
Can I strap one of my old Dinoriders figures on its back?
@weemissile3 жыл бұрын
"So were those big sickle claws used as weapons?" "No, but actually yes."
@ZetaFuzzMachine4 жыл бұрын
We seriously need an analysis on bipedal tree climbing! My guess is that the sickle claw developed exclusively to climb. That would have made small raptors able to easily escape danger by going up a tree, and while they were there, gave them the ability to perform ambushes. Then the trait was kept around as it was a really useful for many purposes. What you guys think?
@TyrannoKoenigsegg4 жыл бұрын
Love how one of the contributors are Ken Ham
@mariog92023 жыл бұрын
dude ik right lol i noticed that and got confused.
@suvidani3 жыл бұрын
I was listening, I was like wtf? :D Someone has a great sense of humor.
@colinmitchell48593 жыл бұрын
Me, too. That is absolutely hillarious!
@Josh-rn1em3 жыл бұрын
That's a name I haven't heard for many a year.
@johninitaly4 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that modern eagles, owls, etc have very powerful feet with sharp claws that they kill by piercing and damaging damaging internal organs.
@oddityurie34354 жыл бұрын
Many prehistoric animals behave very similarily to animals in modern day and it kinda makes sense since if somethings works then it will surely be used and repeated over and over again, which basically summarizes one of the main reasons why animals and organisms evolve
@derrickbonsell4 жыл бұрын
This is probably the best evolution/paleobiology channel on KZbin.
@trvth1s4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the claw is multipurpose. Feline claws are curved like raptor claws. Cats use their claws to climb, to grip prey and to slice/slash eachother or an attacker.
@matthiasfloren26104 жыл бұрын
Way more scary than jp. Being eaten alive with that raptorial stare
@eliteecho93834 жыл бұрын
The first movie gave an impression of being eaten alive, the other two not so much.
@matthiasfloren26104 жыл бұрын
@@eliteecho9383 I know that. But I keep the jp raptors seperate from the accurate ones. I do not want to beat that dead horse again. They eat their victims alive but they slice them open first also terrifying.
@williamjordan55544 жыл бұрын
Grizzlies do that too.
@drobvensick4 жыл бұрын
Is it possible that some of them hunt like leopard dropping from trees as form of ambush attacks?
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
I haven't seen a study looking into that but that sounds highly plausible
@WaterShowsProd4 жыл бұрын
This method would also be a good explanation of their arm feathers as they could use them to control their descent, and change their trajectory. There was a study about dinosaurs using arm feathers to help it climb trees, studying they way flightless birds flapped their wings to help them climb. I think this all ties together rather neatly.
@kazkk23214 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how little we know and how difficult it is to interpret the past
@garethbaus54714 жыл бұрын
Depends on how far back you want to go.
@ctchulk3 жыл бұрын
and amazing how much we have pieced together
@Juusokakku4 жыл бұрын
The secretary bird's stomp might also be one way these claws were used
@bkjeong43024 жыл бұрын
Many extant predators actually do kill prey multiple times their size. In regards to dromaeosaur mobility, while dromeosaurs weren't especially fast for theropods, to argue they were incapable of extended pursuit takes things too far in the other direction. That has much more to do with aerobic capability, and in that aspect dromeosaurs aren't any worse than other theropods, and far better than ambush specialists such as cats. I see mustelids as the best mammalian analogue to dromaeosaurs; like dromaeosaurs, mustelids hunt alone (with some exceptions in both clades), punch quite above their weight, can grapple, and can run down prey extended distances despite not being cursorial animals. Basically Deinonychus is the dromaeosaur version of Megalictis.....
@littlesaresare2 жыл бұрын
He said that the evidence for raptors hunting animals larger than them suggests that the claw maybe wasn't used to restrain those animals to be eaten while still alive. Never once did he claim that no living predators ever kill prey bigger than them. In fact he then gave examples of living predators killing prey that is larger than them! Sounds you like you're too keen on sounding smarter to actually care what he said.
@Toumoriryuu4 жыл бұрын
That has got to be the STRANGEST graphic I have ever seen in a video at around 7:05. Go back a couple of minutes and you can watch a small black smudge on the video through many many graphics until it finally just expands into a dot and a label... why? What did I just watch? I am so distracted by it that I am having trouble returning to the video...
@adhdhikaru4 жыл бұрын
Sen-Yuan Li maybe an editing error?
@easportsaxb80574 жыл бұрын
Dude it's just an editing error it's not that bad
@27olo273 жыл бұрын
@@easportsaxb8057 That was pretty weirdly distracting. Wasn't sure if I was the only one to see that. I thought my screen was dirty. Started around 5:30
@easportsaxb80573 жыл бұрын
@@27olo27 I didn't notice it that much, but the first time I watched this video I viewed in on my phone, and when I watched it again on my laptop I already knew about the editing error, so it still didn't annoy me too much. But honestly, it's not that big of a deal.
@Archimedes.50003 жыл бұрын
Also happens from about 10:35, and then it becomes part of the map
@jaisanatanrashtra70354 жыл бұрын
The size comparison you are showing in your recent videos are awesome continue with it 👍 8:36 7:55 0:46 3:24 5:04 9:17 9:50
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
Thank you I will
@darth8564 жыл бұрын
I never would have imagined as a kid that many dinosaurs had feathers. But I have to say they look pretty cool.
@caniform-craze20803 жыл бұрын
Dinosaurs closest to the bird lineage definitely had feathers, (most) dinosaurs from other clades though likely didn't have any feathers until evidence suggests otherwise ofc.
@fruitylerlups530 Жыл бұрын
@@caniform-craze2080 i wonder if feathers evolved before or after the birth of the theropods?
@caniform-craze2080 Жыл бұрын
@@fruitylerlups530 there is evidence to suggest the former.
@OdeeOz4 жыл бұрын
That terrible claw, it is being found, was used to puncture the throat area of a victim. As you show a couple minutes into the video. Well done!
@ivanclark22753 жыл бұрын
It kinda reminds me of the hook on the end of a lot of modern raptor’s beaks. Maybe comparison of those two features could have interesting results. I wonder if the shape of the claw strongly correlates to diet.
@emilhagberg44054 жыл бұрын
Dont forget how haasts eagle hunted moas!
@lexobischof70694 жыл бұрын
Wtf a wing span of 3 meters well I’m out
@bkjeong43024 жыл бұрын
Haast’s eagles even went after the largest moa; there is skeletal evidence of this actually happening (moa remains showing massive wounds and gauges from eagle talons).
@galloe89334 жыл бұрын
I would have never guessed they used their cycle claws brutally restrain their prey and eat them alive. Raptors are pretty rock and roll.
@shawnwales6963 жыл бұрын
I think you probably meant sickle noy cycle.
@galloe89333 жыл бұрын
Christ dude, I think you're right but I can never edit out such a well intentioned yet confusing typo. Also, "cycle" was clearly not the word I was trying to type but I didn't change it... I think I was having a stroke.
@agusvilorio22674 жыл бұрын
The Comodo Dragon is arboreal when young and terrestrial when adult. The same as the Deinonychus might have been.
@easportsaxb80574 жыл бұрын
*Komodo
@JohnDrummondPhoto3 жыл бұрын
Juvenile Komodo dragons have to be arboreal, or their gigantic adult brethren would prey on them. Similarly, juvenile crocs stay in shallow waters, away from their adult relatives (not including their mothers, who actively guard their hatchlings for months).
@thefisherking783 жыл бұрын
That was my first thought when he raised this idea. They might have climbed up for safety but also had/developed the ability to glide down.
@thefisherking783 жыл бұрын
Ken Ham 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@thelonerider96933 жыл бұрын
"You alive when they start to eat you... so try to show a little respect". Well Jurassic Park got one thing right, apparently!
@ericdebord4 жыл бұрын
That claw is for climbing trees. Same kinda spur is on line man boots to climb poles.
@abdulazizrex4 жыл бұрын
I think that the idea of raptors disemboweling their prey comes from human comparison! It definitely looks like larger raptor species like deinonychus and Utahraptor would be capable of slashing through the soft flesh of humans, that is if they ever came across us! It is definitely not the usual case with their usual thick hided dinosaur prey.
@felix25ize4 жыл бұрын
Biomechanical experiences has been made , showing that the famous terrible claws of dromeosaurs were not even able to tear bacon rind; then the scaly or feathered skin of others dinosaurs ... In fact, it was most probably principally used to grasp and maintain the prey while the animal bited it. and if the claw could be keeped up when running, it was just to avoid damaging it on the ground, cats have retractable claws for the same reason.
@aikhis4 жыл бұрын
Lol I love the sponsor who is using the name Ken Ham. Lol to use a fervent anti-evolution, Bible thumping, ark encounter building, creationist to sponsor video's about evolution makes me chuckle every time I see it.
@kai_plays_khomus4 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to write the same. Using this name to support a channel about evolution deserves applause! Oh how I wish the real Ken Ham would know about this! It's expert level mocking. Maybe it should be considered to name a transitional species after him too..
@kovinar254 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@heyzues83634 жыл бұрын
@@kai_plays_khomus, something obnoxious and simple, Ken haminus simplus rusticus.
@mathewadams29293 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too. Epic trolling for the win.
@derekk.22633 жыл бұрын
They built the creation museum 6 miles from the house I grew up in. Most people in the area think it's ridiculous and having gone one time on a free day I know have a fervent hatred for creationism. Not that they make anything close to a convincing argument but it's enough to train kids out of critical thinking and stunt the numbers of future scientists.
@adhvithnambiar37432 жыл бұрын
I am so continually impressed and mesmerized by the topics Moth Light Media chooses to explore! Such an amazing channel! 🙌🏼
@kotarojujo27373 жыл бұрын
Dakoraptor proportional and size really fit in the Jurassic Park's Raptor
@DanielThorntonPortfolio3 жыл бұрын
"there are no animals today that could be compared with such a strange set of life stages!" Butterflies: wtf bro
@symbiosister4 жыл бұрын
this is really good work - I've been watching a lot of dinosaur and prehistory themed channels lately and this is probably one of the most in-depth and interesting videos I've seen. Keep this up, please
@meeriniemi4 жыл бұрын
So interesting and well explained, thank you!
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@alicewilloughby43183 жыл бұрын
3:40 - They think the babies could fly and then became ground dwellers as they grew up? I never knew that! Fascinating! 5:44 - "This "food" tastes like plastic! What kind of crap are you feeding me???"
@ethribin41883 жыл бұрын
My theory is that Raptors, just like birds of prey, used their claws to grip their prey. But not yo restrain their prey, but to keep themselves held onto their prey. Theyd then keep attacking and hurting it, tiering it out, till it collapses. Hunting animals bigger then the predator is often done by the hunter tiering out their prey and excausting them until they collaps. Ancient humans hunted that way. By being more efficient with body tempreature regulation,and having a jogging speed just above the galop threshhold, and being the most endurance marathon runners in the animal kingdom, humans chassed their prey down until it collapsed from excaustion. Maybe raptors did it similarly. Just instead of beating their prey in a deadly marathon, theyd cling onto it, bite and claw at it, or just add weight and panic their prey, until it collapsed from excaustion. And just how humans evolved to sweat in order to matathon their prey to death, raptors developed their claws to grip onto their prey and just not let go.
@Kwodlibet2 жыл бұрын
It's all rather plausible - or maybe even "clawsible" ?😉👌 I've always had a feeling that pack hunting, turkey-sized, raptors were largely responsible for evolution of armored dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus - some of them developed armored eyelids... what for? To protect from a bite of a large theropod? No way. That would make little to no difference, but a determined "pecking" by dozens of claws - sure.
@uggligr3 жыл бұрын
I think Tyrannosaurus needed it's tiny arms when a juvenile and that's why the arms did not evolve away. They just became semi-useless for the adults.
@sevehayden14634 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking of the baseline raptor claw as kind of a multitool. Sometimes a climbing aid (mostly in small species/young individuals) used for multiple kinds of hunting depending on what opportunities present themselves and sometimes even used for some edge uses like breaking open insect nests. Some raptors specialize a bit and focus more on one kind of claw use, while others kinda act like a carnivorous jack of all trades, varying between hunting small animals, scavenging, and sometimes possibly going after a larger meal. One fossil I hope will be discovered is something that seems like it was killed by a small raptor dropping from a tree. It'd be evidence for both the climbing theory and kinda one of the hunting theories, in addition to showing an interesting behavior. If there is a way to show for sure that some dromaeosaurids actually hunted things much larger than themselves instead of just scavenging, it'd be evidence (not proof) of at least a bit of cooperation, I think. Even if you can take something that big down, there's little point if you're chased away from it by another predator or the meat spoils before you can get that much out of it. Predators tend to only hunt things worth the risk, and it's more likely to be worth the risk if the kill can be defended and there's more than one dinosaur eating from it. Even if there's no dedicated family groups/packs it would be beneficial for small dinosaurs of the same species to band together briefly to defend a large source of food, even if there isn't any cooperative hunting.
@phaslow43934 жыл бұрын
You are awesome! Thank you for your videos which are helping me maintain my sanity while I sit at home all day due to the corona virus lockdown. All the best to you!
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
Thank you I appreciate it
@nolanbannon31012 жыл бұрын
This claw structure seems like a very useful tool and we cant be certain how creative the animals who used it were. I really like the tree climbing idea because it is easier to glide then it is to fly Also it would be really good for restraining down prey
@philipnorris65422 жыл бұрын
All good stuff; when dealing with the subject of prehistoric life there is, inevitably, a good deal of educated guesswork involved.
@rybavresu99174 жыл бұрын
I think all is clawsible.
@JoeYDiMeSRaeN4 жыл бұрын
That can't be the real Ken Ham, and whoever contributes in his name is such an awesome person. I also am awesome for noticing.
@MrJero853 жыл бұрын
There are many Ken Hams in this world.
@rustyspurs7714 жыл бұрын
A rudimentary understanding of the practical applications of physics will tell you exactly what a claw is for when you look at it. Highly hooked claws pierce so well that they're really awful for slashing, in order for it to slash well, the angle of the foot would have to be so far forward that the target would just get kicked instead. (edit: on further review, it's angled so far forward that it's impossible for it to slash well from literally any incoming position. What it is incredibly good at is piercing and then from there, making horrifying leverage cuts by essentially following the angle of the claw forward, making a semi-circular cut that's the length of the claw its self.
@windhelmguard52954 жыл бұрын
my hypothesis is that raptors, instead of trying to actually kill larger prey animals, would just feed on the animal while it was still alive and trying to shake them off, with those claws they could simply hold on while feeding. hell it might have even been common for a raptor to attack a large animal and getting it's fill, wile the prey animal survived and made a full recovery.
@kylecollier22854 жыл бұрын
Sesshomaru Uzumaki that is true, especially since the prey could die from infection from numerous bite wounds by Dromaeosaurs. So perhaps Dromaeosaurs were like ninja versions of Komodo Dragons. Holding onto prey with their claws on their hands and feet and using numerous bites to not only consume their prey alive, but even after the attack the prey would've died from infection, and one way or another either the same raptors or another pack of raptors will come across the dead or dying animal and proceed to consume it.
@tachyonicnewt24734 жыл бұрын
This is what I thought, though I have not seen much evidence for or against it.
@windhelmguard52954 жыл бұрын
@@kylecollier2285 well most crocodiles can handle getting a leg ripped of while swimming through muddy, luke warm bogs of almost stagnant water, getting all sorts of dirt in the wound, without getting an infection and since crocodiles are closely related to dinosaurs (more so than actual lizards) it would be reasonable for large dinosaurs to have a similar trait.
@bkjeong43024 жыл бұрын
Eating larger prey alive is reasonable but I doubt the prey would survive for more than an hour at most.
@jacoblewis52303 жыл бұрын
@@kylecollier2285 The problem with that is because now a days monitor lizards like the Komodo Dragon are now considered venomous since venom glands on their lower jaws. you can look it up for more info.
@abdulazizrex4 жыл бұрын
The thought of deinonychus being able to fly and then loose it is bewildering!
@derekk.22634 жыл бұрын
I really have to believe at least some raptors hunted in flocks. Wolves take down very large animals by latching on with their jaws and once enough wolves grab their prey they can pull it down. I see multiple velociraptors jumping on the back of a protoceratops and hanging on with their mouths and claws until there are enough to force it down to the ground.
@abdulazizrex4 жыл бұрын
Please do a video specifically focusing on social behavior and pack hunting in raptors??
@MyKingoflol2 жыл бұрын
so you're telling me that raptors have claws that look like the claws of raptors? fascinating
@jackhartley89964 жыл бұрын
Komodo Dragons live semi arboreal lives as juveniles and only become terrestrial once the fear of becoming prey lessons. One example of how an animals lifestyle can change as the grow in size.
@sfdgdrgdvxff4 жыл бұрын
I was suggested this channel after forever of not watching paleontology videos and I'm hooooooked again I love your effort and presentation. Your sheer variety of animals is also extremely gleeful
@eliletts51584 жыл бұрын
Wow! I never thought of all those theories! Great video!
@Master_Yoda19904 жыл бұрын
I agree more with the claw being used to grip prey. It seems more likely or maybe all those theories being right as the claw could have performed multiple tasks.
@toastymctoastface75322 жыл бұрын
most likely different species of raptor used their claws for different things. If you look at Utahraptor's claw, you will see how much more straight it is, less like a sickle and more like a dagger. This combined with he fact that Utahraptor had lots of muscle in its legs, plus the prey it hunted(megafauna like Iguanadon, Gastonia, sauropods) seems to me that utahraptor used them like a roman gladius. This is just my take, and we will most likely never know the answer
@sophiagnetneva68614 жыл бұрын
i really appreciate all the research you do this video is insanely interesting
@xebraashe5854 Жыл бұрын
I also believe that the raptors would be holding onto the animal and biting it as well. There wouldn't be anything really stopping that, and all it takes is biting through the spine to make any prey stop. It makes them climbing make sense. They probably jumped from trees or higher places, then grabbed on and bit until whatever they were hunting stopped.
@AS-ho9ym4 жыл бұрын
Great series of videos! Precisely what I've been yearning for! Great job! Please make tons of these kind of videos!
@steveclapper54243 жыл бұрын
It always struck me as a climbing tool.
@planescaped4 жыл бұрын
My immediate thoughts were that it was for gripping or climbing.
@davidletasi33224 жыл бұрын
Recent studies have shown that the distal phalynx on the second pedal digit attached to the killer claw of the Velociraptor family has a thickened posterior ventral heal similar to those found in climbing birds like wood peckers. Sone researchers are starting to suggest that the smaller velociraptors like V. mongolensis and Bambiraptor were small tree hoppers specializing in catching lizards, tree frogs, small birds and insects. The larger raptorial dinosaurs like Dakotaraptor, Utahraptor and Deinonychus are in the same family as Dromaeosaurus and were most likely open ground runners hunting larger prey. However it's still interesting that the fighting dinosaur specimens from Mongolia discovered by the Polish expedition of 1971 uncovered the interaction between Protoceratops and Velociraptor.
@greenman55554 жыл бұрын
Climbing on large prey would be helpful. They may have lived like komodo dragons. The smaller individuals would live in trees to avoid larger predators.
@benmcmahon9283 жыл бұрын
My favourite youtube channel by far! great videos, keep up the good work
@MaxisGameplays3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting take on the juvy raptor being able to fly then transition into a ground predator as an adult.
@braveheart4603 Жыл бұрын
Modern birds show us that claws like this can be utilized in all different ways depending on the niche that is carved out. Some species evolve to use them like chickens and others like those eagles in the galapagos and countless other variations as well.
@daphneloose58804 жыл бұрын
great video!! it was interesting to know all about those wicked looking sicle claws on raptors. never knew that they could have been used to climb trees or dig for grubs and other invertebrates underground.
@geoffreystuttle80804 жыл бұрын
There are birds where I live that practically hurl them selves against tree trunks and stick without a horizontal branch to perch on. Perhaps a woodpecker species, don't know. But to remain vertical when 'landing' on a vertical surface, they've got to have a claw that digs in, downward from the top. So 'climbing/landing' is my vote. A claw specifically for evisceration seems a bit too specialized, not to mention horrible.
@MustardGravyy Жыл бұрын
Never knew one like the Utah raptor existed. That's terrifying
@RipleySawzen4 жыл бұрын
3:50 "There are no animals today that could be compared with such a strange set of life stages" Bears tend to climb more in cubhood than adulthood. Many adult brown bears will never even climb a tree again.
@Eye_Exist2 жыл бұрын
My theory is following: as feathered dinosaurs, raptors could have also used the massive claws for climbing attacks from trees, climbing into a tree with the claw and diving onto it's prey from stealth, striking it with the massive climbing claw, using gravity to multiply its force. This would also explain the evolution of birds, as the evolution pressure would be increasingly more on the gliding ability, therefore naturally leading into evolution of feathers, and later onto flapping and eventually powered flight. Thinking of it: many birds such as owls, eagles and hawks dive hunt today - owls especially exactly from trees. Not unheard idea in the modern raptor family at least. Would it make sense that it all started from raptors living in the dinosaur era? The massive claw getting increasingly bigger as the evolution favored climbing and dive attacking from stealth onto their prey, eventually leading to the evolution of powered flight and to birds we see today. Ps. this massive claw would be also good for hanging in the trees, waiting for prey to walk under it. it would be both the main weapon to penetrate skull/thick skin with the glide strike and to hang from the trees with the littlest effort possible.
@ryanfitzalan86344 жыл бұрын
id agree with the bird of prey idea. unlike modern birds of prey, Raptors would have needed to run on their legs , so they can only afford to have one major claw for gripping their prey while the others needed to stay tuned for walking and running. since raptors maintained wing feathers from their smaller gliding ancestors, they must have used them. but their body size was to large for flight or intensive gliding. their ancestors would climb trees, spot prey and glide ontop of them and grasp them still with their claw. the claw was for climbing and prey grasping. When this proved succesful behavior there was an adaptive radiation, and new branchs began to fill niches similar to certain modern carnivores today. larger dromesorids probably behaved like cougers, jaguars and tigers (maybe even similar color patterns). while medium sized ones operated like minks, foxes ocelots, and other possibly fit a lion like roll operating in prides. recall the similarity of the claw to that of cats retractable claws as well,
@TheDuvee63 жыл бұрын
I have the feeling raptors killing Protoceratops and Tenontosaurus were very rare occurrences. In this same way lions are known to bring down elephants or giraffes when they are desperately starving.
@eatsmeetswest73514 жыл бұрын
freaking love this channel man. great stuff.
@Infernoraptor4 жыл бұрын
The flying baby hypothesis made my jaw drop. KZbin has been suggesting this channel after watching vids from Ben G Thomas, TREY the explainer, and E.D.G.E. I'm subbing!
@tachyonicnewt24734 жыл бұрын
I would also recommend you look at NORTH 02
@Jawru3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a video focused on the largest animals that have existed in different species, like raptors, frogs, rodents, etc.
@pedrohtunes4 жыл бұрын
Amazing video!
@shadowraith14 жыл бұрын
Interesting speculation. I do wonder if we will ever develop the sciences enough to actually know?
@easportsaxb80574 жыл бұрын
0:10 It's not "Dienonychus" it's "Deinonychus". Otherwise excellent video!
@Qbliviens4 жыл бұрын
Probably the best video I have seen on the topic of dromeaosaur ecology, covering all the aspects perfectly, from the fact that they were not that speedy afterall, but rather ambush predators to the raptor prey restrain, the way they used their claws to catch their prey and that they also were rather adapted to hunt smaller animals, and not packhunters of larger animals, like wolves or lions, as always depicted. Those depictions of deinonychus clinging onto prey with their hand claws have always bothered me, and I also think eagles killing larger prey like mountain goats is a great analogy, using their talons to cling onto and wound the prey, while using the hands, which were essentially wings in dromaeosaurs (despite them having claws), only for balance, along with their feathered tail.
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@bkjeong43024 жыл бұрын
Dromeosaurs were still capable of killing animals their own size or larger, so they were actually hunting large prey relative to body size. It's just that them killing elephant-sized ornithopods or such is unrealistic. Leopards cannot kill elephants either, but nobody says leopards prey on small animals just because of that. The same should also apply to dromaeosaurs. "Small" is relative.
@ssandus11534 жыл бұрын
Imagine 5 Raptors clinging ontop of these large dinosaurs and tearing pieces off eith their jaws and you can see how they can kill larger creatures.
@dukecity7688 Жыл бұрын
Excellent. Comprehensive. You fire my imagination. What a gift. Thank you.
@oerlikon20mm293 жыл бұрын
Its so disappointing that Sauropods had an abrupted ending, I would have loved to see what kind of species would have evolved from them
@toastymctoastface75322 жыл бұрын
i mean, the titanosaurs lived to the end f the cretaceous on the southern continents
@fergin49793 жыл бұрын
I like the idea that the giant claws were for latching/climbing onto larger dinosaurs. Swarm as a pack
@kanamesuzaku11384 жыл бұрын
First, keep it up u do a really good job at making these
@juanleuschner74574 жыл бұрын
Can you please do a video on Notoungulata. I'm curious to why they went extinct.
@alejandrorojas68354 жыл бұрын
Amazing channel
@kaytlinjustis56434 жыл бұрын
I remember that fossil! The documentary stated that, when they reenacted the 'Terrible Claw' and found that it isn't as powerful compared to the human arm with the same motion. So, they figured it was used to puncture an airway or major artery. Disappointing the truth is, but enlightening! Thanks for the vid! ^^
@janetlapham39195 ай бұрын
so some northern raptors climbing to perches and leaping onto prey below is a pretty reasonable depiction. that's pretty cool, and far more terrifying.
@BiTurbo2284 ай бұрын
I wonder if the raptor claw might have been used both for climbing and eagle-style dispatching of large prey. If northern hemisphere raptors weren't all that fast runners, perhaps they ambushed large prey from trees like some leopards do. Climb up, wait until something wanders beneath them then drop down on top of them. Like some nightmarish drop-bear/eagle hybrid!
@KonigSchutze3 жыл бұрын
Your video is freaking amazing, high production value. Subbed. Hopefully you're on Nebula :)
@crmesson22k4 жыл бұрын
Do you mean Dr. Alan Grant was lying to the kids the whole time. Lol
@mothlightmedia19364 жыл бұрын
don't even get me started on T. Rex eyesight being based on movement
@barryhumphreys20834 жыл бұрын
Moth Light Media I know exactly what you mean.
@derrickbonsell4 жыл бұрын
When Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park the idea of feathered dinosaurs was fringe at best. When the movie was being made feathered dinosaurs were starting to be accepted but the general public still thought of dinosaurs as having scaly skin. Since the first movie went with scaly dinosaurs, the rest of the franchise stuck with what went before.
@garethbaus54714 жыл бұрын
@@mothlightmedia1936 in the book the movement based eyesight was a side effect of the frog dna and was inferred by dr grant when he saw a tyrannosaur ignore something it should have clearly seen l. But in the movie that was very poorly done.
@shawnwales6963 жыл бұрын
Jeez, a fictional character in a fictional book giving out outdated information. Shocking!
@titanofserpents4315 Жыл бұрын
Yes, I definitely think that it makes sense for different kinds of raptors to have used their sickle claws for different purposes, like how the blunt, semi retract claws of cheetahs are used for traction while running, while the sharp, retractable claws of lions are used for gripping onto prey. Also, it seems that the whole "you are still alive when they start to eat you" thing in Jurassic Park still holds up.
@Crakinator Жыл бұрын
I’d wager that those with large and developed claws probably used them for just about everything, from hunting to feeding to climbing to digging. It’s a huge and sharp implement, especially relative to their lightweight bodies. If we had a digit like that, we’d use it all the time.
@shotsycreates20944 жыл бұрын
Just subbed... this channel is so interesting and cool!!!! Thank you!!!
@Toumoriryuu4 жыл бұрын
OH NO! There is another dot!!! Guess I will just try to ignore it and wait for the label....