One of the most tragic fossils we've ever heard of

[@MaskOfCinder]

Imagine dying and someone finding your fossil 250 million years later and shedding a tear over you.

[@johnchesterfield9726]

Oddly beautiful

[@mangokonata]

and then calling you crispy lmao

[@harxey]

​@@mangokonatastop.. lmao

[@ericthompson3402]

That's my dream.

[@desert_holly]

That was the first thing that popped into my head. I have a significant fear of everything being forgotten about us, its probably why i enjoy dinos so much. They are millions of years old and very much not forgotten. Criticized, yes. Said they arent real, yes. But gazed upon, held and researched, yes. Also verrrrry loved. 💓

[@jamesw3746]

I do love when fossils tell a story though, even if it is a sad one

[@marceloantunes998]

there are no happy stories in fossils all they can tell is of something's final moments and their most gruesome injuries that they somehow managed to live through and heal

[@radioactivehalfrhyme]

Some animals have better luck. Google “Mating Turtles Fossilized in the Act.”

[@monochromicornthetuna4256]

@@radioactivehalfrhyme Come and go

[@yuhyi0122]

@@radioactivehalfrhyme Why would they die mating?

[@charlieross4674]

@@yuhyi0122 they didn't die from the mating, they died coincidently during the said mating. They didn't choose to die

[@MossyMozart]

Even under the stress, the group stayed together. That is even more moving.

[@the_jingo]

Like a cult

[@obscure.reference]

basic evolutionary function to travel in packs serves many purposes. strength in numbers is a greater chance of survival when encountering a predator through fighting or scaring, and a higher chance of at least some survivors to propagate the species further in the event of total loss, and socialization to name a few. very common in nature. australian dingoes for example self domesticated similarly to cats, choosing to form packs with non-dingo species (humans) for mutual benefit. just to say it isn’t really moving, under stress creatures are probably more likely to stick together for the safety afforded by each other.

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

@@the_jingo you don't have friends or family, huh

[@the_jingo]

@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow your parents must be mating like rats then to have family that big

[@user-zs9ux1ru8u]

​@@the_jingoNo friends? 🤨

[@jacquelinebraze7630]

The story I cried over: A herd of Wooly Rhinoceros' that took shelter up under a bluff jutting out. They were being buried alive by ash blown over them from volcanic explosion far West of them on the Cascades. Most were females that had just given birth. They had pushed the infants up under their bodies trying to protect them. The postures of the group were heartbreaking.

[@j.d.clayborne5556]

That is so saaadddd

[@oirampeceda2409]

Men: women and children, first! Women:

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

@@oirampeceda2409 ?

[@nelzzz89]

😢😢😢

[@sonub8196]

​@@oirampeceda2409yea so?

[@sagesarrazine6270]

Living in Florida, every now and then you'll catch a "quick-dried" lizard on sidewalks or windowsills, but even those are usually eaten by birda or bugs within a few hours. Really goes to show how amazing finds like these really are!

[@bowerpower2160]

Just goes to show how empty the world was after the great dying lystrosaurs made up 75% of all terrestrial life that weren't plants or microbial at this time

[@zippyparakeet1074]

Yep, like the other person said, the samples survived because there was literally nothing left to eat their remains. It was the Great Dying. Everyone was gone.

[@EGGM4N]

​@@zippyparakeet1074 Thats such a wild thing to wrap your brain around, in a second there was literally nothing else.

[@wynnschaible]

Talk about tragic fossils, there was a Jurassic turtle found, osteologically complete, but crushed -- IN THE MIDDLE OF A SAUROPOD FOOTPRINT!

[@lindaj5492]

And another turtle impaled on a piece of wood from the inland tsunami that followed the meteor strike.

[@eveking6289]

​@@lindaj5492poor little man 😢

[@C-Farsene_5]

@@lindaj5492 oh damn

[@rabbit0664]

Reminds me of that spy turtle vid with the elephant.

[@maneckineckbeard1749]

Wow. I'm totally going to look that up! I love turtle fossils, and was just looking at pics of all the turtle fossils from the Messel Pit in Germany.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

It's amazing how our hearts can go out to people and creatures we've never met or seen, and which died before we were even born

[@gilliganallmighty3]

This is before mamals were a thing.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

@@gilliganallmighty3 ... yeah, and?

[@Brasswatchman]

And yet in the same breath, we can be utterly unfeeling to our fellow humans and even relatives. We're very strange creatures, is what I'm getting at.

[@A20-w8l]

We are odd animals.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

It’s be more amazing if “hearts going out” could actually spur any change in human behavior. There’s literally millions of humans dying under these same conditions today, and yet we all congregated in the comment section to lament a handful of synapsids that died eons ago.

[@normalhuman9878]

I think the saddest fossil is the first Ovoraptor fossil discovered. Poor thing died protecting its babies, only to be called an egg thief millions of years later

[@ProtesiIaus]

When your child looks nothing like you so some random Karen decides to confront you in the middle of Walmart 😬

[@krispymelonman5307]

​@thomasjiovani7539 that sounds personal did that happen to you irl? Lol

[@ProtesiIaus]

@@krispymelonman5307 nahh but I saw it happen once, some people are crazy fr lmao

[@THE_MOONMAN]

​@@ProtesiIausyeah my ex is Brazilian and her dad had to like carry her papers with him to prove he's the father. Just cause he's darker than her. But Brazil is racist af so still not the craziest Ive heard

[@hunter133official]

hi michael afton :)

[@bigpompano1659]

‘Forever in our hearts…and our museum collection’ is a wild sentiment😂

[@rosemiyuki98]

I DID NOT SIGN A PERMISSION SLIP FOR THIS FEELS TRIP

[@cantblink6606]

For me, the saddest fossil was the teenage Psittacosaurus that died babysitting a litter of tiny babies, that also died alongside it. The second saddest fossil was of the giant vampire bat that died smooshed under a ground sloth's massive turd.

[@catpoke9557]

Ohhh that first one is SO sad... the poor thing was trying to protect its younger siblings when its parents weren't there to do it for them :( Reminds me of owls... poor babies

[@abbywilson5988]

Yeah I thought about the one with the ton of babies, oof that was a sad find.

[@taleandclawrock2606]

🤣🤣 sorry, was not expecting that. I wonder if that was a defensive move by the Giant Sloth.

[@poppachoppa8956]

not a massive sloth turd :(((

[@Knifymoloko]

And arent sloths slow? Cant imagine it flinging poo or landing a stinker... Well unless it was perched above the bat.

[@Domzdream]

I’m still gobsmacked as to how long ago 250 million years ago is. Even 1 million years ago is crazy long. Now times that by 250. Insane right?

[@anabang1251]

Those timescales are impossible for us to comprehend. On that timescale you even have significant movement of our surrounding galaxies relative to us.

[@SG-pb5v]

gobsmacked

[@JubioHDX]

@@PBFoote-mo2zr yea but we see movement of plates in our own lifetimes already and the result of which being earthquakes

[@AspireGMD]

Our brains can't even fully comprehend half a million years, based on the fact that our lifespans are so short and we operate on modern time. This is why people get more fascinated when they hear something that happened 1000 years ago rather than a million, because our brains can compute that amount of time much better.

[@assininecomment1630]

Sorry, but I don't think you've grasped what this means, ​@@JubioHDX. Almost none of us ever sees any significant movement of any tectonic plate. That would only be where, at a plate boundary, two previously aligned points are no longer aligned. (Some 'quakes don't even occur near fault lines at all.) For most 'quakes - if there is even any visual indication - we usually only see some cracked or crumpled soil, a collapsed rock face, or other surface effects. 250 million years ago? What are now the African and South American continents, had not yet separated, and Straya was joined to Antarctica.

[@MithrilSludge6541]

Dying of thirst is probably a terrible way to go...

[@shelbyplace8635]

I would rather die of thirst than drown. That's like the number one way I don't want to die because not being able to breathe scares the crap out of me. Plus you probably know what is happening to you when you are drowning.

[@lindawalters1836]

So is starvation. The body literally eats itself.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@shelbyplace8635not being able to drink is more scary except you’ve never been that thirsty. When you’re at that level, you’ll take a chance drowning just to get some water

[@Fentanyl_memes]

I know right! Poor resident evil 8 fans...

[@abelis644]

​@@shelbyplace8635 One dies fairly quickly by drowning, it's not the worst death. Not so by thirst, which is a painful and long lasting death.

[@ashlastname-bb4jg]

Some of the worst deaths in prehistory yield the best finds for science Thank you for your sacrifice, every organism to ever struggle

[@savanerus5554]

Man, those little homies got to stay together for 250million years longer than they thought they would after they went

[@OlessanYT]

"Lystrosaurus managed to survive the biggest extinction event ever-" understatement of the era, when like 90% of land animals at the start of the Triassic were Lystrosauruses 😂

[@Simkets]

😂

[@horaciokanashiro-hv2zn]

Even in those days...the winner takes it all ¯⁠\⁠_⁠ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@liwiathan]

We got nooked

[@roddo1955]

Listrosaurids were the McDonalds of paleontology. Ubiquitous and everywhere.

[@willowtan7113]

"Crispy"💀💀💀

[@germanomagnone]

maybe a predator couded said this.

[@hzhang1228]

sun dried crispy lystrosaurus jerky mmhmm~

[@glucoseguardian9999]

​@@hzhang1228The original sun chips.

[@cottoncandyaddict]

I stopped and went to the comments to see if that got anyone else like it got me lmao

[@Goku17yen]

Forbidden chips ☠️

[@helpimtrappedinikea6975]

i’d have to say another sad discovery was that of a dying broomistega that found its way into the burrow of a sleeping thrinaxodon. the way the burrow fossilized means that they cannot be separated without breaking the remains apart, so they remain together, in a permanent slumber.

[@austinroberts8366]

So was it thought the burrow collapsed?

[@Eden-Eden-Eden]

​@@austinroberts8366yup, the burrow collapsed onto them during flooding and fossilized them in their snuggle pile

[@joannamysluk8623]

Wait, isn't that the famous Triassic Cuddle?

[@CannibalChxrry]

Why did we lose these little babies?! They are adorable 😭😭😭

[@cariounderstood9998]

Fr 😂

[@sylverscribs0490]

we didn’t! if i remember right, lystrosaurs and other remaining members of their clade are the common ancestors of the mammals. that’s us!

[@CannibalChxrry]

@@sylverscribs0490 but we aren't that cute. 😂

[@giantlactismid5704]

​@@CannibalChxrrysadly, due to evolution they would change in a unrecognizable way

[@limaoatmosferico2975]

​@@sylverscribs0490 I don't know about you folks, but to me that's kinda beautiful. They still live through us

[@Violets_and_Madness]

I will always cry about prehistoric animals dying in such horrible ways. I know its simply nature, but Im a bleeding heart regardless. Poor babies.

[@eatenman1235]

I do know of the death pose found in most fossils but that's interesting we could identify how something died based on the posture and position of the specimen.

[@VeggiesOutFront]

Typical of drought conditions not in most fossils

[@MaureenLycaon]

It's a branch of paleontology known as taphonomy. It can be quite interesting, if grim at times.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

It’s speculation but it happens when animals are trying to cool off as well

[@nathanielalderson9111]

​@@yoeyyoey8937 Or get crushed by vast volumes of water

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@nathanielalderson9111 that’s a thing but usually aren’t they flattened in a different way when this happens?

[@VosperCDN]

And now I feel sad for something that died 250 million years ago .. ugh, nature is brutal.

[@wafikiri_]

Nah, not brutal. Just indifferent.

[@Alexandros11]

@@wafikiri_ Yes, it's brutal. It is both indifferent, because its not conscious, and brutal - because the system involves sentient creatures suffering extremely painful lives and deaths.

[@stevenrubisch629]

​@@Alexandros11Who says they were sentient? They had primitive proto mammal brains and were by no means aware of their own existence, so no, its no more "tragic and brutal" than when a tree is cut down or any other dumb thing that crawls without self awareness.

[@Alexandros11]

@@stevenrubisch629 Wow, I suggest you get a basic level of evolutionary biology before saying something like that. You are seriously trying to suggest that this level of life is possible whilst being as unconscious as a plant?… This is plain pseudoscience, there is absolutely no sense in which life can reach that level where a creature needs to problem solve, see things, feel things, reproduce and fear without being sentient. You’ve made a fundamental error, absolutely no palaeontologist would every entertain this view. This level multi-cellular complex life is absolutely not possible with sentience

[@EternalShadow1667]

​@@stevenrubisch629doesn't mean it can't suffer. Also, if scientists are learning something new lately, it is that we don't know as much about animal awareness as we thought we did. There's no way to know how aware the creatures were

[@skrtskrt22]

this makes me feel the same way as finding ancient sapien artefacts. it's a deep sense of sadness, but connection to someone or something I never knew.

[@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457]

Homo sapiens were @ssholes since they stepped on Earth.

[@woofawoof7616]

That's well said❤

[@EGGM4N]

damn now im sad

[@dukecraig2402]

I'll bet you're loads of fun at a party.

[@immortal_shrooms6757]

@@dukecraig2402what? The vibe of the video is melancholy, it's fitting

[@ChristieMorgan-rc5ck]

This guy explains things so well. I love how much information he has been able to fit in so quickly and very thoroughly. Very impressive. I wish everyone would speak this accurately.

[@Ohwoww]

Imagine the pain of slowly drying out and desiccating like your veins are rubbing together as if they were sandpaper

[@johnnydjiurkopff]

The headache is usually the worst part.

[@WeyounSix]

It is very sad, but also very profound. Look how we can relate to creatures separated from us by millions of years. Life is amazing

[@maneckineckbeard1749]

I always thought that "The Great Dying" is one of the most chilling names ever for a natural event!!

[@DankSlayer_Ornstien]

No other name fits an extinction of this magnitude.

[@jaquiblue1416]

@@DankSlayer_Ornstien The Apocalypse.

[@zildiun2327]

@@jaquiblue1416 “The Great Dying” is 10x as cool as “The Apocalypse” in my opinion. Like, we’ve heard of the Apocalypse so much. It’s a cool sounding word, but we’re desensitized to it. The Great Dying? Now that’s metal as hell.

[@VenatorPaleo]

@@zildiun2327why did they do the dinosaurs dirty with the “K-T Extinction Event”. Needs a way better name.

[@izzyxblades]

That honestly is so sad, but then again, at least they died together, with their siblings and friends, they were together until the very end. 😢

[@phntasy333]

I am in awe over all the amazing creatures that roamed this planet long ago. Great channel! 👍🏼

[@haxorusimp2980]

I remember one fossil that had a terribly wounded prey item and a comatose predator snuggled up in a den together. The prey was so injured that it cuddled up to the dying predator in order to not die feeling alone.

[@Bunny-ns5ni]

Probably not what was going on emotionally as that is a pretty far stretch for anthropomorphizing those animals, but that fossil is really interesting

[@isthatbraised]

You know what? Let's try and avoid pushing human emotions onto animals shall we?

[@Hugo-yz1vb]

​@@isthatbraised Paleontolgy fans when people trying not to get annoyed when people imply dinosaurs could have personalities like any other animal (Challenge: Impossible):

[@hippothehippo]

@@isthatbraisedhuman emotions are animal emotions. We’re animals. We are self aware of these feelings, as in, we can think of feeling them, but that doesn’t mean others are not able to feel them. It’s really not hard to find evidence of animals being traumatized, or experiencing glee when presented with something that rewards their serotonin. Plenty of videos of cows and sheep being let out of factory farms into the grass for the first time and just going ballistic, running around and rolling in the dirt. They can’t talk, but if you think they can’t feel, you shouldn’t even bother claiming to have an interest in them.

[@isthatbraised]

@@hippothehippo They positively are animal emotions, but they arent as socially and emotionally complex as humans are. And to assume that the animal who died in that burrow didnt want to "die alone" is based on nothing but purely your own subjectivity. Maybe instead of the animal not wanting to die alone, maybe they just didnt want to die AT ALL. If I remember correctly, and if this was what op was talking about, it was that one fossil of an amphibian and a sleeping mammal inside a den that was in a flash flood. The Amphibian climbed into the den, because y'know, animals dont want to DIE in general, and bada-bing, bada-boom, they both died anyway. They both drowned in the den as sediment filled it up.

[@MseeBMe]

The scale of time is just mind boggling.

[@misterbadguy7325]

Lystrosaurus at one point in time was probably the single most dominant form of vertebrate life on the planet, if not in history. Some scientists have estimated that in some fossil beds, 95% of all life in them was some type of Lystrosaurus.

[@asmodeus304]

its so sad we dont have them. them and ammonites, we were robbed!

[@catpoke9557]

Amazing... wonder if some day mammals will become this successful too and then just... poof away.

[@gladiusbladeofthenorth9939]

​@@asmodeus304lystrosaurus would definitely make good hugging buddies

[@dynogamergurl]

So does that mean I’m like 0. 01^50% lystrosaurus?

[@polaknasieci1331]

@@asmodeus304 At least we still have the nautilus, so at least ammonite fans weren't robbed completely.

[@neitan6891]

Thrinaxodon and Broomistega dying together in a burrow during a flood is also one of the most tragic fossilized moments

[@jbx1967]

R.I.P. lystrosaurs. It's been 250 million years, but it seems like only yesterday... 😢

[@akizaangrorec2305]

Whished they were alive today they are so adorbs. I wanna hug one~

[@jbooth3490]

As a South African I can say that the drought ain't quite gone yet 😭

[@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917]

Don't feel bad. You can ask Elon Musk's dad to share some emeralds with you.

[@paulammon2281]

​@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 When he said it at the start i was like "oh look climate change" 😂

[@friendlyneigborhoodbean]

Fr I'm 16 and since it barely ever rains or storms here I literally have panic attacks when it does cause no part of me is used to it. I didn't see a rainbow in person until I was 12

[@roddo1955]

Hmmm biltong...

[@lazolakhanyile6282]

​@@roddo1955😂😂😂 yooo

[@42ZaphodB42]

Fun fact: Lystrosarus holds the record of being the most abundand vertrebrate at one point in history. They made up to 95% of all fossils from the early triassic. Almost everything was lystrosaurus.

[@catpoke9557]

"Wait, it's all lystrosaurus?" "Always has been." On a real note this is like walking outside and almost everything you see is just one genus of bird. You look to the right. Ostrich. You look to the left. Ostrich. You look up. Ostrich. You look down. Some insect... being eaten by 2 inch ostrich. YOU are ostrich. That would be so fricking hilarious and wild

[@42ZaphodB42]

@@catpoke9557 But also crazy boring. Imagine being a predator then, all you can eat buffet for a million years, but it's only chicken lol.

[@MrFreakHeavy]

@@catpoke9557 "I'm blue Da ba dee da ba di" Except it's Lystrosaurus.

[@rekkariley652]

@@MrFreakHeavyJust realized that the auto-translate feature translates “da ba dee da ba di” as “there’s nothing there.” Not sure if that was intentional or just an amusing coincidence.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Most abundant vertebrate that we know of 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@migitri]

Another tragic fossil discovery is the Ashfall Fossil Beds. A ton of animals (mostly hundreds of rhinos, but there were other animals too) suffocated from breathing in ash over the course of weeks near a watering hole in what is now Nebraska. The ash was from a volcano that erupted out west, and it eventually covered their bodies, leading to some very well-preserved fossils. There's evidence of bone-crushing dogs scavenging the animals too. I plan to go out to see it sometime since it's not too far from me, but I haven't gotten the chance yet.

[@lightfurya2087]

Where in Nebraska is it?

[@TacticalLeo]

Poor creatures. I can’t imagine the pain and thought process they had in their final moments.

[@ralphrex9118]

I love how your compassion reaches over 250m years, kudos.

[@adityaghosh8531]

this man should be a museum guide. As a docent guiding people in a museum as part of an internship program,I can understand the level of interest he can create among audiences while guiding. Keep up the good work Mr Whatever Name U Have

[@CoryTheRaven]

I can guarantee, as a former museum educator, that he makes more money doing this.

[@adityaghosh8531]

@@CoryTheRaven I was an internee in a museum which was about the great Indian freedom fighter Gandhiji. Felt so awesome to see ppl taking interest to what I had to say

[@CoryTheRaven]

@@adityaghosh8531 oh, it's great work, sure. That's why I still do freelance education and tour guiding today. But it doesn't pay well and boy are museums ready to kick educators to the curb.

[@berjaboy]

Blake de Pastino

[@adityaghosh8531]

@@berjaboy what?

[@The_Amazing_Amber]

Lystro's were such neat little critters! Poor babies!

[@abody499]

In 250m years, I wonder if there will be sentient beings emerge again to find us in the same position.

[@Burn_Angel]

They'll find me in a sitting position. I refuse to die in a natural extinction if I'm not in the toilet, phone in hand.

[@abody499]

@@Burn_Angel haha cool. Well I doubt they'll find me. I'll be at ground zero so vaporised before the drought dries the rest of you out.

[@ChemEDan]

@@Burn_Angel The tank behind the toilet would grow geodes. A throne truly fit for a king or queen 🎉

[@Mr.Isquierdo]

Fetal position

[@Burn_Angel]

@@ChemEDan Wow, I didn't think of that, so cool!

[@GoingSwimmingly]

It’s not the fact that they died of drought, but that they died this close together,,, One of them could’ve tried to wander for food or drink or a chance to find something to survive, but they died together, presumably without hope of such thing

[@fooshampoo904]

I also find this very tragic and saddening. Poor little tykes.

[@EyeLean5280]

Very sad they couldn't complete their natural life spans. RIP

[@fubberpish3614]

unfortunately, old age is a very rare cause of death for animals in the wild. disease, injury and predation kill the vast majority of animals before they reach anywhere near their maximum potential age. that said, dying of thirst has got to be a pretty nasty way to go, poor lystrosaurus :(

[@JunoUno-xk3vs]

My dog use to lay like that on the bathroom floor to cool off in summer. I do it when I have a bad hang over too. Learned it from her.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

They did a little backflip then passed away. Poor Beans...

[@Burn_Angel]

I'd also pass away if I tried to do a backflip tho.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

That’s terrifying. Imagine how dry it had to have gotten from sustaining life to mummifying it on the surface

[@kayc_x3]

Older than the dinosaurs. The history of our planet is so incredible. I’m so grateful to live during a time when we know so much.

[@elisa.llew-send]

They looked so cute. I often think this about fossils…

[@DavidL1986]

I just find it crazy fossils and stuff like that can survive so long. I mean it is just an insane amount of time, how does weather, or geography changes etc just not wipe it away? Amazing

[@DaDaDo661]

Fossils are usually buried quickly and stay buried until we find them

[@blckspice5167]

What's crazy is that fossils do get wiped away all the time. We just find a few out of pure luck

[@Bogwedgle]

It does a lot of the time, fossilisation is very very rare and even after fossilisation rocks erode, cliffs collapse, whole sections of tectonic plates subduct. But there has been a Lot of time and a Lot of living things. Tyrannosaurus Rex bones are huge and durable, very roughly 2.5 billion T-rexes stalked the Earth between when they evolved and big space rock day and we have found what, 40, 50 individuals? 0.000002% of t-rexes?

[@fubberpish3614]

loads of fossils do get destroyed before we find them! whether they are simply eroded away on the surface, crushed in geologic movement or subducted into the earth's mantle and melted into magma, fossils get destroyed all the time. this is why older fossils are way rarer than more recent ones, the older they are the more time the fossils have had to be destroyed in some way. I reckon that makes what fossils we do have even more amazing, and to think all the incredible prehistoric animals we know of from fossils is only a tiny fraction of what existed!

[@banksuvladimir]

If you think about it, we’re destroying them when we dig them up. We don’t see it that way because we look at it through our human timescales, but we’ve taken them out of somewhere where they were stable for millions of years and put them with all of our stuff, which is extremely volatile if you think about it. Wars and fires and disasters in the time span of even just a century. I think about this sometime and wonder if it isn’t time for humanity to start considering the truly long term of history preservation, putting things and information in vaults far away, on Pluto or something, where even the sun expanding won’t be an issue for them.

[@tommossgamblin239]

I love the work your team does but what I particularly appreciated about this video was the emotional connection. It's always there for anyone who loves the 1,000,001 stories of evolution but usually manifests as enthusiasm. Nothing wrong in that! But thank you for sharing your heart on this one ❤ #LystrosaurusKids !!!

[@jaykubisanidiot8657]

Dinosaur mummies is something we don't see enough of in pop culture

[@taterkaze9428]

250,000,000 years later, I'm still sad.

[@euantheyutyrannus]

Pretty amazing that skin preservations still exist after that long

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

Really interesting to get an insight into the conditions these animals had to survive in.

[@Titil3223]

It's amazing what kinds of creatures used to be here! My personal favorite is the ground sloth, or Megatherium!

[@nukeputin420]

That activated my Rimworld PTSD

[@Cyclonus12]

"Has enough time passed to be able to talk about this?" "It's only been 250,000,000 years." "TOO SOON!!!!!"

[@Dysturbed-00]

Considering most of us will be forgotten 100 years past our death its nice to see some random recognition that something existed.

[@1YCARADOFACAO]

Their deaths were slow, painful and terrible. But they left their mark which brings my heart pain but made us learn about them

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

My dog does that move after a walk on a hot day. She makes sure to lay on the cold hardwood floor and not the carpet.

[@jadegray6992]

"Yo" Check out this horrific tragedy,yo

[@are3287]

He said y'all dumbass

[@DJVirgoNeun1]

🎵When we hold on together 🎵 🎵We know our dreams🎵 🎵Will neeeeever die🎵 Land Before Time if you're too young to remember

[@Jack-lp4jd]

Imagine being a prehistoric animal knowing no one will ever will remember you: 250 million Years later.

[@bemusedbandersnatch2069]

I'm pretty sure the most tragic fossils are the ones of pregnant females. Scientists are all like, oooh look at the well preserved placenta and I'm 100% there with them but with a side pause for aw, poor mama and baby that never got to breathe it's first breath.

[@bemusedbandersnatch2069]

Also, a special shout-out to the animal couples that died while doing it. What a way to go.

[@MaureenLycaon]

I get really sad about the youngsters and babies that occasionally turn up -- the little Chasmaporthetes cub that fell into a river, the little three-toed horse foal who died after a horrendous supervolcano eruption in Nebraska . . .

[@CoryTheRaven]

@@MaureenLycaon I won't show you my juvenile woolly mammoth tooth then >_

[@shinobi_675]

It's amazing how they can create stories out of fossils.

[@NortherStudios]

Bacuse we can pinpoint their condition, age and diet through their fossils to...

[@moonfishyyy]

"Krispy kids" 😭💀

[@PintuMahakul]

Tragic fossils ! Wonderful video show. Thank you very much.

[@edgein3299]

If we could bring anything back, these guys would be near the top of my list.

[@pristinepastel]

oooo i remember these guys! i saw them in a vhs copy of walking with monsters! we had that whole series of documentaries actually, walking w monsters, dinosaurs, and prehistoric beasts😊

[@julienlooksunderthings2088]

Walking with Monsters really needed more episodes

[@clivematthews95]

When are y’all gonna drop another video, already? I miss y’all sm 😢

[@maau5trap273]

I do love when people talk about a detailed fossil and don’t show it ❤️❤️

[@cfrygirl]

Finally! lol it took several scrolls to agree 😂

[@bishielurfer]

I'm fairly certain the image he shows when he describes them being found spread-eagle is one of the fossils

[@ceer9141]

can you see?????

[@gerrardjones28]

Bro waited 200 million years for people to be sad that he died

[@Temtatork]

Very unlikely, but imagine listrosaurus or a relative against all odds survived untill today, then it was domesticated by humans and became so mass breed like chickens that restaurant that only serves listrosaurus appeared, then we could say "Man, i want some crispy listrosaurus bucket"

[@Burn_Angel]

Coelacanths, you're thinking of a coelacanth fish dish.

[@Ragnarra]

Coelacanth’s actually are inedible due to their natural oils giving anything that dares eat it diarrhea. Amongst other stomach upsets. You would probably be far safer in eating fermented shark. It might not taste good but at least it won’t land you in the hospital for dehydration caused by diarrhea. Probably.

[@garyoak2974]

​@@Burn_AngelRelicanth*

[@Burn_Angel]

@@garyoak2974 Bro, I'm talking about the actual animal, not the weeb pocket creature. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

[@jamesdriscoll_tmp1515]

Your talking about beef

[@Howboutno1]

"And in our museum collections" got me dying

[@craigmarduk5805]

Now as a bob im never killing lystios for hide ever again

[@jordont1495]

Dude never seen this channel but this is what I needed in my life! Thank you!

[@huntermckee2279]

If only one of them survived, the world could look entirely different.

[@muffinconsumer4431]

I think the most tragic fossil story is when one of the most well preserved allosaurus skeletons got shoved into a museum that promoted christian creationism

[@Twink6629-lg3te]

Religion and science cannot mix. Both simply contradict eachother. I pick the side that chooses logic and reality. I treat any religious person like an equal human being, but I always wonder, for the religious folk out there that do not deny evolution, how can you have a genuine faith or genuine view on science, if one is based on reality and one is a man-written construct. I also think it’s way too acceptable in society for people to deny proven science in favor of religious belief. I think it’s dangerous how normal it is to twist facts and blur the lines of reality for the sake of having a faith in something.

[@scottysatpanalysis]

Where is the skeleton located?

[@StephiBauduhin]

poor guys 😢! may they rest in peace

[@TheDaechan]

The game Ark has taught me so much about dinos and I used to kill these guys to get hide. Now I find them adorable and let them live. So to hear juvenile ones passed is so sad to me 😢

[@cecillianhater]

unfortunately ark has made me be indifferent to them

[@zyanidwarfare5634]

They’re one of my favorite prehistoric creatures… they look adorable according to these pictures

[@nawpwawahshee6294]

Press F to respect the fallen children , RIP W lystrosaurus kids :(

[@yghostest]

Lystro gang, rise up

[@josephgeorge5741]

I'm not crying, you're crying!

[@ThatOneDude248]

In honor of these brave sausage boys I’m going to go tame two Lystrosaurus in ARK: Survival Evolved and name them Chonky and Squancho. I’ll make sure to pet them every day😔

[@reneeblair7593]

Thank you for these videos ..just subscribed😊

[@59spadesofalife52]

Wow the picture of the fossil looks really accurate and preserved. No doubt about it

[@Sk8rToon]

I know I’m getting older but is saying rip instead of R.I.P. a thing these days or does he honestly not know or just read the teleprompter wrong?

[@simperingham]

He’s older than most of us, so I think he’s just doing it for the memes..?

[@susanm1109]

I’ve never heard anyone say it that way before. Very weird!

[@sim4296]

Most people shorten it as saying rip is less syllables, if they say rip it is usually a more joking/less serious tone though compared to R.I.P

[@Hydrocarbonateable]

"Forever in our hearts... and museum collections" 😂 guess I know what to put out on the next museum association t shirt pfff

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

I bet their story started with an argument over who will lead and changing cultures vs tradition. I’d take my kid to it if it were scientifically accurate but had cartoony voices and eyes

[@guytorie]

It'd be like if Land Before Time took place 50 million years before Littlefoot's birth, and then instead of the producers saying "Can we make it a little less dark?" they said "Hm, too much light at the end of this tunnel."

[@catpoke9557]

I'd absolutely love a movie about this.

[@mbarlev]

Thank you for sharing!

[@badhombre4942]

They went to a better place...a museum.

[@nimbus7727]

That’s fascinating. Absolutely incredible how well these fossils were preserved. Any biologists out here that know if there were any other members of this genus?

[@darkgamer3209]

These should be one of the things at top of the list in terms of what we revive

[@victoriafeldman8825]

So sad. How many species we’ve lost already. Let’s do our best to not lose any more. All life is precious

[@AnnoyingNerdLoL]

I remember these guys. Walking with Monsters fans, where you at?

[@mamapoch1915]

I thoroughly enjoyed your telling of this.

[@FreejackVesa]

"The great dying" - typically scientists are more creative with naming things.