PALEONTOLOGISTS REACT to TRICERATOPS in Jurassic World: Evolution 2

[@darthvaderbutwayshittier7054]

"Blobular" is my favourite word that a paleontologist ever said about an extinct animal.

[@wanderer9994]

I saw some artwork the other day where they replaced the T. rex in the first film with a triceratops to illustrate the potential. I think that is an enormous opportunity for any future paleo media that they can portray the herbivorous dinosaurs as the danger over the predators. Because as far as I know, irl herbivores are generally more dangerous to people than predators, because predators are cautious and choose their fights, where large herbivores can be very aggressive since that keeps them defended. Like the most dangerous animals in Africa are hippos, buffalo, and rhinos. Which makes me think in a Jurassic park style environment, the biggest threats to a human would probably animals like triceratops, stegosaurus, ankylosaurus, iguanodon, and potentially large hadrosaurs. Maybe sauropods but while I think it’s cool when they’re shown acting defensive, to me it makes more sense that they’d be gentle giants given how little they have to feel threatened by. Triceratops plays a much bigger role in the QuickTime video game sequel to Jurassic park, where it’s much more aggressive and fights off the T-rex. Imo triceratops, stegosaurus, and ankylosaurus have the potential of being some of the most dangerous land herbivores that ever lived

[@Primordial_Soup]

Turns out Triceratops isn’t alone as a Ceratopsid without fenestrae in its frill, Avaceratops also lacks them. Which is odd because they basically couldn’t be less related to each other being a derived chasmosaurine vs a basal centrosaurine. I’m kinda excited for Huayangosaurus, the real animal had bizarre proportions mostly not seen in game (short neck, really robust forelimbs, and a bulb at the end of its tail). Scott Hartman has a pretty good skeletal of the animal.

[@Tyrantlizardking105]

Any predators in Avaceratops’ niche that may require the “pucker effect”? Lol

[@mercuryatamolos3687]

I know it’s been several months, but I’m just now seeing this comment and I thought I’d chime in. As far as I’m aware, there’s an ongoing debate about whether or not the type and only unambiguous specimen of Avaceratops is an adult or a juvenile. It’s possible that the fenestrae in the frill wouldn’t develop until later in life, like most sexual display structures, since the frill and horns of Avaceratops are pretty small in general, and may not be reflective of the true size of the frill in a fully grown animal.

[@BobBob-tr7wi]

My biggest gripe, with most if not all Jurassic franchise games, will be how they disrespect big herbivores, armored herbivores, and the hadrosaurs. Like, look Spino and Giga fans: An Edmontosaurus has killed more T rexes than both any Spinosaurus and Giganotosaurus known in existence. Deal with that information.

[@theprimatehouse4067]

Hi skeleton crew. I just wanted to say I have been loving this channel so far and this series and I have been trying to learn a lot more than I already know about dinosaurs and this helps me a lot! Also James your a comedian! Haha😂

[@mcdragon0123]

I'm starting to Love this channel!! Also will you guys also be reacting and discuss about the Hybrids as well?

[@skeletoncrew8122]

They're on the wheel!

[@The_Industry]

Great video as per usual. Also, fantastic to see Prehistoric Park getting a mention, since it is easily my favourite piece of dinosaur media. Such an incredibly innovative concept with so much potential, such a shame it was just the one season.

[@franciscoortizrodriguez8967]

The Greate water movie and the one that has a micro raptor in it are the ones I most watched as a kid

[@TheConGaminator]

"And together, we're the skeleton crew" sounds like a mid ninties cartoon about superheroes or somethin' Maybe. I wasn't alive then.

[@maximaldinotrap]

Oh god, they're gonna combine videos for Dracorex, Stygimoloch, and Pachycephalosaurus aren't they? Makes sense all things considered.

[@wigi-gum6093]

Thanks to these videos I'm able to get a better idea of what their natural habitats would have looked like and make their enclosures accordingly

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

I’m always so hyped for these episodes, I love hearing what you guys have to say and learning while watching too. I also saw that Indominus rex, Troodon, and Indoraptor on the wheel so I’m interested to see what has to be said on those considering the nonexistence of them

[@maximaldinotrap]

With Troodon they can use any of the troodontids. However, did they have Scorpios Rex on there? Because that is gonna bother them.

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

@@maximaldinotrap yes it's on the wheel

[@HeinrichVenter88]

Really loving this channel so far guys!

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Really hope that the next Ceratopsian you cover in this series turns out to be Styracosaurus. He’s tied with Triceratops as my favorite Ceratopsian of all time.

[@dilo19000]

Something that may be worth looking into is Lee Rex at the Tate Museum, it has a possible Triceratops or similar inflected pathology on the femur. I got to see the specimen while it was being prepped but i don't recall if the pathology was uncovered at that time.

[@krankarvolund7771]

34:40 I'm sorry, what's that reconstruction? XD Clearly the limb posture was not the only error they did with that drawing ^^' I know, I know, it's probably from the XIXth century, they were just discovering dinos, but still ^^'

[@onebilliontacos3405]

My thoughts are that the jp triceratops is ether c or b tier, jw is pretty definitively d. The jp triceratops is just more elegant in it's design, it has less wrinkles and less of a blobular look about it with some neat back scales. It looks kind of streamline. The jw triceratops however, is the exact opposite being the wrinkliest blob of all the blobs. I would even say the sub-speciation on the designs alters the rank as the exaggerations in stubbiness of the jw's triceratops snout adds to it's weak design for what should be formidable and majestic looking animal. At the end of the day though, I would still say both of these design do still look pretty bad. Even when coloration is ignored, when we compare the model of the model of these two triceratops to that of the ones from prehistoric kingdom the differences are very noticeable. Btw, great video guys! I might be a bit late to commenting here, but I've really been enjoying the content on this channel for the last few months.

[@crocodileteeth6994]

Leaving a comment for the algorithm! Absolutely loving this content and looking forward to future videos from the channel.

[@pygmyrhino8049]

45:12 damn that’s one hell of a triceratops roar

[@sauraplay2095]

I have been loving this series! Great job skeleton crew!👍

[@1Kumabear1]

The crew coming in clutch for my long weekend shift! Thanks James and crew 😍

[@RyanMc66]

I love the commentary on your videos! The blend of science and humor is great!

[@SADDDsteve]

I’ve seen that Anchiceratops skull!!! The new UofM Natural History museum is awesome! I can’t wait til you get to Majungasaurus because the one at UofM sparked my interest in Abelisaurs. Love the channel also!

[@yoshimon936]

I absolutely love this and Chanel I really love dinosaurs and get to learn more about my favorite creature and you're doing this video on triceratops my favorite dinosaurs as a kid and now and I hope you do some Prehistoric kingdom content

[@SaritaWolf]

I’m kinda watching all your videos out of order, so I don’t know if y’all say it in another ceratopsian video, but I’m surpised there wasn’t any mention of the cheeks? I’m not opposed to ceratopsian cheeks but I feel like this franchise goes way overboard with them, and in Triceratops specifically it looks like the beak is trying to escape this horrid mass of flesh. It’s like a squid beak. It looks so uncanny, especially when compared to Prehistoric Kingdom’s model.

[@u1849ka]

Multiple Triceratops, living together... mass hysteria!

[@D3LTAMAST3R]

The Parasarolophys design from Prehistoric Park is also amazing

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Every time you guys mention Hell Creek, it made me think of the game Saurian. I really hope Saurian gets back on track soon, and they make the T-Rex, Edmontosaurus, and Pachy playable Dinosaurs soon (currently only Dakotaraptor and Triceratops Prorsus are playable). But I’d like to hear you guys’ take on an opinion I have about Saurian. Currently, the only playable environment they have is Hell Creek. While that is perfect for a Cretaceous locale, I really think it also needs a Jurassic environment and a Triassic environment as well. If they did that, I think the Morrison Formation would be the best Jurassic environment, and maybe Ghost Ranch for the Triassic environment. What do you guys think? If you have suggestions that might be better for either period, I’d love to hear them.

[@Mikethekingboss]

I love this series!

[@Ravin_Raven]

Ooooh I know of another good triceratops design, look at Era of Terrors trike design, absolutely beautiful for a Roblox game

[@aquaflame3263]

Triceratops is my fav dinosaur, and I agree that it could be more colourful

[@tcdiablo3346]

44:53 this moment would have been even cooler if the triceratops had the finishing animation from the first jwe, sadly its not on this one for some reason, welp anyways nice video cant wait for the Huayagosaurus video (the asian stegosaurid that i like less in the game actualy XD).

[@ryanbusch2885]

While I enjoy the theory that they’d huddle up in a circle with their horns outward I do also like the fact that that theory came about really early in their discovery around the same time that naturalists were exploring western America more and going on safari in Africa and witnessing similar defensive formations from both elephants and bison. Like yeah it makes complete sense for these animals to have also behaved that way I just like how the first fossils were found in around the same era that biologists were beginning to study things like behavior in the other species and so out of that we get one of the first behavioral theories based on extant species.

[@theBeasman333]

Love this series. Keep it coming.

[@ryanhau1073]

In regards to Ceratopsian Dinosaurs, how would you rate this theory? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXTZYpWfqtWHZ5Y

[@sighberspook2021]

So I guess triceratops was like the American buffalo before the british arrived in America, they were just all over the place, T-rex probably couldn't take a step without tripping over a triceratops Also loved the video, looking forward to the next one, I had never heard of huayangosaurus until I played the game but I think they are pretty neat, it looks like the thagomizers took over their whole body

[@DefinitelyNotPedro]

Hey isn't Paleontology jail where that guy David Peters is?

[@OceanMachine_]

What was the name of the artist you mentioned at 18:29? I couldn't quite hear the last name.

[@skeletoncrew8122]

That would be Julius Csotonyi!

[@bowlining]

I feel, just like with the Raptors, you should've separated the 1993 and 2015 variants. I find the 2015 Triceratops to be sick-looking, and overall just not a great design, while 1993 has cool patterning, it looks more lively and detailed. But hey, who am I to judge? Other than that - fantastic video as always! Thank you, guys, for a great watch)

[@joshuahalili5449]

Another great show!

[@alexwynters600]

Will you guys be continuing with Fossil Friday Review?

[@TheConGaminator]

Poker's gotta poke.

[@nataliezettler3710]

The discussion about the legs and how they may or may not have been more bent outwards more reptilian ....I think of the weight of that head and if the tail was shorter it was not used for balance, so those front legs would have to bear the weight, hence, a more straight leg like this would be able to handle weight and head thrusting in battle rather then legs that are not supporting the obvious central core weight....Im an artist not a science major by any means...lol...I just look at weight distribution and try to understand what looks realistic....pillars are straight for weight!!...unless there is a counter weighted tail to balance the head like t rex.....oh the rex, reason I fell inlove with dinosaurs.

[@reptisaurusking8494]

Say that to Nanotyrannus, and watch JWE2 add Nanotyrannus to the game

[@Grimlock108]

With the way the mods for the game are, they make a lot of the animals so much better than the original game designs. But I know this isn't a talk about mods, it's all about that base.

[@theBeasman333]

Seeing it walk from the side at the end, I really don't like the bell bottom feet it has. I'd say C tier.

[@yukii381]

cool.

[@graf_beagle4465]

Have you guys heard of ‚Prehistoric Planet‘?

[@getdreaded2245]

Do ARK Ascended !

[@Giga-chadzilla]

do stegosaurus next!!!!!!

[@settrasurfs1780]

Daddy Tops? 😳

[@umbrellabirb3206]

between daddy topps' racism and ginkgos strict adhering to gender norms hell creek sounds like a wonderful place for my stepdad

[@AnAmericanMusician]

It's always been hilarious that scientists are the only creatures on earth that don't have the mental capacity of understanding nuance. 😂

[@pvyj]

Yayyyy

[@kaantheviperunverdi7735]

Make Carcaharadontosaurus please

[@currentlyeatingpies1274]

What was that joke about George Lucas making a racist dinosaur all about?

[@taylormccoy8339]

George Lucas was involved in The Land Before Time and I’m guessing they were referring to some of his…questionable character choices in SW

[@currentlyeatingpies1274]

@@taylormccoy8339 I didn't know he worked on The Land Before Time. Cool. Let's avoid Star Wars though. There's more insidious people involved with that franchise than enough.

[@coryfice1881]

@@currentlyeatingpies1274 Both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas worked on the movie with Don Bluth. Also you really shouldn't be calling people who work on movies "insidious" just because the product they made wasn't up to your standards. George Lucas is pretty infamous for his tone death comments that comes across as racist.

[@anon64mus66]

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