Top Paleontology Finds of 2023

[@tomatosoup44]

Happy new year!

[@RaptorChatter]

To you too!

[@takenname8053]

Hoping to find more great discovories this year!

[@jrbaxterstockman548]

I don't know why people are like its a goldfish not shark now. I look at the new Dunk and I see piranha the size of prius

[@icedragonaftermath]

Thank you. It is clearly a Mega Piranha.

[@Skumrasket]

You cant say its a piranha just cuz they look similar

[@Skumrasket]

It would be like calling marine reptiles dinosaurs

[@marvinbange1216]

That radar sounds alot like a fossil version of the minecraft xray mod. What a dream huh?

[@Turdfergusen382]

Great review, thanks Ezekiel

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome!

[@seanhoncho4348]

The Dunk went from being a shark to a killer goldfish 😂

[@paxlash]

…and is still awesome

[@mhdfrb9971]

It still can chop you in half

[@blooky102]

@@mhdfrb9971 I was thinking the exact same thing... o-o

[@DreadEnder]

Ignore the body. Its head hasn’t changed. It’s still a massive murder machine.

[@icedragonaftermath]

I was more thinking Mega Piranha, but to each their own.

[@cw7429]

Always interesting!

[@icebergthedragon]

I’d always wondered if there was a bias toward reddish pigments in fossils and if it was related to how pigments are damaged / decompose. Entirely different circumstances there so just superficial but you see it in old taxidermy where the fur - sometimes due to sun damage but even sometimes without it - fades out and becomes more of a pale ruddy colour.

[@paleo-logica]

One of the best years! 😍👏🏼

[@DreadEnder]

Cool video! I’ve been to kimmeridge a few times and it’s a great fossil beach! Lots of flies though. And with all the dead seaweed it stinks! But if you go there be careful where you step. We don’t want anymore broken legs

[@pef1960]

Excellent.

[@ChrisFixedKitty]

Thanks for this! Here's to a discovery-rich 2024!

[@DrNatemiester]

Great 1 year review! I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

[@caseyjude5472]

Great video! Thanks!

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

Good vid, the editing must have been EPIC!

[@megazillasaurus]

My favorite discoveries in 2023 are minimocursor and ampelognathus

[@RaptorChatter]

Great year for small ornithopods for sure!

[@HenerGrc303]

I could be wrong but it seems like there's a big volume fluctuation like there's no audio compression

[@whiteegretx]

Hey!

[@heronselkirk3752]

with Notocyamus (the lotus), how do the know that it wasn't just the pods? in modern lotus flowers they lose their petals and only the pod is left. that fossil looks exactly like a lotus pod so I'm curious about how they know it wasn't just in its pod form.

[@trentenmerrill5239]

Lets fuckin go bebe!

[@laynemartin7914]

Anyone else hear the line about the 5th finger evolving away and have a flashback to the Simpsons episode where they predicted eventually that would evolve a 5th finger... 😅 just me, okay. Cool...

[@emmymaria6173]

someday we will find out what the stem amphibian, stemphibian if you will, was

[@RaptorChatter]

With any luck! I still wouldn't be surprised if the initial split was among taxa which all had similar bodyplans until after the PT extinction, which would make it very hard to tell where that split was.

[@1998topornik]

It was year of whales. Expect them my favourite discovery was probably shrunking the dunk (mainly because of memes it spawned).

[@RaptorChatter]

Whale research was very intense this year, so much new stuff

[@tyrannotherium7873]

I mean until we find a mummy, we will know the truth if theropods have lips or not

[@ChipsDaCat]

Actually, we don’t need a mummy. If they didn’t, their teeth would dry out. That would suck, as then they would weaken. There is a 92% Chance that they had lips.

[@dennismason3740]

Sometimes dinos give the finger to homo sapiens.

[@pjbth]

Somebody else watches a lot of paleocast I see lol

[@RaptorChatter]

Not really. I try not to consume a ton of paleo content because I'd prefer not to have other influences.