December 2023 - Paleontology in Review

Let's look at some of the biggest papers from December 2023, later than normal, because life is busy, and we're sorry about that.
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00:09 New Araeoscelidian
bioone.org/journals/annals-of...
01:48 Digestibility of plants dinosaurs ate
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
02:50 Angiosperm diversity
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...
03:34 CPE caused by 4 volcanic events
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
04:28 Differences in terrestrial and marine Tr extinction
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
06:11 LIPs and extinctions (this may have been cut)
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/...
07:01 Origins of Turiasaur sauropods
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/1/12
07:35 Rib air sacs in Brachiosaurus
app.pan.pl/article/item/app01...
08:14 Bustingorrytitan a new massive sauropod
www.app.pan.pl/article/item/a...
09:47 Plateosaurus taxonomy
europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/...
10:51 Decuriasuchus and psuedosuchian growth
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
12:11 Aphaurosuchus kaiju
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
13:06 Unktaheela and other short necked plesiosaurs
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
14:35 Megapterygius wakayamaensis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
16:01 Origins of boas
academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
17:37 Origin of big whales
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
18:35 Megalodon tooth from the deep sea
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
19:35 Ptychodus shark poop
peerj.com/articles/16598/
20:49 Billfish-like Cretaceous fish
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
21:41 Arthropod diversity previous to the K/Pg event
www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
22:55 Oldest mosquito
www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
24:00 Most eastern Acrocanthosaurus
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
25:04 Most complete Hatzeg ornithopod
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
26:01 Meilifeilong youhao a new pterosaur
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
26:25 Review on dino footprints
link.springer.com/article/10....
27:04 Did dinosaurs make mammals age?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
28:01 Fossil bird named after Messi
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
28:49 Arm movement in Mononykus
peerj.com/articles/16605/
29:55 Albertosaurus did a cannibalism
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10....
30:30 Gorgosaurus liked legs
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

[@golddragonette7795]

Love these monthly recap vids, shudder at the thought of how much work they take!

[@RaptorChatter]

It's a lot.

[@leoomas_]

thanks for using my Gorgosaurus piece for your video! Was an unexpected joy seeing it feature! Lovely video as always!

[@pef1960]

I look forward to your monthly reviews.

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad to hear it!

[@laurachapple6795]

That piece of paleoart makes Phosphorosaurus look like a my little pony toy. Criminally adorable.

[@princesseville6889]

The giant chicken preferring smaller chicken legs is quite... something.

[@bryanfinkell9022]

Thank you for your time and great efforts in putting all this material together. Its greatly appreciated ! 🦖

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome!

[@bowiedoctor9156]

Well sequenced and detailed review. Fine job.

[@RaptorChatter]

Thanks!

[@georg.camerone56]

Great episode, Dude. Much love from Scotland xxx

[@RavenIsAnArtist]

I've never seen the skull of an old person until today

[@mant5995]

Massive work with this reviews. I watch it every month for a while, and what a suprise it is to see paper that i coauthored in it! Many thanks for the video!

[@RaptorChatter]

Which one were you on! And did I do it justice?

[@mant5995]

@@RaptorChatter the one about Ptychodus and probably we wouldn't summarize it better, so many thanks for showing it to broader audience :)

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad to help! The whole reason I do this is to show off papers that might not get the same press, so glad to see you appreciate it!

[@Mythil]

I appreciate the effort; these reviews are one of the highlights of my month.

[@JFStandhope]

I really love these monthly recaps. I super appreciate that you do them!

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad to hear it. They can take a lot of effort, and I think of it as a service more than anything

[@vincentboccarossa2313]

I really like the format and editing. Always top quality work from M’boy raptor chatter

[@RaptorChatter]

Thanks!

[@cw7429]

Another great video! Thanks you!

[@johnh539]

Enjoyable and informative as always to a non Palaeontologist like me thank you. The Angiosperm insight astounded me ; The thought that over time two species of plant crossing and it resalting in one species that superseded them.(I.E. less diversity over all) This further ads to the new picture of evolution not being represented as a tree but a matrices of backwards, forwards and even in-between different clades trough things like mosquitoes, bacteria and even funguses. A much more resent example being the Hominids that separated into different species then later recrossed and so on. P.S. I have found the footprint study you mention and intend to down load the PDF

[@thedimple773]

Really appreciate this particular type of video, even though I know they're not the best according to the tube gods.

[@glenncullen4378]

Once again a great job on this review!! I look forward to this every month. Thanks for the time you put into this, it IS appreciated.

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Love these updates

[@madmonkey6621]

number 1 paleogangster on the tube

[@trentenmerrill5239]

Let's fuckin go bebe! Love your channel and keep up the good videos

[@skaisnotdead]

My lawyer has advised against sharing how many skeletons I've created.

[@alexw.7097]

For the record, there is one other boa species endemic to the United States, but they don't live as far north or at the same altitudes as rubber Boas. My beloved Rosy Boas are also quite small for a boid, and their distribution is like the Southwest US into Mexico, including Arizona and the Baja Peninsula. They are a desert species however, so while the habitat they occupy is possibly warm enough for tropical Boas during the day, I don't think the humidity levels and massive temperature drops of the deserts at night would be a comfy place for tropical Boas like red tails, (FOR NOW.) However, if enough of them ended up in like, Florida, we might end up with another invasive Burmese Python kind of situation. Anyway, if y'all wanna see really cool/cute lil snakes, look up Rosy Boas!

[@RaptorChatter]

Yep! Being AZ based and working in a snake lab I'm aware of Rosy and 3lined boas (depending on your taxonomic inclinations). But also being in AZ, that's still fairly warm most of the year. A massive difference from rubber boas, but they're wonderful animals.

[@marcosviniciussousa7857]

I love this channel! Right now gonna take a look in the articles about ferns and gymnosperms digestibility.

[@thomaswade3072]

I'm at about 1.007 skeletons. I've healed broken bones!

[@artificercreator]

That is nice! Thanks for the good work

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome!

[@artificercreator]

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[@janetchennault4385]

The image at 0.40, showing the bones outlined in situ, was good, but I would have liked to have had a pic of the same rock without the outlines first. There is no need to caption this, or to spend screen time paused to show it - I can hit the pause button whenever I want to - but seeing the rock with/without outlines would help me know what to look for. Also, there were items in that same rock bed that 'looked like' more/other bones. Were other bones present, or am I just imagining things?

[@Shaden0040]

It's interesting Amphibians have learned how to hop mammals have learned how to hop such a kangaroos or certain kinds of mice bird slash dinosaurs have learned how to hop look at Sparrows but Lizards and reptiles don't seem to have picked up the habit of hopping? I wonder why has anyone ever looked into this? if not so much should.

[@vinny184]

Birds are reptiles. So do you mean squamates? Lizards are often great at jumping, but hopping isn’t a very energy efficient form of locomotion. Lizards are already pretty fast moving animals for short distances and can already jump, so why would they evolve the weird leg anatomy needed to hop? If literally every step inbetween two forms of locomotion is a handicap to their survival ability, an animal won’t evolve to that form of locomotion. Especially not such a high energy requiring form of locomotion in squamates which are endothermic.

[@nita7703]

Sauropods are always the best

[@vinny184]

Mosasaurs needed to enter freshwater every few weeks or so, just like extant saltwater snakes.

[@DAYBROK3]

there is a boa in southern bc canada, the (i kid you not) rubber boa. i suggest people look them up

[@jtmcgee]

26:35 Who told you about the skeleton i buried?

[@kamnale1317]

whales got big in the south seems to me not based on strong enough evidence. There are individual wales today too, who migrate from north to south... maybe they died more likely in the south or it's just pure random

[@hidalinabermudez9631]

Hi, question from my 15 yr old son. Is it true that when triceratops was alive did it had an inflatable nasal septum like hooded seal or not?

[@RaptorChatter]

Not that we know of. Some of the other large ceratopsians, like Nasutoceratops or Diabloceratops did have very large nasal openings though, so those may have supported some sort of inflatable structure. Unfortunately that kind of soft tissue is very rare, so it would take new methods, or a great fossil to confirm or disprove the idea.

[@hidalinabermudez9631]

@@RaptorChatter thank you so much.

[@kane2875]

where _Mobulavermis?_

[@sumirsookdeo9443]

How accurate is your data? Where is your source?

[@princesseville6889]

All the sources are in the description!

[@TheFandomExpert]

\o/

[@EmpressOfExile206]

How you gonna talk about long lives in mammals without mentioning whales lol

[@RaptorChatter]

They were also mentioned in the paper as an outlier! That said it's very few between humans and whales.

[@renemarianoleme6294]

First