March 2023 Paleontology in Review

[@danilodesouza6461]

An almost perfect pronunciation of Ubirajara(even though it’s name might change). So happy to see someone not pronuncing our J like the spanish J

[@JohannesVIII]

Decided to follow the channel when your Leptictidium video crossed my recs page a few days ago and it turned out to be really good. Not disappointed so far!

[@thedinogamer1034]

Great video as always. I Always have loved taxonomy/phylogeny for prehistoric animals, even if it is complex and confusing, so I'm really looking forwards to the more in-depth video about it!

[@TheMysticSaint]

Thanks, you have the best paleontology channel!

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome, and Thanks!

[@tacitus7797]

The Ubirajara stuff happened almost 30 years ago and the country involved was Germany. Its important to put a time and place on stuff like this so people don't think it happened yesterday.

[@alexw.7097]

This is kind of random, but since you mentioned it, we recently had a dog start at my daycare named Tully, and ALL I can think about when her name comes up is the Tully monster, and no one else understands.

[@NewAround92]

Fun fact about the term "Euxinic". It's comes from Pontus Euxinus, the Latin name for the Black Sea. The deep layers of the Black Sea are anoxic and sulfidic.

[@sauraplay2095]

Great video! Lots of good stuff.

[@TheDing1701]

Cool! Glad I happened to be on KZbin right now!

[@sharksuperiority9736]

Whoever named the Sinosaurus species is a comedian We have Sinosaurus sinensis (Chinese lizard from china) And Sinosaurus triassicus (Chinese lizard from the triassic) which was found in the jurassic Also, I can’t find the paper describing the highland sauropod specimens anywhere. I remember when the paper was posted on twitter and I remember Joschua Knuppe talking about it and the art he made for it, but google gives me nothing. And the link in the description doesn’t work

[@jthomas8263]

Callaghan, 🎉🦕 In April, a Review of the New Scientific findings Of Paleontology and Archeology are also including, a 100 Million Year Old Sauropod Trackway in a Courtyard on a Chinese Restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan Province in China, a Diamantinasaurus skull is found in Queensland, Australia, and even a Triassic Long Necked Marine Reptile found also in China.

[@dennismason3740]

Arizona! My brother was born in Phoenix in 1951 and died in February. I drove through the state once, it is breathtaking. Canada - what was I thinking?

[@waterbottle82730]

love the vids keep it up man

[@dennismason3740]

"...velociaraptorines ...got around the world pretty rapidly" because they run!

[@shinaniganz4453]

Sinosaurus Sinensis? Chinese lizard of China... They should make it their national dinosaur

[@mastafoo886]

Big theropods almost certainly had lips. BUUUT I do not at all think they had nearly the gingiva on display in monitor lizards or whatever, would just be a recipe for tore up gums that would get infected and not heal before the next bone crunching meal (in t rex's case specifically)

[@KellyClowers]

Great round up video as always! Also, taxonomy video? 👀 yes please!

[@tonysims111]

If thylacosmilus had good colour vision & was active in the daylight, it could have hunted without having binocular vision.

[@ZombieChicken1310]

Would the foot morphology of Dynatoaetus gaffae imply that previous birds like Argentavis also were hunters rather than strict scavengers?

[@kamion53]

it is likely that Argentavis was more a huge Johnny Rook than a condor like bird. Matk Wilton had an interesting article on his blog some time ago.

[@you2angel1]

Wow this month did have a lot of interesting stuff.

[@patreekotime4578]

With that study on flying mammals, it would be interesting to see if that gene is also expressed in web-toed swimmers.

[@RaptorChatter]

Ooh that would be an interesting look at things. Especially since you could also use the Platypus as an additional out group

[@patreekotime4578]

@@RaptorChatter Its also generally much more common adaptation than wings, so the data set suddenly gets much bigger.

[@dennismason3740]

I've been telling Paleoz for decades: T-Rex does not walk around going derf-derf-derf. Hence lips.

[@lerualnaej5917]

I don't know what I think about these sorts of applications for machine learning. It seems like a ML algorithm will always struggle with mechanism because it's not really "understanding" something, it's getting better at predicting correlation. It seems like it would be very vulnerable to weird confounding factors and all the other pitfalls that make us chant "correlation is not causation" I should read that paper. Maybe someone who understands machine learning better can tell me if my gut is way off here.

[@you2angel1]

The host is wearing a very nice shirt he looks like some of the guys around here in Wyoming °~•.☆.•~° Kinda reminds me of a Sarah Trading post find.

[@ThicThreads]

Great video

[@alexw.7097]

Aww, Zeke, Buddy, you can't just drop a term like "Hell Pigs" and expect me to not want to know more! 😅

[@marlonli7629]

good job

[@numberpirate]

Molybdenum rhymes with Aluminum(US pronunciation).

[@RaptorChatter]

I started saying it Molly-B-Denim as a joke and now I can't stop!

[@nathancomixproductions466]

I'm not upset about the lips.

[@The_SOB_II]

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[@crosshairs_salt9618]

The Name fighting in any felid of science is like a children fight it’s hilarious half of the time. finding new fossils before a time. Finding new fossils from time periods we already marked absolutely fascinating. It just tells us that we’re never done with learning more about earths history or the hidden worlds we haven’t discovered yet!Highland sauropods are also a very interesting topic.🦕

[@canis2020]

The people angry over T-REX having lips are the same ones who stormed the capital and think women's sports aren't real sports.

[@kamion53]

or course the tradional big baddy wearing lipstick is a great offence against human masculinity. Next those pesky scientists will come up with is that T.rex was wearing high heels too.

[@IlmarBeekman]

Not here for the morality lecture. Just science please.

[@fgergver]

facts are science

[@IlmarBeekman]

@@fgergver yes. Stick to them and not moral opinions.