Shriekers from Tremors 2: Aftershock Evolution and Metamorphosis Explained | Tremors Explored

[@RoanokeGaming]

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[@lxx420jesusxxl3]

hey Roanoke, would you ever do a video on the fallen from the destiny games? i would love to see them on your channel!

[@theunitedcommonwealth715]

Here's a hard one for ya can you do The Ancient Enemy of the movie Phantoms respect dude.

[@NoReallyScotchCarp]

Hey roanoke, i was wondering if on the tales channel you could cover the creepy pasta " sleepwatchers.net "

[@bradenc7287]

Who else is watching tremes

[@dunning827]

Two corrections on dinosaurs, crocodiles are not direct descendants of dinosaurs, they evolved along side dinosaurs, becoming what we know as crocodiles, in the Jurassic, and it’s commonly thought that dinosaurs are mesotherms, different from warm or cold blooded, other then those two nitpickings, good video, I really like these creature analysis vids, so yea, cool vid

[@saucemaster2]

"I was denied, critical, need to know, information...........I am completely out of ammo.......thats never happened to me before." Talk about a classic line.

[@Kameth]

It's the delivery of sheer rage that trails off into stunned disbelief and confusion that makes that line so good.

[@sorrenblitz805]

"Well after realizing the radio was out I decided to make my way back to the refinery, but it was an ambush situation must've been a couple dozen of em! Well I took down the first wave with semi auto fire but they just kept coming, luckily most of them were in front so popped the gear into sixth wheel and ran em down the ones that got on board I dispatched with a combination of small arms fire and hand to hand techniques....I am completely out of ammo....this has never happened to me before."

[@JoshSweetvale]

That's the first time I ever got a feeling of that X-com energy of 'if it bleeds, we can kill it.' Here our heroes have trouble with a few shriekers, and Burt, with suboptimal equipment, slaughtered his way through most of 'em. Start of the 3rd movie he strapped a flak gun to a flatbed and slaughtered a whole infestation of 'em. Good times. The fact that you need _very_ different weapons for Graboids and Shriekers is _really_ cool. Makes fighting them harder.

[@PracticalBibleStudies]

Underrated actor.

[@joesantos7085]

My favorite thing is good old bert took over the movie's and is the star even though Kevin bacon and Reba where in the first one.

[@wyatt048]

Fun fact, the guy who designed shriekers was also designing the bugs from starship troopers, that's why you can see some resemblance between the two

[@chrisdufresne9359]

That actually makes more sense than I expected it to. I did notice that the jaws seemed to resemble the Arachnid Warriors.

[@GeoStreber]

The sounds they make are also very similar.

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

Makes sense

[@AnakinSkywakka]

Would you like to know more?

[@heruiksanudin8942]

The adi studio?

[@darkblood626]

Fave part of the movie is where they keep aiming higher and higher as the floor rattles only for the little shrieker to jump out from around the corner.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Temper expectations haha

[@emrybennett8809]

"We where hunting Graboids! I wanted Maximum Penetration!" You got it Burt

[@mmacias327]

How's a 20ft worm change into that little thing... Shhhh it might hear us lol

[@voilvelev6775]

@@RoanokeGaming Can you try to elaborate on how did the Graboids, lacking spinal cord, give birth to obviously vertibrae offsprings?

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

@@voilvelev6775 According to the series' creators, graboids are most closely related to, of all things, cuttlefish. Cuttlefish don't have skeletons, but they do have an internal support structure called a cuttlebone. This isn't a true bone, or cartilage - it's actually a type of shell, like a snail has. It's likely that shrieker bones evolved from these over millions of years.

[@AsterikTeenus]

Roanoke: A quarter of a century seems like enough time Me who has mastered the ancient art of procrastination: Are you challenging me?!

[@mathewpoole3589]

Not at the moment. But I will get round to it eventually.

[@AsterikTeenus]

@@mathewpoole3589 we get there when we get there

[@nukran6055]

@@AsterikTeenus I'll do it tomorrow.

[@knightartorias746]

I’ll do it next century.

[@mathewpoole3589]

@@knightartorias746 You've actually set a deadline? That's awfully productive of you

[@okami6399]

This movie is a quarter of a century old... Man that kind of blows my mind. Also, that shrieker tower of power is something alright.

[@getschwifty5537]

I feel old now

[@FunlandRobot]

Damn. My parents took me to see this in theaters when I was 4….

[@olrox568]

@@FunlandRobot sad i just bought 1-7 but i hope you love nightmares

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I can imagine that the Tremors films inspired some of the locust design in Gears of War

[@joseluissilva6027]

They would be THE perfect creature to had to the Locust horde, like really there is no better monster that fits the horde better, well... outside of the creatures already in the Gears series of course.

[@Angstbringer18B]

Why are you on every singe video I watch?!

[@Angstbringer18B]

@Paper Clip Who?

[@shadowhunter509]

Explains why the Video has a gears of war 2 theme playing in the background.

[@Angstbringer18B]

@Paper Clip That guy is on like every video I watch, it's crazy

[@TimeForDunston]

The first tremors was such a fun and charming movie, it wasn't a cinematic masterpiece or anything but it's always been a favorite. It's one of those movies I used to watch all the time when I was 8.

[@Jade-kl6sk]

I personally love the first two movies, and I’m not opposed to watching the third movie. Pretty much every one after that sucks

[@jerrylancaster256]

@@Jade-kl6sk 4 was Kinda goofy but not too terrible, yet again it's been 8 years since I've watched it

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@Jade-kl6sk i didint even know there was more movies after three but i agree with you from the first 3 i watched 1 was amazing 2 was good and 3 was fun

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

If I was offered to working as writer for a monster film series reboot, I would pick Tremors. I grew up with it and loved it. Not to mention despite the claim of Clover being the first kaiju, we all know graboids are large enough to count as kaiju, and King Kong will always be Gojira's rival.

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Graboids are nowhere _near_ big enough to even be considered the smallest Kaiju ever

[@mmacias327]

If you also notice throughout the film the Shriekers are constantly sniffing the ground or looking for a signature. I believe the padding on their feet does leave some type of heat they can all easily identify to stay together. Or at least in a close proximity with their spawn.

[@Angel-kb5ce]

First DeadMeat and now Roanoke man today is a great day. Edit thank you guys so much for the likes. My favorite part of the movie is when they set the explosives and all start running and Bert says "we gotta keep running."

[@RoanokeGaming]

I gotta go watch that now!

[@quinnzykir]

@@RoanokeGaming basket case 2 baby!!!

[@artmaker9872]

Aw yeah

[@supremehare9893]

Hell yes, i loved these movies growing up.

[@jaystreet46]

Basket case 2 ftw!

[@BlazerExists]

"I am completely out of ammo...that's never happened to me before."

[@chaosentity855]

i always loved when Grady just slaps the graboid, but man, those shrieks from the graboid while the shriekers come out, gave me nightmares

[@danielmcguire7752]

You and me both

[@MrSkullVA]

16:55 Yes, it was related. 3 little mouths inside the graboid was going to generate 3 shriekers. it was the simple idea behind how many of they could have been generated. But once they were little and capable to move they also needed to fast proliferate in number. They were also a prey so being more was going to help reach the final stage and lay other eggs.

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

There's been back and forth because in the next movie, it was said that 6 Shriekers were "burthed" from a Graboid. Though later movies went back to saying 3 per Graboid.

[@tamakunminnip2117]

​@@bloodwolfgaming9269 The original creators for the movies (Stampede entertainment) admitted that the two times in 'Back to Perfection' that Burt says 6 Shreakers was a mess up when writing the screenplay.

[@eddiehoplight2003]

I read an article recently that had an interview with Reba McIntyre saying if Universal announced a Tremors reboot she, burt ward, kevin bacon and michael gross would come back in a heartbeat

[@BradenTerry98]

I liked all the movies I have seen, and would be interested in seeing reba come back

[@jonlewis5061]

Come back??? Micheal Gross never left. He’s been in every single one.

[@eddiehoplight2003]

If there was gonna be a reboot and he was gonna come back

[@clintparsons3989]

Only the first two movies were good. They aborted the franchise once they started farting as a form of locomotion.

[@xenodude4718]

@@clintparsons3989 I'm sorry you're not a good fan then.

[@ILessThan3Trolling]

This has been a nostalgic trip. I remember having Tremors thing when I was young, hunting Graboids on the playground sort of a thing. I never really seen past 3, but considering I randomly found a DVD set of all SEVEN of the tremors movies at Walmart after you posted the first video, I'm going to finally get around to rematch and even catch up. Knocked out the first two back to back, about to hit 3.

[@JoshSweetvale]

1 to 3 are good because they show the lifecycle.

[@Firestar-TV]

Wait! 7?🙃 Hope they didn't start becoming bad at some Point

[@hydrogenone6866]

Earl: Man Burt, you put a whole new shine on the word 'overkill'. Burt: When you need it, and don't have it... you sing a *different Tune.*

[@LefontLeeFilms]

Classic 😭

[@emalynscott7612]

Honesty, still use that saying

[@insanityplatybelodon5748]

Y'know a good option for Graboids are actually placoderms. Early fish with large bony head shields, Dunkleosteus is a famous member. A good possibility is these are descendents of placoderms, a vertebrate line unlike anything today, because they are unlike anything. They aren't reptiles, mammals, or amphibians, but a totally different group. Would explain their vertebrate spine and bones, as well as their bony heads.

[@kyze8284]

You’re telling me Dunkleosteus is just a water-born ancient graboid? My paranoia of the loose soil is not unfounded!

[@CryptidRenfri]

Some species of fish such as the Australian lungfish also will bury themselves deep into the mud of drying water systems, create a mucus cocoon around themselves, and can stay dormant and alive in the dry dirt for years until rains refill their waterhole or creek. Possibly an adaption the graboids may have evolved for as well?

[@greatattackshark2632]

I have a suggestion, maybe you should do breakdowns and analysis of cryptids or maybe even mythical animals. I would personally love to see that

[@theblazingpegasus9151]

YES

[@wilmagregg3131]

and if he wants to find 3d models to look at for them the show destination truth always showed 3d renders of mythological creatures they went to investigate id love him to examine the many spcies of bigfoot for example from swamp ape to the yeti to china baboon esk version

[@shadowfury172]

No

[@deeznuts1568]

@@shadowfury172 why?

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

Honestly, I could see him doing this concept

[@shotguntony4730]

I love that one Graboid that caused Earl to crash the truck because at one point it sounds like it's laughing.

[@godknightomega]

The Shrieker reminds me of a monster by the name of Deviljho. However instead of one green angry pickle, we get many smaller creatures. Both having the same devastating effects on the biomes they inhabit.

[@bgheseger6937]

Actually now that you mention it they do have some similarities

[@godknightomega]

@@bgheseger6937 While they do hunt and look different their nature is what is most terrifying. The Deviljho and the Shrieker share the trait of eating EVERY animal in the area they inhabit causing a full biome collapse and even potential extinction events. Their reasons are different in the fact Deviljho suffers from ravenous hunger from its frame's high maintenance cost. They are also know to be solitary hunters which makes them terrifying. Meanwhile the Shrieker has an outdated reproductive cycle that causes them to reproduce to the point they overrun and consume all. This failure if a system is most likey due to their pack mentally needing to replace members that may be lost when fighting stronger prey.

[@bgheseger6937]

@@godknightomega imagine if deviljho reproduced like shriekers and hunted in packs that would be horrifying

[@godknightomega]

@@bgheseger6937 True but then eventually you will end up with a "Savage" Deviljho. A Deviljho subspecies born from both extreme hunger and cannibalism of other Deviljho. Which would probably take only a matter of hours to come into being between giving Deviljho a Shrieker's birth rate while keeping the size and metabolism the same.

[@bgheseger6937]

@@godknightomega I know how a savage jho comes about but yeah a true nightmare situation with that many around

[@dantebanducci235]

Minor issue: Dinosaurs are NOT “cold-blooded”. They are actually in between warm and cold.

[@charliemartin-k7m]

The truth is we really don't know we can only guess what they where over the lizards we have today.

[@dantebanducci235]

@@charliemartin-k7m We can tell a lot from the inside of their bones though.

[@aster5053]

@@charliemartin-k7m sadly for u we can because dinosaurs still exist as birds and even if you say adaptation some dinosaurs have been found in environments that require a warm blood

[@megaraptora]

@@charliemartin-k7m we can tell if they were warm-blooded or cold-blooded by the marks inside their bones. those marks are made by how fast they grow (a creature's blood temperature influences their growth),and they have marks similar to mammals,which means they were warm-blooded

[@kelseyplagman2570]

Yeah but the prediction is they gained the heat seeking ability as dinosaurs were on the way out, while mammals were rising up. So heat seeking still would have been best to catch new prey vs semi warm blooded dinos.

[@goingblargh]

Just remember Roanoke: Four pounds of C4 may be a bit… Excessive.

[@RoanokeGaming]

That part always make me laugh

[@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907]

I agree. 5 rounds should be enough

[@hunterbrown205]

@@RoanokeGaming nah 500 pounds will be better

[@adamgray1753]

There is no kill like overkill!

[@hunterbrown205]

@@adamgray1753 or 50000

[@_-Trephorius-_]

Ngl the first time I watched this move I got genuinely nervous before the reveal of the shriekers they built up the tension in an amazing way making them seem smarter than we've ever seen em a new monster and being off the ground doesn't save you. It builds up tension and suspense then shows off the little Shriekers and it's like wow. But then they show just how dangerous they can be in sheer numbers and ability to create an army of themselves with enough food and it was just *chefs kiss* flawless

[@metalblizzard6024]

I absolutely love your content. The attention to detail and scientific interpretations are so much better than 99% of channels that just postulate about these creatures.

[@ethanstyant9704]

Quick evolution note: dinosaurs as a whole did not simply evolve into birds, bird-like dinosaurs just died out less. Also creatures do not intentionally develop adaptations in response to pressures, the adaptation already exists but is made more prevalent when it becomes successful

[@Ezdine_G8261]

it's always cool seeing main characters that are actually self aware

[@vicentegambini8907]

Nobody: KZbin: *Roanoke Gaming uploaded 8 seconds ago*

[@RoanokeGaming]

Ayyyyyyyyy

[@vicentegambini8907]

@@RoanokeGaming we meet again

[@indomleon]

Factually imperfect but still pretty entertaining and educational for the majority of it

[@PredatorPL-vp2qt]

Dinosaurs were warm blooded or at least semi warm. So no... The adaptation of seeing infrared must have evolved somewhere during or before Mesozoic

[@jasonscarborough94]

Plus the external heat collected by a cold blooded creature through out the day causes them to glow just like a warm blooded animal when viewed with thermal devices

[@doomslayerprime9749]

Yes indeed they where warm-blooded

[@adrammelechthewroth6511]

Agreed.

[@Normg49]

While trur this movie series would have been made with the belief that they were cold blooded

[@SpecterVonBaren]

@@Normg49 No, this was already known at the time of the movie being made.

[@pinchman2946]

"Dinosaurs remained in the lakes and rivers as crocs and alligators" Crocodilians share common ancestry with dinosaurs, but I was under the impression that they weren't descendants of dinosaurs. both dinos and crocs are from the archosaur clade and the way I understand it is that they diverged into different sub groups with crocodillians and dinosaurs being entirely separate. Hence why other members of the clade such as pterosaurs and plesiosaur are refered to as "flying reptiles" or "marine reptiles" because they aren't considered dinosaurs. Unless I've missed some major scientific paper that actually links them more directly as descendants.

[@oliviabean8264]

Also don't we and dinosaurs share a warm blooded ancestor? I thought most dinosaurs where warm blooded.

[@pinchman2946]

@@oliviabean8264 Yes, dinosaurs were actually warm blooded. We know because they have small tightly packed channels in their fossilized bones that match how warm blooded animals typically space their blood vessels. Our ancestry is a little more complicated as all mammals descended from what are known as mammal-like reptiles. Which means that we do share a distant relation to dinosaurs, however the warm blooded factor is more likely to be convergent evolution as crocs (who are in the same clade as dino's) are cold blooded which means that the ancestor they share with dinos was likely also cold blooded and that dinosaurs independently became warm blooded on their own.

[@oliviabean8264]

Didnt know any of that! Thanks for sharing! It never ceases to amaze me how crazy things can get when it comes to convergent evolution.

[@pinchman2946]

@@oliviabean8264 no worries, it's fun to talk about. Yeah convergent evolution is real nutty.

[@pewpewgothlazerl7067]

I mean there is the sarcosuchus and kaprosuchus as well as mosasaur they're all ancestors for our crocs and gators

[@itsjustalf7747]

Hehe first worm go boom : second worm got dem legs and then boom I’m sensing a pattern Y’all remember when tremors was on Netflix the old days

[@LastJuggernaut]

It still is lol

[@DanTheReaperMann]

@@LastJuggernaut Not for every country sadly.

[@Zepoltic]

They added a new movie on Netflix too, its Shrieker Island

[@Jayzgrouse]

It is, use a vpn if it's not available in your country.

[@viktorbraginski]

I don't need netflix since I have them on VHS lol

[@livingcorpse5664]

Tremors 2: Aftershock is my favorite of the Tremors movies and I feel the Shriekrs were the most scary part of the Graboid life cycle.

[@fawakamaha]

Might wanna do a bit more research. Most dinosaur species are thought to be warm blooded now.

[@COctagons]

I think he's convinced they were reptiles, rather than being more closely related to bids. Some people are. IDKY, but some of that stuff persists, I guess...

[@rojopantalones9791]

Or, at the very least, mesothermic, meaning they produced their own body heat when necessary, but not always. But, yeah, warm bloodedness as a trait came well before the advent of dinosaurs, meaning that it's likely they they were as well, at least to some degree. Dimetrodon, an animal that existed between 295-272 million years ago, is a stem mammal, and had some level of warm bloodedness, as far as the evidence shows thus far. Also, crocodilians are not dinosaurs. Just throwing that out there. A simple google search shows numerous sources to that regard. Birds? Yes. Crocodilians? No. They've existed longer than dinosaurs have, for starters, and their legs are splayed out to the sides, resulting in them crawling along on their bellies like many other reptiles do, as well. Dinosaurs were upright and their legs lifted them off the ground.

[@sathra4036]

Also feathers. There's a pic of a concept for Deinonychus that looks like an adorable duck/eagle chicken en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus#/media/File:Deinonychus_ewilloughby.png

[@gunnarc1113]

Dinosaur nerd that I am, I was going to say this. Based on their growth rates, apparent life style, and their living ancestors many dinosaurs were likely endothermic (warm blooded) or mesothermic (a kind of intermediary between warm and cold bloodedness), or the larger species may well have been gigantotherms (were despite the reduced metabolic rates of ectotherms they maintain a relatively high internal temperature due to their size).

[@spiffyspifferson8434]

Four chambered heart found in mummified dinosaurs. They were warmblooded.

[@peridoodle2644]

I saw part of this movie as a very young child, specifically the bit with the CO2 stealth mission. I always remembered these freaky little walky guys, but never knew what they were or what movie they were from! Thank you for giving me the answer to a question I've had for most of my 23 year long life!

[@madformuser]

YEEEEEES I've always been interested in the tremors series, thanks Roanoke!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Hope you enjoy!

[@adamgray1753]

Yes, @@RoanokeGaming, very good video indeed. Thank you, man!

[@M_Alexander]

Officially the "pre-Cambrian" fossils were improperly dated and aren't quite as old as that

[@sleepyjester5976]

What would they even eat during that period.

[@M_Alexander]

@@sleepyjester5976 exactly! If anything that would still support them being alien

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

Funny thing is that I feel like the movie itself lampshades this. Like, Kate concocts that theory from looking at a matching fossil in a book, but how the Hell is there a picture of a graboid fossil when nobody knew the damn things existed before a decade ago. Unless I'm retarded and the book was depicting a picture of a modern graboid, and Kate matched it to the rock she found. But that doesn't make sense either, because then there's no indication at all that the rock was Precambrian. Something isn't adding up.

[@M_Alexander]

@@DaRkLoRdZoRc I think she had the old rock and then saw the modern picture. It's been a while since I saw the movie though

[@MandoWookie]

@@M_Alexander she was comparing her core sample to a picture in National Geographic( a reference to the first film) of the Graboid Val and Earl dug up. And improperly dating the sample would also track as she has no method of carbon dating at the refinery, and it may have been improperly labeled as to depth( and depth doesn't necessarily equal a specific time period correlation)

[@claytontindell9939]

The locust theme fits the monsters that strike from emergence holes.

[@mickeysanto3639]

You’re just perfectly explaining these creatures and I have a feeling that the people that made the movie are just like… “ Monster going nom nom then kaboom!!!!!”

[@atomicwinter31]

Those look just like reject zerglings lmao

[@RoanokeGaming]

Interesting!

[@magtegi2]

?

[@DrForrester87]

I mean, they predate the Zerglings so wouldn't that just mean Zerglings were a progression of Shriekers by that line of thinking? Not that they actually are of course.

[@edwin5145]

@@DrForrester87 They still look like reject zerglings.

[@xenodude4718]

@@edwin5145 How would they be rejects if they might've came first?

[@Sandul666]

I had a birthday party when I was 12 and rented this movie and nobody cared but me. I watched it anyways while my friends played with each other.

[@dreemurrstudios]

I have been waiting for this for so long😂

[@RoanokeGaming]

hope you enjoy it!

[@dreemurrstudios]

@@RoanokeGaming pffft, dude, your content is awesome and really interesting, so of course I will 😂

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Remember it was revealed in Tremors 3:Back to Perfection that the Graboid Eggs remain dormant for 300 years before they hatch and that in Tremors 4:The Legend Begins that the hot water from a mine caused the eggs to hatch and we get to see what the Graboids look like after they hatch as they look like the caterpillars from hell.

[@AresofWar_]

You should do the breakdown of the ww2 zombies from CoD ww2, some of those things look absolutely insane lol

[@waifuwaffles7697]

Bro I was legit gonna ask this like the panzermorder

[@wolfsoldier0875]

Yes!

[@AresofWar_]

Although I'm not sure if there's a high resolution viewable model for him to reference is the issue

[@spinalspiral9901]

But that game is so bad (to me atleast)

[@theblazingpegasus9151]

this wouldnt make sense tho because none of them evolve or have their own morphology they are all produced, all the zpmbies in cod ww2 are meant to be a last ditch weapon by the nazis so none of them appear on their own but were made in labs so honestly talking about them woul be alot less interesting than youd think just basically what the nazis did to a person to make this particular type et cetera

[@trainerlesseevee478]

The part of the movie where Grady runs up and slaps the Graboid is my favorite part of the movie and never fails to make me laugh lol

[@ErenYeager-jd5xt]

I love when he uploads just puts a smile on my face

[@Christian_Sims]

Thought dinosaurs being warm blooded was the more accepted proposal than them being cold blooded

[@unlimitedduckgamer]

They are Mesotherms, basically a combo of both cold and warm blooded

[@TheJuiceMan59]

Honestly Roanoke you're making my day with the two tremor videos like I said before I love the series and I'm happy that you are covering it thank you again and keep doing what your doing I hope you're have a nice week and weekend

[@Rodan727]

Do you also plan on doing monster hunter megafauna in the future? It'd be cool.learning how a carnotaurus evolved into something like a Glavenus or the metabolism of a deviljho

[@everybodywalkthedinosaurev9867]

Oh my gosh I’ve been waiting for such a long time I loved your Graboids explanation video and a bit I’m gonna love this one

[@evansmith-camp3066]

“This movie has been out for like 25 years or something.” Thanks for reminding me I’m old as hel...

[@kabos4225]

I love the gears of war music in the background

[@wayneigoe6722]

I have a friend that LOVES these movies and watches them religiously. He says they're the best horror movies ever.

[@Beeetlejjug]

I've recently discovered your channel, and I've been binge watching a bunch of them. I can't put it down ✌️

[@Kernwadi]

"Nostalgia is stored in the testicles." -Bilbo Baggins

[@Kernwadi]

Amen.

[@madison_russell04]

I think it's kinda funny that the Graboids are kinda of a prediction for the Omnidens worm, which is a around 2 meter long deathworm from the Kambrian.

[@carmelosaurus7480]

I always love your videos I love that they quench my thirst for my geeker/nerdy side. Especially when you start talking about anatomy, biomechanics, ecology, & evolutionary possibilities of movie monsters/animals. Because of these factors your videos alway help me clam down & feel relaxed. So when you started talking about dinosaurs I was super excited & being a paleontology nerd myself. Unfortunately when I heard you say/talk about dinosaurs being “cold blooded” however I quickly became a little bumped out.

[@hernehaugen6878]

Had to finish an Ogg the Ogryn upload, got here as soon as I could. Ah, I remember I used to rent the first four Tremors in a DVD box set from the video store back home in Sheridan. Over and over again. Every time mom took us by there I think, actually. Oh well, great work as always Roanoke! I always love how enthusiastic and excited you sound. Edit: It's not just rattlesnakes! There's actually a whole family of snakes called "pit vipers" that use a form of thermal sense to hunt. They're called "pit vipers" because they have little "pits" behind (or was it in front of?) their nostrils that house the specific glands.

[@alicegrim6264]

I absolutely love that you used the gears of war music in the background. That was hard to catch at first.

[@thedeadcannotdie]

So are these life stages like those polyps and medusa's of jellyfish? Also aren't dinosaurs known to be atleast partly warm blooded, especially the larger ones since some mid size dinos were known to live in pretty cold environments where a cold blooded creatures bigger than dogs shouldn't be able to survive

[@mstieler8480]

Yeah, dinosaurs are known to be somewhere between warm- & cold-blooded. The cold-blooded-only notation is a bit dated now.

[@cooper10182]

I know that some dinos had a large number of blood vessel channels in their bones which is a trait of higher metabolic endotherms. Similar to birds and mammals.

[@blackkittenb]

Yep, and that could actually make them even more tempting to the heat seekers. For example the albacore tuna heat some of their body by using counter-current exchange and retaining heat from muscle movement, resulting in areas that are warmer. This runs into overdrive when they are stressed, so much so that when you fish them in a way that involves making them struggle until they run out of energy you have to basically gut them right away or else the heat of the insides damage the meat (sort of cooking them from the inside out a bit). Combine that with the fact that it is hard to release heat as a large animal (like the elephant, who actually have to sort of vent heat overnight and drop their body temperature low to make up for the increase during the day's activity) it could actually help them locate large dinos that are not equipped to escape or are otherwise weakened and get to their vital bits, because those parts would be warmer. That's all theoretical of course, but given the heat retention it could mean that they are drawn to dinos that are all "warmed up" by activity and thus have less stamina, vs dinos that are cooled down and therefore have more leeway for muscular movement.

[@heretyk_1337]

What i love about your videos is, that you look for explanation how thing COULD work, instead of going "but it is impossible" every two or three sentences...

[@The-Artless-Gallery]

YES!!! You can't tell, but I'm dancing in excitement. 💃

[@RoanokeGaming]

Rock on!

[@Rain.maker.]

So glad people watched these, I still remember begging my mom to rent this from movie gallery (Off brand blockbuster) when I was younger, this series is a guilty pleasure of mine

[@aconcernedcommissar6261]

advertiser safe names for explosives rapid expansion gadgets the big boom boom buttons

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

The whole shebangs?

[@AzulGatos41]

Loud noise makers

[@aconcernedcommissar6261]

@Kilian yes but wheres the fun in just saying that

[@jamesrogers7049]

Banger practical effects. Love this stuff! Keep it up dude. I need more videos to binge at work. I’ve been through all of your vids like 3 times

[@Amadeus8484]

I actually think the Grabboids in the first movie didn't become Shriekers because they didn't have enough time or food, they only ate a flock of sheep, some cattle and some people. The ones in Mexico were alone for weeks and had grabbed a lot of food.

[@Schnipps]

That is literally what he says in the video lol

[@izumishion6267]

That was...........wow. I doubt that the movie makers were really thinking about the ore and actual life cycle of the Graboid race when making the movies yet you pieced it all together to make it logical. Very nice and most impressive.

[@braininquig3859]

Dmn so basically this means thst their dna can be easily altered and can evolve to a sifferent lifeform I mean wow good thing this is a movie

[@drsharkboy6568]

Imagine a swimming form of graboid that evolved to hunt whales...

[@braininquig3859]

@@drsharkboy6568 that would make any place unsafe

[@drsharkboy6568]

@@braininquig3859 mostly beaches and high populated areas. They’d either follow their food or be in areas with so many people that we’d effectively be plankton.

[@braininquig3859]

@@drsharkboy6568 yep and humanities population will decrease drastically and so does other creatures

[@clintparsons3989]

Metamorphosis happens all the time in nature, it's different from evolution.

[@drahunter213]

9:31 I love that moment lol they just point higher and higher all ready for the big kaiju threat but it’s just a little toad thing lol

[@harryguidotti3815]

Yes! More Tremors! I can assume the A**Blasters are next. Are you going to do the young Graboids? The Dirt Devil's from Tremors 4?

[@sleepyjester5976]

What's the best way to call them for Roanoke to avoid that yellow symbol !!!

[@harryguidotti3815]

@@sleepyjester5976 He could toss around the prototype names they were brainstorming before settling in A**Blaster. Like Blast-Offers, or Butt-Launchers.

[@brownstarslots]

Buttblasters

[@rikkuna7518]

I love these movies. Have been watching them and following new titles since I was a kid. Glad to see them get a little love!

[@ebesonen]

I love the tremors series, these Shriekers are deadly little monster's ☠️

[@jacobrasberry7139]

Actually most dinosaurs were warm blooded because they were so large and active they wouldn't have been able to keep themselves warm

[@wyvernnemecek595]

Really quick, I'd like your thoughts on my hypothesis about the flesh-eaters from Brendan Fraser's The Mummy. In their natural form, they're necrophagous insects with slow metabolisms for creatures of their size. The Egyptians, through generations of steady feeding and selective breeding of the insects, would make them into a horrid form of torture. Due to their heightening metabolism, their ancestral ability to wait for long periods of time entered remission, until they were met with true starvation in the City of the Dead and entered a state of comatose for as long as they need. These scarabs aren't the ones that were found in the ancient times sequence, but are their descendants, having developed a happy medium between their low metabolism ancestors and their ravenous "domesticated" kindred...I say they developed this happy medium because, through breeding of those scarabs which survived starvation and those who were still hungry buggers (HA!!). This would explain why there are so many while also being so hungry: These are descendants who survived all whom had ventured into the City of the Dead before and had died there. Again did these insects become scavengers, this time with the addition of being reputable gluttons. Still, due to the fact that food wasn't a guarantee anymore, their ability to enter "comas" had become fairly important to not turn out dead. Given a few more generations, there's a good chance they'd have returned to their slow-eating ways of ancient times, though it's uncertain if we'd ever know because they're not as prevalent in the other movies. Papa Roanoke, what're your thoughts on this idea?

[@bxbbly-woof4206]

My FBI agent must be so fed up with me watching hour and hours of tremors content

[@marjoekirby8192]

One thing, bud. Dinosaurs were, in fact, warm blooded. Not cold. Love the vid tho! @RoanokeGaming

[@jameswilliams2075]

Ya so I think the shreakers apeard when the dinosaurs were coming in because they got to sizes the graboids couldn't eat or were to agile for them to get and the shreakers were made then later on the abs appeared to further there species range and because of there later stages small size they didn't over work and area

[@jacob6885]

I know this video is old. But I still want to point out something missed during the part speaking to the Shriekers being an adaptation to new prey. There is actually a more micro scale cycle here. Far smaller than the scale evolution. Graboids kill medium sized prey in an area, which causes large predators to leave due to lack of prey, and small critters to move in due to lack of predators. Then the shriekers come out, eat the small prey while free of large predators. Then when food is scarce due to overpopulatio, and Large predator move in to eat the plentiful Shriekers, the ass blasters come out to spread eggs to new areas... and repeat the cycle. The biggest issue with this cycle, is that it would work best over months. Not the unnaturally fast cycle of the movie monsters... which basically has to be that fast for story purposes.

[@andrewotaku1679]

One fact wrong: dinosaurs (even the largest species) were warm-blooded.

[@adrammelechthewroth6511]

Agreed. I'm surprised that many other humans know this. Because most humans tend to be unlearned, idiotic, and self-destructive. But all humans dangerous and volatile apes. We're the cancer cells of Earth. Bacteria are Earth's true inheritors. Humans are parasites. That's why the increase in learned humans is a surprise and a bit of a sick joke.

[@jasonking7570]

@@adrammelechthewroth6511 .... Jesus christ, dude

[@buka1621]

a video about tremors made recently?? my mind is baffled 😂

[@pootzmagootz]

Oml, the special effects got worse as the movie series progressed🤣

[@SoulshadeVr101]

Sad but true

[@TotallynotaPrianhacompy]

*with the new knowledge of dinosaurs being possibly warm blooded This changes some of the Theories but only in a Minor aspect for this Video* I still LOVE IT.

[@darkreflection9087]

Look at starship troopers arachnids

[@Charlesrst117]

All your channels are awesome man, I love watching them, and at night to listen and the help falling sleep. Keep doing it thank you!!

[@DrGonzo-ij7uk]

Are you ever gonna talk about El Blanco? he’s introduced in Tremors 3

[@halosunday]

Those 3 screaming at the car at night reminds me of ZZ Top when they turn their heads.

[@derdingsreturnsnochmal5177]

Um. Roanoke: Dinosaurs were mesothermic if not full on warm blooded.

[@tetrafuse3096]

Roanoke is like that cool, chill Biology/Science/Math Teacher who lets you watch a movie on his lesson, then if you didn't pay attention explains the whole movie to you and possibly even the morphology, history, lore & evolutionary path of the movies monsters/entities.

[@matthewterlaga3022]

It’s now believed that most if not all dinosaurs were warm blooded

[@lordschlump4914]

It’s weird how this is somehow helping me with my biomedical science course. Keep up the good work!

[@alloraptorgen2]

Great video, I only have one problem. The dinosaurs being cold blooded thing. They were not related to reptiles as much as media/Hollywood would tell you, and would of had more of a bird like biology which do have warm blood. So the heat seekers could still probably hunt just was well in dino times as mammal times seeing there were also small dinosaurs as big or even smaller than the heat seekers.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Graboids and Shriekers wouldn't have been apex predators in the Dinosaur era.

[@alloraptorgen2]

@@JoshSweetvale They probably would be.

[@harveyanimations8974]

When it comes too these old movies, I like seeing summaries like this before I watch it.

[@PhilosopherInsomniac]

I always enjoy these deep dives. I get to relive childhood campy films, and learn.

[@CMZneu]

21:56 My guy dinos almost definitely were warm blooded like birds

[@lisadooley3872]

I love the noise the shirkers make sounds like they’re laughing!!!

[@snark4572]

I love deadmeat and Roanoke gaming dead meat is awesome because of comic relief and the way he counts the kills counting every dead body and having little funny skits and the end of his videos and why i like Roanoke is because of his amazing commentary and his explainations on beasts,creatures and such also breaking down the story.

[@litorres4125]

It’s a good day when Roanoke is looking at the series that made my childhood

[@Gayporeon]

Did you say... Roanoke doing SCP Readings???? NOW THERE'S SOMETHING I'VE WANTED TO SEE FOR A LONG TIME

[@oneandonlysound3453]

Unpopular opinion: The shriekers are the coolest form the "Graboids" as a species take on, and it makes a lot of sense from a survival aspect. That last sequence with them eating everything is horrifying, as well as providing the funniest part in the film with Burt talking about not getting need-to-know information and his truck is all messed up. It annoys me they were very under-utilized in the series-the sequel, while bringing in a new form, barely showed them at all and by the time they appear again they look completly different-and all explanations are about "different locations" "evolution" or "scientific experiments." Then again, while I think 3 is a weak link-of the original 4, I thought they were all above average. "6: Cold Day in Hell" revisited multiple concepts including an unknown fate of a side character, the whole "burt in the graboid in 3" and a cool setting. I like Burt Gummer/Michael Gross but I kinda wish they'd done a series not seperate with the kevin bacon pitched trailer and old burt, if fred ward could've returned could've been awesome. The 13 episode series' subplot was crummy.

[@crimsonspiral6334]

23:17 another thing is deserts are hot and can go to 100 degrees so heat seaking would be efficient since our body heat is under that number so wed blur together with the environment

[@thomasstewart1380]

I find the use of Gears of War music in the background comical and relevant. Well done!

[@theucheao]

Yo man, I love this stuff. Super intelligent and super interesting. You’re making a difference Roanoke, keep it up.