The Most Bizarre Dinosaur Short Story

I found some more dinosaur short stories. Some are great, others are just downright weird. Let's take a look at them.
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Chapter Selection
0:00 Introduction
0:09 Forever
8:52 The Greatest Dying
16:39 The Feynman Saltation
27:39 Dinosaur Dreams
37:10 Outro
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Forever
www.sfwriter.com/stforeve.htm
The Greatest Dying
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The Feynman Saltation
www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618...
Dinosaur Dreams
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[@DinoDiego16]

Hope you all enjoyed! Got some exciting stuff coming out later this month. Cant wait to show you!

[@Don-ds3dy]

Just an idea, maybe a dinosaur short story contest. Copyright free content wink wink.

[@DinoDiego16]

I've thought about it before, but to do something like that requires some planning and time. May save it for next year, but it definitely sounds like a fun idea

[@JaredMadnessCaineLaw48ft]

Where can I buy a copy of the short story forever by Robert J Sawyer Dino Diego??

[@DinoDiego16]

​@@JaredMadnessCaineLaw48ft If you want to buy a copy, you could always look on Amazon for the book that it appears in, but if you just want to read it yourself, the story is linked in the description

[@JaredMadnessCaineLaw48ft]

@@DinoDiego16 thanks for telling me!!

[@j.i.nthenobody54]

I was not expecting Dino meat beating to be the thing I heard described today, but here we are

[@DinoDiego16]

If I had to read about it, you guys get to hear about it XD

[@Spheecrab]

I should’ve read the comments before watching through the video, now I’m scared

[@fmac6441]

2:55 Mercury being called Sunhugger is so poetic, the author could have tried harder to name the other planets.

[@primrosevale1995]

I love how Diego's channel has become the hotspot for all the weirdness in dinosaur fiction.

[@Cody38Super]

I know....mee too! Who else is doing this? I'm also amaaaaazed how little of crap I give about this actual story(the first one) ! Cholo....really, that's the name you stick with....and Shizoo sounds like an old whit douche trying to sound hip.....but Diego, God love Him!, just kept going and giving it all of the effort and dedication the author should have given to not writing this thing.

[@huntah6150]

Man I bet the big barrier that Julie's brother was trying to get over was the Permian Extinction, hope it wasnt too much of an exhaust on the man since it's the largest extinction

[@kevinnorwood8782]

That's actually my thought as well. And like you said, considering that 95% of all life on Earth was completely wiped out during that extinction, I'm nor surprised at all that he would struggle to get over that barrier.

[@DCANNONSTEPSBYKE]

That last story is so crazy for the fact that a horny dinosaur discovered shoe game and was actually happy for a little while

[@musicobsessive123]

the homophobic t-rex made me laugh out loud i was NOT expecting that at all

[@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462]

To be fair... the government DID once attempt to make a gay bomb which would force the ememy it was deployed on to go full on berserk orgy on each other, and our military could walk in, shoot the incapacitated enemy troops and claim victory. It, of course, never worked.

[@Ahmedus_Adamus]

Never knew dinos followed God XD

[@hammerheadtheseawing3263]

The beginning of the third story hit a little close to home, since my father is currently dealing with glioblastoma. While all the stuff afterwards is a bit silly, I can imagine how Julia felt while waiting in that hospital, since I’ve gone through it once (and I’m gonna go through it again in a couple weeks too).

[@Ancient_Imprints]

I wish u guys all the Best!

[@jamesrichie7844]

One of the shortest stories in Latin American literature: Cuando se despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba ahí. Agusto Monterroso

[@alang.bandala8863]

Es mi historia favorita. Saludos desde méxico

[@Aozame]

Also in terms of weird dinosaur stories, I suggest you check out Dinosaur World/Planet/Samurai/Warriors/Empire/Conquest. It's a series of six books that are a sequel to Sound of Thunder of all things (yes really), and are just completely bonkers.

[@DinoDiego16]

I've heard of these. Definitely want to check them out at some point

[@zsandmann]

Yes they are hard to find but very good.

[@dudejuice]

Can you give the authors name too so it is more specific? Edit:Author is the sci fi master Ray Bradbury and the book covers seem like fun

[@zsandmann]

@@dudejuice they are credited as “Ray Bradbury Presents” so he commissioned several ghost writers or coauthors to write the series under his banner.

[@RailfoxStudios]

Did the author of that last story base it on a fever dream? Because a lot of it feels like someone trying to explain a weird dream they had after scarfing down an entire wheel of cheese before bed. It reads like someone just woke up from the strangest dream they’ve ever had and they absolutely NEED to tell someone about it, not even attempting to hide the grossest and most nonsensical details as they painstakingly describe every second to their friends.

[@Toshiro93]

The greatest dying seem a sort of tribute to Planet of the apes and, most interesting, it ended with a cyclical closure, and the new race can be struck with the desease, exactly as humans.

[@jasonscarborough94]

That "experimental treatment" from number 3 sounds like a good way to attract the Hounds of Tindalos

[@ShadeMeadows]

THIS.

[@vladislavpetkov6120]

Bill and Ben going from homophobes that wanted to train a dinosaur to hunt gays to being gays themselves AND IN A RELATIONSHIP is the character arc of the century

[@Joe-real-]

No no Millennium

[@mariawhite7337]

1. Hmm... I'm trying to think of a place where this could 'connect' to the modern age. But can only think of the yonaguni monument. Which is out by Japan. However idk if at the time Japan would have broken off yet. 2. The greatest dying sounds interesting. Reminds me of that little tail we found of a dinosaur. Personally I think the metor may have been the final nail in the coffin. From what I recall it was getting to the point of many dinosaurs getting to hyper specialization. So at some point that began to collaspe BEFORE the metor. I can't remember where I heard this theory. 3. Reminds me of an Adrien Brody movie called the Jacket. Same sort of premise. I think the implication is that this guy BECOMES the first spark of life. 4. ..... Chuck Tingle is that you? This definitely sounds like Chuck Tingle.

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

The fourth story reminded me of Alex Cox's comicbook "Waldo's Hawaiian Vacation" (based on an unmade sequel to the 80s cult-classic "Repo Man")... its difficult to explain but they have very similar vibes

[@dagoodboy6424]

I see. Gosh darn sexual tyrannosauruses

[@malaysian1515]

The greatest dying reminds me of Stephen King's The Stand.

[@condeallamistakeo]

The story of the time bomb-robot, the depressed wanker t-rex and government experimenting over the population is so bad but amazing at the same time

[@AdachiVsLife]

When i was a bahbee i wrote a dinosaur short story. It was about all of the world being turned into dinosaurs by a witch with the exception of two kids. One being a scientific genius who creates a time machine to go back in time to collect pieces of dinosaurs so he can make a cure.

[@DinoDiego16]

Wtf, that sounds amazing

[@blenderbender5582]

What is a “Bahbee”?

[@AdachiVsLife]

@@blenderbender5582 small human.

[@Naharu.]

Holy shit, that last story is on another level

[@joshuawiese8446]

The great dying reminds me of the disease theory in Robert Bakker’s Dinosaur Heresies

[@DinoDiego16]

That's likely where the idea of the story was conceived. Very unique take on the concept.

[@mikaelangehagen7251]

Nice bomb, weird cops, sad rex, brand rex, happy rex, weirder cops, sold home, deppresed rex, time bomb, time reset, meteor threat. Got it

[@Sharauni]

Thank you for covering two of my favorite dinosaur anthologies, Dinosaur Fantastic and Return of the Dinosaurs! I love those two books so much and seeing a video that can make so many aware of them just made my day^^ I would love to see more stories from them covered by you!

[@DinoDiego16]

Glad you enjoyed it! I definitely plan to make more videos around these anthologies. So far, I've loved what I've read from them!

[@fizzplease6742]

I sincerely wish there was a way to release an anthology of all these weird tales.

[@CyberSpider35]

It's funny how asteroid destroyed all the mainland dinosaurs yet spare island sentient one just because of some wall.

[@HellbirdIV]

Of all the weird shit that's in these stories, what tickles me especially isn't any of the mind fuckery or dinosaur shenanigans but the goddamn robot bomb going around a neighbourhood apologizing to the inhabitants for the inconvenience of its upcoming detonation. That's got some incredible comedic potential and it's just a footnote in the last story mentioned.

[@rudidavidson8422]

Plot Twist: The Quintaglios killed the Shizoo

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Dinosaur Dreams is peak fiction.

[@Tacklebox3000]

I don’t think “weird” adequately describes the last one

[@michaelconnell1010]

Forever sounds like an unofficial prequel to the Dinotopia books, kind of like how Event Horizon comes off as an unofficial WH40K prequel.

[@A10N50]

Diego, since it’s December can you talk about, the Christmas Dinosaur, please.

[@JoseDorda]

I think the wrritter of that last story was a fan Hichjakers Guide to the Galaxy Books.

[@jblask2]

I just love the mental image of a trex happy he got cool sneakers.

[@fmac6441]

The channel has some videos about Cadillac and Dinosaurs? I think it would be a great topic

[@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer]

The last one genuinely feels like it was written by AI A orb floats to a man’s door “I’m terribly sorry, I’m going to explode” - cut to a T rex jacking it in a parking lot now wearing a Toyota, the T rex dreams about buying shoes someday. Government agents show up and cause a mess: “Leave my house!” “We’ll you see miss it’s our house!” *dramatic brass band* “Oh terribly sorry” the bomb says “By the way we’re gay” the agents say

[@caracol764]

If only Jurassic World Dominium had the courage to be inspired by The Greatest Diyng, would have a good reason to use "LIFE FINDS A WAY", in this case If humans died from a prehistoric virus and dinosaurs are immune.

[@DinoDiego16]

It would definitely be an interesting turn to take the franchise in. But, I feel like a story like The Greatest Dying is better off as its own thing anyways

[@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462]

Jurassic park 4-6 should never have been made by such a hack director. They should have immediately been on the mainland by the 4th film and it should have had horror elements like the Carnosaur franchise. Instead they followed the park story, banking on nostalgia.

[@Timetravelingsoldiee]

This is weird. Edit: This is really weird

[@DinoDiego16]

the normal Dino Diego experience XD

[@mkcstealth7624]

The tonal whiplash between the second story about the cancer patient to the T-Rex doing his thing was honestly hilarious

[@shameonyou1681]

I think The Feynman Saltation is supposed to be a bit philosophical about the nature of cancer and humanity. Cancer is just a cell glitching out and being unable to stop reproducing, which is usually a good thing. Cells reproducing is literally what we call life, but as life became more complex this itself became an issue as cells became specialized within larger organisms and thus their excess reproduction took away from other parts of the body. Like cancer, chemotherapy is indiscriminate, you are basically just poisoning yourself hoping it will kill the cancer and not you. I think it's pretty obvious we're supposed to see his journey through time as a "return to roots" to the most primitive and natural form life can take, which is how cancer operates. His hallucinations/dreams start from the chemo chip (which I presume is supposed to not be working right) because the chemo is killing him too, even if it temporarily rid him of the tumor. I don't know if he necessarily meant it but I think he unintentionally wrote a story that kinda implies cancer treatment is just as vicious as the cancer itself and also just wanted to discuss something he was interested in. Idk, this is how I interpret it as someone who also is into dinosaurs, evolution and went through a cancer research phase too.

[@triassicbiters1975]

Best intro ever period.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

I needed this

[@zsandmann]

End of an Era is really good.

[@TheAtheist8]

the Feynman Saltation felt like a Junji ito story.

[@aaronvanfossen2973]

"Eey mang!" -some dinosaur apparently.

[@danmakuman]

The Feynman Saltation sounds kinda similar the book and movie Altered States, at least in the concept. In the case of Altered States because hard drugs and sensory deprivation the main character sees and even physically experiments going back in time almost to the point of the "big bang".

[@spiderlime]

when i read "forever"about 20 years ago, the statue's unveiling seemed ironic, since while that particular meteor didn't kill the dinosaurs, we do know about the bigger one that did.

[@thesexybatman263]

Collin could have just returned to monke, ride wife, and be happy, but he decided to go further back, the absolute mad lad.

[@ShadeMeadows]

Oh my god...

[@leonardogerbassi8030]

The Feynman Saltation reminds me of the movie Synchronic.

[@LannyRoe]

I’m so hyped

[@eternal8song]

The plot of The Greatest Dying sounds a lot like the backstory to The Talos Principle. I wonder if someone at Croteam ever read that story and got inspired.

[@GodzillaMinusx]

the last one, GET ME MY THERAPIST

[@JRBDWD]

33:16 BASED 😂

[@user-vx6gs1ci1h]

Just as bizarre as hunter s Thompson

[@andresrodriguez8635]

15:21 What kind of sapient beings are these? Apes? Cephalopods? Dolphins? Or maybe cockroaches?

[@Rosarian_baron]

do you know "fantasia 1940 thge rite of the spring, which is a dinosaur based short film with musical undertoning and no dialog form what is aviliable on KZbin

[@lukejohnson9142]

Lube

[@girlbuu9403]

Are you implying that you don't enjoy reading about a tyrannosaurus self pleasuring? If true, how will I trick you into reading "Taken by the T-Rex" by Christie Sims?

[@user-ze9jw8zu2x]

Did you ever read Danger: Dinosaus! by Richard Marsten?

[@CavallOve]

Will you one day talk about Don Glut's dinosaur short movies?

[@the_selchies]

How is Gods name do you find these😭

[@acestrategist9461]

Pls finish the Eden series

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

W video

[@nogoodgod4915]

GTA6 trailer coming soon, dunno if there are any gamers here. Hey Diego, are you hyped for GTA6?

[@DinoDiego16]

Haven't played GTA in a while, ngl XD

[@nogoodgod4915]

@@DinoDiego16 me too, but I'm sure I'll be sinking in quite a bit of time in GTA6 when it comes out xD P.S love your content!!

[@iguanobro9925]

as a plaoenerd gamer and wannabe gamedev with a project about dinosaurs and zoos... im curious for GTA6, 've heard it has GATORS, and das enough to get me interesed.

[@nogoodgod4915]

@@iguanobro9925 Well it is based in Florida. It will also have something even more dangerous than gators, the Florida man.

[@iguanobro9925]

@@nogoodgod4915 now imagine a Florida man in Paleo media

[@ConorDriskell-jx4vu]

I felt like I was having a stroke listening to that last one

[@TheLoopyestRabbit]

I feel like Jesus read the Greatest Dying in 2019 and got some inspiration and decided to do some experimenting. Luckily is failed

[@kadalsaurus6232]

30:24

[@alang.bandala8863]

How da fuck do you found these stories? Xd

[@DinoDiego16]

That's a good question. Even I dont fully know XD

[@TeethToothman]

🖤🫀🖤

[@MrArgus11111]

the last story is so stupid it actually made me angry

[@Phlowermerchant]

Dude, it's just a fun little dinosaur story it's not that important

[@DinoDiego16]

cringe XD

[@MrArgus11111]

@@Phlowermerchant it was incoherent bullshit and yes I'm well aware that it wasn't important. "Angry" doesn't always mean Hulk smash style rage. Calm down.

[@Phlowermerchant]

@MrArgus11111 So you get mad that a story written to not make sense doesn't make sense, then when someone points out that you're overreacting, you get more defensive than a prepper in the 50s and project your rage onto someone who expressed only exasperation at a comment made in bad faith that bashes a story for achieving its literary goal. I'm sorry that my first comment to you was interpreted as a slight against your entire bloodline, I genuinely only meant to be a little scamp and pick on a something with obviously no goal but to be unnecessarily mean about something the commenter( it is becoming more more apparent) missed the point of, but now you're not only a massive hypocrite, but also someone who refuses to actually own up to their own words. I'm aware that this interaction has no real impact on either of our lives, I had several more important things to do before i could respond with this, but your words have sparked a feeling in me that I rarely feel. An unapologetic, irrational, consequence free retaliatory anger. Not a "hulk smash style rage" but an irritating burn in the back of my mind. I almost want to thank you for this rare feeling, but I also don't want to give you that. This will undoubtedly have such little impact on our lives that I probably won't even remember that this happened a few days from now, but it felt important that I put this all down here, I don't know why. I don't even know if I expect you to read all of this, but if you do congrats, you spent all this time reading a self-important, long-winded way of saying " c'mon man, thats such an overreaction that it makes dynamite look tame by comparison."

[@turkeygod6665]

Holy shit merchant, let the guy be mad lmao. You ironically enough need to relax, I could sense frustration from the other guy for sure, but people dont write huge essays on KZbin to nothing comments unless they're way too invested. Not saying your also mad and being hypocritical, though thats definitely possible, just why do you even care that much man? The guy doesn't like the story, simple as.

[@thechameleons7868]

Frist

[@stubonk6346]

Frist

[@blenderbender5582]

Ok

[@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462]

Frist-frost, where's da sauce?