THE SMARTEST DINOSAUR?!?!? | Paleontologists rank TROODON in Jurassic World: Evolution 2

[@darthvaderbutwayshittier7054]

Two hours and fifteen minutes of talking about a dinosaur that's a tooth. Never change, Skeleton Crew.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

Never change.

[@matyaskassay4346]

"Get rid of the letter c" sounds like an evil scheme made by Dr. Doofenschmirtz.

[@FragulumFaustum]

It was always a bit odd that the Telltale Troodon is probably the most extreme the franchise has gone with playing with the "make it as much of a horrible genetically-modified mutant abomination as possible" direction when, lorewise, it should be the least mutated and most accurate-to-real-life thing at the original park.

[@ProfessorRugops]

I guess it was sort of a spec evo thing they were going for.

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

Yeah it’s weird, they feel like something out of Primeval, a venomous parasitoid dinosaur

[@Still.the.best.2021]

Its still cool concept

[@jurassicswine]

If Dinosaur Train taught me anything Troodon is an easy S tier. How many other dinosaurs do you see building trains and mastering time travel? (edit) ALAMO IS NEXT??!??!?? YAAAAAY!!!! It’s time to swine

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

AMEN BROTHER

[@thedinodrawer66]

Speaking of time travel. I have came from the future and I bring a omen of good news...

[@jurassicswine]

@@thedinodrawer66 do tell

[@thedinodrawer66]

​@@jurassicswine That is all I can say or it will affect the time stream. But know that good fortune shall be revealed on this very day. Edit: the good fortune was Alamosaurus.

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

​@@thedinodrawer66 my bets are on the snake I just saw, it looked like the harbinger of good

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

The only reason Troodon itself is in this game & not Pectinodon or Stenonychosaurus is because Troodon was in the Telltale Jurassic Park game.

[@ProfessorRugops]

(As Pectinodon its weird.)

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

@@ProfessorRugops Yeah they call it Troodon pectinodon, it’s weird.

[@ProfessorRugops]

2:09:35 To be fair in the game they at least pull a page of the tarantula hawk wasp book meaning the venom technically doesn’t outright KILL the victim, they just leave it paralyzed long enough for the young to hatch and eat their host as they hatch!

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

57:57 A neotype for Troodon? "I am shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked."

[@Jurassiccanonking]

8:48 That’s not true. If I pronounce Allosaurus Europeus as Tyrannosaurs Rex. I am wrong. Likewise, if I pronounce Gorilla Gorilla as Orange Orange. I am also incorrect.

[@jdgraeme]

"Fast facts we didn't get to because of stunlocks" could totally be a segment at the end of each episode 🤣🤣🤣

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

Everyone’s favourite nomun dubium Troodon

[@jurgen1395]

@@SmashBrosAssemble based on one tooth

[@Brannington]

ALEX WHAT THE FUCK IS BOSSBABY LIZARD SYNDROME, i nearly defecated out of sheer confusion

[@darthvaderbutwayshittier7054]

The bloody Troodon "Dinosauroid" sculpture always gave me nightmares as a child. I had a book with it on the cover and I was deathly afraid of touching it.

[@FragulumFaustum]

Troodon proper was smart enough to never die, which is why we only know it from a tooth one shed once

[@swaggasaurus_rex]

2:15:51 for a (pachycephalosaur?) tooth and unpublished research? Never change, Crew.

[@Tanygopteryx251]

25:29 “Do we find more of it?” Troodon immediately releases squeak of defeated anguish.

[@Corvid-d7k]

Every video the crew just spirals further and further into insanity

[@ProfessorRugops]

I like the coloration and sound design of this little guy, definitely one of my preferred small carnivores!

[@persianking44]

Skeleton Crew: Amelia is at a conference about non-non-mosasaurs Also the Skeleton Crew: *Amelia died on the way to her home planet*

[@mr-pilkington]

A very thorough video for a dinosaur/tooth that's definitely worth it imo. Glad the crew covered all aspects of Troodon as it's my favourite dinosaur and I love learning as much as I can about it, even if it may or not be valid. Hoping the new research brings it back to life but even if it just brings new information forward to broaden the overall understanding of the Troodontid group I'll still appreciate their efforts!

[@areallyshortbrontothere]

Though the hell beast is the mother of all wastebaskets, i have too much of a love for troodontids to not give it an easy low S or high A

[@iamthedrumandbassfarmer8735]

one of my earlier memories is finding a replica of the dinosauroid in a twee little museum in a dorset town. that little bastard haunted my nightmares for months

[@Latenivenatrix_Mcmasterae]

My favorite episode so far

[@Rahru]

Dude, this discussion about Russell's dinosauroid paper made it so unbelievably more fascinating than I evver imagined it could be. Sounded like really rad and really based (aha) science. That's one of the main reasons why this channel is such a precious thing!

[@Oaglor]

"Horse: Everyone knows what a horse is." -First Polish language dictionary, 1746

[@Jurassiccanonking]

4:32 This is cruel treatment Crew. We need the jokes.

[@ProfessorRugops]

2:13:57 There goes our last Sauropod-

[@trainertealvgc2267]

Dr. James, I just bought Topo Chico Tangerine in your honor. You need to get a channel sponsorship from them due to your persuasion.

[@chriso0015]

The day that the wheel picks Spinosaurus or T. rex, I’m popping a bottle of champagne

[@VeggyUwo]

Im here for the jokes and for james's stories and to see Scott's kitties

[@GTSE2005]

Leave it to the Crew to somehow make a video about a dino go into a tangent about a president trying to erase a letter from the alphabets

[@thylaconical2840]

It felt so weird to hear Troodon pronounced "troo-don" for the first time about a decade ago. I always pronounced it "troh-oh-don" like they did in Dinosaur Train. I have now arrived at the compromise of "troh-don".

[@anotherwesley7661]

Absolutely based discussion of diacritic marks, you are all on the correct side of history and I will see Teddy Roösevelt in hell.

[@dino_drawings]

2h and 15min of Skelton crew?! That means it must be a well preserved creature that we know a lot about, right? Right…?

[@Rahru]

One thing I love about Lovecraft's work is his use of diaeresis, like in "aëroplane". (I think it was already archaic at the time, but we all know he was a sucker for retrograde ideas... but that one was nice!)

[@boneycheeeze8234]

I guess Amelia pulled a Poochy, her Mosasaur planet needed her

[@ProfessorRugops]

Behold- a tooth!

[@Galaxys0825]

Troodon being dubious/invalid is like a CEO getting kicked from its own company

[@FragulumFaustum]

Could be worse, like how it's been suggested that the single feather that's the original holotype of Archaeopteryx isn't even from Archaeopteryx.

[@azhdarchidae66]

wouldnt be the first time, considering Ceratops was once a valid genus

[@Faelrin]

Lot of really interesting discussion in this episode. Mind blown about the paper behind the dinosauroid, and that there was a lot more to it then just the similar general body shape to us. Honestly it always kind of fascinated me, ever since I learned about it when I was a kid. Spec evo stuff also fascinates me in general. I always liked the Future is Wild series, Man After Man (which someone made a mod for this game lol), etc. I haven't used these guys as much in this game now that we have a lot of fluffy bois, but they were great for JWE challenge mode because of how many could fit in one exhibit. Good cost to appeal ratio too if I remember right. Skins in both games are great, and it is a really nice retro reconstruction that could have easily fit into the first or second film had it been included back then. Edit: Nearly forgot brain burger. Great term lol.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

1:30:52 Scoprious also has venom.

[@justusb.plorer8773]

"You would date the newspaper." - Dr. James Napoli, 2024.

[@endomorfis]

I've never seen that dinosauroid skull!

[@aquaflame3263]

Basically what happened: They looked at a singular tooth and thought 'wow, this dinosaur must have been really smart!'

[@Jurassiccanonking]

That was an intelntellegent paleontologist.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

0:48 Travel through the liminal space between dimensions is dangerous. It’s easy to forget you exist.

[@notenof]

Thank you for letting me get the Wordle on my first try

[@siats142]

In spanish the Ö in Troödon sounds like Scott thought

[@jurassicswine]

Next Saturday it is indeed time to swine. Jimbo you’re back on Long Island we can arrange a feature

[@SihlangeneMatiso]

Schrodinger's troodon

[@jakewalker7300]

This was a good episode. Pachycephalosaurus is still my fav, but this one was up there.

[@northeast1776]

This is going to be an interesting video, so glad to watch 🙂

[@RabidicusNollis]

Listen I consider myself terminally online and even I got tripped up by Boss Baby Lizard Syndrome, like what does that mean 😂

[@albatross4920]

Troodon, truly one of the dons of the dinosaur world

[@eyebrowpunk171]

JWE2's Troodon feels like one of those designs that's very good as it is, and would be legitimately great if only it had some clothes (feathers) on. btw which colour grading do you normally use for the dinosaur skins? often in these videos I'll see a really lovely base colour + pattern combination that I just can't seem to replicate perfectly in my own game.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

2:14:14 Yeah!!! Best sauropod next episode!

[@mercuryatamolos3687]

Now that you mention it, I’ve never seen Amelia and Troodon formosus in the same room at the same time. Just saying

[@rahnal21]

I wanna see Skeleton Crew and RedRaptorWrites debate about the Dinosauriod.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

I'd rather not

[@masatotanaka999]

Skeleton crew sponsored by the Dinosaur man statue.

[@Lovacain]

great a new vid at 1:30am!

[@kevinprehm]

Timezone L

[@maxxumfioriti753]

I will never forget when a senior phd student in a fruit fly lab gave an entire presentation where they said "Draw-so-feel-ya". There is absolutely an incorrect way to pronounce genera 😅

[@LordTrilobite]

Only 2 hours and fifteen minutes?

[@king_crossbreed7810]

Thank you Scott for introducing me to the sentence “Boss Baby Lizard Syndrome”. I’ll be sure to call my waitress that next time I go out.

[@jurassicsean3071]

Hi Skeleton Crew! What is the title and who are the authors of the paper Dalton mentioned that discusses the evolution of bird beaks and how that ties into tool use? That sounds like a very interesting paper.

[@Jurassiccanonking]

1:10:29 It will be a sad day when people don’t know what a newspaper.

[@anotherwesley7661]

Third comment Dinosauroid I'm sorry. Dinosauroid I was wrong. I've changed, take me back, Dinosauroid.

[@brun0S1LV4]

Not sure this singular comment makes much difference but 🙌Algorithm🙌

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

I REALLY like JWE2's Troodon. I dunno what it is exactly but when I look at it my brain just goes "nice". I think that it manages to homage all of its interpretations. I have the theory that when they released this guy back in JWE1 the devs were not planning to add anything smaller than this and so they gave it the Compy's sounds as gesture/reference. But the demand for the tiny terror was too loud to not get capitalized upon and thus Troodon's title as the game's smallest dinosaur was short lived.

[@Twinkie0120]

On the subject of it being poisonous; discounting that because of tooth shape may not be right. While it my not have a venom delivery system like a cobra, neither does the Komodo Dragon. They have a gland in the lower jaw the secretes in the saliva. And you did say early thoughts were that Troodon was an early monitor lizard. So....connection???

[@benschultz1784]

These were freaky in the Telltale game. InGen must have gotten some tarantula hawk wasp DNA mixed in when cloning them.

[@u1849ka]

"In the beginning, Nanotyrannus was named. This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

[@aaronbrown3163]

Troodontids are a neat little family that I kind of can't help but connect with the dromeosaur raptors. Similar builds i suppose though troodontids always seem of a lighter build then a Raptor of equal build. Not to mention the possibility some early ones may have even evolved flight I kind of prefer Evolutions design over the telltale because this FEELS like a dinosaur brought back for the park. Inaccuracies and all. The Telltale one however is effectively a nightmarish monster right from a horror story. On an unrelated note about Dinosaur intelligence something I noticed is that a lot of people tend to REALLY overestimate the needed intelligence for various behaviors and actions. Like Tool use is a simple as the traps some crocs lay out for birds. Ain't goanna lie I love the concept of a sapient Dinosauroid. I think my favorite take that isn't fully on "Sapient Bird" is C. M. Kosemen and Simon Roy's thought experiment on the subject. But your guy's point that the loss of hands = more effective beak does make curious of a Dinosauroid that evolved from a more pronounced arms like an Allosaurid or Megaraptor. I am also curious about how it's both the Birds and the Mammals that produced the most intelligence.

[@Adasaur250]

A few side points re: diacritics: 1) I would like to think that diacritical markings help, but I've heard my name (which I usually spell with an é whenever possible) mispronounced too many times by people whose education level suggests they should know better to put much stock in that thought. 2) For what it's worth, Chinese pinyin does have diacritical markings but they're not a given. Pinyin itself isn't usually a given in my experience unless they're explicitly catering to non-Mandarin readers. 3) The only group I've seen adamantly trying to get rid of the letter 'c' are Pan-Africanists who spell the continent's name as Afrika because "Africa" is The White Man's spelling, even though they're still using the white man's alphabet (and the Germans and Dutch of all people). They got the spirit and I'm with it, but they just a lil' confused. I do love dinosaurs.

[@kiarash608]

I love these freaks in the Telltale game, lol

[@kevinprehm]

Why does Troodon have such a big brain, is he smart?

[@dinoxels]

23:24 Quote of the Episode

[@FragulumFaustum]

Pachycephalosaurs would work well as omnivorous dinosaurs because their entire mode of existence is apparently being a walking meat mallet anyway

[@Jurassiccanonking]

True-a-don is how I said it as a kid.

[@ProfessorRugops]

23:16 And thus the meme of omnivory was born!

[@Jurassiccanonking]

Another day with the skeleton boys.

[@trainertealvgc2267]

I like Troodontids

[@killianft289]

I mean if you guys ever find that french paper i could always try to translate it for you if needed i am french after all (Scott would know were to find me i think i asked him some questions before on instagram)

[@u1849ka]

In Amelia's honor, I say; Flightless in Fleattle d:

[@evamariagarciagarrido6123]

Try not to mention Stenonychosaurus challenge

[@logan_rox210]

2 hour video about troodon? I’m expecting a LOT of bullying if the most dubium of nomen

[@christopherbj]

Amelia’s not here. I expect at least three stunlocks during the video. Please don’t disappoint me!

[@JaydenDimaio]

These could really be like, 10 minute videos.

[@unnamed9858]

1:44:34 This would probably be helped a lot by advocating for/increasing advertisement for content presented by actual professionals. The thing I'm having the most trouble with on youtube is actually finding scientists with channels amongst the common viewer - chum sludge, and I really only watch you guys, Ben G Thomas, EDGE and Clint's Reptiles for paleo content because I have a hard time finding others. A lot of chemistry channels actually do this cool thing where they collaborate on projects, advertise each other and reference each other's content which helped me find a lot of them, and EDGE does run an annual collaborative project with many content creators(although less interesting to me because some of the contributors are simple enthusiasts as opposed to actual scientists). basically, I couldn't agree more to what you're saying, but practically actual scientific content need to be easier to find Also the algorithm is shit and it regularly recommends the industrially mass - produced viewbait waste over content that is actually competently researched and presented, even if your watch history suggests that you prefer the latter. Making actual science videos less resemble the clickbait misinformation garbage on the cover might help too

[@unnamed9858]

tootdon...

[@phone_gal]

when i was a wee boy and not an almost grown ass woman, i thought troodon was a velociraptor species TT its not even a dromeosaurid what was i on

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

Look at it this way: at least you didn't think it was a Megalosaurus

[@phone_gal]

@@GandalfTheTsaagan LMAOOOOO yeah at that point id be a 1800's paleontologist

[@PalletTownRescue]

Flying is for the birds!

[@bradenhoefert2109]

Speaking of PoT’s Latenivenatrix, are you guys ever going to review the Path of Titans dinosaur designs? That would be interesting. On average, they’re better than JWE2’s I would say. Or more paleo-accurate at least.

[@trainertealvgc2267]

Alamosaurus is to be forgotten

[@ProfessorRugops]

10:51 If we had a nickel for every time this happened on the channel we’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice!

[@Alfonso88279]

I don't think we have any reason to believe that the human form could be an example of convergent evolution. We have seen many things evolve to fish form, or horse form, etc., but we have only seen the human shape once.

[@hellhound6829]

0:31 "We have no credible evidence that Amelia died en route to the Mosasaur meeting in Maastricht" First of all bold of you to assume Amelia can die

[@azhdarchidae66]

would it be unethical to add dinosauroids to a jwe park?

[@benwan5133]

I have a feeling that scorpion rex is gonna get a not good rating and also roasted a lot of when it’s chose

[@BradStackz]

Venooooom

[@evamariagarciagarrido6123]

Dubious ahh theropod

[@logan_rox210]

LATENAVENATRIX ISNT VALID?!?! eh, I don’t care. I main Hatzegopteryx 😈

[@CommodoreTyrannosaurusTux]

At least it's not Troodon Pectinodon.

[@thewingedporpoise]

1:13:15 but a lot of stones! very inefficient