What Did People Think When They First Found Dinosaur Bones?

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In this video we look at the fascinating story behind how humans figured out what dinosaurs are and what various groups thought when they first found their bones.
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[@barnzey3026]

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[@Mr.Beauregarde]

Pretty, not petty

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Did you know that in Japan, that call that Ki (Key)?

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I really enjoy your channels, but, as a fan of "potty humor", I find it disappointing to click on links to some of your older videos (namely the world-famous farter and the one about "Is eating boogers good for you?"), only for another video to pop up or nothing to happen at all. Was there a problem with these videos? (I can't imagine why!!)

[@generalzeleck3685]

Today I Found Out Hey, you have the same glasses I do!

[@Travenspear8]

Holy moly I never considered how many incredible fossils may have been lost to folk medicine

[@_Abjuranax_]

Not only were a lot of ancient Egyptian mummies used as homeopathic remedies, the steam boilers on the train from Cairo used them as fuel. The world has lost a lot to ignorance.

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

C Ray Starling They also made mummies into paint. Humanity is not great at maintaining non renewable resources, often for petty reasons.

[@homefront3162]

or Folk Music!

[@MrVvulf]

There should be a Chinese version of Godzilla that takes the form of a 100m tall Rhinoceros and wreaks havoc through their cities looking for his relative's horns in the apothecary shops.

[@lucifer2b666]

@Jay Leno lmfao. True

[@tullochgorum6323]

Glad to see you guys giving a shout-out for Mary Anning. One of the most remarkable women in the history of science - she should be a household name.

[@umbra9628]

@@CashelOConnolly I totally didn't anticipate an ad hominem attack! Ouch!.. you win

[@umbra9628]

@@CashelOConnolly is that a threat, an invitation, or are trying to flirt with strangers on the internet

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[@umbra9628]

@@CashelOConnolly respect is earned. Not freely distributed. I was raised a Democrat, and told to "vote for Democrats and women" and I did, for most my life, but I'm paying attention now and they have let me down, and they will not get my vote again untill things change

[@jeffvader811]

She's always been a household name where I live.

[@djdm2603]

The rhyme “she sells sea shells on the sea shore” is on reference to Mary Anning. I was in the Natural History Museum earlier today and saw some of the fossils she found on display. She really was an amazing person.

[@paulas2218]

Really? I’ve never heard of this. Wouldn’t have even thought it was about a real person!

[@ellen4956]

I was going to say the same thing! Someone told me about her when I was a child and hunted for shells and interesting rocks along the beaches. I found a fossilized whale vertibrae once and my brother still has it. Someone I knew found a fossilized mushroom on the same beach. My favorite is a fossilized piece of bone from that beach, but I didn't find it, I bought it.

[@void-citizen]

Gotta love that respect given to Mary Anning

[@gizmothepiefaceman3062]

void-cat the game-citizen I’m your 200th like. Fear me mortal for I am god

[@AdmiralBison]

It would be nice if an inspirational movie of Mary Anning was made.

[@Thagomizer]

@@AdmiralBison There's one in post-production right now. It's called Ammonite. Of course, there's stupid lesbian love story tacked onto it.

[@Maleetorres105]

@@Thagomizer thanks for the recommendation. Sucks that they have to exploit women and the gay community like that especially when its not historically accurate

[@Asprawlol]

The origin of she sells sea shells on the sea shore

[@shannonolivas9524]

Man, Mary Anning sure got a raw deal. It's good that they eventually recognized her contributions to the field, and supported her towards the end of her life. Imagine, with her innate talents, if she'd have only had a proper education...

[@doncarlin9081]

I definitely agree with your statement about her getting a raw deal then good people making it right. Yet, I wonder, if her not having a formal education kept her from being indoctrinated and allowed her innate talents to come forth. I imagine even better would be she had stable and adequate funding for her work throughout her professional career, allowing her to use her innate talents her way. Don't get me wrong, education has a lot of value, I wouldn't want to visit a doctor without a medical school degree, but at the same time it can set people in their ways and box in our outlook and approach. Sometimes in history it's the uneducated geniuses who made game changing breakthroughs WHILE the educated masses opposed them.

[@Karin_Allen]

@@doncarlin9081 I agree with you and Shannon both, but I want to add that being a woman in that time period, she probably wouldn't have been access to more than a high school education; and even if she'd somehow obtained formal training in paleontology, she'd never have been taken seriously. It's sad to think, but she probably got more recognition and financial assistance than many other women of her day who made great gains in different fields.

[@Pikrodafni]

Men - I mean, males - would have prevented her from getting a formal education.

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Chase depending on the field an education can be very important to having a general knowledge of how that field works.

[@nozecone]

If she'd had a 'proper education', she would have spent far more time writing papers than finding fossils. Just something to consider.

[@barrywerdell2614]

The myth of the cyclops has been theorized to come from the finding of Mastodon and Mammoth skulls. The Skulls have holes in the middle of them which people mistook for an eye-socket.

[@NopeJustPatrick]

I wonder if that's why the creators of TES: Skyrim chose to make mammoths the primary herding animal of giants.

[@TheCsel]

Well maybe actual elephants skulls not mammoths, but the concept is the same

[@LadyCini]

I heard it was the dwarf elephant that roamed Greece and Italy millennia ago that caused the idea of the cyclops.

[@Zyk0tiK]

You didn't mention the little tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is purportedly about Mary Anning!

[@bruh-cp2nq]

Steve Stone no it’s about sally

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I was waiting the whole video for him to mention that.

[@MrMichaeljay1965]

blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/07/she-sells-seashells-and-mary-anning-metafolklore-with-a-twist/

[@AnxiousHeart-om4ow]

Stupid bloody place to sell seashells.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

@@AnxiousHeart-om4ow Agreed that's always bugged me. They didn't seem to know about the three primary rules in commerce; location, location, location. Or the sciences of logistics, supply and demand.

[@steel8231]

So what your telling me, is that Alligator doesn't taste like chicken, they BOTH taste like T-Rex.

[@unlikelyspore1406]

Deep fried T-rex!

[@MamaPinks]

Sounds about right!

[@MamaPinks]

@RubyKing1997 it's better! I miss gator tail; not much in California, LOL

[@liem11]

Actually no. Alligators split off from dinosaurs long before birds and aren't that related.

[@MamaPinks]

@RubyKing1997 meeeee tooooo. Gotta find me some gator tail! Maybe I can have it shipped? My 50th is coming up. Hmmm

[@xxXthekevXxx]

This video was a bit long and went down a lot of random rabbit trails... *_And I loved every minute of it_*

[@Akivafyi]

velocirabbit trails

[@s--h1584]

I first found Simon through Brain Blaze and then ran out of Brian Blaze videos. This video felt just like told times for me.

[@EweChewBrrr01]

They thought "My dog is going to be sooo happy when I get home"

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Dogs don't really enjoy chewing on rocks.

[@-dennis3755]

​@@Richard_Nickerson clearly you're obtaining the wrong kinda dogs.

[@Richard_Nickerson]

@@-dennis3755 Nope, sounds like I've got the smart ones and you've got the dumb ones.

[@missScarlatine]

They're all good boys

[@xkidgey]

They thought "Grug make club. Grug smash"

[@brian5966]

Mary Anning's story is incredible. Her determination to educate herself to the point that other experts knew and would admit her knowledge as superior is incredible. For her to educate herself to that extent is wildly impressive but gaining recognition and respect as a woman in those days seems an even greater feat.

[@MrEricleblanc26]

This Mary Anning, she should at least have a pavilion of a university named after her.

[@the57bears]

The Natural History Museum in London has opened a set of spaces called 'the Anning rooms'. Great, eh?

[@scaper8]

Not just her, there's a shitton of women that were largly ignored for their contributions to what we now call the STEM fields. Often by the very friends and coworkers whose names are sung today. Only in the last few years to decades have they and their works finally being begun to be recognized. Just off the top of my head we have the likes of (in addition to Anning) Ada Lovelace, Mileva Marić, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, and Katherine Johnson. Look 'em up if you aren't familiar with them.

[@sqnkk]

@@scaper8 Rosalind Franklin and Lise Meitner were given their fair recognition. Mileva Maric didn't do anything of note. With regards to Katherine Johnson, there were 1,000's of scientists/engineers that worked on the space program, many whose names you will never hear of, not because they were women, but because they were men.

[@scaper8]

@@sqnkk Otto Hahn downplayed Meitner's insights every chance he got. During the war everyone who knew assumed it was just to keep in the government's good graces, but he kept on going long afterwards. James Watson still tries to downplay how much they shafted Franklin _to this day!_ (Though, admittedly, I suspect more out of genuine shame nowadays, to be fair to him.) Meitner did much of the legwork on several of Einstein's papers, this is generally accepted now. I think, many believe including his paper on the photoelectric effect for which he won his Nobel. He absolutely refused to say she did anything with it. And Johnson was left out of a number of lists that did include her immediate coworkers. We don't know that it was because she was a black women, but it is, by far, the most likely explainion for her conspicuous absence.

[@sqnkk]

@@scaper8 Otto Han and James Watson are just two people. Also, did you see this video? About how Gideon Mansell was screwed over by Sir Richard Owen. There is a long history of scientists doing this to each other. Boltzman, Semmelweis and Tesla are some examples.

[@NUFIGHTER]

"You've got old ghosts in your blood, you should drink powdered dragon (dinosaur) bones about it." -Chinese Apothecary

[@kevinj9059]

Haha, the leg bone had a 'humerus' name... I'll see myself out.

[@pygmybean8050]

You've done gods work here

[@BeastGuardian]

my word, I have the exact same type of Scoliosis. I have a perfect s-curve, such that my hips and shoulders are even, and the common practice of checking 3 points on the spine always appeared in alignment as the points used happened to be at the terminus and center of the curvatures. It was only when it progressed to the extreme that the portion of my spine snaked significantly under my shoulderblade, forcing the scapula to protrude obviously, and I'd begun to suffer from compression of my lungs, that they finally did an x-ray and discovered I had scoliosis that required stabilization. Unfortunately, it was only safe to partially correct the curve, leaving me with a torso that's about 5 inches too short; my lowest ribs brush the illiac crests of my pelvic girdle. I can certainly confirm that this type of scoliosis can cause extreme pain, not only in the back, but throughout the torso due to abnormal compression. I'm stuck with debilitating pain. At times when I bend wrong it will cause pain in the hip and leg as well, sometimes causing my leg to fail. It also prevents me from sleeping as any little wrong shift will awaken me... assuming I manage to fall asleep at all. It's quite frustrating as this is not pain from inflammation and is not touched by conventional NSAID pain killers. It is neuropathic pain from nerve damage, something far harder to treat. This type of pain is what opioids are best suited for as they directly block this pain... but with the crack down of opioid medicines even those who never abused them are denied their use and are forced to live in constant debilitating agony. It's no wonder that the suicide rate is up among chronic neuropathic pain sufferers. Opioid cycling, in which you change the opiate medication you use from month to month, prevents developing dependence and allows you to use only the minimum dose to treat pain and reduces side effects, is not available to me and other sufferers as doctors fear heavy fines and the loss of their license if any regulator suspects them of prescribing too much or if their patients show any hint of abuse. The crazy thing is that taking too little of your medication can be seen as an abuse! If one only uses an opioid on an as-needed basis, something that also helps prevent addiction, and does not not get their medication refilled on time this can be marked as abuse, contributing to the number of opioid abusers in studies used to justify these crackdowns! It's ridiculous. I realize that opioids were overperscribed and are abused by some, but I wish we could find a way to regulate on a case-by-case basis so that people who need them can have access to these medicines and get back to being active participants in life rather than languishing in mind-numbing, sleep depriving, debilitating pain. Wow... that ended up being a long, weird, off-topic rant. I'll just get off the soapbox now.

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Just seen your comment - neuropathic pain can be helped by tricyclic anti depressants such as amitryptaline, gabapentine & pregabalin. Low doses of the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses helps some people too - LDN, low dose naltrexone

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@@golddragonette7795 Bearing in mind that these only work for some people.

[@EyeHeytEwe]

"Petrifying juices." Never has a phrase rubbed me the wrong way like this one. 😂

[@bertsedgwick9828]

Today I Found Out..... How to cure my children from "manic running about" ...Now I just have to find a pharmacy that sells Dragons Teeth

[@pabmusic1]

One of Richard Owen's nice little things was the fact that until 2009 (the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species) a statue of Owen stood on the most prominent place in the museum - on the stairway facing the entrance, whereas the statue of Darwin (whom Owen hated) was in a lower-floor cafe. The Darwin statue is now on the staircase, where it was moved in 2009.

[@quierodesign3958]

Yes, because despite Sir Richard Owen founding the museum, he believed in creation, so the religious zealots of Evolutionism had to move their high priest to the front...

[@pabmusic1]

@@quierodesign3958 He actually believed in many creations - God changing his mind constantly (that's how come there were extinct creatures). Trouble is, in every controversy between creation and evolution, it was evolution that had the evidence. Still is, come to that....

[@semaj_5022]

@@quierodesign3958 Why in the world do creationists think that evolution is somehow a religious belief system? It's a rigorously tested and verified scientific theory based on over a century of observation and careful testing and reviewing. That's not even close to resembling a religious belief system.

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

@@quierodesign3958 You don’t understand what evolution is. If you did, you’d realize it’s based on scientific fact & verifiable evidence. Unlike creationism which seems based on bullshit & religious dogma.

[@paulgibbon5991]

I wonder, was it ever considered to have the two statues facing each other, with boxing gloves placed over their hands? (This is why I shouldn't ever be put in charge of arranging a museum.)

[@matthewdrummond1340]

Today I found out the answer to a question I didn't know I wanted to know till I clicked the notification.

[@JoseGranny]

This happens a lot 😅

[@Valandar2]

Mary Anning was surprisingly well respected by 19th century paleontologists... the fact that ANY of them gave her credit is remarkable, and the amount of respect and credit she DID get was unheard of for the time. She deserved far, FAR more, but that they even acknowledged her was amazing.

[@JohnDlugosz]

Correction: The "giant's bones" described by the ancient Greeks were not dinosaurs, but much more recent mammals. The skeleton of a mammoth bears an uncanny resemblance to that of a human, and these were put together according to their conclusions and often reburied that way to further confound the next one to uncover it.

[@mv7647]

You should totally do a separate biography of Mary Anning, her life sounds fascinating! I can already picture: 'Mary Anning, the first female fossile finder'.

[@katdenning6535]

I love hearing about the unsung heroes of scientific discovery. Mary Anning sounds like an amazing and dedicated woman.

[@its_dippy6779]

What did we find out today? That we lost a great opportunity to snicker in Biology class when *"Scrotum Humanus"* is brought up. Damn you, International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature!

[@mechanicalfruit9659]

"Thats one weird dog" - Abraham Lincoln 2004

[@ToxicTerrance]

I remember that guy.

[@anondimwit]

Are you dumb he didnt say that in 2004 it was 2003

[@2legit2quit70]

Abraham Lincoln wasnt born yet dummass

[@anondimwit]

2Legit2Quit it is a bird it is a plane no it is the joke flying over your head

[@Justicsgenie]

@@anondimwit dude you are missing the joke. He made a joke about how a ram Lincoln wasn't even born yet in 2003

[@Zamiiz]

I would totally watch a movie about Mary Anning

[@regular-joe]

Biographics!!

[@glennmejorada7395]

Me too. This is the first time i've heard of her. She should be an inspiration to all.

[@CraftAero]

I'd prefer Mary Anning over Gingering.

[@the57bears]

Well, it is coming... it's called 'Ammonite', starring Kate Winslet as Anning and also Saoirse Ronan. Apparently coming out next year!

[@adamwelch4336]

Hells yeah!

[@keithhunt8]

Cool. So much more in this video than expected.

[@TodayIFoundOut]

That's what we always shoot for. :-) -Daven

[@rachelb4398]

I appreciate the amount of energy you put into saying the word "poo." But as a female I find it disturbing that men back in the day thought that vaginal discharge was something that needed to be cured.

[@LadyWhinesalot]

Rachel B I am pretty sure they meant discharge of an infectious nature

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Wouldn't take it personally we only just figured out you guys can have orgasms

[@Stroheim333]

And here is the simple explanation to why legends about dragons can be found all over the world: people found dinosaur fossils.

[@Stroheim333]

@paul crowley No, your kind always think you are right. And because my name is not Dunning-Kruger, I know that Christians in general accept evolution. Your kind only hear the fringe voices, and in lack of common knowledge and life experience you believe they are the only groups that exist.

[@windlepoons69]

@paul crowley Catholics don't believe in the young earth theory. Evolution is accepted as fact within the church. Gregor Mendel one of the first to propose an early idea of evolution, work that Darwin was obviously aware of, was a catholic monk. It was also a catholic priest that put forth the big bang theory. There is a lot of things to criticize the catholic church on, this is not one of them. You sir may be thinking of American Evangelicals.

[@retroactivejealousy-worldl1805]

Stroheim333 This goes more into that side of it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ram1dYqJhZpojrs

[@retroactivejealousy-worldl1805]

paul crowley I don’t think Catholics deny this. Mainly extreme American Fundamentalist Protestant churches

[@Stroheim333]

@Asha No,they are not. Flat earthers are usually trolls who love to create hysteria among naive science nerds. Sorry!

[@UFBMusic]

It's interesting how they couldn't nail down his age that accurately. My Great Grandfather also didn't know his exact birthday (he picked a random day when he signed up for WW1 at 14), so it must have been more common than I thought.

[@DasAntiNaziBroetchen]

That's crazy. Did nobody check that shit back in the day?

[@kaiseremotion854]

@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen i mean before paper how can you track anything really.

[@PaulTheFox1988]

The births and deaths registrar in the UK is a fairly recent thing, and wasn't a legal requirement until much later, many people born before the early 20th century, and even well into the mid 20th century had to hope their families or local church kept an accurate record of their birth, and because literacy levels were very low back then, along with fewer people attending church, that was rarely the case as a large percentage of the population couldn't read or write, and didn't have their child baptised. There are even people still alive today in the UK that don't know when they were actually born, and not all of them are centenarians.

[@Ty-vj4wg]

@@kaiseremotion854 There was paper during WW1

[@hashtag415]

Why don't pterodactyls make a sound when they urinate? * the p is silent.

[@CollinGerberding]

You should use the word "urinate" instead of 'p' as it tips the bit. The repetition that close kinda ruins the joke, and who wants to disappoint a third grader?

[@rjperkins365]

Why don't birds pee? Cause they eat with their pecker.

[@hashtag415]

@@CollinGerberding Thanks. How's that?

[@Luckyleol]

their dead that's why :P

[@hashtag415]

@@Luckyleol The abbreviation for "they are" is "they're". It's all about the details. ;P

[@geofff.3343]

Yay, Mary Anning reference, you sir get a like! :D She sells sea shells by the seashore!

[@drivestowork]

I can see where that spark starts!! I was quite pleased with myself, as a child, "discovering" clam and seashell fossils in th the gravel pit & corn fields of my uncle's farm in South Dakota.

[@LandoHitman]

Who else just skips through the commercial via the tracking feature?

[@odysseusrex5908]

My computer won't let me do that for some reason, but I always mute them.

[@darkcharizard52]

6:28 *Humerus* name? I see what you did there 😏

[@BigfootWithMemes]

Well Idk about those people, but I'd have just been like "Wow, I found some big bones"

[@lostpockets2227]

i wooda thot it was jussa funny lookin rok or watever

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Interestingly both of those were thought by various people. :-)

[@Bakerb1942]

@psyopus syzygy Look at this kid, making his youtube account in 2017 lmao 😂🤣😂

[@KB-bd1xi]

"Time to leave, idk what brought this thing down but I'm not sticking around to find out!"

[@Ag-kt3je]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access 2 you follow Eric Bugenhagen

[@ncshpfox]

I’m still trying to find all the damn bones in Red Dead 2.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

J Fox I found some but then my lumbago started acting up.

[@ericsonofjames4573]

Now I know how to get rid of that old ghost that’s been bothering me. Dragon teeth! I’m off to China!

[@nozecone]

No, no - I can sell you some; for the right quantity, I'll even throw in free shipping! But wait, there's more ....!!

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Never knew it was such a cutthroat profession. Great video! Thanks😉

[@IETCHX69]

Here in Alberta , 2 of my friends have been charged by the govt for digging . $2000 fines !

[@the_algorithm]

@@IETCHX69 I've worked in Archaeology and many people will pillage known sites for pottery. They go as far as pillaging burial sites for the pottery buried with the remains so they can sell their "loot" on ebay. NEVER buy fossils or artifacts on ebay because you're just encouraging this behavior. Your friends were most likely fined for this reason.

[@LeeA.D.]

Humaning: my new favorite verb

[@charlesmartin8454]

Please do a story on Rosalind Franklin. She helped discover the shape of DNA.

[@veralenora7368]

Yes. The only reason she did not share in the Nobel Prize with her team members was because she had died. The Prize goes only to the living. Both the Prize Committee and her teammates confirm this.

[@arielbravo2661]

What did people think when they first found a dinosaur bone? “Look, its a bone!”

[@TheFantazingo]

"it looks like balls"

[@cheryls8987]

Mary Anning's life is fictionalized in the wonderful book 'Remarkable Creatures' by Tracy Chevalier. I'd love to see a limited series on her life as there are too many amazing things that happened to be limited to a movie.

[@z.deutch1334]

*"Here be dragons!"* is what they thought

[@sebione3576]

4:35 I guess when that was written they hadn't invented the run-on scentence yet.

[@naverilllang]

It's a complete and gramatically correct sentence.

[@nozecone]

@@naverilllang True - but it does go on and on and on and on ...........

[@YourFavoritePlatypus]

I would love to see a modern movie about her life

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Starring Tom Hanks ;-) -Daven

[@the57bears]

There is. It's called 'Ammonite'.

[@scottmantooth8785]

maybe a Ken Burns documentary on Dinosaur Hunters: Dragons of Stone

[@the57bears]

Well, technically not out yet. Coming out next year. Just to clarify. Kate Winslet is Anning!

[@redreaper2752]

I had never heard of this woman, thank you for telling her story. As a life long lover of dinosaurs it was wrong that I have never heard of her. Her story should be taught in schools to teach poor girls and boys what is possible.

[@SmashGhost]

65 million year old stuff: Unearthed China: We will eat this

[@project_nihilist]

In that movie "pacific rim" when the Eastern guy tried to sell that dude some powered bone of a kaiju as a sex drug, I should have known that was based in reality. You just can't make that kind of stuff up.

[@dankthegank1742]

"It mainly treats" *Lists 20 ailments*

[@BeybladeDad]

Thanks for looking into this.. i rarely write on vids i watch. I truly enjoy the way you explain topics! Cheers

[@TeslaHaxz]

i always thought fossils were the basis of dragon myths

[@quierodesign3958]

No, living dinosaurs are the basis of dragon reports. Research Mokele Mbembe.

[@odysseusrex5908]

And you were quite right.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@quierodesign3958 (Sigh) Mokele Mbembe is just the rhinoceros. This has been confirmed many times by having African tribesmen identify pictures and point out the living creatures.

[@corestolmyhandle]

There is an amazing book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World’ that I can’t recommend enough. Definitely worth checking out if you like this video

[@odysseusrex5908]

It focuses rather more on the author's personal life and human interest stories than on dinosaurs.

[@nicholascorbett1256]

Awesome work! I had some knowledge on this. But you really opened the door for me. Thank you for this great documentary.

[@deannfrey3469]

One of my absolute favorites. Stories like this are both inspiring and important.

[@CrossBorderNerds]

"the Chinese ground them up as medicine". Good to see this habit hasn't changed much.

[@wiwysova]

chinese "people"

[@gst013]

I know this didn't cause covid-19, but somehow this comment seems pretty dark now lol

[@hatenate2070]

Grind up bat heads

[@madeleinemumby4451]

@@wiwysova you would say the English or the French so why not the Chinese??

[@B3Band]

This video is like 17 different tangents and 14 seconds of actually answering the question.

[@celinak5062]

Glorious, isn't it

[@susanrobinson910]

Thanks for this amazing video! Many times, I have wondered the same thing regarding dinosaurs, especially when I was in college. I may or may not have been tokin a bowl whenever I had these, "Brainstorms"! 😁

[@susanrobinson910]

I wonder what my Neurologist would say if I told him that all it would take to "cure" my epilepsy, which isn't currently controlled by medication even after almost thirty years, is some powdered Dragon Bones! 😉

[@DasAntiNaziBroetchen]

Czechmate, Neurologists. They been ripping you off with their "research" and "science".

[@susanrobinson910]

@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen Indeed... ;-)

[@JeremyWS]

Anyone else think that flat earthers, young-earth creationists, and dinosaur denialists could do with taking a few courses on Brilliant? I think that could help them. Nice video. I like learning.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Great video, especially the details concerning Mary Anning. Glad that she received some well-earned help and respect in the end.

[@tanyawade5197]

That was amazing! RIP Ms. Anning🕊. You have no equal💖.

[@behavedave]

I’d heard that Owens and Mantel were unscrupulous but Owens sounds so much more, opening museums to the public on one side but an absolute scoundrel on the other. It seems like there has been a lot of love for Anning in her own time even if the system wasn’t in her favour.

[@J2daMFnR]

"manic running about" : o ) that made my day!

[@michaellowe3665]

Knights thought they had found dragon bones, but clearly some knights came back and claimed to have killed those dragons

[@puddingninja]

And not one mention of she sells seashells by the seashore for shame that should have been noted

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

Any time I hear Sir Richard Owen’s name, the first thing I think of is a story that they tell at Lancaster Castle about how he was collecting a severed head from the gallows one night and slipped on the cobbles outside the main gate, causing the head to roll down the hill and end up outside the dead man’s front door, giving his wife a fright when she opened it.

[@ryebreadthewhite3392]

Disappointed he didn’t mention the myth of gryphons came from protoceratops skulls in the Gobi Desert

[@June071710]

Very very interesting. I didn't know about that connection. Thank you for sharing this info!

[@odysseusrex5908]

I never knew that. Is there a book or website where I could learn more?

[@TheNightstalkerShow]

This is KZbin, make your own video! Get followers! :)

[@quinnmorgendorffer531]

"but before it was called the megalosaurus, it had a rather more HUMERUS name" ill let myself out

[@walterbushell7029]

Better before someone pushes you down the stairs.

[@natas3.14]

Thank you very much Simon. I enjoyed that very informative video quite a lot.

[@thomasmoeller3446]

Did Simon just throw in a nod to National Talk Like a Pirate Day? "ArrrrrRight, let's get started."

[@alexanderandrew6535]

To think a dino might have been named,scrotumosaurus rex

[@vanaals]

When beginning to view the video, I wondered if Mary Anning would be included. I'm so glad that I was not disappointed.

[@somedandy7694]

I propose that we rename Mary Anning "Dinosaur Woman." Also...if there isn't a series about the Bone Wars, there really should be.

[@soullesshonky1707]

That was a really great video. I had heard some of these names but did not know nearly this much about them. Probably one of my favorite videos of yours. Thanks again for the great work.

[@aeoo371]

Simon at 10:43 it says”pretty illustration” not petty illustration.

[@mattgies]

He also said "any thigh" at 5:36 when the text said "any thing".

[@mattgies]

Oh yeah, and at 4:41 he mispronounces "lineations" by subtracting a syllable, and then chances "eminencies" into the new word "eminessences".

[@nozecone]

@@mattgies Simon's not exactly a master of the English language, if you haven't noticed. It's just something we pedants will have to live with, I'm afraid, if we're going to insist on watching his videos ... !

[@magus104]

damn how many dino bones were lost due to people being idiots

[@scottmantooth8785]

examples of dinosaurs we will never know even existed...truly very sad loss

[@odysseusrex5908]

There is an enormous difference between idiocy and honest ignorance.

[@scottmantooth8785]

@@odysseusrex5908 honest ignorance is one thing but intentional institutionalized stupidity for the sake of tradition is another matter...

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@scottmantooth8785 Yes, but you can hardly ascribe that to *anyone* living before the scientific revolution, or unaffected by it in the time since.

[@jeffvader811]

@@odysseusrex5908 The use of fossils in alternative medicine persists even today: blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/07/08/3077812.html

[@RSEFX]

And yet, I come back because he selects interesting subjects and covers them thoroughly.

[@RPGmodsFan]

You made one reference of the Chinese mistaken dinosaur bones for dragon bones. I would expect the same thing happened in the Western World, given how similar dragons are across the two worlds. Was hoping for more insight into legends of dragons across the world.

[@shootthemoon6072]

Plastic Virtue; The new album from Pearl Jam.

[@martabehr9976]

I miss old Pearl Jam..now that's wat I call music

[@mjl167]

What is your process for researching videos like this?

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Google "How It's Made- a TIFO Story" :-) -Daven

[@scottmantooth8785]

extensive and with very very tedious attention to detail and fact checking to insure the utmost quality

[@SafetySpooon]

My brother's scoliosis was diagnosed that way, but mine was missed. Of course, my brother's was worse than mine. I used to check my children obsessively when they were little, because the only cure anyone's got is a corset-like cast as soon as possible.

[@jphillips7083]

Those two guys had it played both sides to the center......hate on each other steal each other's ideas steal each other's funding but you're creating a vacuum of curiosity and money...That's why they're the smart guys.

[@TheSlizzer348]

The first 8 minutes are Dino’s, the rest is just about a grudge between two scientists and one of them’s scoliosis.

[@michaelkelligan7931]

The Romans and Greeks thought they were dragon bones! 🐉

[@good_mourning]

And the legend of the Cyclops was thought up by the Greeks after discovering the skulls of dwarf elephants that had once roamed the islands across the Mediterranean, from Malta to Cyprus. Not only do these particular species of elephant's skulls appear more human like than the skulls of other species of elephants, tho obviously much bigger lol, but the large nasal cavity in the center of the skull appeared to the Greeks as if it were one big "eye socket" in the middle of an over sized human skull, leading them to the assumption that the skull they had stumbled upon once belonged to a one eyed giant. Many creatures of legends can be traced back to the discovery and misidentification of skeletal/fossil remains of what are now known creatures, tho I do acknowledge the fact that ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks, were unaware that such prehistoric creatures ever existed, hence why they formulated their legends of dragons and giants to explain the origins of the skeletal remains they had discovered. Another example of which being that the Chinese believed that they had discovered "dragon's teeth," and they have been using those teeth in medicinal remedies for centuries, all the way up to present times. Turns out that the teeth never belonged to dragons (surprise, surprise lol), but were actually the teeth of Gigantopithecus, an extinct ape that was the largest of its kind to have ever existed.

[@quierodesign3958]

That's because they knew what dragons were from observation! Dinosaurs used to be called dragons .

[@scaper8]

@@quierodesign3958 Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct long before the first human ever came about, so no one ever had direct observation of them or called them anything.

[@danimotherofchickens479]

That's Bc people were still actually seeing dragons when they explored in those days...

[@js66613]

Bone wars - sabotaging yourself to beat your rivals through destroying fossils to find them... Also probably the most interesting war I'd heard about thus far...

[@LambentLark]

I bought a container full of dried bugs for my bird feeder. The wild birds weren't interested. My neighbors chickens on the other hand, love them. I started making this "pop, pop" sound with my mouth to call them each time before I give them some bugs. I totally see the dino DNA as the come running full tilt, though the trees, making corners and leaping down the hill. Add a couple zeros to their weight, they would be terrifying beasts.

[@wetbobspongepants]

That guy sounds like Thomas Edison. He also was a thief and really NOT that great an inventor. He stole the work and ideas of ALL his employees.

[@irfanumar]

I'm fairly sure the tongue twister "She sells seashells by the seashore" was about Mary Anning.

[@doctorlolchicken7478]

I love how “manic running about” was considered an ailment in children by the Chinese. And it was cured with Dragon Teeth. I think I would stop running about if someone gave me a Dragon Tooth. Or threatened me with one.

[@don2deliver]

And now they try to cure it with Ritalin, the more things change the more they stay the same.

[@GillRant]

Shoutout to my hometown Maidstone which has an Iguanodon on its coat of arms. Due to the discovery of a fossil in Maidstone which was originally classified as an Iguanodon by Mantell, but it has since been reclassified as a Mantellodon, named after the man himself!

[@bradfaught1695]

Gonna pour some liquor out for Mary Anning...she was a true G

[@MRCOLOURfilld]

I'm 95% sure that the greeks found mammoth skulls and thought they were giants. Not dinosaur bones

[@miekekuppen9275]

Not mammoths, I seem to remember, but dwarf elephants on... Cyprus?

[@quierodesign3958]

Evolutionists found a pig's tooth and called it Nebraska man!

[@MRCOLOURfilld]

Quiero Marketing I'm sorry for your ignorance. Get well soon

[@odysseusrex5908]

I read once that rhinoceros skulls may have been the source of the myth of the Cyclopes.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@quierodesign3958 No, a scientist found the tooth, journalists turned it into Nebraska Man.

[@michaellouton3870]

Wow, that’s awesome! Thanks for such a wonderful episode. I look forward to the next.

[@erikarussell1142]

Scrotumhumanum is how i will forever name this Dino.

[@RmcBlueSky]

Dinosaurs are avians, not reptiles?

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

There are two lines of dinosaurs. One was reptile like, and the other evolved into birds.

[@jascrandom9855]

Dinosaurs were Dinosaurs.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@jezeski2011 Umm, if you are responding to the OP, he was asking a question, not making a claim.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Birds evolved from dinosaurs, of that there is no doubt. Dinosaurs are still officially classified as reptiles, but it is widely recognized that they really have many features different from reptiles, and many of them were much more similar to birds. lots of them even had feathers. There is a rather strong movement to classify them as birds. I think that is a very wrong idea. They are certainly very different from birds, and some are exceedingly different. The other school of thought is to create a new class, Dinosauria, and put them in that. I think that is the better idea.

[@jezeski2011]

@@odysseusrex5908 This is much more accurate.

[@mangot589]

They thought they were dragons, cyclops, And fantastical beasts. And, I guess they really were!

[@GTsunnyD]

For anyone wondering, the dinosaur stuff ends after the first 2 minutes

[@honeysucklecat]

I used to live a few blocks from where the first reasonably complete full skeleton of a dinosaur was found in Haddonfield, NJ.

[@don2deliver]

Haddonfield Harry