Top 5 Prehistoric Gliding Animals!

[@wcdeich4]

Yeah, an ongoing Triassic tier list would be great, I seriously have to suggest Eretmorhipis carrolldongi

[@PaleoAnalysis]

Eretmorhipis is absolutly on my to do list!

[@AnnoyingNewslettersPage6]

Seconded! 😎

[@PaleoAnalysis]

It's actually in production now! And unfortunately hitting some production road blocks so I still can't say when 😅

[@Mexican00b]

perry the prehistoric dinoplatipus!?

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

I concur - a tier list series would be amazing!

[@stephenlamb6005]

All other gliders: gliding with their arms. Sharo: nah I’m going to be perverted and spread my legs to glide

[@morgans4977]

I discovered your channel recently and you've already tripled in subscribers--gratz!

[@realityhelix564]

It's wild how "lizard, but with side wings" evolved more than once.

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

And there are still gliding lizards somewhere in Sulawesi. _Draco volans_

[@realityhelix564]

@@julioalbertoherrera1339 I know! It just keeps happening!

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

@@realityhelix564 Exactly 😆

[@YouTube]

okay wait i just learned so much 🤯

[@supercalifragilisticexpial1727]

I love learning about the weirdest creatures of the past. Good video.

[@MyNameIsBVD]

Love this channel so much there’s crazy information I had no idea. I got into this cause I was interested in the changes of geography of the Earth through tens to hundreds of million years ago.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Man this was thoroughly excellent. Loved every second. Your formatting and execution is always great but this one stood out. I can see it being great for biology teachers turning on for the first part of class as a great introduction to gliding. Knocked it out of the park! Laughed out loud at the ‘not you’ part. Keep killing it man!

[@jeffreyhawn3562]

Yes to ongoing Triassic list. Great video I’d love to hear more about difference in feathered and Nonfeathered dinos. Also love the humor you are adding very funny 👍

[@sunnyjozani8421]

I know I said I'm not a fan of top 5 videos, but you proved me wrong! I love how you discussed all these animals in depth. An ongoing Triassic tier list will be awesome.

[@garethtudor836]

Please, please, PLEASE do a tier list series of Triassic critters! And on the subject of Primeval, I used to watch it with an ex's kids. Never missed an episode

[@danieljob3184]

Love that he featured Rex. Best character in the series!

[@WoopersDad]

There it is ! That was faster than i expected haha. Congrats on the 20k!!

[@0neTwo3]

My brain is conjuring a vision of Hypuronector jumping and spinning to the ground like a Maple seed to escape predators.

[@luisquintana8126]

Bro, I gotta tell you... You've come a long way from that annoying kid I grew to care about. I'm so damn proud of you, Big things coming man, Only up from here...

[@balenfalotico2283]

Great video man!! As a matter of fact, I just finish binging Primeval on Amazon Prime. Man, that show brought back memories!

[@Krakonospivo]

Really cool! Please continue more on Triassic period, as there is a huge potential for interesting videos!

[@petrairene]

Hypuronector might have used that tail to mimic a leaf to avoid predators. Like some stick insects to wtih their leaf like appendages.

[@moominkomet]

I love Pimeval! Man, talk about nostalgia!

[@owenstockwood5040]

Definate thunbs up on that Triassic wierdness tierlist idea.

[@longslhonglogan2959]

Primeval was Amazing, thank you for bringing the name back to me

[@bethanysmith5856]

Love your style of storytelling

[@TheaSvendsen]

Yes yes yes to an ongoing tier list!

[@sandwich_i6465]

Dude how are you already at 8k subscribers? You are sky rocketing my man and you deserve it! You make great content

[@Fummy007]

10 days later and its at nearly 30k

[@apexnext]

Let's see I joined at the end of July, got hooked, it was around 80k. It's the beginning of August and he's at 85k. 😁👍

[@batonnikus]

Sharovipteryx seems to me to be like grasshopper in terms of darting off: It crossed my mind that Shaviropteryx could have just used legs to jump high just like grasshopper and used membrane to glide. Grasshoppers sometimes use wings after taking a leap to cover vastly more area than they would just jumping. (At least) On the surface it looks like a good gues for Sharovipteryx use of those long legs.

[@ToothlessWizard]

Loving your channel Steve. Almost seen all video's in three days haha. Congratulations with the succes, you deserve it!

[@MeanBeanComedy]

6:10 Thought that was Derek for a sec, based on the sauna background! 😆😆😝🤦🏼‍♂️

[@stumpyale]

Gosh the Triassic was the age of nature being drunk and not going home like she was supposed to lol

[@WoopersDad]

20k here we come 🙌🏻 Not long till that Milestone!

[@Meerkat000]

Dude you’re knocking it outta of the park with these!! Thanks for the great content!!

[@gayle4s383]

Everything about your channel keeps me coming me coming back more and more lately than the others, Thank you

[@hsdinoman2267]

nice another top 5 list

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

Great list! Really highlights the diversity of animals that have adapted to this lifestyle. Btw I probably have to watch Primeval, because it seems that a good number of people like it and apparantly I'm part of that demographic group that as you mentioned should be familiar with it.

[@PaleoAnalysis]

I guess it's avalible on Amazon plus, which is news to me because I had no idea until a commenter told me!

[@david2869]

The new season is out now!

[@fathomlessforge8700]

You wanna know why I like you and what you do, you’re a thinker. It at least seems to me your pushing ideas and questioning the “why” even though there’s a common consensus already. You’re not repeating facts your breaking things down and reassessing the possibilities for yourself. Thank you for sharing these perspectives and why we should look closer and think a little differently.

[@JennJurassic]

got bored and decided to google gliding animals to see if there currently is anything similar to sharo. so far the closest i can find are the following: Malayan flying frog: a treefrog that has long relatively flat hind legs, webbed toes (but not really finger?), and an almost-tail that is a flattened square. Flying Geckos: tend to have slightly longer hind limbs and are webbed ALL over (likely closest we can get to sharo right now) it's a stretch, but why not: flying squid: their fins are at the "front" while gliding and are much smaller than the membrane from the tentacles. aka, has longer rear membrane. flying ants (depends on type): there are several type of "flying" ants that glide back to the tree if they fall to avoid falling to the forest floor. some seem to completely flatten their bodies (with really stubby legs), others are semi-flattened but have longer legs (with general long rear ones) which are spread out to help control their glide. (said leggy ones are really the only way they are similar to sharo, but they are really too small to count) An interesting pattern (at least with the arboreal ones, silly squid) is that it seems that they all have some way to climb the tree WITHOUT relying on their grip. Tree frogs like using their not-glue, geckos just static cling, and the ants are just small enough that they barely need any grip to climb things. So the thing that might be keeping this from being adapted as much might have to do with it impeding climbing ability? idk, just an idea

[@Aqua-jp1wm]

This is the first video I have seen from this channel but, it's good quality and interesting topics so far. Thanks for new source of knowledge and entertainment my friend

[@seannoble7665]

Just found the channel. Haven't even watched 1 video and I've already subscribed.

[@darklight6013]

12:08 Don't forget the therezinosaurids, the one who actually invented that lifestye

[@D_R757]

Would you make a video about chalicotheriidae? Super underrated, some of the weirdest ungulates to ever exist. Appreciate everything you do man, thank you.

[@stevenelbert8989]

8:41 that's how I first found out about this bizarre dinosaur in the documentary planet dinosaur and I'm sure many other people first learned about it

[@PaleoAnalysis]

I know I did!

[@stevenelbert8989]

With the discovery of yi qi the aye aye lifestyle is now outdated but it's a case of science marching on

[@apexnext]

@@stevenelbert8989 and the newer version is infinitely cooler. 😎

[@davidegaruti2582]

Honestly i think sharovipterix may have been the efficient glider , it just makes sense to me , and also that set up may have been hard to evolve : you need an animal with long legs getting on trees and not losing it's long legs , Gliding animals tend to evolve in forests where the acidic soil prevents fossilization , so there may have been all sorts of gliders that we may never see

[@richjordan6461]

It's funny...I just recently found Primeval on Tubi, a free app, and am on like episode 8. It bugged me that Rex seemed to have the extra limbs that his wings suggested. It's very cool to find out he's just an exaggerated representation of a real paleocritter

[@Scott-wf9kp]

Please do tell us all about the weirdness in these ancient creatures!

[@Evangelium]

Hello, I'd like to see you do an episode of Sphenacodontidae if you can. That family is quite interesting and mysterious to me. 😁

[@jasonwilliams31]

Love this video this is very interesting

[@superboost1574]

Awesome videos continuing to get better Can you feature dickinsonia in a video?

[@jaredmitchell1302]

The last one may be more efficient in gliding with those back leg wings. But walking and climbing with them would be a real challenge. Making it overall a worse strategy.

[@colinhames7377]

Please do an ongoing Triassic weirdo list the Triassic is just so cool to me, the beginning of Dinos, all animals were fighting for dominance evolution was booming just a great time

[@omoreymusic9513]

Subscribed a few days ago and you were on 12.4k subs 😂😂

[@gibbster4097]

Ah Epidexipteryx, my favorite dino and among my favorite animals period. Im glad it gets some rep here!

[@forianproductions6113]

Also, I know this is my second comment but I support the idea of a tierlist of weird triassic animals

[@joshuafernandes6684]

Very nice video. Glad to see that your channel has significantly grow! When will be the next Earth's history video?

[@tobilikebacon]

i would really enjoy a paleo catalog on the giant terror bird kelenken or arctotherium

[@penny_the_wiser413]

Definitely want to see more triassic weirdos. I'm a weirdo who loves weird animals.

[@herni4713]

Did you whatch the new trailer for prehistoric planet? its an impresive secuence

[@Traumasamanen]

Thanks for also telling the metrics! If you talk about miles, can you tell the kilometers too? I think it is the only missing...

[@craigstephenson7676]

Would you consider squirrels to be gliders? Squirrels have a low enough terminal velocity where they can’t be seriously injured from a fall, but they don’t have membranes to give them much mobility in the air.

[@egghole3]

Have you considered doing a video on prehistoric chondrichthyans?

[@ScorpioXVirgo]

I appreciate you spelling out the names. it gets difficult guessing how to spell these 😅

[@prep0wer]

Sharovipteryx: Although the flying wing design is the best flying design, it has decisive disadvantages as a design for animals. You cannot land in a controlled manner with wings on the hind legs. Because the heart is located above the thighs, they will suffer from a lack of oxygen during prolonged exercise. A long neck is a better design because liquid is easier to pump up than to suck up from below (>10m is not even possible). The chest is also ideal for mounting flight muscles while creating a large moment of force. The distance from the organs to the muscles is also smaller for the provision of oxygen and sugars. Even human pilots are not able to fly this model flying beast safely due to the limited flight envelope although this model has 100% better flight efficiency.

[@prep0wer]

Taking off is also almost impossible.

[@prep0wer]

Did gravitation significantly differ during the ages?

[@tapiocaweasel]

Are you familiar with Aron Ra? He has an excellent 50-part series on the systematic classification of life beginning at the beginning and ending with homo sapiens sapiens

[@DinosaurianDude]

Wait, has that series ended already?😮 I might have some catching up to do.

[@levliv4664]

Coelurosauravus was also shown in a new prehistory in the ep called what killed the giant insects or something

[@dianayoder1285]

Yes to the tier list

[@bojokowski]

New to channel.. Do you have an opinion on the black mountain range in Morocco? Does the repetition look like biology decomposed in mud to you?

[@kinggidora3144]

Great Video!

[@DinosaurianDude]

But what if Hyperunector used it's tail to helicopter glide like a maple seed?

[@allonychus8393]

What editing software do you use ,i really want to make paleontology vids like yours

[@forianproductions6113]

The colugos (flying lemurs) are not lemurs, in fact they are not primates at all. They are the closest relatives to primates, but they aren't ones. Basically almost there but not completely. Just wanted to point that out

[@BarnJ]

Teacher: "This is part of a process called..." Class in monotone unison: "con-ver-gent evo-lu-tion...we know!"

[@griffinhunter3206]

Bruh flying frogs are right there. They have larger back "wings" than frount "wings", and it works reasonably well than them. They're not as specialized as a sharovipterix with the full leg petagium, but its pretty close

[@syncmonism]

And, to this day, many strange creatures can still be found in New Jersey! O_O

[@aidanramage3320]

can you do a Therizinosaurus deep dive?

[@Dinomatrix21]

"Good god, it's related to Tanystropheus!" It's fucking WHAT!? The aquatic thing with 12 - 13 extrmeley elongated neck vertebrae that looked like a plesiosaur but wasn't, THAT Tanystropheus?!

[@PaleoAnalysis]

Stay tuned!

[@0divar]

Surely not THE "Big Man Tan" himself!

[@flightlesslord2688]

i like to think someone found a rhamphorhyncid or scansoriopterid fossil... yeah i dont know how to spell either of those, but i like to think someone discovered one in the middle ages and went... 'chicken dragon'? And thats where cockatrices come from. Cos Yi Qui is pretty much a cockatrice

[@RayneZerati]

I appreciate TimTims World of Warcraft reference. Go TimTim! 📣📣📣

[@moon1fan371]

Pretty cool

[@timestorm5687]

5:07 Is it just me or does the tail from hypuronector look like those helicopter seeds from stuff like maples?

[@golddragonette7795]

yay triassic weirdness!

[@StephenKoplin]

"LEEEEEEERRRRROOOOOOOYYYYYY TTTIMMMMMM-TTTIMMMMM!" 😂

[@shawnohagan5503]

Great video

[@palantir135]

Of course I saw Primeval. I still have the series on my NAS.

[@fallendevonish1869]

What was life like the first half a million years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

[@PaulSteMarie]

Hypuronector looks a lot like a maple seed. Could it use the tail to helicopter down, perhaps?

[@Eloraurora]

I wonder if a species is more likely to evolve hindlimb gliding if it already has the musculature of the hind legs strongly tied in with the tail.

[@jorat8160]

Looking at hypuronector, I thought it was going to be theorized that they glide/spin around like maple/helicopter seeds 😅 the tail does bear a strong resemblance to those seeds

[@noliyoshida7486]

Dino bat sounds awesome

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Or closest thing to real life dragons.

[@jaylewis9876]

Hyperonectar looks like a Helicopter seed!

[@ms.dragon1918]

is funny that some of these animals are the closest thing to dragons (or those birds things inside the earth in that kong vs godzilla movie) we got (as far as we know) but man we got cheated and did not have giant Draco lizards or birds with dragon wings

[@Daddyo89]

I heard of a time period where insects were really big. One theory is that there was more oxygen in the air, allowing them to have a larger exoskeleton. Is this true? Or am I totally off? Lol

[@PaleoAnalysis]

You are absolutely correct! the time period was called the Carboniferous. It took place from 359.2 to 299 million years ago and is also the main time that a large portion of the coal and oil comes from.

[@Daddyo89]

@@PaleoAnalysis wow! That’s really Interesting man. One of those bad boys could be a cool video idea. Love your channel btw.

[@nuniyoa]

oh my god did you use a david peters illustration/animation at 11:53 😭😭😭😭

[@DogFoxHybrid]

Good video, but I think your audio is really low.

[@darklordofsword]

Scansoripterygians are the closest thing to mini-wyverns, and I want one.

[@DogOnExtendingLead]

Yes triassic weird list for sure

[@TeethToothman]

❤❤❤

[@trashtoast4938]

More Triassic weirdness pls

[@johnjames1374]

Okie here, swallow tail, weird bug hunting bird... How'd it get here?

[@statickaeder29]

Sorry, I was born in 1977, and read Dinosaur Heresies when it first came out twice, cover to cover, before I had to return it.

[@EmmaSpAce111]

“Remember Rex?” Has memories tumble from the closet at the back of my brain like the fucking kratt brothers opened it And that zaboomaphoo bit came back out with it for some reason

[@StonedtotheBones13]

Man, hypuronector really makes me wonder what about that group was so mutable. Specifically the tails. How does one even grow a tail claw anyway?!

[@colebakalik2701]

Have you seen Randall Carlson's work? I highly recommend you take a look and see how it relates to the extinction of the large land animals of the Americas

[@petergambino2129]

when the first glider took to actually flying, what did it fly with? He must have been like The Howard Hughs of gliders. I bet he got all the chicks, and that's how they evolved so fast. Not to mention there were probably a lot of female lady type gliders that were, say not so chaste as well. knome saying?