What If The Dinosaurs Hadn't Died Off?

What if dinosaurs have survived the asteroid impact? Could we have seen a shared dino-mammal ecology, or even intelligent dinosaurs?
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What If The Dinosaurs Hadn't Died Off?
Episode 452; June 20, 2024
Written, Narrated & Produced by: Isaac Arthur
Editors:
Donagh Broderick
Jessica Swenson
Lukas Konecny
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound Epidemic Sound epidemicsound.c...

[@KevinRoboticsEDU]

Last winter I visited the Dinosaur Resource Center in Colorado. They told me how most dinosaur species have only ever been identified by their teeth (usually the hardest bones in any animal.) A lot of the skeletons we saw on display were the result of 3D scanning what bones we COULD find to extrapolate the shapes of those missing (i.e. mirroring the left arm to make the right.) Most of their exhibits are at least partially 3D printed, and they sometimes color-code the filament so visitors can identify which pieces weren't unearthed naturally.

[@mikescholz6429]

Jurassic Park 3 in 2001 was probably the first time a large number of people were exposed to 3D printing.

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

Vast majority of dino teeth fossil are considered undiagnostic for below subfamily status and therefore labeled as nomina dubia. The number of valid dinos species known only from dental remains can be counted in one had.

[@Pasha-dd7te]

Surprised, Dinotopia wasn't mentioned.

[@JetfireQuasar]

Underrated series

[@ravenlord4]

Harry Harrison wrote an interesting sci-fi series called the "Eden Trilogy" that explores the scenario of the K-T meteor never hitting, and a dinosaur species achieving sentience and advanced technology through chemistry and biology rather than mechanical or electrical. And they have to deal with isolated humans who have only made it to the hunter-gather stage. It is a well thought out "what if" alternate history :)

[@TheArklyte]

If that's the author of Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld fame, then I have always called him Garry Garrison and never knew it spelled like that... woops😅

[@BooksRebound]

Oh cool. I was thinking of the K'Chain Che'Malle from Malazan Book of the Fallen. It's an epic fantasy series about the Malazan Empire and it's wars and their effect on the people caught up in them. It's incredible. The best and largest epic fantasy I've ever read (and I've read a lot). But the world has 4 founding races: Jaghut, Imass, Assail, and the K'Chain. K'Chain are hyper intelligent dinosaurs that built massive cities and have gravity manipulation magic. They don't feature THAT much in the series cause they were driven nearly to extinction like 300 000yrs ago when they had a civil war between the K'Chain Che'Malle and K'Chain Nahruk, then the survivors got clapped when the Tiste invaded this world due to their own civil war between Mother Dark and Father Light back in their own world. If you like epic fantasy and enjoy a challenging read that doesn't spoon feed you every little detail, I highly recommend Malazan. It's like this beautiful puzzle to figure out, and it has the best characters and the most devastating deaths I've read in fiction. If you think the Red Wedding was bad, just you wait lol.

[@b.g.5869]

Achieving sentience? Do you honestly think dinosaurs lacked sentience? It isn't necessary to have human type intelligence in order to be considered "sentient". Sentience simply means possessing some degree of awareness. Dinosaurs were vertebrates with brains similar to birds and alligators; it would be absurd to imagine they were not sentient.

[@ravenlord4]

@@b.g.5869 Thank you PETA, and re-read the ENTIRE sentence. And try context rather than cherry picking next time. Cheers, and have a better day, and throw another steak on the barbie 😄😆😂

[@BooksRebound]

@@b.g.5869 you know what they meant...

[@michaelporzio7384]

What do you call a Dinosaur from Houston? Tyrannosaurus Tex.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

Isaac's joke should have been, "What do you call a dinosaur demolition derby"? "Tyrannosaurus Wrecks".

[@sailornaut-2014]

What do you call Dinosaur food in Texas? Texanosaurus Mex

[@floridaman4073]

Tex-Rex

[@wesleyhoward5599]

Someone needs to ask Chat GPT what it would be like if Isaac Arthur went into standup comedy.

[@morwickchesterham3875]

What do you call a female dino from Lesbos, Greece... who hunts other female dinos, and eats them? A Lesboraptor.

[@LuDux]

There's this short story: aliens make a stop on moon for minor repairs and in free time zoologists visit Earth where they witness fight between dinosaur and humanoid. They kill dinosaur, spread anti-dinosaur virus and leave. But it was dinosaurs shooting movie about evil humanoids

[@kataseiko]

If you look at birds, larger doesn't always mean more intelligent. If you make a crow bigger, it doesn't automatically become more intelligent. An emu or a nandu is about as tall as we are, and while there's some intelligence in there, they are easily outwitted by crows.

[@TheWhitefisher]

If you make a crow bigger you don't get a ratite; you get a bigger corvid, like a raven, which is smarter. You're correct that overall size doesn't correlate with intelligence but your reasoning takes a wrong turn in that comparing two very different groups of birds doesn't mean anything.

[@ericvondell5157]

@@kataseiko It's NOT so much How Big Your Brain Is, Or How many Neurons Your Brain Has That Matters Most. It's How Well You Use What Brain You Have!🦖

[@Kura_Kekoa]

What do you call a dinosaur accident? Not covered by my insurance.

[@isaacthedestroyerofstuped7676]

Too real...

[@lukehahn4489]

lucky if they'll pay for a tow

[@bobinthewest8559]

@@lukehahn4489… I doubt they’d pay, even just for the Dino’s broken toe. 😉

[@echothegecko2875]

​@lukehahn4489 A Towrannousarus for all your Rex

[@projectarduino2295]

T-Rex moon landing would be like: “One big step for a t-Rex, and, uh, a bigger leap for t-Rex kind.”

[@mathewdruggan8877]

Boy does this episode bring back some memories Isaac. Many moons when I attended elementary school in Columbus I did my 3rd grade science fair project on the impact hypothesis and connected it with use of nuclear weapons detonated far enough out in sequential "shells" around the earth to deflect them. I ended up getting 2nd place as it was deemed "science fiction" and not actual science ... at the time 😂. The person I lost out 1st place had made a cast with bottle caps all over the cast to allow for someone to poke and prod their mending limb in case they needed to scratch an itch 😒

[@joshuaperry4112]

How to you console a hungry T Rex? A-pat-asaurus on their back and There-Therapod.

[@delveling]

The Flintstones was my favourite version of dinos and humans living together :)

[@aspiratedaloha2946]

Drinking and snacking

[@comentedonakeyboard]

Grab a drink and a mamal.

[@SomeKindaSpy]

There is a fantastic speculative evolutionary project by C.M. Koseman and Simon Roy called "Dinosauroids" where they explored this very topic. Basically: asteroid did not happen, but heavy climate change and some die offs did. Some mammals evolved to fill the ecological niches, but most niches still belonged to the remnant dinosaur species; in particular dromaeosaurids, pterosaurs, and some ornithomimidae. Ecological pressures caused a group of troodontids to evolve that heavily resembled crow or raven-like therapods into something analogous to early human-like intelligence but with a bird-like twist.

[@JVDAWG1]

Anyone else remember the Animorphs Megamorphs book where the Animorphs are transported back in time when two alien species warred on earth and one of them uses an asteroid to destroy the other? And Tobias let it happen without warning the peaceful species so that history would not be changed.

[@LT.dans_new_legs]

Nah I don't remember I never read the books

[@meeponinthbit3466]

Click-bait title here... Us nerds all know they evolved into delicious chickens and stuff.

[@murderedcarrot9684]

A couple of lucky survivors did.

[@sagethelemur]

mmmmm chicken

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

Best we can do for a modern t.Rex.

[@dingo4530]

I just realized dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets are kind of an evolution joke

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

And extinct non-avian dinasurs also tasted kinda like chicken and fowl (and somewhat between them and alligators) according to some studies on the taste of various extinct non avian clades.

[@wesleymiller6674]

I oftenly wonder how the earth would be by now in alternate timelines. It would be fascinating to see how many things--culture, religion, languages, video games, fashion, their own speculation about life on other planets, etc--would be if dinosaurs or other species evolved into intelligence.

[@sarcasmo57]

Dinosaurs are always interesting.

[@Jesse-zk9ge]

I like the idea that dinosaurs could got into space. You know in the old Outer Limits series. They actually came up with a really neat avian alien humanoid. The episodes called Second Chance. It's actually one of my favorite Outer Limits episodes.👍✌

[@empireempire3545]

I would like to point out that Dinosaurs did not die off - not completely. The ones who survived we call birds : D Including my beloved parrots! *SQAWK*!

[@dazza8389]

Crocodiles still alive & well

[@batatanna]

​@@dazza8389 crocodiles aren't dinosaurs tho, they're reptiles and are much older than dinosaurs

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

​@@dazza8389 A common misconception; Crocodiles aren't classed as Dinosaurs. They share a common ancestor, yet aren't Dinosaurs.

[@iivin4233]

​@batatanna This is technically not true and technically true. Both crocodiles and birds branch off of "archosauria". Crocodiles derive from "psuedosuchia" which is one of the branches of "archosauria". Both dinosaur and crocodile family lines start in the same place in other words, along with more complexity that I don't want to burden everyone with.

[@batatanna]

@@iivin4233 having a common ancestor doesn't mean they're in the same category tho, it's true to say humans are boned fish than crocodiles are dinosaurs.

[@PopCultureCat]

Woaaaa! This channel always delivers. I had *never* thought of the Chicxulub impactor as an alien planet killer to reset our evolution (for whatever unfathomable reason planetkiller aliens might have, I heard something about an expressroad). Did Ancient Aliens do this one?

[@MsGaloreNails]

The funny thing is I remember an episode of Star Trek voyager. Where chicotae got abducted by dinosaur aliens who could talk, and they had spaceships, and they would not believe him when he said that their ancestors came from earth and fled earth before destruction

[@erichtomanek4739]

As a representative of the Yilane, I take exception to this episode! For further reference, please read the excellent trio of historical novels by Harry Harrison: West of Eden Winter in Eden Return to Eden.

[@NIKIOKADA]

Thanks!

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

You bet!

[@JamieAlice92]

What do you call a dinosaur that lifts? Tyrannosaurus Pecs.

[@kovi-kovi-viko]

You see, this is one of those moments where I wish I didn't have nightmares. I should've seen it coming, but now? I'll be getting a face full of muscle in my sleep...

[@marsar1775]

i saw that joke in the intro coming a mile away and couldnt do anything to avoid it much like the asteroid

[@nicolasolton]

I read a story many years ago about this topic, it was called "Toolmakers Koan" by John Mcloughlin.

[@andrewcole4843]

The Turtledove series where saurians got into space before being wiped out on earth and thus rule another planetary empire that invades earth. Jack Vance's sci fi version of two rival human tribes making a comeback using specially bred combinations of dinosaur breeds to wage war only to have the winner attacked by a dinosaur space invasion....great genre.

[@badmeatbrowniesthoughts1327]

Harry Harrison has a series of books. "West of Eden" I remember them being pretty frikin epic. And the entire premise is based on this concept..Y'alls need to check it out

[@evacuatedspace6946]

You forgot about Dr Who's Silurians.

[@samt6885]

Very punny, Isaac! I would love to hear more puns!

[@michaellee6489]

Yeah imagine Noah trying to board 2 of every dinosaur...

[@swainscheps]

What’s more revealing here is that dinosaurs were around for 200m years and didn’t get smarter, nor did brain-size increase. You’d think variation would have provided one species or another to get more brain matter, providing some evolutionary advantage - (serving better pattern recognition, more fine-tuned muscle control, communication, heightened senses) - it all makes me wonder about what evidence of progress toward intelligence would have looked like (could we detect increasingly complex social behavior? Primitive tool usage?) Btw - IA- I am a once-every now-and-then viewer- it’s been a while since I watched a video. Just wanted to say: you sound great …(not that it ever affected the quality of your content) - but I can definitely hear a ton of progress since I was last here, which wasn’t too long after your tongue surgery iirc. Keep up the good work.

[@sylvann7501]

Isaac, where did your video "Dead Aliens" go?

[@Bunker278]

"kill-a-ma-jig"... I'm so using that.

[@netherportals]

Chronos trigger taught me all I need to know, the fan game of fire filled in everything I didn't need to know. Dinoids just want food and love, in that order

[@feartheoldblood]

Had lavos not destroyed their species then they'd more than likely have killed it shortly after making landfall. Reptites were extremely formidable. All the more terrifying is the notion that any world could be host to a world ending parasite and they'd never even know, to our knowledge that lavos was the only one ever to be killed but even then it was not destroyed, thus dream devourer.

[@orbitalostrich2629]

This reminded me of the Astrosaurs series of books I read as a kid. Now that's some good nostalgia

[@floridaman4073]

It was a let down as a kid when I learned Humans and Dinosaurs didn’t exist together.

[@SamSchott1]

I favor the dinosaur extinction theory put forward by Gary Larson as illustrated in The Far Side.

[@KatieWierzbicki-ib2ib]

Your videos and all of your content is absolutely amazing and appreciated 💗 that you for all the research and work you do to make this info easy for me to understand and follow along. I know I can trust your content cause some of the science based channels similar to yours are mostly nonsense click bait type of channels😡 Thank you so much!

[@Cranberrie123]

How do you spell that mammal he mentioned? Sounded like 'barrowlamda' but that doesnt give any Google results.

[@Cranberrie123]

Nvm its Barylambda

[@merky6004]

Look, see that modern day smart dinosaur concept? 25:25. The bipedal guy with green skin and big eyes? I saw a concept display at a museum. Just standing there. Five feet tall and Dino skin. Walk right up to it. Amazing. However, They did not have to program the eyes to move occasionally. Without warning. Almost scared me to death.

[@JustOneAsbesto]

0:50 I have... SO many questions for that animator. Wow.

[@lukehahn4489]

dinosaurs are over represented in the fossil record because of their relative recency, big easily fossilized bones enabled by a sudden extinction event. The weird shit in Devonian seas is way more interesting

[@theredsaurian]

Quintaglio ascension trilogy moment

[@Narthanael]

Goddamn 6 legged Brachio/Brontrosaurus would have RKM'ed all the Aliens long ago 7:38

[@uncleanunicorn4571]

Anybody else remember the name of the role playing game where time traveling sapient evolved dinosaurs open a portal and land in modern day Myanmar? Put out by some small independent company.

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

Science and Futurism with Issakh Arrtrr

[@Texas240]

The dinosaurs didn't all die off. The most savvy and fit survived. The crows are biding their time, observing our weaknesses.

[@delvis008]

This was my theory years ago! Think about it, they had millions of years to evolve and the smaller ones developed larger brains so...

[@captsorghum]

18:30 Is that a bubbasaurus?

[@ajthesquirrel]

R’s are improving 👍

[@bradenhoefert2109]

A rather dull answer but if there was no K-Pg extinction then the Cretaceous doesn’t end and the planet looks pretty similar to how it did in the late Cretaceous, albeit colder.

[@seanhewitt603]

I am curious about all the crude oil deposits in the oceanic crust that has been subducted into the earth's mantle. There must be some... Effects that we have yet to relate to the presence of so many hydrocarbon deposits, and their interaction with metal oxides and silicon oxides...

[@swissbiggy]

In the meantime we are in the middle of another extinction event with +/- 90% of all the by us known life dying all around us, and nobody is noticing it ?!

[@scotttod6954]

What the rich do not know is that they will be alive while we eat them. Locally I have noticed animals that just didn't live in my area before. Birds, Insects and plants coming farther north to escape the hotter weather in the south.

[@francescocarlini7613]

Hollow Earth? Even MORE Dinosaurs next week!!

[@paperburn]

In reality we would probably not recognize the markers of the pre human civilization. As an example the largest marker of our current civilization that would last millenniums would be the tiny carbide balls from all of our ink pens. It is a detectable layer if you know what to look for in the soil. I.G. most anything carbide that was formed by reductive manufacturing of carbide. and not anything formed by additive manufacture of carbide.

[@SpacePatrollerLaser]

OMNI did an article on one of the dinosaurs becoming intelligent, I think it was one of the raptors. c1982

[@112313]

Ahh, the Silurian hypothesis....they took themselves out...and hundreds of millions of years later....however strong their civilization was... it's dust.

[@jonesy66691]

Hell yeah! Space Argonians.

[@LaboriousCretin]

The outer limits episode. To think like a dinosaur. Though they should have made them with larger brain space. Still like the episode though. Which pack hunting and communication species to evolve into intelligent and uses tools and such.

[@shalomjophress5153]

What do you mean the asteroid theory isn't set in stone😂😂😂

[@martinfitzsimons5884]

Evidence suggests that it took 33-50k years post impact for dinosaurs to die. So my best guess is he was saying that its not set in stone that the asteroid killed off the dinosaurs instantly or that the extinction was not already underway with the asteroid merely acting as a catalyst rather than a proximate cause.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

@@martinfitzsimons5884 I'm guessing they're remarking on my 'stone' pun there, the episode does explicitly say the asteroid is confirmed and just debated if it was the primary cause of extinciton

[@bobinthewest8559]

Robert Schock, a geologist (best known for disputing the claims of egyptologists in reference to the age of The Sphinx), said something about there being a lot of evidence suggesting that the extinction of the dinosaurs may be more likely related to a “period of high solar activity”. “Evidence” includes things like “glassification” of rock at a certain depth (seen in core samples), and some other geological evidence. I haven’t fact checked this, or done any research on it myself. I just happened to hear him in an interview on the radio last night, and he mentioned that.

[@thebigdog2295]

They're still around. Ask Hecklefish about them. He'll tell you all about the lizzad people. 😁

[@alexneff]

Theres a voyager episode about this

[@statickaeder29]

Did you ever read Dinosaur Heresies by Bakker? it came out in the mid 1980's, when I was in middle school (maybe earlier?) and I devoured it. - So far as sentient dinosaurs, Robert J. Sawyer wrote an interesting trilogy starting with _Far-Seer_ that I highly recommend. - - I don't remember who wrote _Toolmaker Koan_...

[@DAA314]

Id likely be making tyranoburgers right now

[@johnd5619]

No room on the Ark is what did the dinosaurs in!? Well damn!

[@ericrose419]

Calvin and Hobbes called it first: Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!

[@davidlewis8640]

They may have gone to the Delta Quadrant, but they returned. Where do you rhink the lizard aliens that rule the Earth came from?

[@basilcurrie8138]

Dinosauroids is interesting! It's by the same author as All Tomorrows

[@floridaman4073]

Wonder if we existed during the age of dinosaurs how we would fair. Hunting killing machines vs big hunting killing machines.

[@HateAndFlame]

There are more extant species of theropod dinosaur alive today than there are mammals. It’s still a dinosaur planet.

[@Boa_Omega]

the voth of Star Trek Voyager or The Bowl of Heaven novel. The survivors took off in half a dyson shell with Sol's twin. Right Clan Ru. They were rescued by the preservers. But got the idea instead they brought an asteroid deflector back to the Jurassic era via the Guardian of Forever. Instead as soon as they could they wiped themselves out in a series of nuclear wars. Wiped humanity from existence along with themselves millions of years ago. Mammals never became dominant in this other history.

[@Boa_Omega]

clan Ru were Raptors. Utahraptors

[@djdrack4681]

A theory of mine: Presumption:There's more to evolution than we're catching onto, especially (genetic memory) and just 'how' the surviving indivdual's DNA could change (and know to) based on external stimuli/environment. Which would mean that certain family/specie(s) may be more 'locked' from evolutionary standpoint, and others very 'unlocked' (and able to quickly/diversely evolve). Think Crocodile vs Canis familiaris (domestic dog)...Croc has been mostly same for 200mil yrs or so. The Dog? majority of current 'breeds' (2024) didn't exist pre-1900: Its the same 'species' so far as we can tell based on genetypes, and yet the phenotype expression (variance in size/use/inteligence/coat/etc) is truly massive. SURE, you can look at finches as something similar to domestic dog...but they evolve different beaks for diff food sources over course of 10s of 100s to millions of years. selective-breeding (and exposure to variety of environments/food sources/purposes by humans over the last 200-300years) = RAPID evolution.

[@djdrack4681]

So, it may be that even if physical attributes of dinosaurs may have made some to have 'potential' for eventual intelligence/civilization...IF they were evolving at 'natural' rate AND their genetics made them more 'locked in' to their core features...well then that was a type Great Filter that they weren't going to overcome (and didn't). Opposable digits + long arms+ able to swim + basic tool usage enough to surpass this...Think of the trash panda. It has all this...AND its quite intelligennt. Yet without commensual living around humans, they're still not super primed to evolve into civilization equal to ours. even 10k years ago

[@benjaminhenderson5025]

Do you really want Gorn? Because this is how you get Gorn.

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Remember the final episode of the tv show the dinosaurs they destroyed their environment

[@ianeichenlaub5084]

Yeah but that's all part of the pro dinosaur psyop. They in fact had a war between religious extremists on earth and the high tech space faring dinos. The space dinos won by dropping rocks and staying in space. Eventually they colonized planet 9 fir obvious reasons. They've been observing and meddling on earth ever since. One of their projects was uplifting the monkeys. Pro dinosaur culture is their greatest psyop

[@greggweber9967]

12:30 Minor straw that broke the camel's or dinosaur's back?

[@pewpewwithtodd8077]

Dynosaucers!

[@ashleyrodd8729]

Dinos were around for a looooong time though, they had thier chance. Mammals were around for far less time and they developed intelligence pretty well pretty quickly and far better. Birds are smart, but not as smart as me. And I'm an idiot.

[@ESL-O.G.]

The dinosaurs had millions and millions of years to evolve into something intelligent. I'd say they're not Capable of it or it would have happened over such a vast vast time period.

[@murderedcarrot9684]

Time is not a guarantee for intelligence. With natural life any trait is an accidental discovery life wandered into and found sexy.

[@jon4tina]

Considering they didn’t achieve much in 165 million years, I doubt they would have accomplished much with an additional 65.

[@Jaggerbush]

I don't know about 8:30? I know how to use a cell phone but I don't know how they work. I don't know where to get the minerals to build the hardware ; idk how circuit boards are assembled.. i think if 90% of us were gone- we'd be lucky to teach the next generation to read and write.... And this generation coming up isn't so bright.

[@TheSkystrider]

Isaac, I saw your short on Nebula about Team Seas. Was team trees really a success? Are these trees going to last or die off? Here's the issue with cleaning the ocean and collecting trash at mouths of rivers - its the least efficient solution: for every $1 you spend collecting a little trash from the river or the ocean, that $1 could have been spent at the source, preventing 1000 times more future trash. Isaac, you're smarter than this. Plus I think what Mr Beast does for philanthropy is terrible - I've never seen him make any kind of system long term change. His money could have done 10 million times more good than what hes done with it.

[@dariustiapula]

Finally western with raptor yeehaw! or knights on triceratops charge.

[@danielmartin7838]

Here we go, something I can sink my teeth into

[@paulsmart4672]

I don't think we should just shrug our shoulders and say nothing can be known for certain. Sure, Superman and The Hulk are both written very inconsistently, in terms of just how strong they are, but there's just no way Harry Potter stands any kind of chance against Doctor Strange.

[@isaacarthurSFIA]

Fair enough, I did have a problem writing that particular comparison with a straight face :)

[@jonnyunited]

A+ dad joke to start the video lff with!

[@thingonathinginathing]

So you can make a video about this, but UAP Disclosure, the Non-human intelligences presence on Earth, and an entire emerging New Paradigm before us is too much for you? LOOL 🗑🗑🗑 Astrophysicist Dr. Kevin Knuth during his presentation on The Physics of UAP at Stanford: "It doesn't take a PhD to figure this stuff out, yet PhDs can't handle it. Perhaps our beloved Popularizers of Science have vested interests in ignoring this topic." 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cannonfodder4376]

Open the video to such a bad Dad joke. 😂 An informative video, Isaac.

[@Reddotzebra]

Doctor Strange vs. Harry Potter? That would depend on timeline, I mean Harry Potter does kind of leave one of his biggest force multipliers behind at the end of the series, so if we take Established Auror Harry Potter and set him up against Doctor Strange with his full set of paraphernalia, I'd say Doctor Strange nine times out of ten. Number ten being Harry using his invisibility cloak, which might have a shot at fooling even the Eye of Agamotto, and essentially stabbing the Doc in the back.

[@BooksRebound]

Then you'd get K'Chain Che'Malle

[@83shaunam]

My cat usually pays zero attention to the TV, but he watched this video with rapt attention for a solid 20 minutes. Lol

[@shoutingfactory3694]

Had he been for a procedure? The one time my cat watched a program with rapt attention, he was high as a kite having recently been sedated for an ultrasound lol

[@TipSheikh]

Thank you for all the work you and the team do on videos; i watch them to fall asleep... then three videos later am still awake. I appreciate the thought-provoking entertainment.

[@0cujo0]

They had a documentary about this - It was called the Flintstones

[@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x]

Good content! 😂 And also Denver the Last Dinosaur.

[@4Fixerdave]

I think the Flintstones was a documentary about our future. You know, when we de-extinct some dinos and the AI then decides we aren't smart enough to play with technology. Yeah, we're never going to make the Jetsons... no flying cars for us. Nope.

[@bobinthewest8559]

@@4Fixerdave… Look at our roads, traffic and accident statistics. Do you REALLY want flying cars???

[@4Fixerdave]

@@bobinthewest8559 Yeah... that's EXACTLY what the AI is going to say. You.... you PEOPLE.... no fly for you. You get pedal power and that's it. ;) Sigh... we'll probably be better off.

[@shawn092182]

​@@4Fixerdave A flying car did exist in the Flintstones. Barney invented one.

[@wanderingron2063]

Lmao author that was the worst dad joke ever 😂😂😂

[@michealnelsonauthor]

Which One? Lol.

[@colonelgraff9198]

Get Rex.

[@stoop25]

They had over 100 million years to get their shit together. They missed their chance.

[@SomeKindaSpy]

I know it's a joke, but this isn't how evolution works. There's a difference between needing intelligence to exist and intelligence giving an advantage to survival. Humans ended up getting the former and got "lucky" when our resources ran out early on (from hunting mega fauna and over eating it) and we had to get smarter or go extinct. We lucked out hard in fact when that one perfect mutation got us the brains we needed.

[@ericvondell5157]

@@stoop25 NOPE! 🦖🦅 Let's See IF The Psychotic Apes can Manage A 100+ Million Years Of Ruling The Planet. Shall We?! 🙏🕊️☮️💖🛸💫✨😻🙏 🤔Dinosaurs Are NOT "The Big Losers" ! Quite To The Contrary; Of ALL Land Living Vertebrata, Dinosaurs Are The Biggest Winners, EVER! 🦖🦅🕊️😸

[@thecoolbyzantine24]

more proof that humans are the prime lifeform

[@karatekan2182]

The idea that dinosaurs had less advanced thermoregulation than modern mammals is looking increasingly less likely. Numerous dinosaur fossils have been discovered in areas that would have been very close to the poles, which even with the warmer climate would imply the ability to survive extremely harsh winters. Additionally, like birds, dinosaur physiology might have even presented advantages in terms of thermoregulation. Air sacs and pneumaticized bones enable birds to have much greater respiratory capacity than mammals, and appear to have been common even in large dinosaurs, like titanosaurs.

[@TheRezro]

First of dinosaurs didn't extinct. They literally are birds. Dinosaurs in fact look closer to them then the lizards.

[@karatekan2182]

@@TheRezro “Dinosaurs” weren’t birds, birds are descendants of certain dinosaurs.

[@TheRezro]

@@karatekan2182 It is literally the same argument like that humans aren't monkeys.

[@karatekan2182]

@@TheRezro …We aren’t monkeys, we are apes

[@formes2388]

@@TheRezro Humans are NOT monkeys. That is a full stop truth. The last common ancestor for modern humans and monkey's died off some 25 million years ago. The last common ancestor for gorilla's - is something like 15 million years ago, and the last common ancestor for chimps is something like 8 million years ago. Humans, ARE categorized as Great Apes, we are NOT monkeys. We good with that? Good. This being said: While Avian species find ancestry back to that of dinosaurs, they themselves are typically NOT dinosaurs. They are not a fossilized reptile - by nature of still being alive, and largely... not fossilized. They are not outdated, nor obsolete (by fact they are still in existence). More to the point - Dinosaurs typically refer to creatures that existed from ~252 million years ago, to about ~66 million years ago. If you want old, still in existence species the list is something like: Horsehow crap, jellyfish and... maybe sharks? In terms of a species - sharks first evolved something like 380-420 million years ago.

[@rjoshb]

As a geologist that likes to S-Post I need to say that this was when flowering plants first started to flourish. I think the dinosaurs all sneezed to death from hay fever.

[@octoscorpion2506]

Most people don't realise how badly allergies can affect you. There were many days of suffering that made me wish I was 💀. I like your hypothesis.

[@10aDowningStreet]

KFC wouldn't exist without dinosaurs and meteors.

[@cosmictreason2242]

This comment is accidentally true but the logic is wrong lol. At face value it's true even though the world is 6000 years old

[@tomtom7955]

idk if its true but i always heard kfc made it big in ww2 , something about the japs liking the secret herbs and spices , it help conceal the the fact their chicken was spoiled. it tasted better than horse meat.

[@ericvondell5157]

@@10aDowningStreet Of Course IT Would.... It'd Just Be Kentucky Fried Crocodile! Or Kentucky Fried Catfish! (Remember The Bird Flu epidemic?!) 💖

[@roberthofmann8403]

I would love to see Gandalf vs Palpatine.

[@yamsyamsevolution9712]

I think it would have been much easier to hack computers if the dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct. There is no way a Tyrannosaurus rex would have a complicated password with those arms.

[@lukehahn4489]

clearly you do not know the Sleestak

[@TheRezro]

Dinosaurs literally didn't extinct. They fly outside my window.

[@brick6347]

I dare you to tell a cassowary to his face that dinosaurs are extinct!