What the Hell was Volaticotherium?!

Volaticotherium was a strange animal, gliding through Jurassic forests in China. One of the mammals first forays into the sky, it shows how quickly unique niches can be filled if the right conditions show up.
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[@gattycroc8073]

love that you used the Dinosaur Train version of Volaticotherium in the thumbnail because I absolutely loved that show when I was little due to it featuring all sorts of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life.

[@RaptorChatter]

Thank my wife/editor! She did the thumbnail

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Cool never heard of this thing before

[@trentenmerrill5239]

Bro I love "free learning outlets" like your KZbin channel. You make such awesome videos. Please keep up the good work man. It's much appreciated

[@Fede_99]

5:29 oh no, not that reconstruction

[@scioregis6381]

As soon as I saw it I looked for the fossils because those fingers looked weird, I don't know where the idea of it having bat-like fingers comes from but is totally inaccurate.

[@RaptorChatter]

Yep, that was one that just snuck by the editing process. I had meant to replace it with a more gliding like version, but missed it on my last watchthrough.

[@cw7429]

Always interesting to hear about all the different ways things have evolved similar traits!

[@loopernoodling]

Always happy to see a new vid from Raptor Chatter! I could swear that I saw a video about a mammal that was not a bat, but going by the fossil remains, it looked like it was well on the way to being able to fly. Not just gliding, but proper flight. I wish I'd made a note of it - it was a fascinating idea. Perhaps it was by North 02?

[@lynnclapper997]

Hey Professor. Love all your mini seminars

[@youtubejosephwm6699]

I thought I heard on moth light media this animal and its relatives had powered flight

[@RaptorChatter]

That's an idea that's floating around, but it has no real scientific basis. People who support that idea haven't been able to show evidence for it being able to.

[@youtubejosephwm6699]

@@RaptorChatter too bad that would be excited if they could actually fly

[@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0]

He fly

[@zombiedad]

It is very cute too.

[@scioregis6381]

In the minute 5:30 Argentoconodon is shown with long fingers but I was searching it and I found no information about it having those bat-like fingers. Is there some information I can´t find or is just that the art is inaccurate?

[@scioregis6381]

I was looking for it and the name Carlos Miguel Albuquerque came up, apparently Carlos believes that this group of animals had powered fight and commissioned art of them with proper wings. Looking more deeply I found a paper (With no per review) made by Carlos and published in ResearchGate in 2017, the paper is titled "Evidence of powered flight in Volaticotherium antiquum" and after reading over it the methodology used seen to be looking at very blurry images of different fossils and comparing them.

[@RaptorChatter]

That's just the art. I had meant to change it to something more glider like and just missed it in the last watchthrough. Good catch!

[@CJCroen1393]

@@scioregis6381 Yeah... word of warning, do not listen to that guy. He's not only bad at science, he has a habit of harassing people, sending them gore pics, accusing them of being fascists/conservatives and threatening to sue them for disagreeing with his fringe theories.

[@TeethToothman]

🦕⛏️🦕

[@guyincognito959]

Prehistoric extinct mammals are at least as interesting as the rest of the lot :)

[@TheFoshaMan]

epic

[@ohnonotagain8935]

Remind me of sugar gliders

[@raphlvlogs271]

membrane wings are much easier to evolve than feathered wings thats why they were found on more different genera of prehistoric life