Tsintaosaurus: Not the D*ckhead We Thought

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[@darcieclements4880]

Oh yeah that makes so much more sense. Every time I looked at one of those fossils I was like it kind of feels like there's some bones that are kind of important missing here. That's because they were missing😅

[@occasionalart]

I have to say, it's weirdly cathartic in some way to see the usually family friendly Steven pulling out all these double entendres and euphemisms like this, one could even say, he was unusually ballsy in the writing of this video

[@nayelizombie]

I love it

[@miguelisaurusbruh1158]

i like it even more this way

[@cartilagehead]

Scrotal Steven…sounds like an especially not school-safe Garbage Pail Kid

[@Nasuto1702]

That title is insane and I love it

[@melvinshine9841]

It's finally here. "The story of these balls goes surprisingly deep." Whoever put that in the script deserves a raise.

[@tylerfish2701]

Zigzag: I am taking my balls and leaving.

[@Pemble_]

Balls deep

[@bipedalcynodont962]

@@tylerfish2701 I never cared much for The Thief and the Cobbler, BUT THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@chrislorusso433]

Referring to hadrosaurs as "powerful, terrestrial, bison-birds" has finally made hadrosaurs cool. Well done.

[@Bizob2010]

Makes me wonder what they would have tasted like 😂

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

I see it more like horse-bird.

[@martijn9568]

Edmontosaurus was at longest about 14 meters. Probably making it one of the longest non-sauropod dinosaurs💪💪💪💪

[@Kittens-12]

@@martijn9568 the largest non-sauropod dinosaur is shantungosaurus, it’s a close relative of edmontosaurus but a bit bigger, it’s thought to at maximum reached 20 tons, making it larger than Tyrannosaurus rex, it is the currently known largest non-sauropod dinosaur

[@subraxas]

@@Bizob2010 Ryan from 'Dino-gen' answered this question (what certain Dinos, and their various body parts, would taste like) on one of his many videos; unfortunately do not remember now which one it was. He approached the question from a member of his audience seriously and as scientifically as possible. It really positively surprised me in the end. And I was not the only one who had thought at first that it was a dull and infantile thing to ask about. 🙂

[@MonoSharkBold]

Some may say this episode is unusually short. But it is average and does its job well.

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

Booooooooo.

[@valiang8867]

👏 👏 👏

[@helenalikescats]

YES YES YES "So in a way, Latin scientific names are kind of like written Chinese, where the meaning is the same, even if different people are going to pronounce it completely differently" As a horticulturist who deals with scientific Latin names and the horrible gatekeeping that seems to go along with "proper names properly pronounced" hearing this said clearly and succinctly makes me so happy. The point is not whether you say po-ta-to or po-tat-o, the point is having a way to distinguish species accurately across languages and cultures.

[@starrywizdom]

You say "sore uh LOW fuss", I say "so RALL uh fuss" but we both know what the other one is talking about!

[@wednesday.saturday]

1:21 "scrutinise the scrot" is a banger quote lmao, I already know this is gonna be a great video as always

[@gemmachaos]

Gemma from Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs here. Thanks for the shout out! Sometimes it feels like "tracing things back to Sibbick" is all we do. You would not believe how influential that book has been to popular depictions of dinosaurs in the '90s especially. This was mostly down to publishers. From conversations with illustrators who were around at this time, like Luis V. Rey, I glean that every publisher and their mother wanted their own Normanpedia. And those illustrations were massively influential on toy design, as well. The toy from the Euoplocephalus episode is an example. It helps that the Sibbick images were widely licenced and appeared in many works beyond the original Normanpedia, even though they got outdated pretty quickly. The repetition gets tedious, but at the end of the day, you just can't deny how great Sibbick's dinosaurs looked. I particularly appreciate that you've drawn attention to how well Sibbick implies that the nasal sacks on his hadrosaurs are meant to be inflated.

[@KirklandBreiner]

That title is absolutely DEVIOUS.

[@victzegopterix2]

And one of the shorts was named "ripping the balls of Tsintaosaurus".

[@Sepi-chu_loves_moths]

It says Duckhead, what else did you think it said?

[@tamagothchic]

".... No, I shan't." Steven really showing self restraint here lol

[@Gorgonopsidcommenter]

Thank you for clarifying the actual pronunciation of the hardest dinosaur name for me to pronounce as a kid.

[@subraxas]

Tingylingdong bombasticki 😀

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

Whoops! At 8:20, I said 'foramen' when I should have said 'fossa'--we expect the fleshy nostril to be somewhere near the front margin of the scooped-out-looking area, not back where the actual hole in the bone is. Update: Oh boy, I (somehow) missed an entire paper! I want to thank @PaleoNerdIT--but unfortunately their comment got deleted. It was: "Glad to see you back, and what a convoluted dinosaur for this new video! "However, did you take Zhang et al. 2020 into consideration? It's a deep analysis of the internal morphology of Tsintaosaurus' nasal spine, and featured an updated cranial reconstruction with the crest slightly directed to the front: [url]* "The PNSO model is based on this reconstruction." - I'm glad workers finally got Tsintaosaurus' nasals into a CT scanner, and I like the term "solid sandwich structure." The nasals being closer to the restored skull's orientation is surprising. I'm a bit frustrated I somehow missed this--I specifically went looking for recent work on hadrosaur nasal chambers...can I blame google search being terrible nowadays? (Also I'm sorry I couldn't actually reply to you.) - * The paper is: Zhang, J., Wang, X., Jiang, S., & Li, G. (2020). Internal morphology of nasal spine of Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus (Ornithischia: Lambeosaurinae) from the upper cretaceous of Shandong, China. Historical Biology. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1731804

[@StopMotionDryptosaurus]

No worries. I think we understand what you were you were implying.

[@davethebeard2706]

We will let it slip this time, but IF there is a next time, the beatings will commence!

[@subraxas]

@@StopMotionDryptosaurus No, it's absolutely unacceptable! Can never be allowed to happen ever again! Just kidding! 😀 😛

[@crownhouse2466]

Fossa is not even a dinosaur, Fossa is a cat like creature from Madagaskar

[@GoGojiraGo]

The fossa!?!? *leaps out of window in terror*

[@muhammadrifqi7308]

Out of all the dinosaurs this series has covered in a long video form, this is the only one that doesn't do a deep dive into anything except the skull--all because this taxon was reconstructed for the longest time with head crest that looks like a male human reproductive organ.

[@alexsp.7289]

Peak science communication with that title

[@woodencoyote4372]

Wow, I'm amazed that there is an actual explanation for why the toy is shaped that way besides artistic "god enough for kids" malarkey. We wondered for a long time why our toy was never sent back - honestly I thought it had gotten lost in the post! I'm glad to learn it wasn't lost after all, but got to be part of an interesting, educational story. Do come visit us in Wales someday and check out the Dinosaur Park at the National Showcaves Centre. It's a good time, and many of the models are even accurate!

[@brettgabbitas1852]

And, don't forget the Doctor Who museum.

[@herrerasaurusdude5575]

1:19 The moment where you've been in the dinosaur community for so long that you think of Shantungosaurus instead of realizing that shan’t is an actual word

[@lukacvitkovic8550]

I love these breakdowns of how exactly workers approach the reconstruction of dinosaurs. Hadrosaurs deserve more love and attention for sure!

[@DinosDragons]

What a triple whammy. First, it is great to see you again. Second, I nearly fell off my chair when you dropped those wonderful entendres. And third, to hear someone bother to learn to pronounce a Chinese dinosaur name correctly and calling this Qingdao saurus brings me to tears of happiness.

[@alansujansky8591]

2 vidoes in 2 months is crazy lets goooo

[@IdahoFishingBoys]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH YDAW Posted WHILE I WAS DOING PALEO ART

[@paintbrushjewel]

I’m not sure why “I don’t speak Greek either, but I’m not sorry about that one” made me snort out loud but I’m adding it to the list of things that made me laugh this episode

[@gianlucaconsiglio8335]

That's some good paleoart lore right there

[@shauno5888]

Simultaneously educational and immature. My favorite combination!

[@brooklyn6064]

I think thats the dinosaur chicken nugget plush i sent in on the top left on the shelf! No waaaay!

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

Yes it is!

[@ScienceofLoud]

Making it through this episode without once referring to the animal as Phallusaurus was an opportunity missed.

[@celestinemorningstar4851]

Or a godlike feat of restraint

[@crownhouse2466]

Or something like Kephalophallus Rex?

[@frogboiii03]

FINALLY!!! The long-form video we've been teased for for a month! ✨️🦖✨️

[@Kevin-hx2ky]

The length initially disappointed me a bit, but if the video had gone any longer there would be a community strike on the channel lol. No man can soften so many mentions of ballbs to be family friendly

[@christosdoesthings]

2:02 As a greek YDAW viewer, we forgive you, we also don't like speaking greek.

[@mattmanard8817]

I'm glad to see the specific strangeness of the Tsintaosaurus sac is no more, but this won't burst my bubble about inflatable crests completely! The presence of such structures in modern avian dinosaurs still tells me there's a chance for their giant ancestors to have them! As always, love y'all's work!

[@laurel9629]

I can’t believe it took this long for someone to go “maybe it’s wrinkly because mummies are wrinkly” Although the idea of an inflatable sack or two with a pop of color is still plausible, of course, and it’s such a cool visual I can see why they were loath to discard it.

[@itsahostiletakeover]

Fantastic episode as always, especially since it covers my favorite family of dinosaurs. Hadrosaurs amazed me as a child and they continue to do so today. We know more about them than most dinosaur families and they even managed to disperse across the Tethys to Africa whereas all of the other Laramidian late Cretaceous groups like tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians, and oviraptorosaurs never got to the south as far as we know right now. Impressive creatures that were FAR more than tyrannosaur chow.

[@subraxas]

This one is not only 'fantastic', but also somewhat 'phantasmagorical'. 😀

[@Shadow-e6b]

Tsintaosaurus? More like... dil-daosaurus! *hangs head(balls) in shame*

[@kR-qj7rw]

you know the extended skin tuberculates with the possibility of a stretchier brighter skin membrrane bellow makes them so much weirder and while some may say alien to me it makes them feel more like current animals, alive and weird

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

Also makes me definitely want to make a spec evo clade with contrasting skin and scales on an inflatable portion of the body, possibly leading to stuff like gorilla style threat displays where inflating the chest to full size reveals strong aposematic colouration or inflatable throat "bagpipe frills" with multiple openings that produces various pitches and tones when the air is pushed out through them, with pungent scent glands on the inside and bright colouration on the outside to attract mates and discourage predators (imagine a frilled neck frog that screams like a tortured pack of ghosts and smells of rotten eggs when threatened but can sing like a cross between a whistle and bagpipes/accordion with a variety of less disgusting scents depending on the exact openings it's forcing air out of).

[@Oliver-it7jo]

“Unhand me at once ahhhh”

[@KellyClowers]

Opening skit was excellent!

[@koboldgeorge2140]

15:50 y'know if you think about it our model of what iguanodontids looked like has kind of come full circle, hasn't is

[@chainmaillekid]

In this episode of Your Wrinosaurs are Dong

[@thenaiam]

🤣🤣🤣

[@subraxas]

😀

[@ratt2199]

babe, wake up. the new ydaw just dropped

[@bwooee]

I wound back and rewatched the animations at 12:35 about 5 times, what a wild thing to happen to your face bones

[@JimmyBlether]

Truly a video title of all time

[@firytwig]

1:58 we always support your cause Steven

[@StopMotionDryptosaurus]

I love hadrosaurs. Nice to see them get some love.

[@NorthOfEarth]

"No, I shan't." You should have.

[@takenname8053]

NO DICK NO BALLS ALL CREST!!!

[@cabbage_cat]

We eating good tonight

[@Buckshot4Games]

Balls deep indeed.

[@eggboi4564]

The wordplay in this is truly magical

[@subraxas]

Phantasmagorical 😀

[@Grand_History]

this show just keeps getting better

[@thebadgerstick9492]

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[@PaleoNerdIT]

Glad to see you back, and what a convoluted dinosaur for this new video! However, did you take Zhang et al. 2020 into consideration? It's a deep analysis of the internal morphology of Tsintaosaurus' nasal spine, and featured an updated cranial reconstruction with the crest slightly directed to the front. The 2021 PNSO model is based on that reconstruction.

[@alifeoncechris]

It’s always a great day when a new video comes out!!!!

[@BarelloSmith]

Yeeeeeeeah! I've been waiting for this episode ever since you posted the shorts! =D

[@extraordinarytv5451]

Another fascinating entry Steven!!😄🫡

[@jennyskipworth]

Loved this! Would love to see more episodes like this

[@telson1583]

Top tier video as always

[@victzegopterix2]

1:18 Say it. 👁👁

[@eybaza6018]

May not be the biggest episode yet,but it has a great personality!

[@heatherrocchi6232]

I am deceased after the first minute lol

[@logicfoxgaming1411]

It’s always a good day when YDAW uploads.

[@stickmanblubbles4489]

Spot on pronunciation of Qingdao! The Q sound is typically really hard for English speakers to pronounce even after hearing it. The pronunciation of Rehe was pretty bad but I think you were just overthinking it. Plug it into google translate and press the speak button to see how it sounds.

[@SUPER_D0MIN0135]

Always happy when there's surprise smut in my edutainment.

[@zachthepizzaguy]

Amazing video as always !

[@Morkeoth]

As always, so interesting !

[@SHDUStudios]

That is an amazing title.

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

There was no question that it had to be.

[@thinkbolt]

He used the word ALBEDO in relation to dinosaur coloration. Never imagined I would hear that.

[@DeRien8]

So fun seeing the whole thing after getting the little tidbits from Shorts

[@thylascene]

Was not expecting to see this video today lmao, the oddly family unfriendly title is a surprise ngl but it fits with the subject/reconstruction lol, also seeing you explain why you pronounce tsintaosaurus' name like you do is nice

[@etepeteseat7424]

A wonderful, informative, and enriching video! However, as to the (totally aside) comments on Chinese orthography and pronunciation (and related comments), I wanted to applaud YDAW for an incredibly incisive take. As someone who often struggles with the temptation to pronounce things as accurately as my linguistic understanding allows due to a yearning to build strong intuitions about native pronunciation, it is far too easy for me to forget that, ultimately, scientific neo-(greco?-)latin is at this point just a shorthand way to communicate ideas rather than a living language with actual native pronunciation. Recognizing that none of the words we make up (especially those which incorporate words from languages other than Greek or Latin) actually correspond to native words, and are just terms we devise to refer to specific things for categorization's sake is actually a very healthy and instructive point to make. Having said that, I will say one thing-and I am by no means an expert in Chinese languages or their orthography *or* their transliterations into Roman letters, so caveat lector-but I recently heard a native Chinese speaker pronounce words which I was accustomed to interpreting as "tao/dao", and I suspect that (given the German-language origins of pidgin orthography) "t" in pidgin actually refers to an unaspirated 't' phoneme-which is as difficult for German speakers as English speakers, given Germanic languages' tendency to aspirate all p/t/k consonants. That said, I don't want the deeper message of scientific neo-Latin being fundamentally akin to the way that Chinese characters are not phonemic to be missed. Overall, this may be the most sheer (interesting) content you've ever packed into fifteen minutes of video, and I must commend you all on such a compelling and tight video! 😄

[@DragonRocnik]

I have The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs!!! I just went and pulled it out of my book case! That book was one of my childhood dinosaur books!!

[@subraxas]

The same here! Though I no longer own the book.

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

Huzzah, a new YDAW! 🎉🎉🎉

[@TaurusToyVideos]

The Pingasasaur

[@80sFitzgerald]

Thanks for the great video and preparation of the interesting information!

[@bobmclennan1727]

Shout out to Love in the Time of Chasmasaurus! Great blog, tons of fun!

[@VanAleph]

Oh, to have a pliant and inflatable membrane

[@Arquinsiel]

I thought I recognised John Sibbick's work so I googled the name, and amongst the various dinosaur art I grew up with (and now can find better) I found out that he did the cover art for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Huh. Also he learned to draw the next town over from where my wife did her Ph.D. Small world.

[@paulindekeu7554]

These shorter videos are very nice to get between the long ones!

[@KRJayster]

Ah, Balltschinoaurus. We’ve been expecting your arrival.

[@laurel9629]

FINALLY! The full episode!

[@Iatrosauruslassius]

Finally! After so many shorts!

[@AndriaTheKobold]

WOOOO !! New YDAW!!

[@Lomky]

there are regional variations of Chinese where -ng and -n are pronounced interchangeably, so maybe that's a possibility for why the transliteration dropped the g?

[@aidanmation]

The hadrosaurs are such an awesome and diverse group of ornithischians. One can't imagine how incredible one would be in the flesh, even if it did have a literal d*ck head!

[@Firestar-TV]

Thought at first it said Duckhead. Then I've realized🙃

[@BarelloSmith]

As a child I had a giant poster of a lot of dinosaur illustrations on the wall of my room. This depiction of Tsintaosaurus and Saurolophus were on it and I assume the rest of the illustrations were made by the same artist! ☺

[@BarelloSmith]

And I had a puzzle of this exact illustration as well! :D I just googled the artist and indeed I recognised almost all of his artworks from my poster and several books I owned! What a trip down memory lane! 🤗

[@BurgerduckProductions]

the title is wild

[@arcticdino1650]

I'm imagining the scientist is just "The bones are the ones incorrect, not me!" Also I feel the inflatable structure was deliberately designed to look phallic

[@StarrySGH]

Thanks for teaching me a new word - hypodigm! Always delighted to watch your videos.

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

You're welcome!

[@antoniorocha3967]

I like, i comment, and i'm already subscribed.

[@rookbirdblues]

Given the fact that some birds have absolutely wild inflatable display structures, I have no doubt that hadrosaurs had them too.

[@subraxas]

Like for example the Frigatebirds. They got those 'gular pouches' of utterly insane proportions.

[@dib737]

Finally!! Those shorts teasing this one kept making me think there was something I had missed

[@dodoxasaurus6904]

the naming thing, is interesting, cause some marine reptiles found in New Zealand, are given Māori names, which are pronounced terrible, because the vowel difference in Māori, which you can't blame people for not knowing, so it's fair but would be great if people properly said names in their correct ways of the language, just like how we are told to say certain words correctly, even if we do have an accent, its only fair.

[@subraxas]

Tingylingdong bombasticki 😛

[@michaelbaker1660]

I probably would have gone with Ads-darchid personally, but the pun is appreciated all the same

[@crownhouse2466]

very nice, thanx a lot!

[@nikmarshall2989]

AAAAAHHHH! NEW YDAW!!! 🥳😭🥳

[@cornflakes-does-stuff]

fascinating stuff!

[@blandp11]

Very, very good. Thank you!

[@bengreen171]

shut your eyes, children. Tsintaosaurus might be in for a painful snip.

[@Stellefeder]

I need to see the outtakes from this video because I am amazed at how many jokes you were able to make and keep a straight face.

[@YourDinosaursAreWrong]

Weirdly enough, there aren't many. Turns out when you spend a couple months researching a dickhead the novelty wears off by the time you get to the video shoot.

[@discobolos4227]

@@YourDinosaursAreWrong 🙂 That's understandable.

[@feefifofum04]

This is what I NEEDED to listen to to get me through work today.

[@clomiancalcifer]

There's a Tsintoasaurine poster that needs to be made in the vein of a mock up of a Spaceballs movie poster....with only a very minor change in the wording on the poster....

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

hadrosaurs are cool and I really like this video a lot. and I love the penis jokes made because of the outdated crest reconsturction

[@Y34HT045T]

I have a lot of nostalgia for John Sibbick's art. I still have a small, thick book with some pretty detailed descriptions to accompany his illustrations, however the book bizarrely doesn't credit him at all. Finally after all these years I can put a name to it! Honestly I would love some episodes where you just go into older paleoartists and talk about the idiosyncrasies of their restorations. Stuff like Sibbick's wrinkly Hadrosaurs and bumpy Deinonychus.