Rare Fossil Shows Mammal Attacking a Dinosaur, Researchers Claim
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2023
- Could a small mammal take down a dinosaur?
A mammal attacked a much larger dinosaur - then a volcano froze them both in time.
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Nature decided that these two creatures will do battle for all eternity.
Most amazing fossil I've ever seen.
A 100 million year old snapshot in time.
well everybody knows you dont mess with a badger or wolverine.
Don't mess with Marjorie Taylor Greene, lest she infect you with a drug resistant form of rabies and bad odors.
What was the last thing the mammal said before it died attacking the dinosaur?
It said: Hmm. It tastes like chicken.
Kinda gamey, though.I it needs more kosher salt and pepper and just little bit of hot sauce, everything is better with hot 🔥🥵 sauce.
A new fossil sounds like a oxymoron
😂 like jumbo shrimp 🦐
Honey Badger don't give a sh!t.
"Ugh! What's it eating?!" 😅
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens POOP!
I'm so surprised I had to scroll this far to see thus reference! I gotta go find that video lol
@@craven5328 :)
Everything about this find is fascinating!
My theory : dino not dead yet, but nearly, perhaps from a fall or another predator & maybe immobilized. Mammal sees an easy meal, dino comes to, moves foot...CUE THE MUDSLIDE !
This mammal species are known to have eaten baby versions of the dinosaur it is attacking.
How did they rule out the possibility that these creatures were killed in two different locations by the same volcanic mud flow and their corpses ended up being sloshed together by chance?
Really? You think that would be difficult?
@@debbylou5729 I think you misunderstood my question. I didn't assume or imply it would be difficult to rule out. The question was, _how_ did they rule it out? And yes, I'd _really_ like to know. It's a reasonable question.
I thought the same thing. They mention this about halfway through the video with the leg entanglement theory.
I guess either theory is valid. I think they're going on how they're tangled together, maybe it looks like the mammal is chomping on part of the dinosaur. But even they admit it's just an educated guess as this sort of evidence of interaction is "limited".
It would be very strange for any predator to overlook any food source
It was your theory that said these two creatures should never have met. Now you have the choice: Do a rewrite, or shelve it.
As soon as they said "three times it's own size" I knew it was a honey badger.
Honey badger don't care.
More likely they happen to settle together in the mudslide as apposed to engaging with each other before or during the event. Funny they left that out as an option when that is by far the norm.
Just pissed off being in a volcanic mudflow and biting anything in rage.
That fossil casting is malarkey
They were friends. When the mud started to flow they embraced, much like the people in Pompeii
Looks like an Alien fresh out of the egg!
Who is the narrator/host of this video?
Kinda doubt they decided to continue a fight in the midst of drowning in volcanic mud.
"Taz like Wild Dino Surprise!"
Ball locks.
Very cool video ✌️🇺🇸
It almost seems like mammals let dinosaurs off easy with volcanos and asteroids.
Fascinating and spectacular find. A snapshot of time long ago. The both dying in the throes of the fight for survival is my imagination’s best guess and the theory I prefer. But I’m no expert.
Not accepting the “attack” claim. Another and more possible explanation is perhaps the mammal was eating a dead Dino.
Hard agree. Fossils aren't like a comic-book freeze-ray.
They address this exact scenario in the video.
@@tryste_mx Barely. And you see where they stand with that clickbaity title. (On the side of clickbait.)
Is there a theory of how the smaller mammal is attacking the dino ? It may have been locked on the dino's throat, with the dino too weak to bite back, explaining the mammal's hand in the dino's mouth.
Maybe the dinosaur was trying to eat the mammal, and the mammal was pushing the dinosaurs mouth away.
I didn't know Chinese can Shanzhai fossil 😂
So they both died so quick so fast at the same time. Idk how they stood lock together an not released an try to escape an flee. Like a snake when it got some pray an it know that it mite be attacked it will let its prey go in order to save itself
Chickens are dinosaurs.
Do dinosaurs taste like current reptiles? I eat alligator and snake, yum.
The action is not necessarily "surprising". Nowadays cats do that all the time.
Maybe they were lovers. Open your mind
They could have been both trapped in a rushing mud-flow while still alive and just got roiled together.
That's a possibility. But, it's nice to think the badger-spirited mammal actually attacked the dinosaur.
Time may, or may not, reveal the truth.
I have seen some other evidence to suggest that dinosaurs might not have ruled the earth too. It has, of course, very little implications for today. Darwinian evolution with modification, natural selection and survival of the fittest has many powerful implications today; and we should stop trying to do our best to reverse it, because it is getting really very costly.
What about rigor mortis? Sure, it takes a while to start and it wears off fairly soon, and the jaw could have been held closed during that by the mud flow[floe?], but I just think that's quite serendipitous to the point of farce. It's still a well cool fossil on its own as it is. We can see that this small mammal did scavenge, or they were just pushed together like OP said, but then they lived in the same locale as the other animal locked in the fossil. Unless dating shows an older fossil was pushed into a newer one, idk. Nature is wild, and I'm not a paleontologist.
@@mookinbabysealfurmittens It could be anything tha that happened, but Occam's razor can also be applied here too. It seem obvious that it would take an extraordinary evidence to prove something else happened than "they were in a fight when they died"
So true! It would rewrite the script of mammals staying out of the way of dinosaurs. We're a feisty lot!
It came out of China - it should come with a huge grain of salt.
Looks fake to me but I don't know sh_t about fossils. So, okay I guess. 🤔
what is the name of this sympathic girl/wloman talkin bout it? :)
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This science sounds very speculative. They should get Science, Dr Fauci.
Careful, your lack of education is showing.
Interesting it may be fake?
Interesting, they address this in the video. It's not likely fake.
Scieykeepa proving its self wrong as we move in time… sun revolves around earth to the universe is older than we thought…. The list goes on…
WTF
@@or2ak my statement basically identifies that, as we keep discovering thing we realize we were wrong all along. Such as we revolve around the sun not the other way around. Now they think some dinosaurs had feathers. Mammals now maybe hunter Dino’s, maybe aliens are real… with these congressional hearings. What we know is that we know nothing for sure!
Extraordinary find if it is indeed real, and not another hoaxed fossil.
Yes, of course, nothing is real. Even this comment is just in your imagination. 🙄
@@texasermd1 your mom is hoaxed
@@texasermd1Fiji mermaids? Not a fossil, but hoaxes are common. Try "Hobby Lobby faked artifacts". Or all the faked mummies from the very start of European plunder of ancient Egyptian sacred sites. And everywhere else. (Just look at the "great finds" cherished in museums, a thousand times more just stored in crates behind the scenes.) Imo why not scam the people desecrating sites in other countries & stealing everything? That includes fossils. Bad for science, but there's lousy ethics all over the fingerprints of "discovery". Heisenberg's Principle and the rape of the natural world.
(I'm of course not anti-science. I'm just not a fan of blindly accepting the "work" of "brave" "explorers" like Jacques Cousteau & Crístobal Colón, and their "scientific" conclusions about the peoples they destroyed.)
The only ones hoaxing fossils are the religious cause it destroys the foundation of their narrow world views.
They could have been singing Hakuna Matata when they got fried, being best friends and all, co-dependant, or symbiotically-oriented with the right pronouns, etc. and benefitting their environment by being best pals. You know? Why fight? Make love, not war assumptions.
😂😂 👍