Lecture 65 Cynodonts: Between Reptile and Mammal

In this video we will list the major innovations in the cynodonts leading toward the origin of modern mammals.
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[@AronRa]

I appreciate your effort to educate.

[@haleyhoudini]

Using these as supplementary material for a mammalogy course where the prof doesn t teach, he just reads from our textbook. You rock!

[@NateEngle]

Thanks for demonstrating that I'm not the only one who wrestles with the pronunciations.

[@nicknoga564]

Would love more videos about archosaurs & therapsids. Extremely fascinating.

[@mikesnyder1788]

As usual... very informative! Let's here it for our cynodont relatives!! Thanks for the upload.

[@wirehead1000]

Love your series. I would enjoy a dialogue with Geologist Dick Gibson from Idaho (History of the Earth podcast). and Dr David Eberth of the Tyrell |Museum, Alberta, Canada. Your stomping grounds overlap, so the different perspectives would be illuminating. I enjoyed your interaction with Aron Ra.

[@Darthbelal]

I thought most mammals had 7 neck vertebrae. No?

[@logenvestfold4143]

The more I learn about cynodonts the more I’m puzzled as to why monotremes are grouped as “true” mammals instead of the last extant clade of mammal-like cynodonts.

[@johngavin1175]

They are the hagfish of mammals, as Clint from Clint's Reptiles would put it. I'm not sure if the Monotremes are ready for the Pluto treatment yet. But you bring up a good point.

[@logenvestfold4143]

@@johngavin1175 I love Clint’s Reptiles!

[@fromthestreet1969]

Excellent video, very informative

[@Laurencemardon]

Cynodonts are the beast ... I mean the best !

[@stevenvandevort781]

Reminds me of Les Stroud a little bit

[@ChrstphreCampbell]

Another podcast pretending to be a video !
I thinkg that I’m very confused about is that when fish left the water and became walking creatures, They would have probably resembled amphibians, But I’ve noticed that a lot of these early animals look like reptiles, but they’re not really called reptiles… so the question is : were any of our ancestors, something that we would have thought of as reptiles or what we think of them as amphibians ?