Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations 2023

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  • čas přidán 13. 10. 2023
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    What do zoologists think of your animal-themed Halloween decorations? They're terrible! What do they get wrong? And what do they get right? Clint takes a look at some horrifyingly inaccurate skeleton decorations to see what we can learn from these anatomically incorrect abominations.
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  • @ClintsReptiles
    @ClintsReptiles  Před 7 měsíci +86

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    • @CarsonSmith-jg8gt
      @CarsonSmith-jg8gt Před 7 měsíci +2

      can you do a video on best aquatic lizards please

    • @scarlettrazor5374
      @scarlettrazor5374 Před 7 měsíci

      You should watch velocipastor

    • @lockjaw7437
      @lockjaw7437 Před 7 měsíci +5

      We can call the cat Clifton

    • @chimera7894
      @chimera7894 Před 7 měsíci +3

      "Octopus Skeletons"
      I read in the Halloween Isle, However all that was in front of me was a box of Beaks.
      This concludes my two sentence horror story I hope you all enjoy

    • @matthewpitre8159
      @matthewpitre8159 Před 7 měsíci +1

      You should call the cat pretty kitty because it would be ironic because it's obviously not pretty it's Cringingly frightening!

  • @azurehanyo
    @azurehanyo Před 7 měsíci +2087

    I hope awful Halloween animal skeletons continue to be manufactured solely for the continuation of this series.

    • @Kevintherhea188
      @Kevintherhea188 Před 7 měsíci +38

      Clint's the only thing stopping the companies that make theese from shutting down🗣🗣

    • @AntiSocialPinecone
      @AntiSocialPinecone Před 7 měsíci +6

      Probably

    • @Rakunz419
      @Rakunz419 Před 7 měsíci +15

      The Halloween industrial complex is real!

    • @kennyferrick1240
      @kennyferrick1240 Před 7 měsíci +11

      I don't think they'll stop anytime soon 😂.

    • @KingDrakoTyrell
      @KingDrakoTyrell Před 7 měsíci +12

      they ain’t stopping bro 😂
      I saw a baby vampire last time I was at target
      With a deep voice too 💀

  • @chadgorosaurus4898
    @chadgorosaurus4898 Před 7 měsíci +1299

    It's so ironic how the second most accurate skeleton was a skeleton of a mythical creature.

    • @danielwesley5051
      @danielwesley5051 Před 7 měsíci +87

      Ah yes, a mythical creature. I, as a fellow flightless, four limbed mammal, am amused by the completely fictional skeleton of the mighty dragon.

    • @mikeoxsmal69
      @mikeoxsmal69 Před 7 měsíci

      @@danielwesley5051I have 6 limbs weakling, get on my level

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink Před 7 měsíci +69

      It's probably because the artists are actually vested in doing research because they have to make those somewhat convincing, while regular animal skeletons only have to resemble the living prototype which actually leads them astray even further.

    • @revolvingworld2676
      @revolvingworld2676 Před 7 měsíci +25

      @@DzinkyDzink
      I honestly assumed they were made that way on purpose. They take massive liberties so kids can actually recognize the animal

    • @isadoraalvarez9767
      @isadoraalvarez9767 Před 7 měsíci +20

      That person really liked skeletons and really likes dragons or there’s no way they would have gotten it that right

  • @scramblerbricks7293
    @scramblerbricks7293 Před 7 měsíci +1107

    That butterfly skeleton is definitely a moth man skeleton, they must have just got them mixed up

    • @ratwasnotbad4230
      @ratwasnotbad4230 Před 7 měsíci +94

      Rare baby mothman specimen! Cover it in some dirt and dim lighting, and we could have a conspiracy video on our hands. /j

    • @dplocksmith91
      @dplocksmith91 Před 7 měsíci +26

      Shhhh...don't let them know we exist! We've already had our cover blown by Local58!

    • @chadgorosaurus4898
      @chadgorosaurus4898 Před 7 měsíci +1

      The government is trying to hide the existence of mothman. They called that skeleton a "butterfly skeleton" to push everyone off the trail to the conclusion.

    • @ILuvAyeAye
      @ILuvAyeAye Před 7 měsíci +11

      YES! And I must own one.

    • @YochevedDesigns
      @YochevedDesigns Před 7 měsíci +11

      MOTHERA!!!!

  • @bendeywendy8065
    @bendeywendy8065 Před 7 měsíci +785

    I've finally worked out the "spider skeleton" decorations. They aren't the skeletons OF spiders. They are spiders MADE OF bones! Like, reanimated bones from graveyards, formed into a creepy spider shape

    • @orionmclaughlin5680
      @orionmclaughlin5680 Před 7 měsíci +149

      Necromancer theory

    • @f.u.m.o.5669
      @f.u.m.o.5669 Před 7 měsíci +80

      Bone spider lore

    • @Lodurrson
      @Lodurrson Před 7 měsíci +35

      The Necro wizard Balthazaar animated them to fight his enemies

    • @justanothermook6348
      @justanothermook6348 Před 7 měsíci +44

      bogleech. in his halloween bestiary (speculative monsters based on halloween decorations like this) speculated that spider skeletons. or any arthropod skeletons. are in fact the spirits of arthropods possessing vertebrate bones. mixing. matching. and contorting whatever they find into whatever form they need. so thus spiders with human finger bones for legs and ribcage-like builds for abdomens. among all sorts of other abberations.

    • @orionmclaughlin5680
      @orionmclaughlin5680 Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@justanothermook6348 but where did the Octopus get the bone suckers?

  • @gauchegreyhound
    @gauchegreyhound Před 7 měsíci +443

    I can almost guarantee the artists *did* look at the skeletons in question, since artists extensively study anatomy, but if they produced an accurate product, would get told by corporate, "What is that?! Customers won't recognize that as a bird skeleton! Who would buy that?" or "too expensive to manufacture! Use less bones!" and they'd have to go back and make something stupid that "looks" like that animal to laypeople.
    Don't blame the artists, man! 😂

    • @Melisski
      @Melisski Před 7 měsíci +94

      This is definitely what happens when the marketing department gets involved in any kind of design process. lol

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci +50

      I work with artists and they actually have me evaluate to see if they missed or misinterpreted anatomy in amount that somebody who's really familiar with the animal would find offensive. Specifically I'm looking at the diagnostic characteristics, the characteristics that really make that animal identifiable as that animal. It's a fine balance between artistic license and making sure that the animal reads as the correct animal and doesn't have anything that is really stand out incorrect. Biologists are going to notice things that many artists will end up missing. There's a difference between specifically studying one species for a long time to master drawing it and producing a lot of commercial art quickly. Not every artist actually has somebody to consult with to see if they've hit the broad strokes that are going to really stand out to people who are familiar. So it's not just a matter of corporate it's also just a matter of time. There is also of course the narratives that these things are actually made by necromancers putting together human bones which changes things a bit when you do an evaluation. And those cases if I were to be asked to consult on a project like this I would be looking to make sure that the individual bones looked realistic and the overall appearance was recognizable rather than the correct anatomy for the animal it was mimicking.

    • @UnwieldilyElephant
      @UnwieldilyElephant Před 7 měsíci +1

      no.

    • @LoarvicLoarvic
      @LoarvicLoarvic Před 7 měsíci +19

      ​@@darcieclements4880yes, but bony feathers...bony feathers...

    • @gauchegreyhound
      @gauchegreyhound Před 7 měsíci +23

      @darcieclements4880 fair enough. But you're only hired to consult by people who actually care if the final product is accurate or not lol.
      I guess what I mean isn't that every artist will naturally nail the anatomy of every species without help, but that any professional artist could do better than this if they were actually encouraged to be accurate & given the time to research.
      I assume the toy company makes their artists crank out designs as fast as possible and probably discourages accuracy if it means it's more expensive to manufacture or doesn't look as "cool" as skeleton octopus 😆

  • @ProcyonPal
    @ProcyonPal Před 7 měsíci +396

    I'm 80% certain that the "butterfly" skeleton is actually a fossilized baby Mothman.

    • @ImTired17
      @ImTired17 Před 7 měsíci +34

      As Mothman himself, I can confirm this. That was my son, he died an untimely tragic death 😔

    • @reeddunnagan
      @reeddunnagan Před 7 měsíci +11

      ​@@ImTired17sorry to hear that

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Nah thats explains about internal skeleton that even butterfly dont have

    • @violetsilentmoon
      @violetsilentmoon Před 7 měsíci

      Yep

    • @sunsetgamer1464
      @sunsetgamer1464 Před 7 měsíci +1

      You poor thing! If you need a distraction, dogs are needed

  • @Ms.Pronounced_Name
    @Ms.Pronounced_Name Před 7 měsíci +268

    I suspect the awesomely-accurate Frog skeleton may have been made through the astounding cost saving process of simply casting/3D-scanning a real frog skeleton, then letting an artist make some adjustments (like the eyes)

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Před 7 měsíci +21

      And for toad skeleton too. Thus explain about the presence of bumps on the skeleton, despite on actual toad this bumps only exists in skin surface

  • @NekoNyoko
    @NekoNyoko Před 7 měsíci +395

    I love that cat so much! It looks like it was made by someone who has never seen a cat before.

    • @mariepindstruplinde1671
      @mariepindstruplinde1671 Před 7 měsíci +42

      Maybe it is made by someone seeing that taxidermied lion from the 17th century

    • @thatonepossum5766
      @thatonepossum5766 Před 7 měsíci +43

      Maybe they used a medieval cat painting as a reference. xD

    • @shroomyk
      @shroomyk Před 7 měsíci

      @@mariepindstruplinde1671 Oh my god. I had to look it up. It's wonderfully atrocious.

    • @kinashy8863
      @kinashy8863 Před 7 měsíci +3

      It looks like a taxidermy made by someone who has never seen a cat before

    • @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434
      @prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 Před 7 měsíci +4

      Because inaccuracy is more fun

  • @thatonepossum5766
    @thatonepossum5766 Před 7 měsíci +104

    Ya know, if you really think about it, these incorrect skeletons are _more_ spooky than correct skeletons. Because some of them would probably be disturbingly grotesque if they were live animals.

  • @RaptorJesus
    @RaptorJesus Před 7 měsíci +117

    Maybe it's just me, but I love the idea that dragons have hard ears that are mistaken for another set of horns.

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 Před 7 měsíci +15

      True. The artist had obviously seen a real dragon.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 Před 7 měsíci +3

      Bone ears would be a cool adaptation

    • @douglasphillips5870
      @douglasphillips5870 Před 7 měsíci +3

      What if they are in fact another set of horns that are only located next to the ears?

    • @Luigicat11
      @Luigicat11 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Maybe they were adapted from horns? Reptiles don't typically have external ears, so maybe it made do with the external structures its body already had to convergently evolve them.

  • @elleofmusic
    @elleofmusic Před 7 měsíci +161

    ..gotta admit, that new skeleton octopus is kinda adorable in a mildly horrifying way. I'm reminded of Sid's baby doll/metal crab from Toy Story. And you should call that cat Scrungley 😂

    • @maryt.3273
      @maryt.3273 Před 7 měsíci +12

      "Scrungley" gets my vote as well! "Scrungled" is my and my sister's favorite term for something that is just ... not right and messed up in a weird way, so "Scrungley" perfectly fits the cat!

    • @ArtByKarenEHaley
      @ArtByKarenEHaley Před 7 měsíci +7

      Scrungley is the perfect name for his whacky looking squirrel cat

    • @RealElongatedMuskrat
      @RealElongatedMuskrat Před 7 měsíci +4

      ​@@maryt.3273 haha my mom and I use it to describe how our dog looks when he gets his face all smooshed up as he's napping. He'll wake up all wrinkly and bleary eyed like he doesn't know what century he's in. Scrungly boy 😂

    • @maryt.3273
      @maryt.3273 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@RealElongatedMuskrat In fairness, that is also how I react to waking up from a face-smooshing nap 😂

    • @Rhaenarys
      @Rhaenarys Před 7 měsíci +1

      They reminded me of the baby alien from Men in Black lol.

  • @thosebloodybadgers8499
    @thosebloodybadgers8499 Před 7 měsíci +70

    Clint: "I would like for avian wing skeletons and sternums to be portrayed properly!"
    *The monkey's paw curls*

    • @MetaGiga
      @MetaGiga Před 7 měsíci +6

      The next one he receives in the mail will be accurate all right
      There’s going to be some scratches coming from inside of the box

  • @katarinawikholm5873
    @katarinawikholm5873 Před 7 měsíci +392

    Makes me want to hunt down more weird skeletons for next year

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  Před 7 měsíci +71

      Please do!

    • @Vbuck_samuel
      @Vbuck_samuel Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@ClintsReptilesyou should get an armadillo and make a video about them

    • @jebVlogs556
      @jebVlogs556 Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@ClintsReptiles my broski, hi clint.. when you showed us the cobra skeleton.. i only thought of two giant snakes.. "dragon wars" movie featured the giant basilisk with the hooded face and correct skeleton system and the twin giant cobras from the movie "gods of egypt" who chased down the main female/male protagnist.. out of a thousand snake movies, they got it right.. on your off time google the images and/or watch the movie they are actually decent,i gave them both a solid B+

    • @kennyferrick1240
      @kennyferrick1240 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@ClintsReptiles I found a skeleton fly! And a skeleton beetle. Which I of course bought them. And there's a duck skeleton I've found, gonna buy it!

    • @bhuggins6059
      @bhuggins6059 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@kennyferrick1240dangit I was gonna say that bc I found one too!

  • @SpaceEndeavour
    @SpaceEndeavour Před 7 měsíci +65

    That cat looks like a medieval painting of a cat. I can' t imagine it being called anything besides Gustav

    • @Okbuddypal
      @Okbuddypal Před 7 měsíci +7

      Looks like a Bartholomew to me

  • @morganw.4711
    @morganw.4711 Před 7 měsíci +145

    “Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia” is an excellent goblin sentiment. Clint makes me grin all the way through this video. This is one of my favorite Halloween traditions! ADDENDUM: I’m pretty sure the point of reference for the butterfly skeleton was the Pokémon Butterfree.

  • @SonicBoone56
    @SonicBoone56 Před 7 měsíci +75

    I loved how you held up nothing for the worst snake skeleton.

    • @evandenis5488
      @evandenis5488 Před 7 měsíci +11

      However bad those other skeletons are - they're better than nothing!

  • @HoboBrute
    @HoboBrute Před 7 měsíci +70

    Clint, have you considered that the terrible butterfly skeleton is actually an exceptionally good mothman skeleton?

  • @solarlevitas
    @solarlevitas Před 7 měsíci +126

    every year around this time I'm reminded that a crossover between clint's reptiles and your dinosaurs are wrong would be incredible

    • @shigeminotoge4514
      @shigeminotoge4514 Před 7 měsíci +20

      as an avid viewer of both of these channels, I concur, enthusiastically so.

  • @brfisher1123
    @brfisher1123 Před 7 měsíci +119

    You should do a phylogenetic video on cats from the terrifying tiger to our beloved house cat as a Halloween special!

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Oh yeah that would be a pretty easy one to do too cuz it's not too expensive. He could actually get in depth a little bit better with some of the different species.

  • @corvinredacted
    @corvinredacted Před 7 měsíci +52

    I would love to see Clint do a similar reaction to AI generated images of animals! I stumble across them all the time while doing Google searches. At first, there's just something uncanny about a certain image, but then you start to notice the backward-facing rear feet and unnatural scale pattern of a lizard or binocular vision on a pigeon.
    I'd love to see Clint's initial reaction to seeing some of those images. Maybe even the crew could put in some really bad ones, and Clint has to guess what it was supposed to be. I think it would be super fun and a great chance to teach about animal physiology!

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  Před 7 měsíci +18

      That's a very good idea!

    • @corvinredacted
      @corvinredacted Před 7 měsíci +7

      @@ClintsReptiles I'd be thrilled if you decided to do it! Much love to you all. Thanks for what you do- I strongly believe it's a force for positive change!

  • @BlackDouglas1000
    @BlackDouglas1000 Před 7 měsíci +19

    The cat's name is Screeeeech.
    The butterfly is not a butterfly but an infant Mothman, well known extraterrestrials that don't develop for limbs until their 13th year.
    The dragon skeleton is from the first dragons discovered on the planet Pern. They were later genetically altered to be much larger.
    I am pleased to clear these things up for you.

  • @TheNightmareRider
    @TheNightmareRider Před 7 měsíci +26

    Okay, but legit, I would *love* to see more speculative evolution videos from this channel! Imagine if someone who knows their stuff as much as Clint was in charge of writing a natural history of dragons and their relating clades? That would be the definition of awesome!

  • @katej2284
    @katej2284 Před 7 měsíci +21

    I think in defence of the 'butterfly', it's basically just a really teeny mothman and actually kinda cute 😄

  • @BenChurchill76
    @BenChurchill76 Před 7 měsíci +22

    I love that no matter how many times you see that cat, you can't help but laugh at it, and your laughter is infectious.

  • @CrzzyCat
    @CrzzyCat Před 7 měsíci +53

    After seeing some of those skeletons, i assure you, necromancers can do WAYY better 😭😭😭

  • @mumzly1
    @mumzly1 Před 7 měsíci +54

    Clint's annoyance from some of these skeletons is amazing. This series is great and needs to continue with future Halloweens.

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid Před 7 měsíci

      Has Clint ever considered a necromancer's area of effect death magic that is active at all times and impedes him from seeing living butterfly because it dies and rots if he gets too close? He goes on and on about these decorations not being anatomically correct, yet the way he describes sorcerers of the undead isn't scientifically accurate necromancy.

  • @elissashuman7232
    @elissashuman7232 Před 7 měsíci +17

    I would love to see Clint release anatomically accurate animal skeleton figurines

  • @carrieseymour5197
    @carrieseymour5197 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Are we sure these are bone ears? They do superficially resemble the fleshy external ears of many mammals, but it's not that unusual for horned animals to have multiple pairs of horns. I can only speculate about the reason for the unusual shape of the horn core on the smaller pair in this case, maybe that groove up the middle was associated with some kind of display structure, like inflatable air sacs?

  • @skylaroconnor2903
    @skylaroconnor2903 Před 7 měsíci +22

    The breakdown of the dragon skeleton had me grinning like a fool 😁

  • @Kris_Lighthawk
    @Kris_Lighthawk Před 7 měsíci +14

    It is actually fairly common for butterflys to have only 4 functional (and clearly visible) legs, with one pair of legs being small, reduced or even vestigial and such hard to see and not used as legs.
    Only 2 legs is of course not a thing

  • @GarysTandAExotics
    @GarysTandAExotics Před 7 měsíci +12

    Clint I can honestly say I have seen an uprising in inaccurate skeletons since you made the first video. 😂. The species list keeps growing every year. I think at this point its all for you. 😂

  • @remuladgryta
    @remuladgryta Před 7 měsíci +9

    Clearly, the necromancer gave the skeleton octopus molars instead of suckers!

  • @BakerCoffeeMaker
    @BakerCoffeeMaker Před 7 měsíci +51

    I’ve come to look forward to this so much each year!

    • @82566
      @82566 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Me too , & btw love Sophia Patrillo 😉

  • @brandonbutler334
    @brandonbutler334 Před 7 měsíci +33

    I can't wait for Clint to review my skeleton some future Halloween! Gotta see how accurate I am!

    • @NicholasMarshall
      @NicholasMarshall Před 7 měsíci +3

      Found the necromancer!

    • @protocetid
      @protocetid Před 7 měsíci

      "He's got the sloped forehead and reduced braincase of a proto human. Frankly I am astounded he knew how to communicate to his human handler to post his comment. Clearly this person had a small brain and did not possess the intellectual capacity of a real human." Heh kidding.

  • @derp_dragons
    @derp_dragons Před 7 měsíci +4

    22:56 - "he's also empty inside" - relatable
    Ahhh I love this time of year and the annual Halloween decoration skeleton feature is one of my highlights. 💚

  • @OlyChickenGuy
    @OlyChickenGuy Před 7 měsíci +4

    I freaking love this series, and I'm so very glad that the "cat" has become a running gag.

  • @rylieread1865
    @rylieread1865 Před 7 měsíci +6

    OMG!! I have the dragon from the thumbnail! I was working as a cashier at a grocery store two years ago, and a family came through my line and decided they didn't want him because he was missing a foot. I'm such a sucker for dragons and underdogs, so I bought him. His name is Bartok the Tenacious, and he's been with me ever since, even through 2022 in which I lived in 3 states and 4 houses/apartments. I did have to glue his remaining front foot on because those suckers truly love to pop off. But i love him 🧡🧡

    • @claran3616
      @claran3616 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I would die for Bartok the Tenacious.

  • @kodabear1996
    @kodabear1996 Před 7 měsíci +9

    Before I was a subscriber I saw a tarantula "skeleton" at a local store. I was appalled! I was absolutely delighted when CZcams recommended the original "Zoologist Reacts To Your Horrible Halloween Decorations" a couple years later. My delight increased when you started the video with a spider "skeleton".
    Now I want to make a list of all the "skeletons" in your first 3 videos to have the next time I'm perusing Halloween decorations.

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci +5

    My understanding is that these bone creations are actually all made from parts of human skeletons that some crazy necromancer has reconfigured together into the rough form of animals and then enchanted. That's my favorite like version of the explanation of like all bone weird anatomy critters. If I didn't have this I think I probably would have lost my mind over a decade ago and these things first started appearing, lol. I actually have enough friends that do museum specimen preparation that will when things go wrong with the preparation do things like this for art that it seems fairly plausible to me.

  • @benjaminvleugels5609
    @benjaminvleugels5609 Před 7 měsíci +7

    Man I'm always surprised at how hard i need to laugh at the cat it always gets me i just can't look at it

  • @SteelFoot90
    @SteelFoot90 Před 7 měsíci +9

    I love these videos. Been happy every October they've come out. They've got "Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong" vibes. Though you're a lot more tolerant of inaccuracies. Thanks Clint!

  • @lachouette_et_le_phoque
    @lachouette_et_le_phoque Před 7 měsíci +7

    I got the same dragon skeleton recently! I remember taking a look and thinking they did a decent job at solving the problem of having to connect 6 limbs to a body that should only have four. It looks like the front legs are attached directly to the ribcage with a hip like joint, rather than to the shoulder blades, and the wings are connected to the shoulder blades. No idea whether that would work in practice, and it certainly doesn't seem like something that would evolve from 4-legged animals, but I thought it was a good idea.

  • @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
    @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug Před 7 měsíci +4

    I saw "skeleton" spiders in real life in a cheap nick nack shop a few days ago! I laughed out loud, it's so ridiculous!

  • @myragroenewegen5426
    @myragroenewegen5426 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Imagine those boned butterflies hurling through the air toward unsuspecting flowers. I think our favorite kitty may have been knocked out by one.

  • @lauraokelly2644
    @lauraokelly2644 Před 7 měsíci +10

    Yay! It's not really the Halloween season without Clint's take on the decorations. The cat is At At.

  • @mr8029
    @mr8029 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Butterfly skeleton is adorable!! Like something from an old fantasy film for children

  • @TotallyNoCat
    @TotallyNoCat Před 7 měsíci +5

    I feel like Clint is underappreciated, certified legend. Also, awesome sponsor.

  • @angustheterrible3149
    @angustheterrible3149 Před 7 měsíci +4

    In my experience regarding the production of toys and novelty items, costs are cut by companies through the re-use of molds and parts to assemble something new. People in production are not so much asked to look at an actual skeleton. It's more like they are asked to look at the existing parts, see what they can create with the molds the company has, and add the bare minimum of new parts to cut costs. It also has to do with how advanced their mold process is, and whether or not they are using computer modeling.
    This would explain the disparity between accurate aspects and inaccurate aspects. Not that they aren't getting the skeletons horribly wrong to begin with in many cases, but as a toy collector, I am always informing myself as to where companies cut costs in the production of certain figures, and I'm willing to bet these halloween decoration companies do the same.
    The more accurate ones are likely ones where the artist actually was asked to design something from scratch, rather than designing around the reuse of existing parts and molds.

  • @rjoerg79
    @rjoerg79 Před 7 měsíci +16

    I've been looking forward to this all year!! Thanks Clint.

    • @ClintsReptiles
      @ClintsReptiles  Před 7 měsíci +3

      Me too! Thank you for watching!

    • @darcieclements4880
      @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci

      Yes I look forward to it the moment that the previous years won ends. I get a kick out of seeing these every year in the store and even before Clint was making these videos I was going over the anatomy with my friends for fun at the store. I love these videos.

  • @tigergumby
    @tigergumby Před 7 měsíci +11

    IT'S FINALLY HERE! I wait for this video series every single year! They're probably my favorite thing on CZcams!

  • @leosailor2514
    @leosailor2514 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The butterfly is asking “where are my other four legs?” LOL

  • @aidenwallin3523
    @aidenwallin3523 Před 7 měsíci +5

    The "butterfly" skeleton at 21:34 is probably based off of "butterfree" (the pokemon). It has the two large hind legs and the huge eyes, but it's missing the front legs/arms/hands, and the wings are made of bone.

    • @ArtByKarenEHaley
      @ArtByKarenEHaley Před 7 měsíci +2

      I thought I'd seen that face on a butterfly before, you're right! It's not an earth butterfly at all, but one from
      The World of Pokemon

  • @anothersquid
    @anothersquid Před 7 měsíci +4

    Many new parrot owners learn the hard way about how long a parrot neck actually is.

  • @lucas10104
    @lucas10104 Před 7 měsíci +5

    I saw a pretty normal “snake” skeleton for sale this year. Immediately thought about one of the previous years, where someone insisted to you that there weren’t any snake skeletons because they don’t have bones. I wonder what they think now? And I wonder if someone in the fake skeleton business saw that video?

  • @Mew2Man
    @Mew2Man Před 7 měsíci +2

    The dragon, falfalcorsetail, and mermaid from last year are my favorite honestly. Clint's out here letting us know the real from the really remarkable! Maybe there's more of these kinds of skeletons out there left to cover than the run-of-the-mill kind?

  • @J3s5y
    @J3s5y Před 7 měsíci +4

    Would love your take on those Peruvian alien mummies! 😂

  • @Melisski
    @Melisski Před 7 měsíci +6

    I love the opportunities for teaching actual animal facts and anatomy this series allows.

  • @SpookyDollLady
    @SpookyDollLady Před 7 měsíci +3

    I look forward to these videos every year! I also have a small collection of "anatomically silly" skeletons that I add to every year. This year I'm holding out for the Spirit Halloween snail skeleton. 🤣

  • @gregchezick7757
    @gregchezick7757 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The cat's name should be Abyss, because he sure stares back.

  • @mistingwolf
    @mistingwolf Před 7 měsíci +1

    "It's almost like it isn't that hard!" This had me laughing. Great job to the person who was able to use Google to reference a frog skeleton.

  • @manthemanlyman
    @manthemanlyman Před 7 měsíci +8

    Hey man I’m so excited to come to your facility on Thursday! You have been such a big inspiration for me and many more. I started watching your videos around the start of Covid and they really helped me through those tough times.
    Happy grand opening and thank you for inspiring and helping so many people!

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Okay I think I missed the announcement of when you got the biology PhD, congrats. I never continued with titles after the baseline and I just kept studying it all on my own, but I also totally respect and understand the interest for professional educators continuing to go up the ranks, so grats on the PhD, sorry I missed the announcement. Seems like at that level you should really consider starting to do some research papers. I have piles and piles of research that need to be turned into papers but since my day job as an engineer is also pretty taxing I haven't ever gotten around to put in the papers together. I really do encourage you to consider you know actually writing up some papers because goodness gracious we need some really good ones done for so many species the research publication is so far behind. I know that you're focus is primarily on the CZcams videos and the education as a professor but I would love to you know see if you would do some papers and if you need any data I'd certainly be up for helping with that part. I've always been really good at collecting data it's just actually submitting things to journals I suck at, lol. I'm sure there's probably plenty of others that are in a similar boat so maybe look around and see if you could get in on some of that because certainly PhD level experience with understanding the whole process of submitting papers would be awesome for a lot of people who have been continuing to do science but have been out of school for a couple of decades without submitting papers. Heck you could even do some videos on how to go about doing it that'd be cool.

  • @GtPDDV
    @GtPDDV Před 7 měsíci +1

    I can’t stop laughing at that cat even though I’ve seen it around 5 times now
    I remember when you said you got it from the “snakes don’t have skeletons store”

  • @amberbydreamsart5467
    @amberbydreamsart5467 Před 7 měsíci +1

    the fact that this dragon has external ears and the wings of fire dragons have external ears makes me feel like Tui Sutherland has special information we don't know about

  • @duh_tch
    @duh_tch Před 7 měsíci +3

    The only appropriate name for the cat is Frans (Snarf backwards)

  • @Buzzumbud
    @Buzzumbud Před 7 měsíci +5

    I just watched the one from a couple years ago! I can't believe you uploaded this literally 2 hours after I watched it!

  • @MeanBeanComedy
    @MeanBeanComedy Před 6 měsíci +1

    Oh no...
    I laughed out loud at the "Never look a gift shell in the excess fascia."
    What am I becoming?!?

  • @sirpug
    @sirpug Před 7 měsíci +1

    I never thought I would be laughing at a "dinosaur" skeletons

  • @VeronicaLeigh79
    @VeronicaLeigh79 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Yay!!! My ridiculous butterfly alien made the cut!!! 💀👽🦋

  • @Xakriuth
    @Xakriuth Před 7 měsíci +15

    Looooove these skeleton videos. Animal anatomy fascinates me!

  • @susanowen1709
    @susanowen1709 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Your enthusiasm for both the surprisingly good and astoundingly horrendous is wonderful. You throw in so many fascinating details about the different animals, too. And congrats on your lucky find of a real dragon skeleton! A rare thing indeed. PS, I think you should name the cat Fry Pan, because he looks like he's been smacked in the face with one.

  • @AuroraExotics
    @AuroraExotics Před 7 měsíci +2

    I've had the dragon skeleton sitting on one of my snake cages for a few years! When I first found it I geeked out over the keeled sternum too! Definitely one of the best animal skeleton decorations out there. Great vid as always!

  • @RangerHouston
    @RangerHouston Před 7 měsíci +6

    I squealed like a lil girl when I saw this notification. These are always a hoot!

  • @its_kintama1109
    @its_kintama1109 Před 7 měsíci +2

    the halloween trilogy episode 3: Return of the Cat...Electric Boogaloo

  • @AlittleBitOfeverything2122
    @AlittleBitOfeverything2122 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I knew a lot of animal skeleton designs for Halloween were trash, but I learned a couple things new this fine morning.

  • @sketchiscribblr8285
    @sketchiscribblr8285 Před 7 měsíci +1

    the frog skeleton reminds me an awful lot of a 'frog dissection' kit I had as a kid. it had this little skeleton and plastic organs that you layered together in a mold and filled with this dark green gelatin. when it was set, you dissected your little frog. it made for a fun Halloween thing afterward, filling it with lime jello, sans the plastic bits.

  • @dier7144
    @dier7144 Před 7 měsíci +10

    Part of me feels bad laughing at the uneducated people who created those terribly inaccurate Halloween decorations but at the same time the other side of me finds it way too funny to not laugh at

    • @VictoriaEMeredith
      @VictoriaEMeredith Před 7 měsíci +2

      I’m imagining some artist looking at a real skeleton and going, “Well, THAT’S not creepy enough. Let me see what I can do….”

  • @susanmartin3762
    @susanmartin3762 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Hi Clint! Great video! When you said, "Hyoid bone , it reminded me about something I learned watching "Forensic Files". A broken or crushed Hyoid bone tells the detectives their victim had been strangled. Like you said, it's situated at the root of the tongue in front of our neck and the larynx. Ta-Da!!🎈✨️🎉 Now y'all can go about your day feeling safe 😊and satisfied🎉

  • @bronhaller
    @bronhaller Před 7 měsíci +2

    I'm impressed that you called that first skeleton a hummingbird - I couldn't identify it as such!

  • @allyperfectcosima5472
    @allyperfectcosima5472 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I might have to send in the little skeleton creature that my mom got me last year during the after Halloween sales because we truly have no idea what it's supposed to be. It doesn't even claim to be any specific animal 😅

  • @HeartFarts
    @HeartFarts Před 7 měsíci +3

    Just got a polar bear bracelet from Fahlo, I've been wanting one for so long so thank you for the discount!!

  • @garchompy_1561
    @garchompy_1561 Před 7 měsíci +1

    looking at the neck and skull of the "griffon", I wonder if its actually an ancient griffon from the pliostocine, combining an ancestor of cats and dogs with some species of terror bird. Maybe the skull shows its even older, more akin to that of gastornis, and clearly the feet indicate a lifestyle of living in trees grasping branches, then swooping down to pick off small ancient horses. increadible speculative biology on the evolution of the griffon from these artists, stellar job

  • @daigbogu
    @daigbogu Před 7 měsíci +2

    I just enjoying the thought of little Clint getting annoyed and confused at Jurassic Park's inconsistencies...
    maybe the alligators was based off of Emily and Ed's Rex....

  • @WaltMartin
    @WaltMartin Před 7 měsíci +3

    Come on folks, the video is 30 minutes long, and it was posted 12 minutes ago. And there are already 60+ likes??? LOL I love Clint's videos too, but at least watch it first.

  • @abbym9954
    @abbym9954 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I have been looking forward to this video for months. I propose "Punchline" as the name for the black cat- because as soon as it appears, everyone starts laughing!

  • @jessicap4998
    @jessicap4998 Před 7 měsíci +1

    When I think of scary animals, a hummingbird is not the animal that comes to mind.

  • @chendzeeali6545
    @chendzeeali6545 Před 7 měsíci +1

    (Best Read with a Southern Lawyer accent) Clint. The so called... ahem... butterfly skeleton. Is, CLEARLY, not a butterfly. Ahem... cough cough. What you have there, Sir, is... Ahem. A classic Mothman Skeleton. You are forgiven for your ignorance. :) Such a fun video :) I love these.

  • @Moon-Vixen
    @Moon-Vixen Před 7 měsíci

    "you never look a gift shell in the excess fascia" has me ROARING😂😂😂

  • @cardinalhamneggs5253
    @cardinalhamneggs5253 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I like how, on the bird at the beginning, the skull looks an awful lot like those birdlike masks worn by the Angel Sachiel in _Evangelion._

  • @CRISPFELLA
    @CRISPFELLA Před 7 měsíci +1

    I like how when Clint is doing a video that non reptile people would likely watch (like this one) he introduces himself and what he does.

  • @londoncintron680
    @londoncintron680 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The butterfly skeleton looks more like a bony Mothra more than anything else

  • @beyedoc
    @beyedoc Před 7 měsíci +1

    The butterfly one really cracks me up this episode. 😂😂😂

  • @giwilreker
    @giwilreker Před 7 měsíci +2

    I think kitty needs to be called Greebo (bad ass cat from Terry Pratchett's Discworld)

  • @aRAINofBLOOD
    @aRAINofBLOOD Před 7 měsíci +1

    I honestly mean this in the best way possible.... You're the adult Blippi. Super informative, fun, animated, (and you look similar), I love your content. 😅

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Aw no mention about the hummingbird feet. I feel like this was a missed opportunity. Maybe next year. I'm thinking both the history of when people thought that hummingbirds didn't have feet as well as like the special locking mechanics and other nifty features

  • @SweetOdinsRavens
    @SweetOdinsRavens Před 7 měsíci +1

    The necromancer theory still makes the most sense, because necromancers don't need the exact bone to make something, they just need bones as base material, and use magic to craft what they need out of it. The bone suckers and baby head are top tier stereotypical necromancy, no doubt.

  • @ChristmasCrustacean1
    @ChristmasCrustacean1 Před měsícem

    I love how Clint talks about Dr. Grant as less of a fictional character and more like a discredited peer he used to look up to, its amusing.

  • @MrMelichor
    @MrMelichor Před 7 měsíci

    Armadillo surgeon: "This armadillo is dead."
    Clint: "Not as dead as a turtle would be"

  • @LoarvicLoarvic
    @LoarvicLoarvic Před 7 měsíci +1

    21:33
    That's no butterfly, that's a pixie!