The Most Accurate T. rex Ever Reconstructed?

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 13. 10. 2018
  • The team working on Saurian have just revealed their massive, year-long project in a blog post; the complete redesigning of their game’s T.rex. And it might be the most accurate Tyrannosaurus anyone’s ever created.
    Join our Discord server: / discord
    Music by Matt D Holloway: goo.gl/9wX4ht
    Subscribe to explore the wonderful life around you!
    Social Media:
    ►Twitter: / bengthomas42
    ►Facebook: / bengthomas42
    ►Instagram: bit.ly/1PIEagv
    ►Google+: bit.ly/1ObHejE
    Sources:
    sauriangame.squarespace.com/b...
    www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
    www.nature.com/articles/srep4...
    www.artstation.com/artwork/lV...

Komentáře • 9K

  • @MidnightAssass1n
    @MidnightAssass1n Před 4 lety +8151

    Dinosaurs could have worn top hats and we wouldn’t be able to tell

    • @samuraijackoff5354
      @samuraijackoff5354 Před 4 lety +354

      sum body
      I’d say that dinosaur society revolved around certain dinos being able to wear things and other not being able too. The more fancy dinos would wear Bowties and Hats while others could not. Poor Trex could not wear both.

    • @Garbagejuicewaterfall
      @Garbagejuicewaterfall Před 4 lety +43

      🧐

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 Před 4 lety +107

      Until we find a 65m+ year old fossilised top-hat!

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 Před 4 lety +75

      @sum body Oh come on.... can you imagine T.Rex tryna tie its bowtie with _those_ arms?!

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 Před 4 lety +81

      Yes we would. But no doubt T. rex mainly wore cowboy hats since it lived in Montana and Wyoming.

  • @safron2442
    @safron2442 Před 5 lety +6544

    T.Rex: "Do I have Feathers or not? Come on guys you cant be this lost on a fossil..."
    *Bursts through wall*
    Spinosaurus: *_"wHaT eVeN aM I???"_*

    • @leonidasbelzebub7180
      @leonidasbelzebub7180 Před 5 lety +181

      OMG your comment! xDD

    • @Trex-or6cd
      @Trex-or6cd Před 5 lety +630

      But seriously do I have feathers?

    • @thenerdbeast7375
      @thenerdbeast7375 Před 5 lety +138

      Is till think more likely than not, though your intigument was probably mostly avian scales with primitive feathers down your spine and on your shoulders.

    • @imlivinginyourceiling
      @imlivinginyourceiling Před 5 lety +22

      IsisMasshiro or RickRaptor105 should make this comment into a Comment.

    • @jasonvoorhees5180
      @jasonvoorhees5180 Před 5 lety +214

      The part about spino is too true , it’s changed so much over the decades and even some of its earliest discovered remains were BLOWN UP in the allied bombing during WW2

  • @ctshaffer1999
    @ctshaffer1999 Před 3 lety +2074

    Fun Fact: the artist of the redesign is also the guy who designed the Pokémon in the live-action Detective Pikachu movie

    • @ivancheongyokekuen4053
      @ivancheongyokekuen4053 Před 3 lety +38

      Cool!

    • @finchatforharambe905
      @finchatforharambe905 Před 2 lety +115

      T REX I CHOSE YOU

    • @ctshaffer1999
      @ctshaffer1999 Před 2 lety +81

      @@finchatforharambe905 he actually did make a concept design for Tyrantrum, but it ultimately never appeared in the movie

    • @finchatforharambe905
      @finchatforharambe905 Před 2 lety +32

      @@ctshaffer1999 DANG IT, he's my favorite Pokemon oh well,I really wanted to see it face of against charizard or something

    • @rowinso
      @rowinso Před 2 lety +7

      @@ctshaffer1999 Where can I see the concept designs?

  • @Dinoboy-gv5fb
    @Dinoboy-gv5fb Před 3 lety +1730

    Feathers or no feathers, the T-Rex is amazing.

    • @gamersquid9987
      @gamersquid9987 Před 3 lety +8

      @@LolBrat123 Thats not a t rex and theres also scale impressions from t rex

    • @LolBrat123
      @LolBrat123 Před 3 lety +3

      @@gamersquid9987 I was hoping someone would fall for that

    • @MrKLeBlanc
      @MrKLeBlanc Před 3 lety +19

      One time i was at my uncle's farm when suddenly a mouse got out of a wall and ran in front of us across the patio. A rooster pecking next to the hen house noticed it as well. I didn't even had time to understand what was going on that the rooster started chasing the mouse, pinned it to the ground with its beak, threw it in the air and swallowed it head first.
      So when i heard some scientists saying that T-rex had feathers, i thought: Yeah that sounds about right.

    • @Suusleepy
      @Suusleepy Před 3 lety +4

      Like Pansexuals. Penis, No penis, Humans are amazing

    • @Samurai78420
      @Samurai78420 Před 3 lety +1

      What a great take. I feel the same, because I love the twists and turns between the theories of people that do this for their living. One thing that's obvious is that they have demonstrated how crazy close several dinosaurs are to birds tho.

  • @oznerriznick2474
    @oznerriznick2474 Před 4 lety +2319

    Male T rex, "I love you this much!"
    Female T rex, "That's not very much."

    • @bachirmessaouri4772
      @bachirmessaouri4772 Před 4 lety +48

      brilliant !

    • @nationalgamerzz3489
      @nationalgamerzz3489 Před 4 lety +35

      Brilliant comment from the commenters

    • @truetexican8864
      @truetexican8864 Před 4 lety +14

      brilliant!

    • @batsbat8664
      @batsbat8664 Před 4 lety +12

      Brilliant

    • @adralenagd2669
      @adralenagd2669 Před 4 lety +32

      A brilliant comment from a brilliant comment from a brilliant comment from a brilliant comment from a really brilliant comment from a fucking brilliant comment from a I wanna die brilliant comment.

  • @Vampxiii_
    @Vampxiii_ Před 4 lety +4194

    It’s so crazy to me that these actually existed.

    • @raynel1000
      @raynel1000 Před 4 lety +191

      Blue whale its even more impressive

    • @solarhound6768
      @solarhound6768 Před 4 lety +134

      @@raynel1000 megalodon is a lot better

    • @jordanrodriguez6412
      @jordanrodriguez6412 Před 4 lety +487

      It's insane. I dont think people really understand these animals once walked the same earth we did.

    • @raynel1000
      @raynel1000 Před 4 lety +74

      TheGamingHispanic21 thats exactly why its incredible

    • @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212
      @alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 Před 4 lety +90

      @@jordanrodriguez6412 Not the same earth at all, 1st of all, Tyrannousaurus Rex only lived in Laramidia which was western north america when north america was divided in two lands by the western interior sea. 2nd, botanically and climatologically the earth was much different 65 million years ago. Other than that, it was still the same planet, that's for sure.

  • @robertpowell9982
    @robertpowell9982 Před 3 lety +2092

    Everyone when they realize T-Rex may have had feathers: "NOOOO! You're ruining my childhood!" D:<
    Everyone when they realize T-Rex most likely didn't have feathers anyway: "Awww, but my fluffy Rexy" :(

    • @maryjane5754
      @maryjane5754 Před 3 lety +18

      Hmmm.....that ridiculous fantasy lizard with giant hips and microscopic hands NEVER existed.

    • @dinoguy163
      @dinoguy163 Před 3 lety +153

      @@maryjane5754 Shut the fuck up bro and they weren’t lizard dum dum.

    • @Hybrid980
      @Hybrid980 Před 3 lety +219

      @@maryjane5754 Cope and seethe

    • @firegator6853
      @firegator6853 Před 3 lety +195

      @@maryjane5754 how? there are so many proofs of their existance it's literally a fact...saying earth is flat makes more sense than the bullshit you just dropped right now
      if dinosaurs didn't exist then birds don't exist either
      also be more creative with your trolls next time lol

    • @goose6112
      @goose6112 Před 3 lety +82

      @@maryjane5754 it's obvious that they are just big monkeys

  • @rickramsdell520
    @rickramsdell520 Před 3 lety +1392

    Saw a cartoon once. There were two T Rex's standing on a small Island. They were watching Noah's ark sail away. One T Rex turned to the other and said " oh crap, was that today?

  • @fioyl
    @fioyl Před 4 lety +3944

    So we’ve wrapped right back around to “Maybe Jurassic Park had it right after all”

    • @omuldinozaur5896
      @omuldinozaur5896 Před 4 lety +478

      Not really, it has no keratin horns, no lips, is too skinny, arms are too long, the head is completly wrong, and even the scales are the wrong kind, they are reptilian, while the real Rex probably had avian scales on the body, and reptilian only on the face. So no, the did not get it right at all.

    • @xv2711
      @xv2711 Před 4 lety +563

      @@omuldinozaur5896 Yeah you're right, its why its called a joke.

    • @tyrannosaurusrex6571
      @tyrannosaurusrex6571 Před 4 lety +40

      Who did u know Trex had Horn's and lips and the fossils show Trex scales like snake looking

    • @CrazyPangolinLady
      @CrazyPangolinLady Před 4 lety +16

      Un canal sec 857
      Well, I know a lot of people where upset about the feathers.

    • @sanny8716
      @sanny8716 Před 4 lety +33

      @@xv2711 "It's just a joke bro"

  • @norman157
    @norman157 Před 4 lety +1132

    *Me, age 5:* Omg dinosaurs are so cool! *Me, age 11:* dinosaurs are so childish wtf!!! *Me, right now at age 17:* Dinosaurs are so fucking cool

    • @BryanRodriguez-ml1vd
      @BryanRodriguez-ml1vd Před 4 lety +11

      Fucking Norman

    • @user-oe9vs7sr5p
      @user-oe9vs7sr5p Před 4 lety +63

      They were a fascination of mine when I was a child. Then something occured and I lost my interest. Though I have never had a bad impression of them. And now stumbling upon this vid I recall warm memories of a time when my life never seemed grim as it is now.

    • @norman157
      @norman157 Před 4 lety +20

      @@user-oe9vs7sr5p Dinosaurs are not for kids... but when parents buy you dinosaur toys and such, then you later think it's childish until you get interested again

    • @Wellshem
      @Wellshem Před 4 lety +17

      Kids now:
      5: We like fortnite
      11: Get the fuck out my room I'm playing fortnite
      17: fucking fortnite kid, let me play LoL

    • @firegator6853
      @firegator6853 Před 4 lety +15

      they are just animals not for kids not for adults just animals so they are not for a certain age it's just what kind of animals you like and if you are intrested about paleontology and that's what i hate some people say dinosaurs are childish like they are some kind of cartoon they are animals just like birds fish mammals reptiles insects
      don't worry im not talking about you im talking in general

  • @vielvladimirvaldez6917
    @vielvladimirvaldez6917 Před 3 lety +784

    its just so mindblowing knowing that flightless dragons existed.

    • @firegator6853
      @firegator6853 Před 3 lety +18

      they look nothing like dragons

    • @vielvladimirvaldez6917
      @vielvladimirvaldez6917 Před 3 lety +128

      @@firegator6853 they look sorta like dragons without spikes.

    • @firegator6853
      @firegator6853 Před 3 lety +14

      @@vielvladimirvaldez6917 idk i don't see any similarity except the sharp teeth that theropods have like all carnivorous toothed animals

    • @ulink265
      @ulink265 Před 3 lety +4

      i dont see the similiraty just maybe the legs but only to wyverns to i dont see similarities with classic dragons and chinese dragons

    • @vielvladimirvaldez6917
      @vielvladimirvaldez6917 Před 3 lety +8

      @@ulink265 yeah nvm they look more wyvern-ey

  • @DrevorReal
    @DrevorReal Před 3 lety +206

    "The Saurian rex is just about as thicc as it can be".
    Good.

  • @zgramzhnisk3036
    @zgramzhnisk3036 Před 5 lety +1410

    T-rex: I am the most undeciced dinosaur in science
    Giga: Shut up my size changes like every month
    Spino: Hold my beer

    • @kaytk1762
      @kaytk1762 Před 5 lety +123

      Bipedal
      Quadrupedal
      Bipedal with short legs
      Short snout
      Fish eater
      Can't swim
      What??!?!!?!?!?!!??!?!??????????!!!!!??!

    • @kaytk1762
      @kaytk1762 Před 5 lety +95

      No. Spino would say hold my Onchopristis and T. Rex would be like I can't hold that!!

    • @eewweeppkk
      @eewweeppkk Před 5 lety +42

      Giganotosaurus' size changes every month? Are you sure that its not just people who play ARK that think it is way bigger than its known to have been for many years?

    • @crunch2427
      @crunch2427 Před 5 lety +4

      It’s a joke idiot

    • @keahililia8208
      @keahililia8208 Před 5 lety +22

      Spino: "Hold my Onchopristis"

  • @DaBeastPony43
    @DaBeastPony43 Před 4 lety +1855

    Jurassic park: "You could not live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me."

    • @laughinglaughing1416
      @laughinglaughing1416 Před 4 lety +21

      hahahahha

    • @David-ni5hj
      @David-ni5hj Před 4 lety +25

      Lib still, the T Rex didn’t looked at all like JP's Rex. Get over it.

    • @DaBeastPony43
      @DaBeastPony43 Před 4 lety +103

      @@David-ni5hj It's a joke

    • @user-fl8ng9np7v
      @user-fl8ng9np7v Před 4 lety +15

      @@David-ni5hj it did. But Real life T rex had orange colors and didnt roar

    • @BevvyTV
      @BevvyTV Před 4 lety +88

      @DavGP1208 butt hurt much? you do realise the movie came out in 1993 and there model was designed (helped) by palaeontologists so yeah not accurate now but back then top notch and its frackly much accurate then some of these feathered shit people have.

  • @gotlgemhcs4833
    @gotlgemhcs4833 Před 3 lety +123

    The whole reason why alligators can't move their tongue is because it's fused to their lower pallet

    • @_Neely
      @_Neely Před 3 lety +16

      @@michealtaylor7745 Birds can move their tongue though? Though maybe I didn't understand what you meant. All I know is I have a pet bird and I've witnessed him lick things and use his tongue to help him eat stuff. I have heard they have a bone in their tongue though and my birds tongue definitely seems like it would be a lot firmer/tougher than like a mammal's tongue.

    • @zsu-23-4shilka2
      @zsu-23-4shilka2 Před 2 lety +2

      Word?!?

    • @gotlgemhcs4833
      @gotlgemhcs4833 Před 2 lety +4

      @@michealtaylor7745 but there saying trex wouldn't move it's tongue a lot because of alligators that is so stupid

    • @gotlgemhcs4833
      @gotlgemhcs4833 Před 2 lety +5

      @@michealtaylor7745 also birds can move there tongue a lot what are you talking about and we don't know what theropod dinosaur tongues looked like the only reason crocodilians can't move there tongue is because it's fused to there lower pallet and that's because there aquatic and use it's tongue to close it's air ways while in the water why would a land theropod need a adaptation used only for aquatic use and would never appear on land

  • @Janne-k-
    @Janne-k- Před 3 lety +455

    new research:
    "T-rex didn't have feathers."
    Trey the explainer:
    "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"

    • @onionhater5887
      @onionhater5887 Před 3 lety +24

      Janne-K he actually apologized in a video he made saying that he was “rushed” in he’s response.

    • @Janne-k-
      @Janne-k- Před 3 lety +4

      @@onionhater5887 no he didn't.
      Link?

    • @mr.gishere844
      @mr.gishere844 Před 3 lety +3

      @@onionhater5887 link?

    • @KingofTheGojiras
      @KingofTheGojiras Před 3 lety +12

      @@Janne-k- He does it in the comment section of this video czcams.com/video/Y89wkWYOXgI/video.html

    • @onionhater5887
      @onionhater5887 Před 3 lety +2

      Janne-K it’s in the recap video he made for 2017 and a video by akrex

  • @avaccian629
    @avaccian629 Před 4 lety +502

    Friend: I finished the test, the back was hard.
    Me, who didn’t even know
    there was a back: 6:47

  • @walmartpimp2
    @walmartpimp2 Před 5 lety +2789

    T-Rex was purple and had green polka dots, come on people.

  • @tyrannosaurusrex8183
    @tyrannosaurusrex8183 Před 3 lety +569

    Hey guys, it’s your favorite mega theropod from the Maastrichtian! Looks like I’m getting a new redesign for saurian, and I’m flattered! I know it is different from what most people liked, but I guess we gotta change. It’s one of the things I love about paleontology, it always advances with new info. Thanks to the saurian team.
    Love, T. rex

    • @ivancheongyokekuen4053
      @ivancheongyokekuen4053 Před 3 lety +13

      Aw hey tyrant lizard king/queen!

    • @tyrannosaurusrex8183
      @tyrannosaurusrex8183 Před 3 lety +6

      @@ivancheongyokekuen4053 hello :D

    • @silith2868
      @silith2868 Před 3 lety +7

      @@tyrannosaurusrex8183 are you level 400+? If so I wanna tame you

    • @theacro3472
      @theacro3472 Před 3 lety +3

      No you are not my favorite mega theropod but ok

    • @4skininthebin
      @4skininthebin Před 3 lety +6

      My favourite Dino! wait...... HOW ARE YOU TYPING?!??!?!!?!?!?!

  • @a.j.medialover
    @a.j.medialover Před 2 lety +35

    That redesign honestly looks awesomely close to the 2020-T-Rex reconstruction model at Field Museum, called "Sue" or "Fleshy".

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting Před 4 lety +837

    To give you an idea, take the skeletons of a lion and a tiger. Both big cats, their skeletons nearly identical. What indication would the bones give to tell anyone who has never seen the animals alive that one has a lot of colors and stripes and the other a huge mane?

    • @tonyennis3008
      @tonyennis3008 Před 4 lety +155

      Skin impressions could give the clue about the mane.

    • @Osvath97
      @Osvath97 Před 4 lety +317

      Tiger and Lion skeletons are far from nearly identical, though I get your general point.

    • @DinoMeat-qw4lg
      @DinoMeat-qw4lg Před 4 lety +27

      Hopefully life after humans aren't stupid then.

    • @malligrub
      @malligrub Před 4 lety +145

      Sure, but skin impressions would clearly show they were both covered in hair as opposed to being bald, which is the more accurate analogy to the T-rex situation.

    • @lookin4u1980
      @lookin4u1980 Před 4 lety +26

      Most likely they will be a able to tell the lions had manes due to the impressions of the differences do to the larger mass of hair and length around the neck area, then with the difference between the skulls of a lion compared to a tigers skull, they will then know that this animal had a mane was a Male lion and this skull that has a lion skull but no mane is the female

  • @joemartinez4518
    @joemartinez4518 Před 5 lety +4878

    this is fake everyone know t rex had lips and a mustache

    • @primeribgaming2681
      @primeribgaming2681 Před 5 lety +312

      Joe Martinez
      And a Top hat, monocle, and cane. We also know their mating call and they danced a little jig to impress females.
      “Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!”

    • @infidel6728
      @infidel6728 Před 5 lety +28

      Was it a pencil thin mustache?

    • @iu3794
      @iu3794 Před 5 lety +20

      An Prehistoric Mustache!!!

    • @yuvarudra6602
      @yuvarudra6602 Před 5 lety +15

      U forgot beard 😂

    • @fridericusrex7042
      @fridericusrex7042 Před 5 lety +25

      Nah it was a toothbrush moustache, watch out for dinosaur hitler!

  • @Qubaisi4Life
    @Qubaisi4Life Před 3 lety +69

    dinos are something i honestly appreciate and admire their existence

    • @wyldeyouth
      @wyldeyouth Před 2 lety +5

      Thats my new pick-up line : "hey there... I really admire your existence"

    • @waluigihentailover6926
      @waluigihentailover6926 Před 6 měsíci

      That’s a phrase I could single-handedly make popular.

  • @zeeby24
    @zeeby24 Před 3 lety +71

    This collaboration between gaming and biological science is so endlessly impressive!!

  • @Superchicken_36
    @Superchicken_36 Před 5 lety +732

    T-Rex: When will they figure out if I had feathers or not?
    Spinosaurus: Oh please, they thought I was a fish!
    Therizinosaurus: Hmm? I didn't hear you over them saying I was a turtle.
    Iguanodon and Megalosaurus: Keep talking.

  • @donkeymung8553
    @donkeymung8553 Před 5 lety +172

    reminds me of exactly what i thought it looked like 30 years ago.

    • @freestylefighter13
      @freestylefighter13 Před 4 lety +1

      HITLER PO´´

    • @matthewmasood
      @matthewmasood Před 4 lety +4

      so basically we are getting nowhere..

    • @swain4559
      @swain4559 Před rokem

      @@matthewmasood no there are quite a few differences, lips covering teeth, more inward facing arms, and MUCH less skin wrapped overall it looks like it could be a living breathing animal now and not just a godzilla movie monster

  • @orangeziggy599
    @orangeziggy599 Před 3 lety +48

    Im glad to learn that TRex had lips. I'm curious to know what he used his hands for, and how he slept, and how he got up off the ground. It was interesting to learn that the 1-3 ton animals generally don't benefit from fur/feathers.

    • @awesomeexpress1295
      @awesomeexpress1295 Před rokem +3

      They're arms can lift 200 lbs. They probably used them to hold the mate while mating.

    • @Tyrannosaurus_rex.
      @Tyrannosaurus_rex. Před rokem

      @@awesomeexpress1295 *400 lbs

    • @AGuyNamedRobin
      @AGuyNamedRobin Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@awesomeexpress1295 Or also hold the prey while crushing their necks

  • @TheTwick
    @TheTwick Před 2 lety +21

    One thing that still amazes me is the balance it maintains. This large mass extending outward in both directions on the feet. Makes me think balance was an essential part of its nervous system. It must have had a three axis vestibular system. I’m a microbiologist, so thinking about this is new to me.

  • @JuggoJuggo
    @JuggoJuggo Před 4 lety +813

    I think T Rex was an ambush hunter, I think he was covered in moss, mud, debris and pretended to be a tree.

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 Před 4 lety +65

      Probably a boulder instead.

    • @NoName-ze4qn
      @NoName-ze4qn Před 4 lety +88

      T Rex was too thicc to be a tree.

    • @JuggoJuggo
      @JuggoJuggo Před 4 lety +67

      @@NoName-ze4qn Trees were bigger back then, there are fossils of leaves a couple of feet across. But whatever, he could have been a pile of dirt, just a motionless piece of nature. Dinosaurs were dumb, it wouldn't take much to fool them.

    • @thatguykenny1284
      @thatguykenny1284 Před 4 lety +27

      But were they found in Vietnam?

    • @adralenagd2669
      @adralenagd2669 Před 4 lety +3

      Shit that reminded me of scp 682

  • @exlibrisas
    @exlibrisas Před 5 lety +388

    I must admit, as big fan of dinosaurs, I really feel quite indifferent about weather they had feathers or not. I am only interested in truth. Whatever the outcome of studies, I'll take it with joy.

  • @anyascelticcreations
    @anyascelticcreations Před 2 lety +20

    I love that they put so much effort into being accurate about what he looked like. 👍

  • @williamsparks1521
    @williamsparks1521 Před 2 lety +13

    As a dino fan for 64 years (68 yo) I've read everything I can get my hands on. This creation with the explanation seems extremely plausible.

  • @ArigatoPlays
    @ArigatoPlays Před 5 lety +238

    Saurian is a really amazing project

    • @vianjelos
      @vianjelos Před 5 lety +5

      I apprechiate their accuracy over nostalgia..its important to make updates based off of scientific discoveries and not just leave the models inaccurate because "they look cool" ..

    • @dakotadawn5789
      @dakotadawn5789 Před 5 lety +4

      Cool project and I bought the game but sadly refunded since while it’s cool to look at its not a very ‘fun’ game to play. I had pretty much experienced it all in half an hour

    • @shadowwarrior2371
      @shadowwarrior2371 Před 5 lety +2

      vianjelos The whole point of Saurian is to be scientifically accurate, so yeah lol
      I’m so incredibly glad the project exists as well. I don’t even really care about gameplay, I just want accurate and groundbreaking reconstructions in an interactive environment (and one that is easily accessible to the general public!). It’s an amazing achievement, and I’d give all my money to it just for that if it was practical lmao

    • @crimsonxwyvernhd9088
      @crimsonxwyvernhd9088 Před 5 lety +2

      Will Saurian be as fun as Ark is? 😛

    • @hypn0298
      @hypn0298 Před 5 lety +2

      CrimsonXWyvernHD no, because it's more realistic. But it'll be fascinating for sure.

  • @addictedtochocolate920
    @addictedtochocolate920 Před 4 lety +908

    Why can't people be this accurate when representing medieval setting too? This is cool and it dosen't promote misconceptions/misinformation about the cretaceous era or its wild life

    • @kingtigertheheavy5945
      @kingtigertheheavy5945 Před 4 lety +55

      If you want a really accurate medieval based game i would recommend Kingdom Come Deliverance.
      Its based in medieval Bohemia

    • @Safiyahalishah
      @Safiyahalishah Před 4 lety +10

      @@kingtigertheheavy5945 I concur, this is a good recommendation. I love that game.

    • @BasedForever0
      @BasedForever0 Před 4 lety +14

      @@kingtigertheheavy5945 Yes, it is very good. I was one of the original supporters, I waited 2 years for that game to be finished/made and I can say I was NOT dissappointed.

    • @fieldmarshaljoe
      @fieldmarshaljoe Před 4 lety +5

      King Tiger The heavy whats accurate about it lol, hardly anything

    • @macrebs4484
      @macrebs4484 Před 4 lety +15

      fieldmarshaljoe Exactly. The developers kept talking about how they wanted to create a realistic medieval game.
      So people just assumed that everything within the game was mostly accurate, when the vast majority was inaccurate.

  • @grayfullbaster3246
    @grayfullbaster3246 Před 3 lety +9

    Mark Witton was my university professor , and he’s knowledge about paleontology is insane .. glad I met him

  • @daedricender7276
    @daedricender7276 Před 2 lety +13

    Person, I feel like young tyrannosaurs have feathers or maybe thin quill like feathers, for camo, maybe to simulate bushes or ground texture, or even to appear like a raptor young, and then when the get larger and they can defend them self the loose these feathers, but it could be that some adults have small “hairs” (left over feathers) from their youth, but this may be not that common

  • @ludahwolf3634
    @ludahwolf3634 Před 5 lety +412

    Damn so that purple dinosaur Barney was the last closest representation we had of t rex then ?

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 Před 4 lety +24

      I really doubt T. rex was that closely represented by Barney because I cannot imagine it singing that badly even if it did not have vocal cords that enable it to roar like a supersized lion.

    • @lawrencebittke8478
      @lawrencebittke8478 Před 4 lety +2

      Louis Boyd Barney was Raspberry in color and could do comedy monologues.

    • @-TheUnkownUser
      @-TheUnkownUser Před 4 lety +1

      Louis Boyd Destiny... Is not without irony

  • @venator-classstardestroyer568

    Before you all say that you prefer the feathered T-Rex, remember that there is still the fully feathered Yutyrannus.

    • @skiwee2092
      @skiwee2092 Před 5 lety +33

      And the fact that if T. rex had feathers as a baby, it wouldn’t lose all of them by the time it grew up as well. Like how over the span of 50m years (probably got that wrong) whales still have hair

    • @Deoix9877
      @Deoix9877 Před 5 lety +31

      @@skiwee2092 changing the amount of hair on your body as you grow up is hardly the same as changing feathers into scales as you grow. no animal has been shown to change the stuff that grows on their body, so the elephant example everyone throws around really doesn't work for the t-rex. besides that, there's really no evidence that babys had feathers, so considering it as true would be dishonest. the t-rex might have had some vestigial feathers the same way a whale has some hairs, but they would be so small and spread out over their bodies that they might as well not be there.

    • @Jillybear265
      @Jillybear265 Před 5 lety +1

      Yes! I love the boi!

    • @eduardofreitas8336
      @eduardofreitas8336 Před 5 lety +19

      Yep but yutyrannus is not that closely related to tyrannosaurus. Look at the fingers.

    • @RomulusMorgan
      @RomulusMorgan Před 5 lety +1

      Skiwee Deewee yeah, it’s not like birds lose all their feathers as they age! I mean, it feels like we are kind of hinting at them being more like crocodiles.

  • @Mafioso1731
    @Mafioso1731 Před 3 lety +34

    I don't know why or how this came on my feed, but now I want to study Dinosaurs and play this game.
    I ate too much icecream today :(

  • @chrispyfriedchicken9648
    @chrispyfriedchicken9648 Před 3 lety +13

    Its amazing looking back at this 2 years later. This was the start of a new era for trex. It feels like the saurian rex has been the gold standard for all accurate trex designs since. Pnso, the field museum, beasts of the Mesozoic, and rebor have all designed similar models to this design since, and I finally feel at rest knowing that the accurate image of trex will likely not change for a long time, if ever

    • @KidBuuBuu1214
      @KidBuuBuu1214 Před 2 lety

      Yes, this truly is the best image of a rex. Without feathers is the best

  • @compulsoryevacuationdevice
    @compulsoryevacuationdevice Před 5 lety +325

    1:22 D E S P A C I T O S A U R U S

  • @NigelThornbery
    @NigelThornbery Před 5 lety +639

    T. Rex's comically small arms getting even smaller? Fine with me.

    • @SquirrelASMR
      @SquirrelASMR Před 5 lety +117

      I mean at this point they just look like hard nipples...

    • @marpl8761
      @marpl8761 Před 5 lety +57

      Tell that to the Carno

    • @keahililia8208
      @keahililia8208 Před 5 lety +37

      Majungasaurus: Hold my carcass

    • @bartender6965
      @bartender6965 Před 5 lety +14

      Before you know it they won't have arms

    • @Zoditron
      @Zoditron Před 5 lety +28

      You want comically small? Look at Carnotaurus

  • @davidgrech4574
    @davidgrech4574 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you for sharing your insights and your artistry. I hope that you will continue to bless us with more videos 🙏

  • @fluxster1022
    @fluxster1022 Před 3 lety +121

    Though I'm more a fan of the feathered version aesthetically. I want dinosaurs to be depicted as scientifically accurately as possible and no matter what they looked like, coming face to face with a t-rex is going to be the most terrifying moment of your life. Feathers or not.
    I've had the unfortunate pleasure of seeing a fully grown ostrich being a bit cranky so just scale that up and I'll probably die of shock on the spot before I get eaten.

    • @sslocke
      @sslocke Před 2 lety +7

      if i was about to be eaten by giant chicken-saurus rex I'd probably chuckle a bit before it got me. Scally T.rex i am pissing myself the whole way

    • @Radiata_Lionfish
      @Radiata_Lionfish Před 2 lety +2

      @@sslocke I personally think that feathers can look far scarier, specially if we're talking about animals like Dakotaraptor, Yutyrannus, and similar animals.
      Don't believe me? Take a look at this giant petrel that just finished feasting on a seal's carcass (TW: Gore):
      abinantarctica.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_5981.jpg

    • @primisoda1400
      @primisoda1400 Před rokem +1

      @@Radiata_Lionfish honestly it would be scarier if it was a monitor lizard with blood all over its body

    • @Radiata_Lionfish
      @Radiata_Lionfish Před rokem

      @@primisoda1400 Fair enough, maybe the thing I find so unsettling about this photography is the petrel's eyes combined with blood-coated face. The eyes make the petrel look like it's gaze is piercing directly into your soul IMO, calculating when or if it should take a bite.

    • @primisoda1400
      @primisoda1400 Před rokem

      @@Radiata_Lionfish its just that a reptile's gaze is so soulless, its only thought on its mind is to eat and kill

  • @cobraconcept1
    @cobraconcept1 Před 4 lety +314

    Props for actually redeveloping according to new scientific discoveries!

    • @lEGOBOT2565
      @lEGOBOT2565 Před 4 lety +18

      Except many paleontologists have refuted the new discoveries and Saurian's claims using examples from T-rex's closest living relatives; birds. Feathers don't have to only insulate, and in fact many feathers are used to diffuse heat, like a heat sink. that and there have been studies found that T-rex's relatives, such as Yutyrannus, were covered in feathers, and gave many real life examples of the ecosystem that currently resides in the Hell Creek formation then and now that state that; T-rex did indeed have feathers, we just don't know how many

    • @randomdude-fp6jm
      @randomdude-fp6jm Před 4 lety +8

      @@lEGOBOT2565 we need to think of trex and yutyarannus (misspelled) like african elephant and mammoths see what ? Yuti has feathers cuz it lived in a colder place AND besides that yuri is not so related compared to alberto, tarbo and gorgo just by looking at the arms and again yti more looked more like a featherd allosaurus then a t.rex (not that yuti is a allosaurus species)

    • @lEGOBOT2565
      @lEGOBOT2565 Před 4 lety

      @@randomdude-fp6jm except that Yutyrannus lived in a warmer period of time and more south that T-Rex. So shouldn't T-Rex also have feathers?

    • @randomdude-fp6jm
      @randomdude-fp6jm Před 4 lety +2

      @@lEGOBOT2565 does a afrrican elephant 0% fur (my god that spelling 10/10) no a african elephant has little feathers but id say the covrage of a t.rex should be = arms the rest... i d k

    • @lEGOBOT2565
      @lEGOBOT2565 Před 4 lety +4

      @@randomdude-fp6jm from how you phrased it, you pretty much said "T-Rex shouldn't have any feathers"

  • @ProfezorFirdaus
    @ProfezorFirdaus Před 3 lety +97

    "Most accurate T-Rex representation"
    Me: CHONK !

    • @Your_Father1980
      @Your_Father1980 Před 3 lety +2

      is it just me or is he looking kinda *T H I C C*

    • @francofernandes2006
      @francofernandes2006 Před 2 lety +4

      I'm trying to hunt Triceratops, but I'm dummy THICC and the clap of my cheeks keeps alerting them!

  • @jamesschauer1056
    @jamesschauer1056 Před 3 lety +10

    Pretty fascinating. Really neat how much it's perceived appearance has changed in just over 100 years.

  • @cindydintn
    @cindydintn Před 2 lety

    I appreciate your hard work, and the excellent commentary! Thank you very much!

  • @GimmieTheJimmie
    @GimmieTheJimmie Před 5 lety +785

    Why people ever romanticized the idea of a feathered Tyrannosaurus is beyond me. I've seen countless "I miss the feathers" comments, but this isn't some fandom. We don't get to prefer what we want when it comes to science. These are animals, and frankly it doesn't matter what your preference of it is. Be prepared to drop established concepts of Dinosaurs as you know them, as they are bound to change with new evidence.

    • @FirstDagger
      @FirstDagger Před 5 lety +100

      It goes both directions, people were complaining about "I miss the scaly Trex" on many videos.

    • @brettforsyth4842
      @brettforsyth4842 Před 5 lety +18

      Feathers look cool but, eh. I don't mind either way.

    • @yuyaricachimuel555
      @yuyaricachimuel555 Před 5 lety +37

      Pretty sad comment thread.

    • @peachibread1983
      @peachibread1983 Před 5 lety +54

      @Hamish Rev science doesn't care about your feelings. Get over it.

    • @peachibread1983
      @peachibread1983 Před 5 lety +42

      @@shitpost9237 feathered dinosaurs are fine but, t Rex wasn't feathered. You can argue all you want but science says it doesn't have feathers. So yeah.

  • @sky1arks995
    @sky1arks995 Před 5 lety +157

    I'm sad to see the feathered t rex go, but the logic and research behind it seems pretty reasonable. The question is; if the adult didn't have feathers because of its size, did the babies have any feathers? It would be pretty interesting if the babies hatched with feathers, then molted them permanently once they grew to a certain size.
    Kinda like how Hoatzin chicks are born retaining claws on their wings, but lose them once their wings are developed enough to fly.

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  Před 5 lety +34

      As the blog says, it's very possible that this could occur, but since it's not known to happen in any other animal they have decided not to include it in their restoration.

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 Před 5 lety +9

      I'd say that it would depend on whether or not it would be evolutionarily advantageous for the young to have feathers.
      Personally, I think it would make sense for them to have them, as feathers would provide extra warmth, camouflage, and protection in a particularly vulnerable stage of life. We'll have to wait and see if this is supported by evidence or not in the future, of course.

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 Před 5 lety +1

      I'd like this to be true but it'd be the only creature to lose it's feathering entirely from adolescent into adulthood

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 Před 5 lety +4

      @@petercarioscia9189 in fairness, there are no animals like the dinosaurs alive today. Pachyderms are born hairless because most mammals are, regardless. All birds, however, are born with feathers; Tyrannosaurs, being non-avian birds, could very well be the same.
      Again, it is up for debate until evidence can prove or disprove the hypothesis that infant Tyrannosaurs were feathered.

    • @thewolfofcomedy5966
      @thewolfofcomedy5966 Před 5 lety +3

      @@DISTurbedwaffle918 You've got it mixed up. T.rex was not a non-avian bird, birds are non-avian dinosaurs. A non-avian bird is an oxymoron

  • @broccolinyu911
    @broccolinyu911 Před 2 lety +93

    "The feathered T-Rex so many of us had gotten used to seeing"
    *laughs in the days of Jurassic Park, Land Before Time, and Turok*
    I was never big on the whole feathered rex

    • @ghostface5077
      @ghostface5077 Před 2 lety +4

      bro same

    • @KidBuuBuu1214
      @KidBuuBuu1214 Před 2 lety +4

      Feathered dinosaurs are lame. When I heard of them having feathers it really was a huge let down. Of course yutyrannus had them, but most "feathered" dinosaurs I just couldn't bring myself to like

    • @StoutShako
      @StoutShako Před 2 lety +11

      Yall are so boring omg. You've clearly never been chased by a swan or a cassowary huh.

    • @frenchfry9370
      @frenchfry9370 Před 2 lety +1

      Agreed with the bigger ones like Rexes, Trics and Sauropods, though I think feathered raptors and other small dino's would look pretty cool

    • @Victor-fm3xd
      @Victor-fm3xd Před 2 lety +1

      @@KidBuuBuu1214 so you’re pretty much saying most theropods are lame then?

  • @bengoet89
    @bengoet89 Před 3 lety +16

    My brain is creepy from time to time.
    Me: watches a redesigning of t Rex
    My brain: since chicken are basically dinosaurs, does this mean, t rex tastes like chicken?
    Me: what the hell man???

    • @dairemckenna6408
      @dairemckenna6408 Před 3 lety +5

      This is a thought we have all probably thought before, but since we do have recounts of what dodo meat, an animal much more closely related to a chicken but still quite far off, tasted like (dry and bland) it is fair to assume Tyrannosaurus meat would be fairly different in taste to that of a modern chicken

    • @kingdoge69
      @kingdoge69 Před 3 lety +1

      KFC and Popeyes would have a field day if these bad boys were still around

    • @LarryThePhotoGuy
      @LarryThePhotoGuy Před 3 lety +1

      @@kingdoge69 Imagine the size of the McNuggets!

    • @ElysetheEevee
      @ElysetheEevee Před 3 lety

      @@dairemckenna6408
      **Distorted Ark: Survival Evolved dodo noises intensifies**

  • @user-kl6cx2vl3f
    @user-kl6cx2vl3f Před 4 lety +311

    I'm 100% certain dinosaurs wore Jordan's and had waves

  • @imevolved5412
    @imevolved5412 Před 5 lety +269

    T-Rex starts scaly, gets feathers, then becomes scaly again
    Spinosaurus starts bipedal, becomes a quadruped, then becomes bipedal again
    Hmmmmmmm I'm smelling some kind of Jurassic Park conspiracy here 🤔
    All jokes aside, this was very interesting!

    • @kr1st0saurus
      @kr1st0saurus Před 5 lety +8

      Next trikes will have four horns!

    • @sinny5404
      @sinny5404 Před 5 lety +6

      @@kr1st0saurus actually trikes never technically existed and are just a baby of another species mistakenly thought to have been it's own species... Ha...ha... Look up taurosaurus

    • @maxsainz2279
      @maxsainz2279 Před 5 lety +4

      I don't think spinos are bipedal again.

    • @maxsainz2279
      @maxsainz2279 Před 5 lety +1

      @@sinny5404 or triceratops and taurasaurus were two different species.

    • @sinny5404
      @sinny5404 Před 5 lety

      @@maxsainz2279 I was quoting a theory they had going. It's not confirmed or denied

  • @KernowekTim
    @KernowekTim Před 3 lety +10

    " Well I guess I'll have seen about everything, when I see a T Rex fly".

  • @billhoward532
    @billhoward532 Před 3 lety

    Great video - full of fascinating info.

  • @sirankleknocker3122
    @sirankleknocker3122 Před 4 lety +1059

    I wasn’t fine with the feather Rex, now I realise it’s kinda cute

    • @arankah.9350
      @arankah.9350 Před 4 lety +52

      I feel you I am kinda sad now

    • @JetStream_Mann
      @JetStream_Mann Před 4 lety +13

      Well it’s not supposed to

    • @Fury947
      @Fury947 Před 4 lety +13

      Never underestimate the king of tyrant lizards

    • @iforgot87872
      @iforgot87872 Před 4 lety +39

      I’m honestly really glad trex probably didnt have feathers

    • @theofficalchairmanrevoluti614
      @theofficalchairmanrevoluti614 Před 4 lety +35

      @@JetStream_Mann In reality, its not supposed to be anything. It was a real, breathing animal.

  • @rin_hat
    @rin_hat Před 4 lety +201

    6:46 genuine fear

  • @MrZooBreak
    @MrZooBreak Před 3 lety +12

    Excellent presentation of ongoing work. I can't fathom the many silly responses in the comments. Paleontology relies on inference from incomplete data, and this is science at its best.
    Thanks again, Ben!

  • @kgowthamsiva9578
    @kgowthamsiva9578 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for making this video

  • @TheFunniBaconMan
    @TheFunniBaconMan Před 4 lety +180

    1993: Look, Steven. Stevy-boi. Spielbergien. Your depiction of the T-rex is wrong.
    2018: Hey Steve? Remember when we said you were wrong? Well... _oops_

    • @crampus8205
      @crampus8205 Před 4 lety +30

      The skull shape, arms, and overall size were still very off though.

    • @gangweedernigga4012
      @gangweedernigga4012 Před 4 lety +1

      @@crampus8205 how far off were was the size in JP?

    • @crampus8205
      @crampus8205 Před 4 lety +10

      @@gangweedernigga4012 both longer and lighter in weight than the real deal.

    • @majora5651
      @majora5651 Před 4 lety +6

      JP‘s T-Rex was basically a skinny legend, but like - way too big in size

    • @russellbrown6888
      @russellbrown6888 Před 4 lety +15

      @@majora5651 I would argue that the size is a result of tampering by Dr. Wu. Remember, the JP dinosaurs were made to be attractions in a theme park, and they'd had DNA from other animals spliced into their genomes to fill in the gaps. There's no telling how much all that splicing has changed those dinosaurs, whether it be size or capabilities (Frilled Lizard + Spitting Cobra + Dilophosaurus?).

  • @misirloupowerslide
    @misirloupowerslide Před 4 lety +228

    And we’re slowly returning to the Jurassic park Rex which has always been my favorite lol

    • @SullyFox
      @SullyFox Před 3 lety +42

      Not quite. The Jurassic Park Rex's teeth were visible when its mouth was closed, unlike real Tyrannosaurs that hid their teeth behind lips. Also, the T-Rex in JP roared, which we know is impossible since the vocal cords required to "roar" wouldn't yet exist in the fossil record until millions of years after the Chicxulub impact. Also, real Tyrannosaurs had forward facing binocular eyes that could see and track very well, unlike the JP Rex that could only detect movement.

    • @mohammadsaleem5990
      @mohammadsaleem5990 Před 3 lety +60

      @@SullyFox they actually acknowledge that in the movie. All dinosaurs in jp have had their dna heavily modified. Someone even says they would have looked a lot different if they were accurately reconstructed.

    • @pugg0wugg083
      @pugg0wugg083 Před 3 lety +9

      @@mohammadsaleem5990 Yeah Dr. Wu the main scientist in the movie said that

    • @misirloupowerslide
      @misirloupowerslide Před 3 lety +5

      @@SullyFox certainly there are differences but who is to say what perceptions will change in the future ? Perhaps they did roar or perhaps their teeth did show ? I know current data shows otherwise but to that end as was stated Jurassic park acknowledges the inaccuracies and for the most part my comment is highlighting the idea that people tried to push the idea that T-Rex was covered in modern feathers as opposed to possibly some primordial ones

    • @Skumrasket
      @Skumrasket Před 3 lety +5

      @@SullyFox "real" lmao it has yet to be confirmed if dinosaurs had lips and yet u still refer to current theorys as "real" when it may as well change in the future

  • @petersellers9219
    @petersellers9219 Před 3 lety +4

    Is great to hear that TRex dinosaurs have been keeping up with latest developments.

  • @danimalgame8225
    @danimalgame8225 Před 2 lety

    Just bought saurian, this video is what introduced me to it. Thank you very much ^_^

  • @thegameres816
    @thegameres816 Před 5 lety +667

    ... Can't we just time travel to figure this out?

    • @BenGThomas
      @BenGThomas  Před 5 lety +116

      Hehe, I wish :)

    • @felipet.s910
      @felipet.s910 Před 5 lety +57

      I dreamed with this day for many nights...

    • @supakritpulmanausahakul1650
      @supakritpulmanausahakul1650 Před 5 lety +60

      **doctor who theme starts**

    • @strangeperson700
      @strangeperson700 Před 5 lety +58

      If we travel 65.5 million light years away from earth in about two months and get a really powerful telescope capable of seeing the surface of earth from where we end up then we might.

    • @invisiblejaguar1
      @invisiblejaguar1 Před 5 lety +11

      Also, no danger of getting eaten, bonus :-)

  • @cursedalien
    @cursedalien Před 4 lety +158

    I think that since t-rex was an animal, it ought to have had some fat in life, rather than being shrink-wrapped like the jp rex.

    • @tippylord5808
      @tippylord5808 Před 3 lety

      Witch jp rex

    • @user-mp8wy8lp4y
      @user-mp8wy8lp4y Před 3 lety

      Haha Trex fat lip boi

    • @lollol-kz8vc
      @lollol-kz8vc Před 3 lety +7

      some might have buts its like a dog/lion fast apex predator means low bodyfat generally

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 Před 2 lety +14

      JP Rex was anorexic that is why she was so skinny. All the Dinosaurs were female so there was lots of peer pressure to be skinny.

    • @isthatbraised
      @isthatbraised Před rokem +1

      @@lollol-kz8vc Well not obese, like general fat that they would have along with muscles

  • @joshjeorgemejia9397
    @joshjeorgemejia9397 Před 2 lety

    This is my favourite Ben G Thomas video 👍👍

  • @jolu1621
    @jolu1621 Před 3 lety

    Outstanding illustrations 👍

  • @j.mangum7652
    @j.mangum7652 Před 4 lety +336

    If you're happy and you know it clap your...oh:(

  • @gadyariv2456
    @gadyariv2456 Před 5 lety +131

    the problem with Saurian is that they focus so much time and effort on the realistic dinosaur models...they are missing an overall realistic experience.
    the Cretaceous forest should be teaming with flying and crawling insects, small mammals, and flying birds, yet all you see are the big animals, and that is especially apparent in the juvenile stage when you are small dinosaur foraging the undergrowth.
    I would imagine an adult dinosaur would also attract small animals, just like how elephants have a following of egrets and oxpeckers, so would Triceratops or an Ankylosaurus must have been a great attraction for smaller Cretaceous animals.
    Had the focus was on only one playable animal, and a richer lively environment the game would be much less disappointing and much more enthralling, right now it's just too lifeless and empty.

    • @megasupreme9985
      @megasupreme9985 Před 5 lety +39

      The game isnt complete, so many animals are still to be added, such as mammals. However, they have a size limit in mind when adding in new animals, with Chamops being an example of the smallest an animal can be to pass through into the game due to optimization. Right now there already is a bird, depalma's orinthurine. There are two more birds to come as well, Brodavis, and Avisaurus.

    • @lukeframpton277
      @lukeframpton277 Před 5 lety +11

      Do keep in mind that it's still not even in alpha yet, it's going to be a while...

    • @PrimalGamer2656
      @PrimalGamer2656 Před 5 lety +1

      Gad Yariv my boy the game isn’t done yet and yeah there going to to be obviously touching up the animals that you play as more than other animals

    • @sinny5404
      @sinny5404 Před 5 lety

      Sorry but I couldn't keep quiet.. lol.
      Triceratops isn't a dinosaur (well kind of. Let me explain)
      When they first found triceratops they were vexed by why they could never find baby trike skeletons besides those in eggs. Well they discovered the Taurosaurus. And with it they found out that the triceratops wasn't a full dinosaur, it was just a baby taurosaurus the whole time. Since triceratops was discovered first it's a sensitive topic whether it's a taurosaurus or our beloved trike.
      Though taurosaurus looks much different . The crest we all know actually splits down the middle as it grows.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Před 5 lety +8

      I've heard Jack Horner's argument regarding the Triceratops/Torosaurus though his claims have been supported for other late cretaceous species the Triceratops vs Torosaurus debate has been more murky due to research supporting both possibilities in the Triceratops / Torosaurus debate.

  • @shotemup123
    @shotemup123 Před 3 lety

    Videos like this make me warm and fuzzy inside

  • @Baelzebubba
    @Baelzebubba Před 2 lety

    Outstanding work. I'll leave it to experts to debate the plausibility of this reconstruction but it is visually impressive in the extreme.

  • @therevanite7151
    @therevanite7151 Před 3 lety +295

    Wait-isn’t it possible that young Tyrannosaurids had feathers and as they age the shed feathers?

  • @hailgiratinathetruegod7564
    @hailgiratinathetruegod7564 Před 5 lety +625

    RIP fluffy Rex :( you will be missed

    • @1lobster
      @1lobster Před 5 lety +4

      Hail Giratina The true god, didn't it still have fethers on it's head? Or dose that depend on climate?

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +25

      Actually it isn’t quite RIP yet. We just know it lacked feathers on a lot of parts of its anatomy.

    • @1lobster
      @1lobster Před 5 lety +6

      Bk Jeong, maybe the amount of fethers was determined by climate?

    • @bkjeong4302
      @bkjeong4302 Před 5 lety +2

      The study itself actually shows that's not too likely.

    • @1lobster
      @1lobster Před 5 lety

      Bk Jeong, so Trex may have shed like a dog in summer? Cool!

  • @arachnophilegrrl
    @arachnophilegrrl Před 2 lety +1

    I love that Mark Witton's art is used so well here. :)

  • @glassEeter
    @glassEeter Před 9 měsíci +2

    I personally like the idea that Rex babies were partially feathered and shed them as they grew.
    But yes, large animals retain heat well, feathers would've overheated rexes.
    It's truly amazing what we can deduce from just bones and impressions tho. Fantastic

  • @ghostiegoober108
    @ghostiegoober108 Před 5 lety +362

    While I am upset that the T-Rex no longer has feathers, I am glad we know more about the Dinosaur.

    • @thedukeofchutney468
      @thedukeofchutney468 Před 5 lety +21

      TBH JP's Rex is still pretty darn accurate from a visual perspective. Sure, not everything in the movie was accurate, but many of the designs (T-rex, Brachiosaurus (Giraffetitan), parasarolephus) still hold up fairly well. Plus the movie almost single-handedly got people to stop viewing dinosaurs as slow lumbering beast and started to get people to see them as agile, intelligent and dangerous.

    • @londoncintron680
      @londoncintron680 Před 5 lety +11

      Well if you miss feathery _T. rex_ you still have _Yutyrannus._ It's not as large as Rexy and it has longer arms, but fossil evidence shows it was covered in floof.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr Před 5 lety +8

      Dinosaurs with feathers seem silly anyways. What would be the purpose for a massive reptile to have feathers??

    • @Rune_Scholar
      @Rune_Scholar Před 5 lety +3

      Javontae Eaddy dinosaurs are not massive reptiles. Some dinosaurs were very small. Calling them reptiles is the same as calling you a synapsid. Sure it's technically true but I don't expect you to have scales.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr Před 5 lety +1

      @@Rune_Scholar T-Rex was huge....that's what I was talking about

  • @CheckeredPony
    @CheckeredPony Před 5 lety +563

    people always argue about what looks make it the trex look scarier and most people say that the feathers make it look silly and im just like trust me is you ever met a trex the last thing you would think about is it looks

    • @josethebeast8709
      @josethebeast8709 Před 5 lety +14

      damn right

    • @pogpogpurinn
      @pogpogpurinn Před 5 lety +63

      And why does it matter? Like as long as it is accurate to how it used to be, we cant just be like "no i dont like that one because it doesnt look scary enough so i dont want to believe thats how it looks when it was alive and real" like we cant just change the past

    • @josethebeast8709
      @josethebeast8709 Před 5 lety +10

      @@pogpogpurinn amen brother well said

    • @josethebeast8709
      @josethebeast8709 Před 5 lety +9

      @Hans Hubner i have to disagree with etter bight

    • @tridonstrident6785
      @tridonstrident6785 Před 5 lety +26

      @Hans Hubner The Spinosaurus is my favorite dinosaur, but your statement is very incorrect, the Spino was bigger, but it would be destroyed by a T-Rex in a fight, Spinos just aren't made for fighting large land carnivores

  • @haydnadkins5007
    @haydnadkins5007 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Honestly, when it comes to what the T-Rex looks like now, it's the most terrifying for me. Like looking at it head on send chills down my back.

  • @obito9800
    @obito9800 Před 2 lety +2

    doesnt matter how the body is actually look like , skull head alone look already deadly scary 💀

  • @theelevatedone5323
    @theelevatedone5323 Před 5 lety +88

    Trey the explainer: *internal screaming intensifies*

    • @JohananRaatz
      @JohananRaatz Před 5 lety +13

      HAHAHAHA!!!
      Jordan Peterson: Our latest studies tell us T. rex did not have feathers.
      KaTrey the Newxplainer: So you're saying T. rex had feathers?

    • @spinosaurusstriker
      @spinosaurusstriker Před 5 lety +6

      When he say that? In the video about what. Dinosaurs could have feathers he mentioned that the rex could just have it when it was little or in some specific áreas.

    • @ch4rmy
      @ch4rmy Před 5 lety +15

      @Red Canyon with that logic, same thing goes for trey. If he doesnt like the idea of scaly trex then he shouldnt throw "hate speech" toward the scaly trex fans

    • @faithful2b1
      @faithful2b1 Před 5 lety

      Thinking the same thing

    • @ryand2543
      @ryand2543 Před 5 lety +1

      If you don't get why trey would scream at this then you've never watched trey the explainer

  • @BappO-is-me
    @BappO-is-me Před 3 lety +14

    I’m so glad game designers are doing their research and trying their hardest to make a realistic prehistoric game!

  • @ranwolfFARM
    @ranwolfFARM Před 2 lety +1

    Feathers or not, I LOVE DINOSAURS!! Thank you for this video. Very interesting.

  • @waraidako
    @waraidako Před 2 lety +4

    I think it's funny how there are now people reluctant to accept a featherless T-Rex because they're so used to it having feathers, when it was the exact same for most of us when they added the feathers in the first place back in the day. We were very much not keen to accept feathers on this iconic beast we all became very familiar with after the release of Jurassic Park.

  • @somedayitsgonnamakesense
    @somedayitsgonnamakesense Před 4 lety +22

    that T-rex on the thumbnail is THICC
    that's me after the quarantine

  • @lawabiding9152
    @lawabiding9152 Před 5 lety +289

    Before feathers the t-Rex looked normal, with feathers the t-Rex looked either goofy or perfect, after the feathers became scales again the t-Rex looks naked.

    • @jasonhatt4295
      @jasonhatt4295 Před 5 lety +3

      Before/After, what about how it looked in between!

    • @lawabiding9152
      @lawabiding9152 Před 5 lety +6

      Jason Hatt in between is the one with feathers..

    • @jasonhatt4295
      @jasonhatt4295 Před 5 lety +4

      @@lawabiding9152 I mean In between going from scales to feathers, when it's half feathered half scaled.

    • @lawabiding9152
      @lawabiding9152 Před 5 lety +4

      Jason Hatt id still consider that feathered

    • @jasonhatt4295
      @jasonhatt4295 Před 5 lety

      @@lawabiding9152 Let's get some money from a college to study this

  • @unclejoe7466
    @unclejoe7466 Před 3 lety

    Love the illustration by Angie Rodriquez. Loosely expressive foliage, humid atmosphere, oblique and indirect light, and descriptive animals = very cool.

  • @NoypiTexan
    @NoypiTexan Před 3 lety +4

    I would like to add that during those period where dinosaurs roamed, it was really really really hot. Scales are better off for huge species for lower thermal body temperature over feathers because T. rex don’t fly.

    • @therublixcube3052
      @therublixcube3052 Před 3 lety +1

      Exactly. It's reasonable to assume that for this same reason, we have an Ornithomimus specimen with evidence of being partially feathered, with some regions being covered by bare skin.

  • @mono-tone362
    @mono-tone362 Před 4 lety +530

    no this video is fake, everyone know that t-rex makes the sound "yee"

  • @Superchicken_36
    @Superchicken_36 Před 5 lety +70

    One day someone will not be able to take all the different dinosaur theories and just revive one. That day... Scientist 1: I DID IT! I REVIVED A DINOSAUR!
    Scientist 2: Dave you performed CPR on a rock pigeon.

    • @idontusethisanymore667
      @idontusethisanymore667 Před 5 lety

      I laughed so hard that I fell out of my chair. Thank you for this you get a like.

    • @aroma4728
      @aroma4728 Před 5 lety +3

      We can’t really make a dinosaur. If we did, then it wouldn’t look the same. It’s kinda like the JW movie, where Dr. Wu said all the dinosaurs have frog dna as filler.

    • @ezioauditore7636
      @ezioauditore7636 Před 5 lety +1

      @@aroma4728 Did you even read the comment?

  • @emim.5092
    @emim.5092 Před 3 lety +4

    4:43 imagine their arms were actually fuckin buff tho like they did curls and worked out and having mega buff biceps were all the rage in trex culture xDD

  • @zekebeans674
    @zekebeans674 Před 3 lety +2

    I was rereading The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and at the beginning there is a map of the island with drawings of the dinosaurs surrounding it, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex looks exactly like this new reconstruction. The book is over 25 years old.

    • @zekebeans674
      @zekebeans674 Před 3 lety

      Rhys Kyser well yeah, but still pretty crazy how similar they are

  • @done4195
    @done4195 Před 5 lety +47

    Game developers: chop off feathers
    Paleontologists: You should have gone for the head!

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 Před 4 lety

      Chop off the head? I don't think T. rex will go for that!

    • @arkihm1233
      @arkihm1233 Před 4 lety +1

      maybe THANOS WAS THE T REX BEFORE ..

    • @majora5651
      @majora5651 Před 4 lety

      I understood that reference!

  • @arthurvalentine3524
    @arthurvalentine3524 Před 4 lety +233

    I think T.Rex may have feathers while he\she was a baby? Like with camouflage colors

    • @samuraijackoff5354
      @samuraijackoff5354 Před 4 lety +25

      This

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 Před 4 lety +59

      Well that is plausible and it works in with the large body mass theory of feather loss. A juvenile T-Rex could find feathers very beneficial for body temperature regulation as well as for camouflage.

    • @alioramus1637
      @alioramus1637 Před 4 lety +27

      that is very possible because small animals need some help with insulation. Camoflage colors would be a huge help with the high mortality among t-rex babies. Most never made it past age 1.

    • @daddynanners3944
      @daddynanners3944 Před 4 lety +23

      This is my theory as well. I just cannot be convinced a fully grown T-Rex had feathers. MAYBE a few on the head or the tip of the tail, but I still think if they were covered in feathers they'd overheat.

    • @mr.hazamayukiterumi2909
      @mr.hazamayukiterumi2909 Před 4 lety +9

      Actually, base on evo-devo science, you can not have scales and feathers on the same body anyway. In other words, rex babies are still scaly just like the adults

  • @Thestrongestjuju
    @Thestrongestjuju Před 3 lety

    Make more saurophaganax content mam cus your dinosaur bit of your channel is a masterpiece

  • @DarthPickleCT
    @DarthPickleCT Před 3 lety

    I knew it wouldn’t have looked completely like that I’m so happy it has lots of scales

    • @longshlongg6866
      @longshlongg6866 Před 3 lety +2

      @Mitchell BURGESS The earliest ancestors of the T-Rex actually were covered in feathers but they lost them when they migrated and evolved to their giant size.

  • @DeX9O2
    @DeX9O2 Před 4 lety +51

    “We spared no expense”

  • @ChitterChatterD
    @ChitterChatterD Před 5 lety +48

    Always excited to learn more about these dinosaurs, regardless if they had feathers or not

    • @ChitterChatterD
      @ChitterChatterD Před 5 lety

      @Zero Curvature
      I'm pretty sure feathers are real, birds have them

    • @msth6878
      @msth6878 Před 5 lety

      Zero lol are you an idiot?

  • @braydenfleenor6114
    @braydenfleenor6114 Před 2 lety

    This looks amazing I think this is probably what the T. rex looked like in my opinion

  • @ajayempee
    @ajayempee Před 3 lety

    Hi Ben! I loooooove your videos i'm such a fan you are so professional you have kept me entertained for hooouuurs. But i have a question for you - have you done any videos on ceratopsians? I had a look but i couldn't find any... if not, would you mind explaining the history of ceratopsian, the usual, what they evolved from, basal and derived ceratopsians? Ooor, you could even do a series! That would be amazing. Thanks, Ajay.