Iguanodon: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong

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  • čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
  • / ydaw -- Iguanodon's been with us for nearly as long as paleontology itself. Consequently, the way we reconstruct this animal has changed over and over, right down to the present day.
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    Contents:
    00:00 Opening
    01:29 Overview
    02:54 Early Ideas
    10:11 Mastication Implications
    15:20 Spiky Sloth-Lizard
    24:08 Waterhouse-Hawkins
    34:07 Bernissart I
    43:30 20th Century Forelimbs
    50:11 Bernissart II
    55:58 Conclusion
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    Sources & Links:
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    Photo Credits:
    Eastern Great Egret Photo by Basile Morin
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    Saltwater Crocodile Photo by AngMoKio
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    Cincinnati Paramylodon Skull Photo by James St. John
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    Iguanodon museum mount hands photo by Ballista
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    Iguanodon in the glass case at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences by Fernando Losada Rodríguez (aka Drow male)
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    Vue de la salle des dinosaures, muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique by Benoît Prieur
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    I. bernissartensis et I. atherfieldensis by Bernard J. Noël
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    Crystal Palace Iguanodon’s Head in Profile by Flickr user Kevan
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    Crystal Palace Iguanodons by Flickr user Jim Linwood
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    Mantellisaurus Skin Impression by NHMdinolabs
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    Rhinoceros Iguana Photo by LordToran
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    California Condors Photo by Scott Lee
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    Plate of the Saull Specimen, unknown engraver
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    Hadrosaurus mount photo
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    Mary Ann Mantell portrait
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    Gideon Mantell portrait
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    Mantell’s Iguanodon teeth drawing
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    Hawkins’ Sydenham Studio Illustration
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    Dinner Party in the Crystal Palace Iguanodon Illustration
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    Bernissart Iguanodon Illustration by Gustave Lavalette
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    Bernissart Iguanodon Illustration #2 by Gustave Lavalette
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Komentáře • 899

  • @YourDinosaursAreWrong
    @YourDinosaursAreWrong  Před 3 lety +262

    If you like our stuff, and would like to help us keep making it, please consider chipping in over at patreon.com/YDAW, or taking a look at our products at www.etsy.com/shop/YDAWtheShop, or by buying Steven a coffee at ko-fi.com/ydawtheshow . All proceeds go back into making the videos you see here!

    • @tturi2
      @tturi2 Před 3 lety +2

      This was a great episode

    • @DINO_X65
      @DINO_X65 Před 3 lety +3

      The intro was first class, also, could you please do an episode on the Tyrannosaurus, I know that you guys did one on the skeleton a few years ago, but this time, maybe on the actual animal. I know you must have other things planned because I know how much research goes into episodes, since that tour of the studio that you guys did a while back, so just a request.

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 Před 3 lety +1

      That was an awesome episode!

    • @tscream80
      @tscream80 Před 3 lety

      @@DINO_X65 That's a dinosaur that I'm sure they get a lot of requests for, but they've mentioned they have no plans to cover... at present.

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 Před 3 lety

      Oooo! I request Atopodentatus unicus the strange marine herbivore!

  • @anniesearle6181
    @anniesearle6181 Před 3 lety +511

    While referencing archaeology not palaeontology, I have just written "the Victorians had an uncomfortable fondness for dynamite" in my dissertation. Probably the best line I've ever written

    • @zenolachance1181
      @zenolachance1181 Před 2 lety +11

      And people still have a fascination with blowing things up, it's just a lot harder to get a hold of now

    • @visiblur
      @visiblur Před 2 lety +34

      Thing like this it's what keeps me hopeful for my bachelor's dissertation. I'm nervous as fuck, but being able to reference a literal arms race on a submicroscopic scale is going to be awesome.

    • @MylotheZooLovingScientist
      @MylotheZooLovingScientist Před 2 lety +8

      @@visiblur All the best to you whenever you get started on that dissertation!

    • @Havamal
      @Havamal Před rokem

      I can't get too mad at them though.
      If I consumed laudanum on a daily basis, I'd probably blow up a fossil bed sooner or later as well.

    • @beneficent2557
      @beneficent2557 Před rokem +6

      My house got Heinrich Schliemanned.

  • @TheSilverVixen
    @TheSilverVixen Před 3 lety +1199

    "Talk Dumb, Get The Thumb" needs to be on your merch I would happily buy that LOL

  • @mattdempsey4541
    @mattdempsey4541 Před 3 lety +1643

    I'm a longtime fan of the show, and would have the older YDAW episodes playing on loop in the office during my undergraduate and master's years. So seeing my name flash up on screen as part of a citation and seeing an adaptation of research and reconstructions that I was part of in the YDAW artstyle was a pretty amazing moment. Thank you for continuing to make awesome videos! :D

    • @s.j7423
      @s.j7423 Před 3 lety +53

      that is so lovely

    • @TheAspiringLawgiver
      @TheAspiringLawgiver Před 3 lety +38

      It comes full circle.

    • @_veronica_r
      @_veronica_r Před 2 lety +8

      Timestamp? I looked through the citations list and didn't see "Matt Dempsey" anywhere on it...

    • @Martin-yh7vi
      @Martin-yh7vi Před 2 lety +23

      @@_veronica_r I just looked up the full list in the gdrive link in the description. There is a "Dempsey M" in the last study cited.

    • @SMAnthonyW
      @SMAnthonyW Před 2 lety +26

      @@_veronica_r there is in fact, a Dempsey M. listed as the third author in the last citation (2020) on the Google doc.

  • @thetruemrbeard
    @thetruemrbeard Před 3 lety +657

    I appreciate how you clarified that the workers who theorized the size of the animal weren't idiots just because they were off in their size estimations. I think way too often we like to point and laugh at people from the past who made such mistakes, not realizing we ourselves could or would likely make the same errors as you pointed out.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 Před 3 lety +15

      Yes, totally agree.

    • @joshuabrown9398
      @joshuabrown9398 Před 3 lety +53

      Ye we are able to use their knowledge as a basis for our knowledge.
      Humans aren't massively more clever, if at all, than our ancestors we can just build on their achievements.

    • @visiblur
      @visiblur Před 2 lety +20

      Exactly this. Science changes so incredibly quickly. I've literally had information from my first year of biochem be retconned on my second year and again in my third year.
      We build on the wrong guesses of our predecessor to hopefully reach the right answers ourselves. Well, the right answers until we ourselves are proven wrong.

    • @Jrez
      @Jrez Před 2 lety +4

      This so much! People of today tend to have a pretty prejudiced view of peoples of the past as being just plain 'dumber' than we are. People of the past were not stupid or less intelligent by any means! They were us, that's it, plain and simple. They just had more limitations and fewer giants' shoulders to stand on, and they became giants themselves. The amount of genius present in designs of early structures, machines, old tools, etc. is completely astounding. When I took apart an old air hammer and found essentially one moving part, just with a series of holes and galleys for air to pass through depending on where the part was, just left me astonished at the ingenuity, of how somebody created something basic to solve a complex purpose. The fact that the basic design of the internal combustion engine hasn't changed in over 100 years should convince anyone that we aren't any smarter than they were, we just have more knowledge.

    • @TheSpeculativeDoodl
      @TheSpeculativeDoodl Před 2 lety

      I completely agree

  • @josh_reptiliano
    @josh_reptiliano Před 3 lety +792

    This is like the episode that the opening of a series have teased since the begining, and man does it delivers in the hype

    • @GuyNamedSean
      @GuyNamedSean Před 3 lety +29

      I actually lost my breath for a moment. The iguanodon is my favorite dinosaur and my friends actually hate when they get brought up because I geek so hard.

    • @miquelescribanoivars5049
      @miquelescribanoivars5049 Před 3 lety +6

      More like the Outro, but yes.

    • @Mael_Str0M
      @Mael_Str0M Před 3 lety +4

      Like the Bionicle LEGO rewind

    • @Joe_Potts
      @Joe_Potts Před 3 lety +1

      @@Mael_Str0M my childhood right there lol

    • @Deinobi
      @Deinobi Před 3 lety +4

      @@GuyNamedSean your friends are missing out

  • @bewilderbeastie8899
    @bewilderbeastie8899 Před 3 lety +495

    Ok but are we not going to talk about the Little Assistant cosplaying as David Attenborough?

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora Před 3 lety +36

      They had a teaser post a while back discussing the difficulty of making tiny dinosaur pants.

    • @_veronica_r
      @_veronica_r Před 3 lety +25

      His name is Bertrand :D

    • @couldntthinkofayoutubename6498
      @couldntthinkofayoutubename6498 Před 3 lety +3

      Or maybe even richard?

    • @gdwolf7
      @gdwolf7 Před 3 lety +2

      Ha! I had feeling that's what that was but I wasn't entirely sure

    • @KhanMann66
      @KhanMann66 Před 3 lety

      No it was Hammond from Jurassic Park.

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 Před 3 lety +140

    What I Expected: a lot of iguanodons
    What I Got: a whole-ass history lesson
    What It Was: awesome

  • @IstasPumaNevada
    @IstasPumaNevada Před 3 lety +310

    The more I learn about science history, the more I feel suspicious that any time a woman is mentioned in passing (like "oh, my wife showed these rocks to me and _I_ figured out they were significant!"), it's likely she was waaaaaay more involved than she ended up being given credit for, especially the farther back in history you go.

    • @leminjapan
      @leminjapan Před rokem +19

      Exactly this.

    • @GermanSwordMaster
      @GermanSwordMaster Před rokem +37

      Good point. Although that last sentence isnt true. For example late medieval womens possibilities are greater then 19th cent ones in quite some points in europe. Emancipation isnt one straight climb. As is nothing really in history.
      Modernity is not at the top of a straight incline in every regard. Even if it wants to be.

  • @Eloraurora
    @Eloraurora Před 3 lety +192

    I love the image of a fancy Parisian party interrupted by, "Look! Fossils!"

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 Před 3 lety +11

      "Hey dude, check out these weird ancient teeth I found! Pretty cool, right?"

    • @themecoptera9258
      @themecoptera9258 Před 3 lety +17

      This happens to this day in some fields. I know a guy who walked around a meeting with some a strange insect, asking anyone to tell him what it was. Turns out it was an extremely odd basal true bug.
      Same guy did the same thing a few years later with a hermit crab parasite. That one turned out to be a collembolan.

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 Před 3 lety +2

      @@themecoptera9258 Holy hell talk about luck.

    • @Eloraurora
      @Eloraurora Před 3 lety +2

      @@themecoptera9258 I had a "local ecology" class once, and was delighted to call the teacher over to an insect on the doorframe, ask, "What is that?" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴.

  • @danielkorladis7869
    @danielkorladis7869 Před 3 lety +102

    Honestly it's amazing that the earliest paleontologists to work on Iguanodon got anything right, given that they had absolutely zero context for this kind of creature. Despite getting a lot wrong, they managed to work out that it was an herbivore, the initial size estimate wasn't off by all *that* much, and they even figured out that unlike any modern reptile, it chewed its food, and they even pieced together roughly how it did so.

  • @coconutthecockatiel478
    @coconutthecockatiel478 Před 3 lety +187

    “Talk dumb, get the thumb.” I’m stealing that.

  • @DrBunnyMedicinal
    @DrBunnyMedicinal Před 3 lety +127

    "Talk dumb, get the thumb! We don't need to leave that in"
    YES YOU DID! =D

    • @pharoahcaraboo9610
      @pharoahcaraboo9610 Před 3 lety +9

      make 'talk dumb, get the thumb' the next 'you're talking shit for someone in thagomizer range'

  • @D.Jay.
    @D.Jay. Před 3 lety +280

    Iguanodon: The originator of YDAW arguments.

  • @ravelordnito9504
    @ravelordnito9504 Před 3 lety +313

    Fantastic episode as usual! There is actually one more Non-avian dinosaur used on a coat of arms, the Russian Chernyshevsky district has a Kulindadromeus rampant on its coat of arms.

    • @eliburry-schnepp6012
      @eliburry-schnepp6012 Před 3 lety +52

      Liliensternus is on the coat of arms of Bedheim as well!

    • @StevenBellettini
      @StevenBellettini Před 3 lety +77

      I meant 'used as a supporter,' there are actually a few non-avian dinos used as charges

    • @ravelordnito9504
      @ravelordnito9504 Před 3 lety +37

      @@StevenBellettini I see, seems i misunderstood. Thanks for the correction! :)

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 Před 3 lety +16

      I just looked it up. It's also on the flag, which is excellent.

  • @sirtony0114
    @sirtony0114 Před 3 lety +53

    "Talk dumb, get the thumb"

  • @CthulhusDream
    @CthulhusDream Před 3 lety +88

    Soooo....when are we getting a "Talk dumb, get the thumb" tshirt and or stickers lol?

  • @Gardow
    @Gardow Před 3 lety +108

    As a Belgian who has been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since I was a little boy, and a big fan of this show ever since I found it a couple of years ago, I can not tell you how long I've been waiting for this episode. I was so excited when it was announced that Iguanodon was next. And now that it is here, I can say that I loved this episode. This talk may not be dumb, but I will gladly give it the thumb.

    • @robrechtcordemans3763
      @robrechtcordemans3763 Před 3 lety +9

      The iguanodons in Brussels were probably the first dinosaurs I ever saw outside of a picture book back in primary school, so it's amazing to see an episode on them mentioning the ones from Belgium.

    • @Shadowspets
      @Shadowspets Před 2 lety +3

      Proud Belgian here as well ☺️

    • @toonvandenbroeck1697
      @toonvandenbroeck1697 Před 2 lety +1

      proud belgian here!!!

  • @dinglemcspringlefairy9050
    @dinglemcspringlefairy9050 Před 3 lety +185

    Man I've been waiting for this episode since like the beginning of this series lol

  • @joearnold6881
    @joearnold6881 Před 3 lety +76

    The idea of combining a prehensile tongue with a chopping beak would make iguanodon lunchtime more like a horror film!
    Bloody tongues falling all over the place

    • @psilovecybin5940
      @psilovecybin5940 Před 3 lety +1

      Aah so that's why snapping turtles that have a sharp scissor like beaks and use their tongues as lures all have no tongue left...? you make no sense m8

    • @KFrost-fx7dt
      @KFrost-fx7dt Před 2 lety +11

      Their tongues aren't prehensile in the way a giraffe's is. Generally animals with beaks and without soft lips can't stick their tongues out of their mouths.

    • @transecho
      @transecho Před 2 lety +5

      @@psilovecybin5940 Snapping turtles dont have tongues long enough to come close to their beak. That argument makes no sense, even more so when you consider the original comment is clearly joking.

  • @antonioteles5169
    @antonioteles5169 Před 3 lety +181

    audibly screamed when i got the notification
    i'm way too excited about this chanel

    • @sheepthingg
      @sheepthingg Před 3 lety +7

      same! I was like "YESSS It's been too long!!!"

  • @fossildiggerstudios4645
    @fossildiggerstudios4645 Před 3 lety +51

    Pyritized Fossils: Gold Plastic Syndrome For Paleontologists

  • @approachingetterath9959
    @approachingetterath9959 Před 3 lety +68

    would love to see a video explanation on the "death pose", since many fossils seem to be found with the neck bent back unnaturally

    • @josephengel8263
      @josephengel8263 Před 2 lety +24

      In the velociraptor episode he talks about the fighting dino fossils and mentions the neck might have been bent back as the flesh and skin dried out

    • @chubbydinosaur9148
      @chubbydinosaur9148 Před 11 měsíci +5

      I'm way too late to the conversation, but as a pet bird owner who sadly buried many birds (pets and wildlife rescue) they just kind of do that.
      When they're actively dying they bend their head back like that. Some mammals do it too.

  • @ryaquaza3offical
    @ryaquaza3offical Před 3 lety +23

    I love the way Iguanadon has stayed relatively popular in dinosaur media after all this time still appearing occasionally in games and movies to this day. The main reason I mention this because certain early dinosaurs get barely any love anymore for some weird reason.
    Megalosaurus needs a lot more love imo

  • @marcustulliuscicero5443
    @marcustulliuscicero5443 Před 3 lety +23

    A small nitpick at around 52:00
    Quadrupeds would actually be less likely to sink into loose soil than bipeds because they spread their mass over 4 points.

    • @recipoldinasty
      @recipoldinasty Před 2 lety

      I mean they would sink easier but prob scape easier

  • @strzygon5426
    @strzygon5426 Před 3 lety +28

    YAY finally i get to see what Aladar actually looked like

  • @lordbarron3352
    @lordbarron3352 Před 3 lety +11

    The genuine paleontologist look, voice, temperament, humor, and knowledge. Exquisite.

  • @daliborjovanovic510
    @daliborjovanovic510 Před 3 lety +9

    The Iguanodon wastebasket taxonomy phenomenon was far more wide-reaching than just Lower Cretaceous taxa. By the early 2000s, some workers still apparently classed Late Cretaceous taxa as Iguanodon, as is inferable from certain documentaries at the time, like how Dinosaur Planet referred to their Rhabdodon (an ornithopod more basal than Iguanodon) as a species of Iguanodon. Likewise, Late Jurassic taxa, like the British, hilariously-named Cumnoria were also at one point lumped within Iguanodon.

  • @McChicken03
    @McChicken03 Před 2 lety +4

    “Are you watching a dinosaur toy in Dino clothes talk about lizards?”
    YES.

  • @antonlamme7623
    @antonlamme7623 Před 3 lety +95

    I've recently been binge watching this show and I must say - the graphic profile has been adapted with great success! The quality of this episode (besides the actual content) is so nice to look at! Great work, from one graphic designer to another!

  • @BBMontalban
    @BBMontalban Před 3 lety +49

    I know there is no chance that this is true, but my mental cannon about Bernissart, is that the iguanodonts used the place as a "elephant graveyard" sort of thing. Which i think could be a pretty cool behavior

    • @KnufWons
      @KnufWons Před 3 lety +22

      You may or may not know this already, but it turns out that elephant graveyards are the results of flooding pushing elephant corpses into the “graveyard”. The true nature of the area is that a whole bunch of bodies get caught and remain in that area, and the fact that so many elephant remains are found there is notable simply because elephants are big and noteworthy.

    • @kekkres
      @kekkres Před 3 lety +14

      @@KnufWons not even, it's not a case of misreading the evidence. There is no evidence. There is not a single example of an elephant graveyard ever found. It's an idea that comes from old pulp stories of darkest africa and people just accepted the idea and it stuck in the cultural consciousness.

  • @rddragon5
    @rddragon5 Před 3 lety +45

    Almost an hour long! I feel spoiled. Thank you YDAW and all the people supporting it to make videos like this happen.

  • @paulomiguelcruz9835
    @paulomiguelcruz9835 Před 3 lety +14

    In my opinion, this has to be one of the greatest CZcams channels available nowadays. As a person who graduated both in the fields of science and visual arts, this kind of content is just the holy grail. Thank you for your educational service! Cheers from Portugal!

  • @arcosprey4811
    @arcosprey4811 Před 3 lety +21

    11:27 damn I wrote a paper on this for D. Altus. Memories

  • @yourmotherindisguise
    @yourmotherindisguise Před 3 lety +63

    YESSSS WE'VE BEEN WAITING

  • @Draco84
    @Draco84 Před 3 lety +19

    9:10 that ain’t no iguanadon. That’s the rhedosaurus from the beast of 20,000 fathoms.

  • @aghistorian763
    @aghistorian763 Před 3 lety +6

    Well, it gets even weirder, because something like this happened more than once with the same kinds of animals. We have a mass deposit of Iguanodon and Mantellisaurus here in Germany as well. It contained around 15 individuals according to Norman's paper. Actually it seems that the sediment containing them also sank into a karst fissure. The similarities don't end there, because all bones are pyritized. It's all very very weird...

  • @drigrid
    @drigrid Před 3 lety +3

    As someone who works a bit with both source criticism and dissemination of science this video really impressed me. Super complex and narrow concepts and ideas really come to life in a way that is interesting to people who aren't biologists or paleontologists. Kudos for this.

  • @Tvboy777
    @Tvboy777 Před 3 lety +33

    Glad to see this channel still going. I have always loved the hosts sense of humor sprinkled in through the fantastic animations.

  • @arcosprey4811
    @arcosprey4811 Před 3 lety +54

    In case you didn't understand the jaw mechanics, here's an animation that better represents it: czcams.com/video/6Sr5is7-wdk/video.html

    • @binnsy6879
      @binnsy6879 Před 3 lety +5

      Thank you! I've always struggled with the various descriptions and graphics of it that I've seen, but this actually shows what is going on. Super helpful!

    • @Deinobi
      @Deinobi Před 3 lety +3

      Thank you kind stranger

  • @jsfbr
    @jsfbr Před 2 lety +7

    (1) This is by far the best class on Paleontology I've seen on CZcams. Thank you!
    (2) I had the opportunity of visiting the Iguanodon fossils in the Brussels Museum. What a sight! I could stay hours just looking at those giants! Even though I understand the necessity and value of displaying casts in place of actual fossilized dinosaur remains, these cause a deeper psychological effect in me. Man, I'm really looking at what once was an actual, living dinosaur from millions of years ago! Again, it was a remarkable experience.

  • @SaritaWolf
    @SaritaWolf Před 3 lety +8

    The crystal palace “pseudo-beak” kinda looks like they were using rhinoceros lips as reference, which would make sense since they gave it a nose horn as well.
    Also, maybe the iguanodon bonebeds are a sort of “elephant graveyard.” Maybe older iguanodons went to the swamp in search of food that was easier to chew, and ended up just dying of old age in that area?

    • @toblexson5020
      @toblexson5020 Před 3 lety +5

      I was thinking something alone the same lines. And maybe the occasional younger adult iguanodons were badly injured or ill enough to be abandoned by the herd, and relocated to this area, whereas juvenile members of the herd would be looked after right until death due to maternal instinct. It's hard to think of a reoccuring natural disaster that would only affect such a specific area and demographic, so it does seem to feel somewhat intentional. Although as humans we are prone to seeing intent where there is none.

  • @falsevacuum4667
    @falsevacuum4667 Před 3 lety +6

    I really enjoy the way he puts things into context. He always reminds us not just WHAT happened throughout the history of researching the animal, but WHY the researchers thought the way they did. It's so refreshing to have things framed that way and not "hurr hurr past scientists dumb because they don't know what we know". Keep up the great work!

  • @forthrightgambitia1032
    @forthrightgambitia1032 Před 3 lety +3

    I am from Maidstone and went to the grammar school there. That coat of arms was on our school uniform. Strangely enough I just found out that the site of where it was dug up was long since built over with housing estates where one of my friends lived. The iganadon is still very famous and there is a cast copy of it in the local museum - which along with a smuggled mummy from Egypt is one of the two main things to see there.

  • @scorinth
    @scorinth Před 3 lety +10

    YAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!
    Finally, a critical look at one of the dinosaurs with famously problematic restorations.

  • @davidwright7193
    @davidwright7193 Před 3 lety +9

    When I was studying at Cambridge in the early ‘90’s I had a friend on a similar course to mine whose name just happened to be David Norman and who kept getting letters from children about dinosaurs in his pidgin hole as they were addressed to David Norman, Cambridge University as far as I am aware they were all forwarded correctly.

  • @ImARealWerewolf
    @ImARealWerewolf Před 3 lety +53

    I'm a simple person. I see Iguanodon, I click.

  • @TheSihiro
    @TheSihiro Před 3 lety +37

    Perfect timing as I just finished cooking my meal and was looking for a vid to watch while eating xD Bless

  • @josephneill691
    @josephneill691 Před 3 lety +9

    'talk dumb get the thumb' would be an amazing shirt

  • @SkylerTheCryodrakon69
    @SkylerTheCryodrakon69 Před 3 lety +4

    At long last
    The iguanodon episode

  • @Osigot
    @Osigot Před 3 lety +4

    Wait, is this a very high quality video on a very interesting topic with a good intro, filmed with a very good camera with a professional script and a pleasant presenter/host with a good sense of humor?
    *Why are there so few views and subscribers?*
    P.S. Thanks youtube recommendations for showing it to me

  • @brianbierlein4747
    @brianbierlein4747 Před 3 lety +10

    Great episode. Though I was distracted by that Barney in the background, I still managed to digest all the information in this way too short episode.
    I look forward to part 2! :P

  • @Croationman
    @Croationman Před 3 lety +3

    Only 15 minutes in and I’m already sad that it will be over soon. I don’t want it to end. I wish there could be a new Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong episode every week.

  • @Usulcardo
    @Usulcardo Před 3 lety +7

    13:30 I just wanted to point out that some birds like the Friarbirds (genus Philemon) for example the Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus) do have cheek-like soft tissue at the base of their bills although I can't find any research on what kind of selection pressure gave them those weird cheeks nor do I know if there are osteological correlates on Philemon corniculatus' skull. Worth investigating !

  • @CBusschaert
    @CBusschaert Před 3 lety +6

    excited for sequel! Iguanodon 2: "No, they did not have wings."

  • @Shadowspets
    @Shadowspets Před 2 lety +4

    As a Belgian, I couldn’t be more proud of this documentary, I always felt very connected with the history of iguanodon.

  • @manospondylus4896
    @manospondylus4896 Před 3 lety +8

    17:46 Liliensternus is also on the coat of arms of Bedheim, Germany

  • @telson1583
    @telson1583 Před 3 lety +10

    17:47 the flag of Chernyshevsk, in Russia has a Kulindadromeus on it

  • @altejoh
    @altejoh Před 3 lety +5

    Just discovered this series, love to see it! Would love to hear an episode on troodon, or possibly the strange humanoid-dinosaur image that always seems to accompany troodon.

  • @GroovySulli
    @GroovySulli Před 3 lety +4

    "Talk Dumb, Get The Thumb." This needs to be put on a sticker, shirt, or button with a YDAW illustration of Iguanodon. I will buy it all. Make it for Iguanodon's 200 year discovery for next year in 2022! It would be perfect and I would again buy it all! :)

  • @akmi1931
    @akmi1931 Před 6 měsíci +1

    The one thing I noticed growing up is that there was never a single consistent depiction of Iguanodon and it bothered the hell out of my OCD.

  • @VirgoShelter
    @VirgoShelter Před 3 lety +2

    "Talk dumb get the thumb"
    Yessyeysysysyhs

  • @danieldover3745
    @danieldover3745 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Iguanadon was one of my favorite dinosaurs as a kid, and I had the upright, spike-thumbed version fixed in my head, so I was surprised to see you criticize it, and then fell in love with the whole story of how we came to better understand iguanadon, and it's still one of my favorites, just in a different way.

  • @BriarRH
    @BriarRH Před 3 lety +2

    32:08 oh my god that hadrosaurus painting is hilarious. it looks like some dudes in a suit creeping around in a golden age hollywood b movie monster flick.
    the hip and legs of both paintings are human looking, lord it creeps me out.

  • @trollytrouble1926
    @trollytrouble1926 Před 2 lety +4

    I’m a new fan but I already watched most of the series, I love how detailed and how you see the creature change into something that was real, would love to see sarcosuchus or baryonyx

  • @thatnickwalker
    @thatnickwalker Před 3 lety +2

    Wake up babe, new YDAW :0

  • @TCovenantUnbeliever
    @TCovenantUnbeliever Před 3 lety +2

    Huzzah! Your work is always the best. I knew you were going to bring up Sternberg's Mummy Edmontosaurus. I'd love an episode on Edmontosaurus itself, but what I want most is an episode on a Plesiosaur.

  • @dudeskeela
    @dudeskeela Před 3 lety +2

    Wow, you two absolutely crushed it with this episode.

  • @rashidclark
    @rashidclark Před 3 lety +2

    Would not another possibility as to why the site has so many iguanodons be this: ?
    Perhaps the swamp-lake was too deep for most non-swimming animals to traverse (including juvenile iguanodons), but just the right depth for adult iguanodons to walk through. But then there are sudden changes of depth at the sinkholes, and these large, non-swimming animals die? The borders of this lake might be sloped such that smaller animals pick up that it's getting too deep for them and thus never venture out to the areas with the more sudden changes in depth.
    But maybe that's crazy. It seems that most contemporary, terrestrial herbivores can swim when they need too.

  • @AntiqueBambi
    @AntiqueBambi Před 2 lety +1

    The way you talk and explain things puts me at complete ease. You make exploring this special interest of mine so much fun, thank you.

  • @Themantogoto
    @Themantogoto Před 3 lety +5

    It has been so long! So excited to see this. Hope you guys are on a roll now to make one of these every month or 2.

  • @CooperHudgins
    @CooperHudgins Před 9 měsíci +1

    I love that Bertrand got dressed up as David Attenborough for the introduction😂❤

  • @jurassicjs6995
    @jurassicjs6995 Před 3 lety +4

    The episode I’ve been waiting for since it was often out in the credits of old videos!

  • @Sombraptor
    @Sombraptor Před 3 lety +7

    17:43 Actually, Russia's Chernyshevsky District has Kulindadromeus on its coat of arms!

  • @Bassist665
    @Bassist665 Před 3 lety +4

    I have been waiting for ages to see this and loved every last second of it! Thank you for all your excellent work and for taking your time to make this happen!

  • @halzk4464
    @halzk4464 Před 3 lety +4

    Finally! Iguanodon is such a classic. Thank you.

  • @brettgabbitas1852
    @brettgabbitas1852 Před 3 lety +2

    I loved the Richard Attenborough impression that Bertrand did!!!

  • @martinkois7126
    @martinkois7126 Před 3 lety +2

    I LOVE the little dude's Sir David outfit. Perfection.

  • @LaMarcheFutilé101
    @LaMarcheFutilé101 Před rokem +1

    "talk dumb, get the thumb"
    Liked and subscribed just for this.

  • @zalybrainlessgenius503
    @zalybrainlessgenius503 Před 3 lety +17

    May I suggest spinosaurus? I know the research would be frustrating, as the reconstructions change about every year, but I think it's a very interesting topic!

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 Před 2 lety +2

      Considering that they only just found a better preserved tail within the last year or two (not to mention one of the best examples of it ever found being literally bombed) this would be a super interesting one.

    • @firytwig
      @firytwig Před 2 lety

      Spinosaurus was already done, and he already seems aware of most of the new research

    • @firytwig
      @firytwig Před 2 lety

      They are certainly going to do an update video at some point but as far as I know it hasn’t been announced yet

  • @wesjenkins5160
    @wesjenkins5160 Před 2 lety +1

    Take this as you will; your site has become "comfort media" for me. I suppose you could think of yourself as paleontological macaroni & cheese. Thanks so much for the fine research, enthusiasm, wry humor and animation.

  • @theorangeninja6486
    @theorangeninja6486 Před 3 lety +8

    This episode is less "your toy is inaccurate" and more "your toy is a springboard for launching a conversation about the formation of paleontology as told from the perspective of THE OG dinosaur", won't catch me complaining tho XD

  • @kj_H65f
    @kj_H65f Před 3 lety +1

    This really is incredible content. I'm so amazed at the level of work and research that goes into every episode.

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 Před 3 lety +2

    God I love this channel so much. Definitely becoming a patron when I can afford to. So stoked to finally get the Iguanadon episode and it was even more interesting than I expected. Can't wait for the next. Also, "talk dumb, get the thumb" needs to be on some merch asap lol

  • @IICJZII
    @IICJZII Před 3 lety +2

    Been waiting for this for so long! Thank you for all the content, folks! Already excited for the next video 🎉

  • @barkingmonkee
    @barkingmonkee Před 3 lety +1

    This is the 1st episode of YDAW I've come across and it's AMAZING! The quality of the science, the animations, the illustrations and the presentation of the material are all just brilliant. Well done.

  • @jakebarley4950
    @jakebarley4950 Před 3 lety

    I love how you speak like you have 75k more things to say. I do that too. Appreciate the excitement and knowing there's more to come!

  • @perhapsawhitemale8144
    @perhapsawhitemale8144 Před 3 lety +4

    All I can say is that this dinosaur is a heckin’ chonker.

  • @bluetannery1527
    @bluetannery1527 Před 3 lety +1

    My amateur intuition of a thumb-spike is that it seems pretty multi use:
    - intraspecific competition
    - defense against predators
    - rooting in ground for tubers maybe?
    - could defo be for breaking into woody materials

  • @someonekenobi
    @someonekenobi Před 3 lety +1

    The animations in these videos are always insane and so helpful. Thank you!

  • @strifecrusader
    @strifecrusader Před 3 lety +1

    This is the first ydaw I've ever watched, and one of the longest CZcams videos I have ever watched. Awesome show. I enjoyed it from start to finish.

  • @SlashersPod
    @SlashersPod Před 3 lety +2

    Very excited to unveil our interview next month. Excellent work, as always.

  • @bulbafett5787
    @bulbafett5787 Před 3 lety +2

    What happend at bernisart?
    Scientist: dedicating years of research to figuring out what it is.
    Me: Simple. iguanadon graveyard

  • @nefariousyawn
    @nefariousyawn Před rokem +1

    I could listen to a whole more hour discussing that sinkhole fossil bed. It's so interesting.

  • @jurassicdragon4989
    @jurassicdragon4989 Před 2 lety

    I found your show randomly recently and I love it! I REALLY appreciate all the detail and research and the explanations of the bones you do! Keep it up!

  • @AnubisFanVani
    @AnubisFanVani Před 3 lety

    This super-episode was amazing! I enjoy YDAW so much everytime. Thanks for this one! ^^

  • @eptile
    @eptile Před 3 lety +1

    Omg! I finally saw this in my recommended! Whoo new vid! And the first thing I said when it was an iguanodon is "talk dumb, get the thumb!"

  • @raiknightshade3442
    @raiknightshade3442 Před 3 lety +5

    FINALLY! ITS BEEN SO LOOOONNNGGGG honestly it's been so long that I think I've gotten a grey hair 😂

  • @swedneck
    @swedneck Před 3 lety +2

    oh my god an hour of YDAW

  • @zenolachance1181
    @zenolachance1181 Před 2 lety

    This is one of the best channels on CZcams. All the details that you cover it's something nobody else on CZcams is doing. I just came across your channel recently, and I am absolutely fascinated with the detailed work that you do. I have learned so much! Thank you for doing what you do !!!! Keep up the good work!!!!