Theropods - The Coolest Things That Ever Lived (and You Hardly Know Anything About Them)

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"You can stick your hand right through the pelvis of a dinosaur." Yeah, but you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."

I have NEVER wanted Clint to do a crossover with Your Dinosaurs are Wrong more than after this video. Clint, PLEASE set up this collab with Steven. The world NEEDS this to happen.

Can i just say how much I appreciate you making videos on prehistoric life? As a kid I always thought "dinosaurs are cool, modern animals are lame!" But as I grew older and learned more about dinosaurs, prehistoric life and evolutionary biology, now I can say my love for dinosaurs made me fall in love and learn to appreciate modern day animals as well! It's a shame that at least from my perspective, a lot of people interested in animals today don't share the same appreciation for prehistoric ones

I would like to point out that Jurassic Park the novel wasn't as inaccurate to the dinosaurs as the movie. The book was just so much better, and is probably the biggest reason i became a reader and later an English major with a love for creative fiction. But I would never have read the book without the movie!

"I'll be happy to explain that comment in a future video." I've seen all the sequels, unfortunately, I think it's pretty self-explanatory.

Fun fact about Dilophosaurus: the frill we see it sporting in the JP franchise has no evidence in the fossil record of existing. It didn't even have that in the books, but Spielberg decided to give it the frill to make it more imposing and impressive. I have heard, Dilophosuarus was probably one of the larger dinosaurs roaming round at the time.

I protest the first statement in the video, I'd argue the best known of all dinosaurs is the mighty chicken.

Barely related, but I think Ceratosaurus is one of the most underrated theropods, probably because it's almost always shown being destroyed by Allosaurus in most paleo media.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for this video. I grew up in a creationist household that taught me dinosaurs were a hoax, and after getting more into fossil hunting and starting to look into the early geologic periods and fossil records, I’m absolutely obsessed and going through my dinosaur phase at 23. The more videos like this the better, they make it so easy to understand the classifications and help lay everything out. I’d watch even longer form videos than this, the 37 minutes went by so fast! You’re the best, Clint 🙏

It is sad how much about dinosaurs and other ancient creature we will never know, but also amazing how much we can figure out by their fossils alone.

I LOVE Dinosaur December...Even though I'm a dino-all-day kinda guy...@ClintsReptiles Thanks for the years of incredible stuff...from all of us Google Biologists and Weekend Paleontologists...Thank you for keeping us going

I would love to see more on Ceratosauridae, my two favorite Dinosaurs are Ceratosaurus and Allosaurus, so I would never complain about hearing more. My favorite fact about Ceratosaurus is the design of its teeth, with the stubby lower teeth, and the huge slicing upper teeth. That to me is just such a cool design trait. With Allosaurus I just really appreciate how tough they were, with their fossils sporting healed wounds from things as nasty as Stegosauridae tail spikes and from tussles with other big dinosaurs. I also applaud your title for being the most accurate thing I've ever read!

Clint, you absolutly need to play prehistoric kingdom to own your own accurate designed dinosaurs zoo !

I have always been very interested in dinosaurs from a young age. I was always looking and collecting books on them and my bookshelves are... very heavy. I am so glad there is a knowledgeable person who has just as much interest as I do in them. I also really appreciate the way you say there are many possibilities without saying one as absolute fact as most do. I find things are always changing when it comes to prehistoric life and there are many theories present, along with changing theories, you are explaining them and encourage thinking without taking a bias side. Learning anatomy and technical terms from you is much more fun and easy than a lot of standard university courses. I am taking a lot of animal biology based courses in uni and your videos are helping to explain things to me that i may not completely understand in lecture. It is very refreshing and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and making it fun!

i love your prehistoric videos. can you do prehistoric mammals as well?? Australia has a lot of prehistorical marsupials

have a good day everyone im forcing it onto you you cant take it back

Really like this content! In a ‘Biology’ class focused on Dinosaurs, and this channel has helped me out with learning extra things, or just understanding them better! Also… one moment in the video; Clint: “You know what the difference is between Daemonosaurus and Tawa is?” My head: “yes, Tawa is pronounceable, the rest are not”

First time ever I have seen anyone even talk about my favourite dinosaur! The coelophysis has been my fave since I was a tiny child with a big love for dinos, and watched walking with dinosaurs almost every day.

A video on the Abelisaurus and their diversity would be amazing!