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Yea man it blew my mind.

Wiped out in a matter of hours or days.

And they still are around

@@Khaufnak. nope. They're still here

Had to pause and think for a second. Really crazy.

😅

it was harry buttcheeks for me

“Biotchfromhell”

😂😂 I had to say that out loud to myself 10 times before I got it.
I was like what's godst itties 😂😂😂

HalfPassStoned

my favorite is when he read "godstiddies"

@@Vendrix86 it's actually a really good one because, does god have them? lol

hes in his 50s, which means he was in his 30s back when the internet was hitting the masses in the 90s. compared to back then, handles now are extremely tame. wild west internet and all that.

@@sebastiangorka200 The wild west of the internet was not in the 90's but in the early 2000's easily

Burst out laughing a harry_buttcheek

Why was there a content warning for dinosaurs? Were they worried a triceratops that recently had its child eaten by a pterosaur would see it??

@@DOMPARK I think it was for comedic purposes

Well he’s not wrong pterodactyls we’re discovered well before dinosaurs I think.

@@DOMPARK bc some people are afraid of dinosaurs

I don't get why people think pterandons are dinosaurs. That's like saying an eagle is an elephant.

the flat earth asteroid question probably made him internally cringe so hard lol

Any questions, even seemingly daft ones, are good questions. Because as long as people listen to the answer, all questions lead to enlightenment.

Mostly by black ones

​@@nerdy_dav I've never thought about it that way, thank you for showing me a different perspective.

@@Vegeta_1990 ur weird

Harry ButtCheeks LOLL

*lit up

@@JGirDesu lit up*
And he wasn’t wrong it still works

@@OggeDCSubToMePlease No.

*lightededed up

Lightenedheaded up*

Yeah, like how Cleopatra lived closer to our timeline then that of the building of the Pyramids. Or that woolly mammoths still roamed the earth when they were built.

@@Davey768 Well roamed the earth is kind of an overstatement. They were stuck in an island as they slowly died out, mostly because of lack of diversity

@@isthatbraised what was stuck on an island? Certainly you don't mean wooly mammoths?

@@jimv1983 Yes
Most of the mammoths died a couple thousand years ago, yet these island mammoths lived till 4000 years ago

@@jimv1983 As far as we know, Wrangel Island was the last hold out for mammoths, where they lived until about 2000 BC. Most other continental mammoth populations died out around 10,000 BC

I love comparisons like this. Another interesting one I've heard is that we're closer to Cleopatra than she was to the building of the pyramids.

It gives you a scale of how long the world has existed

​@@jiji7250 Between right now, and the first dinosaurs, is only 3.3% of the earth's age.

yes he invented this fact... ???

​@@kehmisst wdym?

You can tell he knows the internet. I bet he's been roaming paleontology message boards since the dawn of time. I can see him growing up to the sound of dial up modems reading dinosauria, having heated discussions about Mesozoic vertebrate paleontology and being staunchly encamped on the right side of the question which is better, the Plesiosaur or the Pterosaur.

hes ace!

I know!! I learned so freaking much. You can tell he genuinely loves what he does.

'Biotchfromhell'.

also hes german, im pretty sure :D *so am I

id just be annoyed at how some people dont know how an asteroid hitting the eath works xd

@@LKonstantina915 Ikr. I don't mind uneducated people who aren't cocky about it, but when someone is completely uneducated on a subject and makes stupid statements like that person it just irritates me

Because there is a flat earth society that still believes the world is flat and dinosaurs didn't exist

He probably has

It's not a sphere though, and I'm not even talking about mountains, but because it rotates, it is wider at the equator, though the really extreme one for that is Jupiter which is MUCH wider at its equator since it spins so fast and if it was spinning much faster it would be flung into pieces.

He didn't exit anywhere, he did get excited though :)

@@jupiterflambay4284 Well, I got most of the words right, which is good for me. I usually mess up way more. I edited it though, thanks.

Paleontologists and archeologists seem to be some of the most happiest with their professions. It must feel like magic uncovering lost history.

This guy is great, speaking with such eloquence and enthusiasm is so infectious and English is not his native language but I can understand him better than most who have.
His models and props including fossils relating to each question were there readily set up
We all wish we had teachers like him
Thanks Hans

i literally had to check the comments to see if anyone else saw that. i get people have triggeers, but a content warning for dinosaurs?! DINOSAURS?????

Bruh this was the exact comment I had lmao godstiddies had me dying😂😂

Best part by far

@@skylarshum0417 harry buttcheek got me

The Harry one 😂

Seriously, the names this time.

on the flipside, theres species of dinosaurs that we have not discovered yet and their fossils are sitting in the earth waiting to be found

And probably the fossils we have is because of the number of species we know were very high

yeah kind of weird how we're forming an idea on very incomplete information. like we assume T-rex was this big apex predator but for all we know there were dino's far bigger that just never got the chance to fossilize.

@@zwenkwiel816 'far bigger' might be a stretch since their size is limited by their anatomy. T-rex was one of the heaviest bipedal animals to ever exist on this planet and alread pretty slow. Other Theropods reached the same length but most of them were significantly lighter.
It's pretty unlikely that there was an even bigger predator around at the time and location as T-rex and if it was it had to be very rare.

That is true. Only a very small fraction of dinosaurs, or subsequent life forms, were fossilised. That requires a specific set of circumstances, the right type of soil or mud, the right temperature, the right weather to set the fossilisation process in motion. Otherwise the animal would simply rot away and the bones disintegrate.

An experienced scientist isn't easily surprised.

Trex buttcheeks would do the job 😁😁

What's so funny about "godstiddies"?

@@marcel151 What's *not* funny about that name?

@@guydreamr Everything, what should it mean?

Agreed! So interesting 🙏🏽

definitely

Still though "@ Harry_Buttcheek asks..." LMAO @8:45

@@Skorn75 I died laughing, even felt bad for the guy😂

Thats why they can answer the simplest of questions and the most complex of questions with the same gusto and passion

I came to this post to find this!!

I dont think flat earthers watch science videos tho

@@cringeypopsicle589 They do, mostly to argue with the people in the comment section

@@cringeypopsicle589 lol it’s because they look for whatever serves their bias. it’s a bummer but it is what it is

@Falcon But they don't actually watch the video.

Not to mention harry 🍑cheeks at 8:46 lol

@@hipsterlevi584 I commented before o saw that one. Made me chuckle.

5:03

what about harry butcheeks lol

@@silverbackhc 8:46

Right?? He’s so sweet I love him!

The guy on Periodic Videos (chemistry) channel as well!

He's an absolute delight, but at the same time, if you told me he had a human centipede or a man sewed into a walrus suit made of his own skin trapped in his basement, I wouldn't be all that surprised.

Even his accent ads to the "stereotypical genius scientist"

He literally is the most perfect egg head I've ever seen 🦖❤️

(checks watch)

N Marbletoe lol

Really made me stop and think 🤯

Stegosaurus was already a fossil when T.rex walked the earth

@@nahadoth2087 Only 500 more years to go until we’re just as far away though!!!

right omss 😭😭😭✊🏽

you are the kind of weirdo that sends those questions with a “like” after every other word

Ong 😭

Fr 😭😭

fr tho he read the usernames HarryButtCheeks and GodsTiddies without even chuckling 💀

Every scientist has their catch phrase
“It belongs in a museum”
“Your scientists were so concerned with weather or not they could, they didn’t think about weather they should”
“The T-Rex behind me, our pride and joy”

"Chilling" because... you know... it got very cold. Hehe. Ill see myself out.

@@lebowski3748 A stanford study by Jessica Xu (dec 2015) estimated the energy released by the Chicxulub impact to be equivalent to roughly 230 years global energy consumption, most of it absorbed by the atmosphere. The initial impact and returning ejecta released green house gases trapped in carbonate rocks of the crust, such as SO2 and CO2. The study estimates that it caused a long term atmosferic temperature increase of 2 to 5 degrees C based on the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary rock analisys. I would have thaught it would cause a short increase than a longer decrease in temperature too :/

Asteroid. Not meteorite.

Don't get overly enthusiastic. Paleontology is really interesting, but it's only really when you study geology, which paleontology is a branch of, that you can really appreciate rocks and everything about them, and thats not just fossils. Moreover Paleontology for large animals is a really secluded subject, with very few jobs avaible, so you gotta be really good to get into it. This is because it is not an applied science in any way. Looking at dinosaur bones serves no economic purpose whatsoever. And thus money and in consequence jobs are scarce. Moreover, even though I started to study geology for paleontology bit, I've since shifted my focus within the subject to more interesting and more presently important topics.

I know right I just found his video this one he's actually pretty enthusiastic

krplus.net/bidio/f9h-X4iEZGm-e5w

@@bimbelimbim4998 as a side course, it's definitely fascinating to learn more about the dinosaurs.. wouldn't be the most practical thing in the world but research is always continuing.. we are learning more good stuff about these creatures..so there will always be geologists and paleontologists who will continue to push the field further...

@@SK008 Maybe but in the end is serves almost no practical purpose. Moreover all data and evidence is extremely incomplete, so it can be an unsatisfying field of research. For example lets say a junvenile of a species look fundamentally different to the adults. This is rather common for many presentday animals. How are you supposed to differentiate? There have been many instances, where multiple species names have been attributed to animals of the same species with different age or gender, or where such is being discussed. The reconstruction of paleoenviroments in their entirety is much more appealing, because paleobotanics, sediments and microfossils give a much more complete picture, simply because these traces are much more abundant.

Also him reading the stupid names, like biotchfromhell.. lol

it was the little (beep) he did when he saw the word mfer that did me in

@@batll0 yesss

Hearing him read godstiddies LOL

How he said Harry Buttcheeks did it for me lol

As long as we leave the black marker in the crater....we should be good.

@@uzumaki346 and as long as we dont try to reproduce it.

Isn't it in the golf of Mexico? I read that as a kid I think

This is not a 100% fact. The asteroid could be one of the reasons for the next mass extinction, but scientists cannot reach a consensus on this issue, since many species began to die out a little earlier. Most likely it was a complex problem: the asteroid is only a part of it (perhaps not even the main one).
By the way, there were extinctions before that and were even larger (Permian-Triassic extinction), but the asteroid did not participate in them (upd. well, some scientists suggest that there was a asteroid, but there are no details)

@@Osigot It is generally accepted that the asteroid played a large role though. But, yes, many paleontologists think there were other issues as well.

Still blows my mind that a pterodactyl isn't a dinosaur but a chicken is

Dude acting as if it was old news 😂

But there is one sad thing about it: like with football players for every palaeontholgy student who start and can make a living out of it there are 1000 who need to learn something entirely different when their studies end.

@@nemo99nemo83 Way to kill the moment you party pooping, killjoy, piece of excrement.

Despite being the wrong size the velociraptors were a great smaller more agile threat. Only buzzkills really complain about them.
I had a teacher in junior high who was livid that the Raptors didnt eat every last bit of Sam Jacksons character, she thought it implied they killed him for sport which "only people do". Yeah I'm sure when killer whales are basically playing volleyball with seal Cubs it's to add flavor.

Not to mention it is 30 years old. Science is always evolving, not even documentaries designed to be accurate survive that time period unscathed.

The problem is that JP is a lot of peoples only exposure to dinosaur stuff, so this entertainment becomes, perhaps unintentionally, “fact” for those people. In turn, it just results in the vast majority of people having major misconceptions about dinosaurs - it’s unfortunate

Los documentales de dinosaurios suelen estar plagados de errores, especialmente los más antiguos

I just like to laugh at the inaccuracies

And wow what an expert. With hundreds of publications this guy lives and breathes dinosaurs like it's 199x10^6 AD.

No they are not! They are amazing.

Your pfp is a dinosaur 🦖

It was also beautiful to hear him say the names "Harry Buttcheeks" and "God's Tiddies".

the plural of dino is dinos

I'm both annoyed and dismayed there were so many dumb questions. I'd rather have heard him break down some really in depth aspects of paleontology than have to see someone disbelieves in the concept of fossilization.

@@raikazuchi In some ways, dumb questions are the best kind, cus it signifies someone taking a first step to understanding something.

People were so rude, but he doesn't bat an eyelid.

@@Jesse__H I’m gonna go out on a limb that someone named “godstiddies” didn’t bother to follow up on getting their answer

That's professionalism. I've kinda been annoyed they even allowed some dumb questions.

BRO WHO IN WIRED MADE HIM SAY THAT LOL

Bless this man and the person who had him say this username

This man is with it. At 9:30 he even had the sense to "beep" mfers

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT lmfao

How bout the harrybuttcheek

Especially if your name is Harry ButtCrack.

Learning that birds are dinosaurs gave me a new appreciation for birds. I always liked crows and ravens, but I didn't give much thought to other birds. Now I love birds and thinking how they're just little dinos flying around or hopping along on the ground :) My favorite dinosaur is Therizinosaurus due to the new Jurassic World movie (though it was likely actually a herbivore; the movie paints it at the very least as a predator of some kind)

@@AngelValis I think there is a debate in the scientific community if it was an omnviore.. it might have eaten both plants and small animals.. my favourite dino was, is and will be Brachiosaurus..

@@AngelValis they paint it as a territorial creature, it bitchslaps a deer,but it was so it could eat the plants the deer was eating

Did you know chickens are the closest relative to a tyrannosaurus?

YOOOOO A FELLOW PARASAUROLOPHUS ENJOYER

I’ve seen a few but some paleontologists in my life: they all are actually Ross Geller alright like some intellectual 12 y/o skips whole twentieth and become scientist😂

Also that the KT extinction wasn't even remotely the largest. That honor goes to the Triassic one, irrc.

oh yeah for sure. the extinction at the end of the Permian nearly ended all complex life on earth - 94% of species went extinct. for comparison, the K-PG killed 75% of species.
the K-PG completely wiped out the ammonites though, a group that was (and had been) immensely successful since they first arose. although, I believe I recall reading that ammonites may have survived briefly past the cretaceous? as in a handful of species survived the K-PG, but were in pretty bad shape afterwards so soon went extinct anyway

@@PhoenixBlazer39 it'd be the end Permian that's the largest imho. The Earth was very close to losing complex animal life in general.

Not only that, but not all of the animals died by the asteroid. The asteroid started a chasing reaction that eventually killed them all off.

@@laurenskee2665 yep. the K-PG asteroid kicked up so much debris into the atmosphere it completely blocked out the sun for a long time. plants were unable to photosynthesise, so the entire ecosystem crumbled

He and Robert bakker.

This guy also: krplus.net/bidio/gK6QpHOmg3i9daQ&ab_channel=VanityFair

All palaeontologists I know are cool.

Ross is way cooler.

No its incredibly profound

It's not actually the bone. A fossil is stone basically. As he explained, minerals with the size and shape the bone had. But yeah, it is marvelous indeed.

@@Paul....... no its profound and incredible

Everyone, it’s super cool, unlike people who argue over grammar…

@@DarkRoomAmbienceI hold chicken legs after I eat them, is that profound too?

When he said Godstiddies it was so funny

There are many great channels about paleontology out there. PBS Eons as an example covering a wide variety of topics in plain language in relatively short videos (8-12 mins).
UPD: Personally I also like speculative biology covered on Curious Archive channel, especially The Epic of Serina series. Curious and unusual creatures, amazing worlds and all that.

Same! This guy was a delight

Same

Same here, Paleontology was a good vibes lecture

We know that tyrannosaurus rex probably lived up to 30 years, and we can KIND OF see how a dinosaur acted

What about mass graves of dinosaurs? do those count? Also weren’t there also tar pits that preserved dinosaurs? Or were tar pits trapping other ice age animals?

We do, they're flying all around us as we speak

At least how a Dino moves is based on its anatomy. the size of areas of the brain can tell you which actions are prioritized, like how he said some of their brains are similar to a hawk so maybe they would act that way too.

@@AverageAlien those are the government drones, my friend, not dinosaurs

Well he’s not perfect

Oi

Unfortunately he’s no longer with us. M/S his wife and child.

​@@jon-paulpowrie6751Rest in Peace💔🙏 Prayers and best wishes to him, all his family,friends,and loved ones❤

He is very much still alive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Dieter_Sues@@jon-paulpowrie6751

Listen to the accent no chance

Also biotchfromhell 💀 these names...🤣

Godstiddies

Terror birds are also really cool, sad they aren't very talked about as the non-avian dinosaurs.

It's really hateful to see how some people only see dinosaurs as mindless reptile-like monsters and not what they really were, animals in their own ecosystem. And those who argue that "feathers are not scary" have not seen cassowaries, or ostriches, or geese, or even a simple rooster! angry at their life.

People just don’t like change after science reveals new discoveries that are more accurate

@@bruja_cat Exactly, they still think about dinosaurs at the same level as things like mythological or movie creatures. They get angry when they hear things like the feathered rex and polar dinosaurs, as if they were told that mermaids don't have fish tails but shrimp tails or godzilla can now fly.

@@albertocayuelas7342 Don't forget the butcherbirds! We find them cute only because we are larger than them.
When a 6-foot tall butcherbird seeing you as prey nobody would say "feathers are not scary" ever again.

Bruh you play Roblox

@@zorrpan7744
How’s that relevant to this thread?

Bruh I’m 27 and still love Dino’s lol

As an 18 year old, I still love dinosaurs, loved them since I was 9
And sometimes I do want to draw illustrations of them

me too! 18 now, going to school for zoology, then going to school for paleontology ;)

Nice to see someone else actually understands this. Everyone just assumes they were using mongoliensis both in the book and movies despite everything saying otherwise.

A small mistake lead to velociraptor becoming the most famous dromeosaur

It's interesting to notice that, while bigger than a velociraptor, deinonychus was still smaller than a human. The ones at Jurassic Park would be around the size of a Dakotaraptor.

@@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115 exactly, so many people who look into the comparisons of Jurassic park and the real animals overlook the enormous raptors of North America

And now imagine my face when i see jp first time, and when the question:what's that? Appears i answer: deinonychus. Then tom says velociraptor, THEN i hear about what you wrote in that comment. Also, deinonychus was and is in my top 5 dino list. Imagine my rage at the film. Also i was like 5 soo...

If so, that might have been a _Tarbosaurus,_ a relative of T-rex living in Mongolia.

@@fromnorway643 There are actually quite a large number of tyrannosaurid species that have been discovered in and around China. Could have been a tarbosaurus, yutyrannus, qianzhousaurus, or something else completely different.

​@@chriswhinery925One of those you mentioned is the so called Pinocchio Rex if I'm not mistaken, right?

Makes a lot of sense that Chinese dragons have T-Rex like heads. I think it was pretty smart to envision the missing part of its body as a flying salamander.

No need to imagine - the ancient Greeks built temples to hold fossil bones, mostly Pleistocene (?), mammoths and such. They interpreted these bones as those of giants and deities. Adrienne Mayor wrote about this very well.