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@f.u.m.o.5669

Жыл бұрын

I didn't notice it anyways, oh well.

@G809

Жыл бұрын

Hey, uhh should probably pin this

I'm not entirely convinced that the first toy was always an amargasaurus. It looks like the manufacturers just took the wings off of a preexisting dragon toy that they had in stock.

@ztm454

3 жыл бұрын

100%

@sjonnieplayfull5859

3 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same: the way he coiled his tail and neck is more like some chinese dragon.

@dracorexion

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm the one who actually sent it! Turns out the toy is part of a very stylized card series from Spain. I also sent them a Deinocheirus and Protoceratops from the same series which are both also equally weird looking.

@MechaShadowV2

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was thinking along the lines of "it looks like they combined a dragon and sauropod".

@ChadDidNothingWrong

3 жыл бұрын

@@dracorexion I think i found a tyranosaur in this couch I bought

"We've known about Amargasaurus for just under 30 years" "Ok" "It was described in 1991" "WHAT" Here I am still picturing 30 years ago as being early 80s.

@Newbmann

3 жыл бұрын

How has the past year not been a decade I think of 30 years ago as before 9/11

@ceigey-au

3 жыл бұрын

I keep subtracting from 2000, which for "20 years ago" has some awkward consequences.

@celestinemorningstar4851

3 жыл бұрын

My first instinct is still "30 years ago=70's"

@imapigeonyoupeasant1489

3 жыл бұрын

My first thought when I hear 30 years ago is 10 BC

@TattooedPink

3 жыл бұрын

Wow yeah I was thinking 70s 🤣

I come bearing news from the future: a new study suggests a skin sail on the neck spines might be possible after all!

@SpiffierShindigs

2 жыл бұрын

If I had a nickel for every time we've waffled on the reconstruction of a spined/sailed dino... I'd have (at least?) two nickels.

@demariultraastra864

8 ай бұрын

I swear Amargasaurus is REALLY trying it’s best to be the sauropod version of spinosaurus

@theangrycheeto

7 ай бұрын

​@@SpiffierShindigsand two waffles

@musicbyastrid

7 ай бұрын

@@theangrycheetoI’d rather have two waffles than two nickels

@TheSmartestManonEarth

6 ай бұрын

Skin sails are obviously for absorbing heat from sunlight. Like spinosaurus laying in the water but it's sail could be out of the water gathering heat.. And looking so darn scary to see that guy under the water

“We have a handful of foot bones” I love this channel

@heinzdoofenshmirtz3311

3 жыл бұрын

(Somewhere in the multiverse) "We have a footful of hand bones"

@MarStacey

3 жыл бұрын

LOL I love how he laughed at himself 🤣

@sjonnieplayfull5859

3 жыл бұрын

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz3311 the moment he said it and went silent, I just hoped so hard he would correct himself like this... 😁

@Xandros999

3 жыл бұрын

And zero footbones. Whereby he means to say "a footful of handbones". Cause you don't hold stuff with your feet.

@Patchwork_Dragon

2 жыл бұрын

@@heinzdoofenshmirtz3311 damnit you beat me to it

The successive studies and theories revealing the look and purpose of the neck spines was thrilling. Another excellent episode.

@TheCrimsonIdol987

3 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here! :D

@S1MN05

3 жыл бұрын

I love seeing creators commenting on videos of completely separate genre/topic. So cool that we all have diverse and yet still common interests. I remember the Dino inlay on the Gothic Flying V. Love you Colin!

@salblue9811

3 жыл бұрын

interesting seeing you here carlin

@salblue9811

3 жыл бұрын

oh wait no it makes perfect sense, you love dinosaurs!

less then a year between two episodes?! WAS IS THIS MADNESS

@BionicleSaurus

3 жыл бұрын

It's certainly ahead of DI.

@fearodactyl2886

3 жыл бұрын

@BionicleSaurus hi, I’m a fan of your channel. I didn’t expect to find you here lol

@dinoxels

3 жыл бұрын

@@BionicleSaurus Eh fair point

@doompriest

3 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAA

i just love that a small sauropod is still as large as the largest land animal alive today

Not gonna lie, kinda miss our moustachio'd dino friend from the opening.

@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of theropod is it again?

@Freshie207

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s monolophosaurus based on the crest, but it’s pretty generic

@sparkreal

3 жыл бұрын

Probably a corythosaurus

@dracorexion

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz Iirc, those of us in the discord actually believe Bertrand is supposed to be a Corythosaurus, and not a theropod at all.

Please do an episode on plesiosaurs. They are probably the most common "dinosaur" toy that you haven't done an episode on and I know there are lots of things wrong with them. Thanks!

@dracorexion

3 жыл бұрын

As of right now Steve and Liz have expressed their want to focus on true dinosaurs for the most part, though they do plan on doing episodes on some aquatic reptiles and pterosaurs that they've recieved.

@501thtrooper4

2 жыл бұрын

Amongusaurus

@jeffreygao3956

2 жыл бұрын

@@dracorexion There's a pterosaur and mammal covered; A plesiosaur isn't a big stretch.

@delmerputnam1679

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreygao3956 Calling dimetrodon a mammal is kinda stretching it, but I get what you're saying

@superscatboy

2 жыл бұрын

Just go to Loch Ness and see a real live one for yourself!

Pretty sure that first toy is a freakin dragon, not a dinosaur

@dracorexion

3 жыл бұрын

I can assure you that it's supposed to be Amargasaurus. The toy is from a card/figurine game from Spain. I found and bought the toy to send to them online, along with a Deinocheirus and Protoceratops that are equally weird looking.

This is the cutest sauropod I've ever seen. Good to see some of my grand kids rocking it so well.

@Ditidos

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my, I am your fan. Could you sign my inner fish?

@ormfantanen7451

3 жыл бұрын

Tiktalik? I evolved from you and my speicies became a** holes 😊 I miss u :/

@Seismitoad3

3 жыл бұрын

@@ormfantanen7451 we can only imagine

I find your show extremely comforting. I have really bad anxiety issues, and for some unknown reason these uploads calm me right down from a panic attack. I'm not sure why that is, I never was a "fan" of dinos, but it does...just please know that you're really helping at least this human get by, and now I am becoming a fan of dinosaurs!

@Vespuchian

3 жыл бұрын

I'm also a big fan of this type of video. The informal, extemporaneous narration is very easy to follow, despite how much information is being given to you. It's not trying to grab your attention or excite you, it's just telling you neat facts about fascinating animals, like a personal tutor. I'm particularly fond of the construction-paper-inspired animations.

@yohanathandowns9057

3 жыл бұрын

I think its his very grounded and un hurried speech.

@scarmoon9395

3 жыл бұрын

I listen to these to sleep a lot (: I absolutely use this channel for comfort purposes

@firegator6853

3 жыл бұрын

i like these videos because i just find interesting how bizarre life on earth was and how different from today even though the animals had the same kind environment they were still different but most importantly im tired of the media showing them so terribly inaccurate and it's hard to find completely accurate dinosaurs sometimes so this channel really helps

@carlblix7794

3 жыл бұрын

I used to suffer from panic attacks and I can totally see how these would have worked, had YDAW been a thing then. I think it's a combination of Stevens calm and 'low affect' personality, the background music and the colour scheme and style of the set and animations. Also, it probably helps that the videos are about something completely unrelated to human life and problems. I really hope your issues with anxiety get better over time!

One things for sure, the more we discover about dinosaurs the more they seem like "real animals" and less like "monsters."

@Vadim_k.d.

2 жыл бұрын

sounds oddly poetic. congrats

A new paper that was published this year has suggested the spines were indeed covered in skin.

@DryptosaurusDavid

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t agree with that. If it was covered in skin how would the animal defend itself. Bajadasaurus would have used those spikes as weapons.

You guys should do a ydaw oops on spinosaurus especially with the new tail and supposed arms

@lucagarciaferrari

3 жыл бұрын

Could you catch me up on the supposed arms? I read about the tail but missed that bit.

@scarmoon9395

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssss

@logansmith2703

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair that could be a yearly thing at this point

@Megaguy12

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucagarciaferrari I can't link it for some reason but if you go on the dinolabs facebook page they have posted images of them. They were confirmed to be real by I think a Canadian paleontologist. They look pretty different from regular spinosaurus arms (no surprise) with the thumb finger being much shorter. The hands and arms themselves were built pretty powerful but the pectodectoral crest on the humerus was pretty small meaning it had weaker swipes than baryonix or suchomimus. Also from my own crude measurements I got an arm length of 6.2 feet for msnm v4047 but that's my own and I didn't put much time into it.

@sephikong8323

3 жыл бұрын

Please no, not spinosaurus, if they do then hey would have to redo it approximately every 6-15 months which would be very time consuming

I never really realized how small amargasarus was compared to a person until I’ve seen this video and I’ve known about it for so long.

YDAW always gets me SO PUMPED about dinosaurs! The research that is presented in such a digestible and accessible way is so valuable for recontextualising my understanding on Dinosaurs over these years.

@sastrei5955

2 жыл бұрын

Is that an Ayame kojo pfp? Lol

When you talked about the potential art featuring these spined dinosaurs with leaves and such stuck on them, it makes me wonder if any plants took advantage of dinosaurs to help distribute their seeds in any way? Like how Burr seeds stick to fur today to distribute themselves.

Yaaas this animal was specially interesting, and quite a mystery

@hectoralvarezrodriguez7045

3 жыл бұрын

Agree! Needs more representation in other media

I feel like I would watch a full series of this guy playing Ark: Survival Evolved 😂

That “Amargasaurus” toy at the beginning of the video looks more like a dragon without wings than a sauropod. This dinosaur has always interested me, it’s one of the lesser known sauropod dinosaurs that deserves more recognition than just being a medium sized sauropod that wasn’t as big as the others. The spines on the back (either they were just spines or a sail) makes this animal majestic and really weird for a sauropod. Also appreciate the effort and dedication put into these videos explaining real science behind these incredible animals that are sadly misrepresented too often in pop culture (speaking as someone who likes both scientifically accurate and pop culture depictions of dinosaurs).

I shall now try to make (with my mediocre art skills) Steven’s “a good arT”

I think the banding on the tail comes from a "walking with dinosaurs" Episode. "Time of the Titans".

finaly after such a long time we finaly got amargasaurus

@extraordinarytv5451

3 жыл бұрын

spinonychus

There's something so soothing about being able to veg out and let my brain be filled with dino knowledge

Bajadasaurus: "Shut up, mom! It's not a phase!"

@vaporean_boylove.0w083

3 жыл бұрын

**listens to heavy metal/punk rock intensely**

They went and turned that first toy into a dragon without wings

Its been so long he's got grey hair now

I love dinosaurs. I loved them when I was little, then I got kind of bored with them for quite a few years. However, I have been getting back into them and learning more than ever these past couple years. They are just so cool! This series has taught me so much aside from everything else I have been learning from. Keep up the good work!

The moulds for the earlier Battat dinosaurs have severely degraded over the years. I have that Dan LoRusso Amargasaurus from the original Boston Museum of Science release from c.1996 and it looks so much crisper and more detailed.

Every time the model gets adjusted: "This isn't even my final form!"

As someone who really wants to be a paleontologist one day, but is still in the process of learning basic anatomy, I find these videos really interesting! Keep up the great work!

@irisravenhild9060

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who really wanted to be a paleontologist after I saw Jurassic Park (without the permission of my parents), but was spoken out of that dream (too), I hope you succeed.

These videos are so soothing. It just calms down my over anxious brain with some nice straightforward discussion of science. There’s nothing loud or ostentatious about it. It’s just gentle science about cool animals with some great animations

I've been holding off on looking up anything about Amargasaurus so I could be surprised by this episode! Well worth the wait.

"A handful of footbones" Tremendous

Steven's voice in the opening of the video made me smile a bit, thanks for that. I mean on top of the thanks for making these videos in general of course, I appreciate you folks.

This show has reignited my love for dinos :) Thank you for all the effort these take! Could I suggest for more Ceratopsian episodes? I really love them, specially Pentaceratops, I've always wondered how their skulls exactly work and if they had beefier necks to hold them! Have a nice day

EVERY single episode of this show is just absolute gold. Thank you for the hard work you put into these!

Absolutely fascinating and well worth the wait! Also, the intro was adorable :) Awesome work, as always!

Ok so the use of niche partitioning as an example for how uniqueness can be a good thing, especially in a children's book.... UGH this is so damn sweet & kinda brilliant 🖤🖤🖤🖤

I'm really glad to hear about the official portrayal of Amargasaurus' neck spines. Another great episode overall. BTW That children's book you mentioned at the beginning looks very cute.

Then in 2022 a paper came out stating that Amargasaurus had soft tissue connecting the long neck spines and not keratinous horns.

Always so glad to see more YDAW. This is so wonderful!

You guys need to keep them coming. This videos are so informative and I love the way citations are presented. Awesome job!

to have spikes on the neck is a good defence agaisnt predators that usually goes for the nexk. semi related, i´ve seen sauropods recently,restored with ridges and some times small spikes ont he bottom of their necks and huge osteoderms on their back and tails. where does that come from and does it have any support in paleontology?

@austinhinton3944

3 жыл бұрын

Markus Nävergård Saltasaurus had bony nodes on its back, along with some small spines. It’s a more obscure sauropod despite it’s unique armor, prolly because it’s not a comparatively large sauropod.

@ScionStorm1

3 жыл бұрын

Kids today are slowly developing neck horns from staring down at their phones all the time. ;P

So stoked for this. This dino always interested me and there’s so little out there about them in the pop science I read.

ITS FINALLY HERE IVE WAITED SO LONG

My favorite dinosaur! A very interesting one. Usually sauropods are seen as massive dino giraffes but amargasaurus being similar to that of basically a big dino Ibex is so interesting. Fascinating how diverse sauropods actually could be!

Now I really want to have that book from the opening :'D

What I like any this channel is how it communicates to people my favorite thing about dinosaurs: that our knowledge about them is in a constant state of flux. That's what I love about dinosaurs. The uncertainty. Finding out new things that completely overturn old things, or just that ubiquitous "we don't know!" that always comes up with dinosaurs. There's always something left to wonder about. Always new horizons to be explored.

RETURN OF THE KING

Always makes my day when I see a new one of these

This made the rest of my day

I love this series so much because it really puts into perspective how much of a gradual process paleontology is. With every single one, we see how our understanding of any individual species grows and changes, and it doesn't ever really put down the early workers of the discipline. It just accepts "this is what they had to work with, we wouldn't have done any better if we had the same criteria." Thats something thats missing in a lot of archeo or paleo focused channels, that empathy and understanding of the people who helped build the foundation our modern knowledge is built on. Even if I wanna go back in time and slap who ever thought it would be a good idea to excavate Troy with dynamite.

I like sailed and horned, but for different reasons, like the sailed depiction because it's pretty, and like the horned depiction because it's cool

Once again, excellent video, keep up the good work

Ever since 2 years of age, I have loved dinosaurs. I came across your channel by accident, but have been thoroughly enjoying with great interest, your talks. Thanks for the sharing!

So this video appeared in my suggested videos seemingly at random. Long story short, you basically managed to get me interested in dinosaurs again, a topic I wasn't this interested in for over a decade. Thanks a lot

I really, really, reeeeally want like a special YDAW- video game edition. There’s soooo many Dino games nowadays, and while playing them I get so annoyed sometimes with the issues some dinos have. They need roasting!

I had a very relaxing and informative half hour drive to work this morning. Thank you.

I love that you show what each reconstruction would look like and the arguments for and against each one. Super interesting

I think the bands on the tail are inspired from the diplodocus of walking with dinosaurs (which in turn was inspired by iguanas, but I think the toys designers took their inspiration from walking with dinosaurs.)

"They're smaller sauropods" Me: *imagine a bull to rhino size animal* "While Amargasaurus would be elephant-size" Me: yeah... saurpods are not small, even the smaller XD

@tscream80

3 жыл бұрын

They're still as big as horses, which are *not* small animals.

I can imagine that dinosaur toy sculptors congregate in the audience of this channel. People waiting to see their work show up. I love this show and recommend it to the parents of kids who love dinosaurs. While the script is deep in nomenclature the illustrations help understand what he is saying.

ark's amargasaurus release: i'm gonna start this video's whole career

I'd love a video on shrink-wrapping prehistoric animals.

Very educational channel! My twin brother has been a dinosaur nut for as long as anyone can remember, so I'm into dinosaurs by proxy. But that's good, because it was thanks to him that we got some of the anime Dinosaur King on DVD when we were little kids. It's one of my favourite tv shows and has a special place close in my heart; it's because of Dinosaur King that I know most of the dinosaurs I do, especially Amargasaurus. To think animals such as these roamed our Earth, walking on the same land that we do now, all those millennia ago - is absolutely insane and fantastically wonderful.

No one is here after the news that YDAW needs to update the amargasaurus? #sailgangforlife

It's been *way* too long since I watched an episode of this. Nice to see an episode about Aurorus - I mean Amargosaurus.

I like your approach to analyzing the possibilities and the range of truth they have.

great episode for one of my favorite sauropods

Man, it seems like only a few weeks since the last episode. I'm glad to see you guys working at a solid pace! I couldn't help but notice the updated diplodocid silhouettes. It prompted me to go check out Scott Hartman's updated sauropod skeletals and realize how cartoonishly goofy the proportions of a lot of these animals are.

I've made a hobby of making model dinosaurs in Planet Zoo. Thanks for giving me an excuse to go back to one of my least proud works.

Last time I remember, Amargasaurus was just a 3d model in jwtg with no shaders and was the size of large saurapods.

Man amargosaurus is one of my favorite sauropods first got introduced to it in fossil fighters for the ds and loved it ever since I actually have that figure it's awesome.

Great video again, the time yous spend on these really pays off

Quick question, will you add more dinosaurs to your coloring pages?

@dracorexion

3 жыл бұрын

Iirc, the plan is to add new dinosaurs from each episode to the coloring pages file

soooo glad you’re back! also if we could EVER see steven truly laugh-he makes snarky comments but never busts up. it kills me

I don't have time to watch this right now but I *do* have time to drop an instant like and favorite it! I love you, guys, thanks for all of the work you do for this channel!

I remember a show called Dinosaur Revolution. The 2nd episode depicted the life of an Allosaurus based on a specimen of an Allosaurus's mandible that was broken and healed crooked. The episode showed Dicreaosaurus and Allosaurus fighting. After seeing the size chart on Dicreaosaurus, I think they made it too big in the show, as it was towering over Allosaurus and Torvosaurus

This was packed with way more knowledge than I expected. I need to examine this channel some more.

These videos are amazing. So entertaining and informative. The production value has recently gone through the roof and I feel like a parent watching their kids grow up. Or, more accurately, a weird adult watching other people's kids grow up.

I love the entire new format for this show. I hope they can do more videos on this quality more often.

YAS! Another video! This video about Amargasaurus is really nice and neat. I learned a couple of things from the episode. I can always come to this channel for paleontological comfort or when I forget a specific detail of a dinosaur. The drawings are great, too! Keep up the good work!

I love the Iguanadon animation at the end showing the evolution of its reconstruction. Nice touch.

I love everything about this series I’m so glad it’s still going on

It's always a good day when my favourite dinosaur channel puts out a new video.

I loved dinos as a kid and these vids are rekindling that. Thank you.

I personaly think that its spikes/sail are for protection against preditors. Because, nowadays you see that a lot of preditors attack the neck of animals. Something I thing a lot of theropods did too. Seeing as this is a slightly smaller sauropod, it isn't too strange to asume that it would have been attacked from above by larger carnivores. So having the spikes looking up and leaning a bit back, might come in handy when attacked. Attacks to the rest of the body might have been prevented by a swinging tail or something like that.

My theory is that the "spines" are the remnants of feather dusters and these guys were just neat freaks.

I really love all the effort you put in your videos, i have learned a lot with your help, so i´m triying to help back a little by sharing your chanel on paleontology groups, this channel needs to be bigger, you totally deserve it

I never comment at all on videos but I feel compelled to as I never would’ve crossed this channel but I’m really glad I did! Big fan of dinos since I was a kid!

Man do I love this series. Hope to see another episode this year.

I love this channel, i love this guys energy, whenever i feel sad i know i can come here and get better :)

I am irrationally upset that that children’s book is not real.

I love the Style, Narration and especially Set Design of these Videos !

I need this book PLEASE! My mom works as a librarian at an elementary school and I genuinely think the book would be a great addition for the library!

So awesome to see a video on Amargasaurus. One of my favorites. Also loved that animation at the end.

Living by the port of Los Angeles, you see bridges and a lot of cranes all the time. Those spines look like what you would need to hold your head up and swing side to side as you eat everything in front of you like a weed whacker. It even reminds me of the handle you have halfway down the weed whacker to help you do exactly that side to side swinging motion. Eat an arc in front of you.. take a step forward eat the next arc on the way back.. repeat.