I love how funny but truly educational this channel is! Such a gem on this platform!

Mom, I want pachycephalosaurs We have pachycephalosaurs at home Pachycephalosaurs at home:

Discokeryx is without a doubt a very fascinating creature.

This video and its title literally defines the meme "Can I copy your homework?" to a whole new level XD

@RDSyafriyar

2 жыл бұрын

Convergent evolution in its usual business...

Evolution be like a mix of “Can I copy your homework” and “Congratulations, you played yourself.”

Just remembered the domed-headed chalicothere...

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

So did I, dammnit

While not a giraffe, I have some speculative evolution ideas for a creature we haven’t really seen yet A semi aquatic herbivorous dinosaur that dives for sea grass and uses their nostrils sit atop their head for quickly catching a breath before diving again

@juxie9229

2 жыл бұрын

... ok?

@TsulaAngenati2292

2 жыл бұрын

@@juxie9229 he asked if any of us had a speculative evolution idea for any parts or animals that we haven’t found yet. This was mine

@injunsun

2 жыл бұрын

@@TsulaAngenati2292 So, maybe spinosaurus kinfolk?

@godemperorlech5422

2 жыл бұрын

@@injunsun lurdusaurus

@jamessparkman6604

Жыл бұрын

@@TsulaAngenati2292 I think, using the giraffes DNA could give us insight on how to resurrect each of these extinct draft species

This looks like it came straight out of a speculative evolution project! Talking about it, do you plan on making more videos about spec evo?

@injunsun

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen another channel do it. It was... merely okay. That provider went waaay out, and tried to provide entire alt ecosystems. Their specs were tote sus. I'd rather they'd speculated on an alien world, rather than basing it on ours. But our dude here might have the chops. Like, I have always wondered, "How would Earth's ecology have gone, had 'x' mass-extinction event never happened?" The first one wiped out 90% of biodiversity. Can you imagine our world if it hadn't, and none of the other events had happened either? Sentience and sapience would have happened hundreds of millions of years ago! And our ancestral line would likely be a footnote in some being's college lab paper.

@chadgorosaurus4898

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine a giraffe that converged on the argentinosaurus path

@garrettlich7140

2 жыл бұрын

He’s done spec-evo? I don’t remember a single vid on the subject but Id be interested in him giving a crack at it

@beastmaster0934

Жыл бұрын

@@injunsun Do you remember what that other channel was called?

@themonsterbaby

7 ай бұрын

​@@injunsunmaybe. Dinosaurs had a lot longer than apes did and they never evolved sapience. They still exist, in birds, and have never came close to what we evolved. So I don't think just giving more time guarantees that.

Your choice of music was a real mindfuck for me.

Your channel is one of my favorites. Such a high quality content!

We're lucky to live at a time when giraffes are alive

Unfortunately there was a literally scientific study that proved that the headbutting animals suffer severe even extreme trauma brain and skull injuries even neck as well as muscular fatal injuries Appearently headbutting is not a very healthy evolutionary prospect

@elnovillomapuchedehomerus2412

2 жыл бұрын

It may not be very healthy but is very succesfull in the sense that it help to determine which males are more healthy and strong it separates the weak from the strong and allow descendance to carry on the genes of the dominant male

@thedoruk6324

2 жыл бұрын

@@elnovillomapuchedehomerus2412 not that much actually the recent research also mentions and explains that even in or amongst the most healthiest and fit males the immense risk and occurance of severe injury trauma as well as deformations are extremely prevalent

@TheEnabledDisabled

2 жыл бұрын

but that based on our assumptions, their brains most likely evolved to handle concussions much more

@BardBotpoweredbymeeps

2 жыл бұрын

Well sex sells xD

@thedoruk6324

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEnabledDisabled eh not really even in modern headbutting animals suffer catasthropic injury due to that

Seems like you are showing more of your humor/personality in your videos EDGE, really enjoy your videos, your my fav KZreadr for these kinds of videos, keep up the great work 👍🦕🦖

I just can't get over how much this thing looks like a Chalicothere, (the ones that became small and deer-like not the gigantic gorilla-horses.) For those interested: I'm talking about Tylocephalonyx specifically.

Ah, yes. The *hell-im-a-guy* formation and the *tired-shiba-heh* layer. Good choice in location.

This is very new and I've never heard or seen short necked Giraffe with domed skulls. I wonder if there is another relative of Pachycephalosaurus but with only two horns, beautifully as elegant as the Theropods and long necks

To answer your question at the end about characteristics that keep showing up in unrelated animal groups. Long snouts with a notch in them. Dinos, crocs, fish have all had this adaptation. When will mammals get their turn edge? Hm?

@beastmaster0934

Жыл бұрын

It’ll probably evolve in some kind of cetacean.

Ok but can we talk about the intro music of this video being the ankha zone SFW version music

History repeats itself

@JAGzilla-ur3lh

2 жыл бұрын

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.

Pachycephalosaurus of the Miocene era

@beef_cake6172

2 жыл бұрын

Moschops of the late Cretaceous

why do extinct giraffes look like something Dougal Dixon created

"Cat on the Ceiling" in the beginning sounded pretty good. No wonder why that innocent Egyptian cat out there got into it.

@TheFBoner

2 жыл бұрын

Same

Why did you used ankha zone music? Bruh

@theexiledrussian622

2 жыл бұрын

The music wasn't written for that, in reality is a song called Camel by camel written in the 85 and sang by Sandy Marton.

To get to this point I'm just picturing thousands of extremely dense (mentally) giraffes ramming into their rivals and breaking their necks, until finally after millions of years they could survive it.

I'd say the only thing discouraging me from being a paleontologist is the math. I could never.

Love how you always mix humor and educational material EDGE. Keep it up!

love that you rephrase David Attenborough line in Prehistoric Planet

6:42 I am cackling

It does sometimes feel like the 90s were 17 million years ago...

@eljanrimsa5843

2 жыл бұрын

Things were nice and easy back then. Giraffe was still a single species.

@JAGzilla-ur3lh

2 жыл бұрын

Zoomers be like

@injunsun

2 жыл бұрын

🎵"Don't Want No Short [Neck] Man!"🎶

My ears do not deceive me this is camel by camel

@FPrimusUnicron

2 жыл бұрын

No, the other song, same animator ;v

Edge - it occurs very rarely in carnivores Anteosaurus - AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!

I heard Takemi's theme in there at around the 7 minute mark.

@16:52 two okapi's wearing bowler hats having an argument.

That time when giraffarig used skull bash

@E.D.G.E, You've always been good. You're getting better with every video. I still can't quite place your accent. Canadian Native? (Please answer that querie.) Anyway, the name of this animal, and the idea of sexual selection by females, caused an old dance song (from the late '80s/early '90s) to pop into my head. I'll just use a cleaned up version, and see who gets the reference: "Don't Want No Short [Neck] Man!" Another hint: "Itty-bitty, teeny-weeny..." Cheers!

I really love these videos so good funny and educational Also hope y'all a good day

PachycephaloGiraffe

Unrelated to giraffes, the junggar basin is where guanlong and newer mamenchisaurus species were discovered

I like to know whether the fossils of discokeryx were mentioned in any previous SVP Conferences before it was named. if so, send me the PDF links for them (if it is available).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was proven that Pachycephalosauruses could not headbutt, because their overall skull and neck structure was too fragile after all to take the blows.

@bencekrepuska1735

2 жыл бұрын

They could just not running full speed at each other but standing at front of each other and head butting at close

So now we have TWO dome-headed mammals. Looks like Tylocephalonyx won’t be alone anymore. Oh, and Tsidamotherium is having an identity crisis.

Musk ox must be mad it’s title of best head butter is gone

pachy dinos being mountain dwellers, like all the other headbutting animals, is an interesting hypothesis. also would be funny climbing a cretaceous mountain and being yeeted off by a pachy

is like finding more ancestry of animals like giraffes, rhinos, dear, antelopes, goats, foxes, hummingbirds, parrots, and others ancestral animals waiting to be discovered i wonder there's a prehistoric barracuda probably about a size of a false killer whale that will be something, maybe there's ancestral of deep sea fish fossilized out there. who's knows

Disco Giraffe

So what I have gathered: sauropods are much more better at surviving than pachycephaleosaurs.

@refindoazhar1507

2 жыл бұрын

long necked > dome headed

Reminds me to Tylocephalonyx

Interesting, I thought that the general consensus was that pachycephalosaurs couldn’t butt heads because the domes were too round, and therefore would, more often than not, slide against each other upon collision or even shatter upon impact. Was this debunked?

@rac1equalsbestgame853

2 жыл бұрын

Their domes frecuently have scars type of bashing damage, so they did bash

Wondering if there is preserved DNA that managed to survive. If it did, I hope we could clone it.

@injunsun

2 жыл бұрын

While I love the idea, we have two or three problems. First, even if we could get its genome down, we'd need to recreate the entire thing in a lab, or else replace genes in a modern animal with its variants to approximate it (as they are looking to do with mammoths and mastodons). Second, we have two generations of dumbass assholes, raised on the fantasies of "Jurassic Park," who believe any such attempts would, of course, result in disasters no human could _ever_ take into account and prevent (🙄). Third, we also have people so caught up in their fee-fees about the ethics of bringing back extinct animals with no hope of a homeland, or them possibly displacing whatever evolved to fill their niches when they went extinct. As if we couldn't _possibly_ keep them in a large preserve, created to host them. I want us to bring back at the least they thylocine, the dodo, the passenger pigeon, and various other species we know for a fact humans hunted to extinction just last century, and people fight me on them. F*ck dumb people. Let's light this candle.

Eh, your conversions are off in this one: 50 mm is very close to 2", and 9" is more like 230 mm.

@injunsun

2 жыл бұрын

Good catch.

Looks like something liked eating brains with just brain cases found Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

13:11 what was its name again

Gives me a headache. I've been accused of being hard headed, but not like this! 😉😄😄

Blood shooting lizard?

@ScionStorm1

2 жыл бұрын

"Sanguine Spray attack!"

"Hey, E.D.G.E, wanna do some analysis with mathematics today?" :E.D.G.E. leaves the chat: :D

Well unicorns are real now.🤔

It does have modified neck vertebrae, that sounds like a giraffe to me. But I'm an uneducated pleb.

7:54 what was this?

Could you sheeatshuuuu at me one more time? 😍🤭😘 lol

Why would visually-oriented mating displays be bad for mountains/elevated regions?

@EDGEscience

2 жыл бұрын

Harder to spot.

@darkhumour741

2 жыл бұрын

​@@EDGEscience How so? Apologies if this is really obvious and I'm just an idiot lol

Makes sense why the Kirin (QiLin) are so revered in East Asian cultures.

Off topic but are you going to make a video on what mosasaur hemipenises might have looked like. You did a video on dinosaurs mating so why not give other prehistoric creatures a try.

@bagea

2 жыл бұрын

creep.

@gattycroc8073

2 жыл бұрын

@@bagea thanks

They aren't related to giraffes. They are copy cats :p

Wait they actually named it Discokeryx with Disco? Man as the generation before us and our generation (Millennials and Gen Z) have become adults with established jobs these things are going to become common, we are shameless trolls.

@refindoazhar1507

2 жыл бұрын

disco literally mean "disc-shaped", he even explained it in the video.

_"Big Horn Sheep and most other big horny sheep..."_ Perfection

Actually disco is Greek, not Latin.