Alvarezsauroidea evolution is a hot topic that should be explored to a greater depth. Seems like cope's rule mostly never applied to Alvarezsauroids.

I love learning about the dinosaurs. It brings me so much joy to talk to the little kids that come in looking for dinosaur books and I can have conversations with them 🥹😭 this channel has helped with so many conversations

So what they mean is that the changing of say, soil horizons from desert dunes to a river deposition has in the past been taken to indicate much different ages, but this could change with a single large rain event, with the river bursting its banks and carving out a new channel.

@bradschoeck1526

6 ай бұрын

Catastrophism screws EVERYTHING up!

@rileyernst9086

6 ай бұрын

This is not cataspheism. It's a natural thing that happens. Where I live in North Queensland we just had a cyclone that hit the coast, turned into a low and sat inland for about a week sucking in moisture from the sea and dumping it. It was what you'd call a 1 in 50 year flooding event and it changed the course of the Baron River. Because there was a bend in the river and enough water slammed into that bend that the levee burst and that whole bank got eroded away. Which means that suddenly the Baron River hydro plant is now completely without the hydro aspect. On a smaller scale a mate of mine does soil conservation for graziers and he visited a property where the levee burst and now the farmer has a brand new creek running through the middle of his paddock. To those interested in taphonomy on this property was a very textbook example of a crevasse splay. (Where the levee bursts and a heap of sand is dredged from the river bed and spread out as a fan across the flood plain.) Which is the kind of depositional eviroment which we know from many prehistoric formations, such as the Morrison.

3:21 love the music in this part, reminds me of Diablo I or Jim Kirkwood

Maybe alvearezaurs where nocturnal bug hunters in areas with tall foliage, hunting in tall foliage would reduce competition for bugs with dinosaurs like early birds and gliding dromeosaurs like microraptor and sinornithosaurus.

@miguelpedraentomology6080

6 ай бұрын

microraptors and such were capable of powered flight, plus they were no insectivores at all.

@SuperBetaBuxbros.

3 ай бұрын

Microraptor ate birds and seeds

@SuperBetaBuxbros.

3 ай бұрын

Birds had evolved by them

Alvarezsauridae are most fascinating theropods

This dinosaur is so cool and I love it, thank E.D.G.E for this video

This dinosaur has always been my childhood fav

@TheHortoman

6 ай бұрын

Bro was born in 2014

@extraordinarytv5451

6 ай бұрын

Maybe you're thinking of Shuuvia? This one is new but the group in general is about 30 years old so definitely some childhood favorites in there!👍🏽

@midnitemoon1153

6 ай бұрын

@@extraordinarytv5451nah, they’re talking about Jacuilinykus

@andrewscoppetta4944

6 ай бұрын

@@extraordinarytv5451/whoosh/

@tikimillie

6 ай бұрын

Mine is microraptor because of the leg wings. The only vertebrae i know off with 4 wings!

The arms dont push fwd. They tuck them at sides i think

The excavating function for Alvarezsaurid's hands seems rather sketchy. Living ant/termite excavators (Aardvarks, Anteaters, and Pangolins) all have powerful forelimbs. Certainly with their reduced size skulls, Alvarezssurids could have afforded a more powerful set of forelimbs for digging. Think mini-megaraptors.

@TheHortoman

6 ай бұрын

You just THINK theyre not strong

@charlesmartin1121

6 ай бұрын

@@TheHortoman Despite the robusticity of the thumb, in virtually all derived Alvarezsaurids the rest of the forelimb is both extremely reduced and gracile.

1:59 huh this dude looks like a yellow tailed black cockatoo? i have these in my backyard sometimes

Raptor with owl face is nightmare fuel

@Wyi-the-rogue

5 ай бұрын

No it is adorable

@DoctorMysterio15

5 ай бұрын

it's both😎 ​@@Wyi-the-rogue

They’re so cute

These animals must've been *so cute!*

If you happen upon a sleeping dinosaur, don't awaken it.

What a silly little dude.

@silverhowl9331

6 ай бұрын

SILLY LITTLE GUYSSSS I love them sm.

I LOVE E.D.G.E.I.N.G

I’ve only had my son Jaculinykus for 16 and a half minutes but if anything happens to him I am taking everyone down and then myself

This is the best episode EVER🎉🎉🎉🎉

I’m thinking scaled up Road Runner. But with the finger adapted for flight​?

Looks like a roadrunner. 😁

Jakovasaurs!

I love Dinosaurs

What would Alvarezsauridae look like if they've survived the extinction of the dinosaurs?

@VelociRaptor7586-cw7fy

6 ай бұрын

Gigan

@MrWanapon

6 ай бұрын

@@VelociRaptor7586-cw7fy ha ha very funny

@wolftalon9129

6 ай бұрын

they would probably be the dominant insectivores and you could probably take the look of many modern insectivores and apply it to an avian body plan and it would probably be very similar

@SuperBetaBuxbros.

6 ай бұрын

weird non beaked shoebills

@wolftalon9129

6 ай бұрын

true, with little arms instead of wings@@SuperBetaBuxbros.

Lucky bastard never saw it coming.

"Kohta Kubal" i cringed internally and externally

@LimeTreePrickly

6 ай бұрын

Why?

Was it hibernating?

I wonder what Alvarezsauridae used its little wing-arm nubbins for.

@terrysyvertson9205

6 ай бұрын

digging for bugs

@iced_cassowary8728

6 ай бұрын

​@@terrysyvertson9205 Couldn't they just scratch the ground with their foot like a chicken, it seems more practical than using these short nubbins.

@NeilEvans-xq8ik

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Surely they're not for digging...

@SoulDelSol

6 ай бұрын

Nothing. That's why they're vestigial like t rex arms i think. They've shrunk to nothing. That's like asking what we use our little tail bones for.

@iced_cassowary8728

6 ай бұрын

​@@SoulDelSolIf they were truly vestigial, they would surely be less stout and not have that big, specialized claw at the tip, those must have served some purpose if they were kept in a seemingly functional state. Also: -T. rex arms are speculated to have been used for mating -The Coccyx (tail bone) serves as an attachment place for some muscles iirc

Since when did Alvarezsauridae have asymmetrical ears?

@ThemagpieBird734

6 ай бұрын

Since that study on the hearing of shuvuia

@marcovalenti5724

6 ай бұрын

@@ThemagpieBird734 that study says nothing about ear asymmetry in Shuvuuia, if I remember correctly.

irl gigan hell yeah

Awweeee🙂

They're just birds i think

Can we just start calling them birds?

Count Jakula.

Delicious and nutritious. Tastes just like chicken.

I wonder if they taste like chicken

Btw Mongolia= Real Jurrasic Park

Pretty animals. Except the one that has a head like a turkey vulture.

jakol

Weird religious people: "evolution isn't real, there aren't any transitional species!" Real life: 0:21

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It forgot to wake up, must be dino Alzheimer's

That really doesn't sound like a name that you can say in polite company. 🙄