If you are looking to learn more about ichthyosaurs, you can check out our video "When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas" and if you have already watched that and just want more Eons content in general, you should check out our new podcast "Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time", available now wherever you get your podcasts! (Subtle plug)

@drts6955

2 жыл бұрын

Plugging your own channel? Disgraceful haha

@trevorlaheyson1570

2 жыл бұрын

I should sleep right now greetings from Germany

@Raygathex

2 жыл бұрын

I thought we had a handful of giants during the Paleozoic Era? Like Para/Helicoprion?

@trevorlaheyson1570

2 жыл бұрын

I love your videos thank you for the content

@matthewpraayjr.9797

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t dunkleosteus in the Devonian period reaching 33 feet long count as a “giant”

I actually really like the visual aid of placing the animal in question behind or slightly above the narrator, usually comparing the size next to a currently living relative is a hit or miss since some folks may not be familiar with the animal in the first place. I do like that PBS Eons uses the presenters as scale to really drive the sense of mass home, it's surprising that more nature channels don't do that. Also, something about the person moving next to the example is more impactful then an image next to an image. (We see you editors, we love you too) Also, where did she get that shirt? I love it!

@brookegravitt4117

2 жыл бұрын

I actually noticed that in this video and 1000% agree!

@kendraevers2303

2 жыл бұрын

I did an obsessive amount of Instagram stalking to find it's from the Mary Anning Rocks website.

@afisnet

2 жыл бұрын

They have been doing that since inception I think

@ferrousiron7165

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be an issue if you have the concept of proportions.

@ZombieBarioth

2 жыл бұрын

@@ferrousiron7165 Having a concept of proportions doesn't necessarily make it easier to visualize something. You have a concept of money, right? Now imagine what 1 trillion dollars looks like. Same idea.

Okay, I knew Cymbospondylus was big, but I did not know they grew THAT big.

@scott1285

2 жыл бұрын

That's a spicey ichthyosaur!

@danny5551000

2 жыл бұрын

Gabriel iglesias said it best. DAMN!

@Scarletraven87

2 жыл бұрын

Probably bigger. The fossil record proves who existed, not who didn't. Sure, one can speculate, theorize and conclude. But if you found just one of said species it probably wasn't the largest of its kind.

@adlockhungry304

2 жыл бұрын

Insane, right?

@dinofanaticgojifan5760

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

It's amazing to me how much like dolphins icthyosaurs were. Convergent evolution at its finest.

@micahgelfand8282

2 жыл бұрын

A sleek hydrodynamic shape with flippers is a winning design!

@Goudhaantje1993

2 жыл бұрын

Technically dolphins look like ichthyosaurs. The reptiles did the fish thing first.

@toughbutsweet1

2 жыл бұрын

And they are both kind of cute.

@nicolaasstempels8207

2 жыл бұрын

And more than just their general shape, they breathed air and were viviparous. Indeed classic convergence.

@stoyantodorov2133

2 жыл бұрын

@@Goudhaantje1993 Fish did the fish thing first. So technically both dolphins and ichthyosaurs look like fish.

ichthyosaurs are one of evolutions success stories. They existed from the early triassic 250 million years ago to the late cretaceous 90 million years ago. They diversified in to many niches in the ocean that cetaceans are filling today. They revolutionized the seas for ever. There are Ichthyosaurs similar to Shonisaurus believed to have reaches sizes comparable to that of blue whales.

@bkjeong4302

2 жыл бұрын

Ichthyosaurs even held out much better against competition than previously thought (then again, this seems to be the rule rather than the exception in supposed cases of group-level displacement). They actually had one last wave of diversification (including into apex predator niches) in the Early Cretaceous before being wiped out by the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event. It’s only after this that mosasaurs become fully aquatic and high successful, indicating that ichthyosaurs (and the pliosaurid plesiosaurs) were preventing them from taking over beforehand.

@DogsWallop

2 жыл бұрын

I love how some laid eggs and others had live young

@shauni_jade

2 жыл бұрын

Not so successful if they're all dead don't you think

@gastonpossel

2 жыл бұрын

@@shauni_jade They were around as ichthyosaurids for 160 million years. Thats a strong success case compared to hominids, that have been around just a couple of millions of years as human/ape shaped animals (and shurely won't last much longer, in the light of recent developments).

@davidnotonstinnett

2 жыл бұрын

@@shauni_jade all species will go extinct eventually. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

I’d like to say thank you to PBS Eon’s. Nothing has ever inspired me like this channel. I cannot wait to see what comes next

It took this animal 3 million years to get so big. While that's short compared to others as mentioned like the blue whale, I still can't help but be amazed this animal was around for so long. Modern humans have only been around for 300,000 years. It's crazy to see what we'll be in 3 million years.

@valiroime

2 жыл бұрын

If we survive ourselves. We’re our own worst enemy.

@TyTimeIsAwesome

2 жыл бұрын

@@valiroime Maybe. Whose to say in a million, no- in just another 300,000 years what kinds of creatures will arise. My prediction is that our biggest rival as humans won't be large, intelligent animals, but rather the microscopic ones like bacteria/viruses that will challenge us.

@ekosubandie2094

2 жыл бұрын

Whales actually reached megafaunal size in 5 million years though with Basilosaurus at 15 to 20 meters no less, but then they kinda shrunk again after Eocene and only become true colossal leviathans after Miocene epoch

@gerrardjones28

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I were still living like we are now we probably wouldn't change that much, hopefully we'll be around in 3 million years

@dv9239

2 жыл бұрын

If you start swimming now your great great great great great great great great great grandchild might grow up to be around 8 feet tall

We sometimes talk about animals evolving through millions of years and then going extinct as if it were nothing... But our own genus is just about 2 million years old (depending on how you count and which species you consider to be "human"). That kind of put things in perspective, doesn't it?

@abelhapedras

2 жыл бұрын

Right! Our own species has only existed for about 200 thousand years...

@ejenfaiproduction155

2 жыл бұрын

If everybody understanding this, everybody want to live in harmony

@Naw662

Жыл бұрын

And yet we have become the smartest and the most sucessful species to live on the planet in that short timespan

@jamiek645

Жыл бұрын

@@Naw662 unless there was another species before who was more intelligent than us and considered doing the stuff we do but thought better of it so left no sign of their intelligence

@Samdgtmgtma

Жыл бұрын

@@jamiek645 yeah no you likely have to develop to a degree that would cause you to leave substantial evidence in the fossil record in order to realize and choose not to cause the damage advance society can

I'm from Nevada, and the ichthyosaurus is our state fossil. Thanks for the ending credit acknowledgment of my people, the Northern Paiute!

@SacrosanctStories

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! I thank them for indigenous acknowledgment, too!

@JaysonBicBoi

2 жыл бұрын

I mean yall do kinda look like them 😂

I'm fascinated by the sheer scale of things specially time, in this channel. Very rapidly... 3 million years.

@TragoudistrosMPH

2 жыл бұрын

Look at whale's 50 million years... Imagine being lost for 3 days, vs 50 days... But yeah, stunning amounts of time!

@sdrtcacgnrjrc

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of puts things in perspective

@donotreply8979

2 жыл бұрын

Unnecessary commas and periods

@MerkhVision

Жыл бұрын

@@donotreply8979 your comment is unnecessary lol, the original one wasn’t that bad.

Okay, now this is weird. I hadn’t thought about cymbospondylus since I was a little kid, and suddenly earlier today I remembered they existed and how cool they sound. And now this video has come out, teaching me about the exact subject I thought about looking into only a few hours ago.

@aaronmarks9366

2 жыл бұрын

I love when things like that happen

@gandalfforpresident4676

2 жыл бұрын

It's usually moments like this that make you question reality.

@quinmatthew1

2 жыл бұрын

Nigel Marvin?

@themiddleman3060

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah cuz most kids remember the latin name 🙊

@zarmindrow5831

2 жыл бұрын

Probably psychic. Be careful.

I’m surprised dunkleosteus reaching 30 feet and being a massive powerfully built fish isn’t considered the first “giant”

@manzac112

2 жыл бұрын

40 foot Parahelicoprion: I got you.....

@Games_and_Music

2 жыл бұрын

@@manzac112 Dunkleosteus is from the Devonian, a couple sneezes before the Parahelicoprion's Permian.

@Games_and_Music

2 жыл бұрын

As far as i know, Dunkleosteus was the first giant apex predator. It's been my favorite prehistoric animal ever since they found feathers on raptors.

@TheHortoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@Games_and_Music well maybe vertebrate, orthocone and jaekelopterus were earlier and very big and its a stupid classification "giant" whatever that means

@Ezullof

2 жыл бұрын

​@@TheHortoman Orthocones are the name of a certain type of shell. It's not a species. Some orthocones can be quite long, but I'm not sure if the longer ones actually predate Dunkleosteus. Sea scorpions could reach impressive sizes for their time, but they were still dwarfs compared to Dunkleosteus.

Such rapid appearance of animal this size after the most devastating mass extinction is incredible.

@maddieb.4282

Жыл бұрын

Extinction events open up a lot of environmental niches so some really exciting explosions of evolutionary change can happen afterwards! It’s pretty wild!

I find icthyosaurs so fascinating. I just love looking at the specimen at my local museum. I consider myself lucky to have been able to see the collection at the London museum of natural history, that was really fantastic

3 million years for such an impressive change its incredible!

With the cold blooded lizards, the laws of scale make gigantism very helpful: The length growing linearly, the surface grows with the length squared and the volume with length cubed, the volume over surface ratio keeps growing. In cold environments like the sea this helps the ability of a predator to move more quickly and to maintain heat it collected when dwelling near the surface in regions warmed by sunlight for longer and maintains the heat of its own metabolism generated when active. So it's not a surprise bigger ichtyosaurs were a success.

@rafikioftatooine5268

2 жыл бұрын

That's alot of english for me not too be able too understand a word.

@Eo_Tunun

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafikioftatooine5268 It mainly is the maths. Lenth: L Area L² Volume: L³ If you double the length of a body, its surface area gets four times a big, its volume eight times as much as it was before. The loss of heat from a body is proportional with its surface area. The bigger a body is, the smaller the ratio of volume over area gets, so the heat loss gets less. Muscles produce warmth when working, also with cold blooded animals. A big cold blooded being will thus have some of the advantages of warm bloodedness by just becoming very big.

@alioramus1637

2 жыл бұрын

Ichtyosaurs were warmblooded. We have direct evidence of it as fossils of them were found with blubber. Modern cetaceans, seals and even polar bears have it to keep them warm in the cold water.

@Eo_Tunun

2 жыл бұрын

@@alioramus1637 Does a heat insulating feature suffice to say a species was able to actively control its warmth via metabolism? Still a stunning and highly interesting bit of info for which I thank you! ^^)

@ThePotatoSapien

2 жыл бұрын

…pretty sure ichthyosaurs were warm-blooded dude

Love the fact that I can't imagine how large something is (ichthyosaurs, whales) without having a visual reference

@chelseacomps829

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@SirLad

2 жыл бұрын

Need that banana for scale.

can you please make a video about megalania it's a giant komodo dragon that lived in Australia.

You’re telling me this thing was a real-life Subnautica monster? That’s cool.

"Multiple Leviathan class lifeforms have been detected in this area are you sure what your doing is worth it?"

That adorable big-eyed conodont! I love how cute some of the depictions in these videos are.

knew that some ichthyosaur species (like Shonasaurus and Shastasaurus) got as big as the biggest modern day whales but never heard of this one until now, thanks for the video

Lizard seals, lizard dolphins and lizard sharks, the ichthyosaurs are amazing.

These evolutionary biology videos are great! it's awesome PBS is putting out these accessible and informative snapshots of time. It makes people I know what to become paleontologists!

I like how in every artist rendition you can see Ichthyosaurs going "AAAAAAAAAA" 😂❤

In honor of Women's History Month, English fossil hunter and paleontologist Mary Anning discovered the first identified Ichthyosaurs in 1811 at age 12. 1811 also saw the publication of Jane Austen's first novel "Sense and Sensibility".

@TheYuriiaraujo

2 жыл бұрын

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@MrsBrit1

2 жыл бұрын

And she's wearing her Mary Anning Rocks shirt! The status is in its final stages of casting and will be displayed soonish!

@nwahnerevar9398

2 жыл бұрын

There's also a film featuring her played by Kate Winslet. Saoirse Ronan sits on her face at one point.

A episode about colorados flourisants rare fossils is needed. We would know little of that eras small animals without them and the site. But another great ep here

I remember seeing this animal in Impossible Pictures’ Sea Monsters trilogy. It was one of the first truly big sea reptiles of the Mesozoic.

Isn't it possible that the way icthyosaurus reproduced also played an important role in their quick transition to gigantism?

@zarmindrow5831

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, doggie style?

@thomasshelbyasmrconnoiseur7046

2 жыл бұрын

Probably missionary

@jeffreygao3956

2 жыл бұрын

Doubtful, it was just live birth. No different from most marine reptiles.

@lyrimetacurl0

2 жыл бұрын

Fishy style

I saw Cymbospondylus at the LA NHM the day after it was described, and let me tell you, it was HUGE. The skull alone was taller than I am, and probably weighed a couple hundred pounds.

Yeesssssss. More of this type of content, please! I can’t like this hard enough. Also, you’re my favorite host. Is there an elasmosaur episode yet? Why is it’s neck so long? Is it possible that a few survived to inspire myths like Loch Ness? Are they more related to ichthyosaurs or specific dinosaurs? Are pterosaurs more like birds than dinosaurs like velociraptor or stegosaurus ? Is apatosaurus or triceratops more like modern birds than pterosaurs? What were gorgonopsids and other Paleozoic megafauna like? Just trying to suggest topics for episode. Thanks for making this everyday everyone.

I'm a simple man: I see a new Eons video, I click the hand up

It’s amazing how quickly they evolved. It makes me wonder who evolved fasted in the fossil record.

@LimeyLassen

2 жыл бұрын

Humans are one of the contenders for that honor!

@nicolaasstempels8207

2 жыл бұрын

Insects?

@shannarafryer3111

2 жыл бұрын

Probably fish and insects

The sheer difference in scale of life on earth is something truly wonderful, to see a living blue whale in the wild is one of the top points of my bucket list.

8:32 I see that salmon just chilling there.

Gotta love the host-to-animal size comparison. Dinos and related animals got BIG.

You guys are amazing with these disclaimers regarding indigenous peoples. This is often disregarded and I’m happy to see that some people take this into account when creating content

"Are you still walking on land?" "Yeah." "OMG, that's so Permian."

Bruh this channel has got me hooked and I’m learning about this stuff rn in class

@TragoudistrosMPH

2 жыл бұрын

*meme of guy checking out girl (Eons) while next to offended girl (Teacher)*

Now this is more like it! This is the detail and quality that I expect from Eons. Keep these up.

I just want to thank Michelle for her cheerful voice and intonation! It's somehow both cheerful and calming.

5:44 that seems like a misleading way to phrase that. All ecosystems are most productive at the lowest level of the food chain. Its not possible for them to not be. That's *why* baleen whales can be so big, because they exploit the more productive lower levels instead of the less productive higher levels.

@shiny_birb2678

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like capitalism

I genuinely love this channel so much. I'm far from an expert or even close to knowledgeable on any of these subjects but they fascinate me greatly. These videos are so easy to digest and delivered in a way that makes them easy to understand even for noob like me ^^ Thanks to all of you at Eons for your continued work, I wish I could afford to support you more

Idea for a new episode: Why are the biggest species in the seas not fish? Is there a natural size limit for fish?

@bala5780

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea

@smurfyday

2 жыл бұрын

I think mammals are so much more warm-blooded and have huge brains, they're driving even sharks towards extinction.

@nicolaasstempels8207

2 жыл бұрын

I think breathing air with a high O2 content may have something to do with that. Note, some sharks can get really huge such as Megalodon, and the extant whale shark. The ray-finned Leedsichtis problematicus is estimated to have been even larger, at least 17 m.

I love your t-shirt Callie! Looking forward to the eventual installation of the Mary Anning statue in Lyme Regis. I also love ichthyosaurs, and I love this channel! Great stuff all around. :)

I uh...misjudged their size until you put up the size reference compared to you. That's a really big reptile!! It's so interesting how they had some of the first large creatures and I mostly love them for their eyes- so big!!

When they acknowledged indigenous lands my heart melted

I wonder how long they would have gone before they all came colossal crabs... On a side note, what variety of intelligence was there for ancient earthlings like these? Was there any inclination of tool use like there is with modern dinosaurs and some modern synapsida? Are there any hypotheses on trapping during hunting? Or play during adolescence? I'm super curious about what we've learnt!

@MarkWTK

2 жыл бұрын

oh i didn't know about dinosaurs using tools? is it for cracking eggs?

@DeathInTheSnow

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkWTK They use them for opening seeds and reaching food in difficult places, such as within long, narrow hollow structures.

@stefanostokatlidis4861

2 жыл бұрын

Tool use in the water is quite difficult. Probably we wouldn’t find any signs of tool use and play in cetaceans if they were all extinct by now. We would say just massive animals adapted for predation. Probably in life they had some intelligence, but we don’t know. Their way of growth was different though. Mammals nurse their young with milk. Probably those animals were going to be able to eat immediately. So no adolescence in the same way as in mammals.

The little animal guy in the beginning of the video is a cute little guy! 😍

Hey, great video as always! I really love the first episode of the podcast, it was amazing to listen to and I was sad when it already ended after 18 minutes. Can't wait for new episodes!

Please please do a video on how dogs turned into seals. Nov 28 2018 Hank talked about it in a video and I've waited for it ever since lol

Getting really large is a deadly game, the slightest reduction in underlying biomass and you starve.

Yes, my favorite marine animal

Dear Santa, for Christmas I would love to get an Eon's episode on Island continent South America ecology. Maybe it will come true in time for Christmas.

Fascinating. Could you do a video on the ceratopsians?

i love binge-watching all of PBS Eons' vids (and their shorts too!) especially when im about to wakey-wakey from the drowsiness doing my own business. thank you guys, keep em coming.

If there's an afterlife of any type, I sincerely hope I could be provided the ability to view, observe and learn about all life to ever exist.

@greva2904

2 жыл бұрын

In that case you’ll spend most of eternity learning about bacteria and nematodes. Rather you than me!

@shiny_birb2678

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I hope when I die I get to learn about everything like that. The ability to scroll through time, zoom in on certain animals, learn about how the universe works...

@cherrysdiy5005

Жыл бұрын

I'd always thought the hereafter could be much like that. Heaven, to me, is a place where everyone is reunited again and you will learn all you ever wanted to know.

As always, you delivered a very complicated knowledge in a very simple way. /and that contribution note at the end was very nice.

Wow what an interesting episode. Ivhthyosaurs were actually the first giant animals on earth!!!! Wow, that's a fun fact. Don't forgot to do evolutionary history of both tyrannosaurids, pinnipeds and also sea birds as well.

@donotreply8979

2 жыл бұрын

WOW WOW WOW WRITE NORMALLY PLEASE

@MerkhVision

Жыл бұрын

@@donotreply8979 their writing WAS normal, what are u talkin about

I miss you Steve, I hope you're ok

@DFloyd84

2 жыл бұрын

He's hiding from the colossal ichthyosaurs.

Thank you for acknowledging indigenous peoples.

Can you guys possibly make a video on how and when animals first learned to instinctively fear humans? I know its a tricky one!! I just got the idea when a bird came up to the birdfeeder outside my bedroom window, but flew off without feeding as soon as it noticed me, and it got me thinking...

I can give you the best honor i can give: watching your videos while eating

Nice job on the subtle sound design on this one.

Such a Great Vid!!! New Content is so well Presented!!!

Honestly, I always get stumped when these guys are like: "It was a rapid change" Me: "So... like, ten years?" Them: "2 million years" 😭😭😭

I love the passion in your voice! Makes learning entertaining.

That conodont caught me completely by surprise! It looks like a pop-art meme.

Awesome video and information!

I just realize you guys don’t have a dedicated Plesiosaur video, I hope you make one!

I don’t know why but I feel a deep primordial fear of the deep water and seeing these creatures makes me shudder.

"the rise of the giant ichthyosaurs began with a global ecological catastrophe" aw jeeze man I cant wait to see what new species come out of extinction in the Anthropocene ;-;

@ziumzium5049

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's quite wonderful to imagin what wonderful forms of life will come around after we finish making our upheaval in geological timescale. Even Premian-Triassic wasn't as destructive as we are. I guess humans can only wonder what mind-blownig creatures will emerge from our failures in a few million years. I personally root for cephalopods to become mangrove dwellers and then full-blown arboreals. The only way to save Earth from dolphin dominance xD

@TragoudistrosMPH

2 жыл бұрын

Pigeon, sparrow, rat, roach, ant, or cat?

Totally missed out on mentioning Shonisaurus by name. Would've loved here so details on THE largest icthyosaur ever.

@Tsotha

6 ай бұрын

I find it fascinating that Shonisaurus might have grown bigger than modern blue whales! Ben G. Thomas has a video about that species, in case you follow his chanenl.

Probably my favorite KZread channel.

"It's a cymbospondylus! One of those large aquatic reptiles, the icthyosaurs...!" -Some british time-traveling wildlife man probably

It's always a treat to learn more about dinosaurs. Not until today did I learn of the behemoth that's the main star of this episode. Also, this is my first time visiting the channel, and already like what I'm seeing so far.

2:56 woooah look at the eyes on this beauty

I like how you emphasized the name “fish lizards!” Like they gave it themselves millions of years ago.

Nice video as always

If this discovery was made before Walking With Monsters Sea Monsters, the Cymbospondylus experience could've been scarier.

Something I've always wondered is whether ichthyosaurs were ectothermic or endothermic. Fish obviously are cold-blooded but scientists think dinosaurs were endothermic or misothermic, and the archosaurs of today (crocodilians) are ectothermic. I guess this question extends to the other marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.

@sailboat908

2 жыл бұрын

Even with fish it's not so simple. Tuna are warm-blooded, for example.

@greva2904

2 жыл бұрын

Well they’re known as marine reptiles, not marine dinosaurs for a reason - they were reptiles and presumably cold blooded.

@TragoudistrosMPH

2 жыл бұрын

Great whites are actually warm blooded too

@daniell1483

2 жыл бұрын

@@greva2904 But Birds are also reptiles and are warm-blooded. So being a reptile does not necessarily mean an animal is ectothermal.

@Ezullof

2 жыл бұрын

@@greva2904 That's not really a relevant distinction. "reptile" aren't really a meaningful category, and it certainly isn't when it comes to body temperature. It's only really relevant when talking about the skeletal structure or reproduction.

The fact that this animal grew so huge so quickly, but then died off just as quickly makes perfect sense. When you compare it to economies which usually either grow steadily, and are stable and long-lived OR are the "boom and bust" we know too well, we discover that this ichthyosaur went bust.

2:57 My guy is SCREAMING

Marvellous. many thanks JIM

I'm surprised Shonisaurus wasn't mentioned in this video. That being said, Icthyosaurs are cool marine reptiles

3:05 That Conodont looks like it's seen some things!

Very neat video! They were fascinating critters, for sure. 🙂

I really enjoy y'alls presentations styles

Love your content, wish you’d post more often if possible ?

The evolution of whales is so fascinating. My favorite of the Ancient species is Brygmophyseter aka the "Biting Sperm Whale" that lived with & even battled the famous Megladon around 50 million yrs ago

@golisopodgaming2201

2 жыл бұрын

dude you just unlocked a memory of an episode of "jurassoc fight club" haha

@crazycain1984

2 жыл бұрын

@@golisopodgaming2201 love jurassic fight club. Got the whole season on DVD

It’s interesting to think that Ichthyosaurs lived closer temporally to the ancient Egyptians than the beginnings of the Triassic period.

@aaronmarks9366

2 жыл бұрын

That just blew my mind

Now I wonder what and when the first giant soft bodied invertebrate was. Obviously not this big, but without hard parts I doubt we'd ever know or at least be certain we got the right ballpark.

Always interesting, thank you.

Interesting and cool.

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up as a support

when I hear about evolutionary changes I picture the changes happening almost instantly, but I have to remember that it takes millions of years for these changes to occur.

Illustrations were fantastic. I got my love of dinosaurs (and my l33t readin skilz) from a picture book on dinosaurs I got from the museum when I was little, and I've been hooked ever since. (Seriously, sounding out Archaeopteryx at 7 gave me a big boost)

That last paragraph, about the Injuns Land was true, My Aunty Pearl who was one of the last children to have seen and grew up on or around the Old Hopi Ways. She told me, that her Uncle, would tell story's about the Dinosaur Foot Prints, there on the Hopi Land, ***That He Would*** "WRASTLE THE GREAT BEAST'S AND THROW THEM OFF THE RIVER BANK!!!" She said, because they were children, they believed, the Tall Tale, with Wide Eyed Wonder!!! :D

The biggest speedrunners.

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

The speediest bigrunners.

Some of them in the video look like "Modified Dolphins" to me! 😲