What Did People Think When They First Found Dinosaur Bones?

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In this video we look at the fascinating story behind how humans figured out what dinosaurs are and what various groups thought when they first found their bones.
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    4 жыл бұрын

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    @Mr.Beauregarde

    4 жыл бұрын

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    4 жыл бұрын

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    4 жыл бұрын

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    @generalzeleck3685

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @Travenspear8
    @Travenspear84 жыл бұрын

    Holy moly I never considered how many incredible fossils may have been lost to folk medicine

  • @_Abjuranax_

    @_Abjuranax_

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not only were a lot of ancient Egyptian mummies used as homeopathic remedies, the steam boilers on the train from Cairo used them as fuel. The world has lost a lot to ignorance.

  • @Tinyvalkyrie410

    @Tinyvalkyrie410

    4 жыл бұрын

    C Ray Starling They also made mummies into paint. Humanity is not great at maintaining non renewable resources, often for petty reasons.

  • @homefront3162

    @homefront3162

    4 жыл бұрын

    or Folk Music!

  • @MrVvulf

    @MrVvulf

    4 жыл бұрын

    There should be a Chinese version of Godzilla that takes the form of a 100m tall Rhinoceros and wreaks havoc through their cities looking for his relative's horns in the apothecary shops.

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    @lucifer2b666

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @djdm2603
    @djdm26034 жыл бұрын

    The rhyme “she sells sea shells on the sea shore” is on reference to Mary Anning. I was in the Natural History Museum earlier today and saw some of the fossils she found on display. She really was an amazing person.

  • @paulas2218

    @paulas2218

    Жыл бұрын

    Really? I’ve never heard of this. Wouldn’t have even thought it was about a real person!

  • @ellen4956

    @ellen4956

    Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say the same thing! Someone told me about her when I was a child and hunted for shells and interesting rocks along the beaches. I found a fossilized whale vertibrae once and my brother still has it. Someone I knew found a fossilized mushroom on the same beach. My favorite is a fossilized piece of bone from that beach, but I didn't find it, I bought it.

  • @tullochgorum6323
    @tullochgorum63234 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you guys giving a shout-out for Mary Anning. One of the most remarkable women in the history of science - she should be a household name.

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    @umbra9628

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CashelOConnolly I totally didn't anticipate an ad hominem attack! Ouch!.. you win

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    @umbra9628

    4 жыл бұрын

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    @umbra9628

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @umbra9628

    @umbra9628

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CashelOConnolly respect is earned. Not freely distributed. I was raised a Democrat, and told to "vote for Democrats and women" and I did, for most my life, but I'm paying attention now and they have let me down, and they will not get my vote again untill things change

  • @jeffvader811

    @jeffvader811

    4 жыл бұрын

    She's always been a household name where I live.

  • @steel8231
    @steel82314 жыл бұрын

    So what your telling me, is that Alligator doesn't taste like chicken, they BOTH taste like T-Rex.

  • @unlikelyspore1406

    @unlikelyspore1406

    4 жыл бұрын

    Deep fried T-rex!

  • @RubyKing1997

    @RubyKing1997

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well Alligator doesn't taste like chicken actually

  • @MamaPinks

    @MamaPinks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds about right!

  • @MamaPinks

    @MamaPinks

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RubyKing1997 it's better! I miss gator tail; not much in California, LOL

  • @RubyKing1997

    @RubyKing1997

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MamaPinks Man I haven't had alligator in a good while. Man I'm getting hungry thinking about it.

  • @shannonolivas9524
    @shannonolivas95244 жыл бұрын

    Man, Mary Anning sure got a raw deal. It's good that they eventually recognized her contributions to the field, and supported her towards the end of her life. Imagine, with her innate talents, if she'd have only had a proper education...

  • @doncarlin9081

    @doncarlin9081

    4 жыл бұрын

    I definitely agree with your statement about her getting a raw deal then good people making it right. Yet, I wonder, if her not having a formal education kept her from being indoctrinated and allowed her innate talents to come forth. I imagine even better would be she had stable and adequate funding for her work throughout her professional career, allowing her to use her innate talents her way. Don't get me wrong, education has a lot of value, I wouldn't want to visit a doctor without a medical school degree, but at the same time it can set people in their ways and box in our outlook and approach. Sometimes in history it's the uneducated geniuses who made game changing breakthroughs WHILE the educated masses opposed them.

  • @Karin_Allen

    @Karin_Allen

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@doncarlin9081 I agree with you and Shannon both, but I want to add that being a woman in that time period, she probably wouldn't have been access to more than a high school education; and even if she'd somehow obtained formal training in paleontology, she'd never have been taken seriously. It's sad to think, but she probably got more recognition and financial assistance than many other women of her day who made great gains in different fields.

  • @Pikrodafni

    @Pikrodafni

    4 жыл бұрын

    Men - I mean, males - would have prevented her from getting a formal education.

  • @nicholaslewis8594

    @nicholaslewis8594

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chase depending on the field an education can be very important to having a general knowledge of how that field works.

  • @nozecone

    @nozecone

    4 жыл бұрын

    If she'd had a 'proper education', she would have spent far more time writing papers than finding fossils. Just something to consider.

  • @EweChewBrrr01
    @EweChewBrrr014 жыл бұрын

    They thought "My dog is going to be sooo happy when I get home"

  • @Richard_Nickerson

    @Richard_Nickerson

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dogs don't really enjoy chewing on rocks.

  • @-dennis3755

    @-dennis3755

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@Richard_Nickerson clearly you're obtaining the wrong kinda dogs.

  • @Richard_Nickerson

    @Richard_Nickerson

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@-dennis3755 Nope, sounds like I've got the smart ones and you've got the dumb ones.

  • @missScarlatine

    @missScarlatine

    4 жыл бұрын

    They're all good boys

  • @xkidgey

    @xkidgey

    2 жыл бұрын

    They thought "Grug make club. Grug smash"

  • @barrywerdell2614
    @barrywerdell26144 жыл бұрын

    The myth of the cyclops has been theorized to come from the finding of Mastodon and Mammoth skulls. The Skulls have holes in the middle of them which people mistook for an eye-socket.

  • @NopeJustPatrick

    @NopeJustPatrick

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if that's why the creators of TES: Skyrim chose to make mammoths the primary herding animal of giants.

  • @TheCsel

    @TheCsel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well maybe actual elephants skulls not mammoths, but the concept is the same

  • @void-citizen
    @void-citizen4 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love that respect given to Mary Anning

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    @gizmothepiefaceman3062

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @AdmiralBison

    @AdmiralBison

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would be nice if an inspirational movie of Mary Anning was made.

  • @Thagomizer

    @Thagomizer

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AdmiralBison There's one in post-production right now. It's called Ammonite. Of course, there's stupid lesbian love story tacked onto it.

  • @Maleetorres105

    @Maleetorres105

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Thagomizer thanks for the recommendation. Sucks that they have to exploit women and the gay community like that especially when its not historically accurate

  • @Asprawlol

    @Asprawlol

    3 жыл бұрын

    The origin of she sells sea shells on the sea shore

  • @Zyk0tiK
    @Zyk0tiK4 жыл бұрын

    You didn't mention the little tongue twister "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is purportedly about Mary Anning!

  • @bruh-cp2nq

    @bruh-cp2nq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Steve Stone no it’s about sally

  • @Sam_on_YouTube

    @Sam_on_YouTube

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was waiting the whole video for him to mention that.

  • @MrMichaeljay1965

    @MrMichaeljay1965

    4 жыл бұрын

    blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2017/07/she-sells-seashells-and-mary-anning-metafolklore-with-a-twist/

  • @AnxiousHeart-om4ow

    @AnxiousHeart-om4ow

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stupid bloody place to sell seashells.

  • @CieJe.Alexander

    @CieJe.Alexander

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AnxiousHeart-om4ow Agreed that's always bugged me. They didn't seem to know about the three primary rules in commerce; location, location, location. Or the sciences of logistics, supply and demand.

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    @xxXthekevXxx4 жыл бұрын

    This video was a bit long and went down a lot of random rabbit trails... *_And I loved every minute of it_*

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    @Akivafyi

    3 жыл бұрын

    velocirabbit trails

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    @s--h1584

    Жыл бұрын

    I first found Simon through Brain Blaze and then ran out of Brian Blaze videos. This video felt just like told times for me.

  • @MrEricleblanc26
    @MrEricleblanc264 жыл бұрын

    This Mary Anning, she should at least have a pavilion of a university named after her.

  • @the57bears

    @the57bears

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Natural History Museum in London has opened a set of spaces called 'the Anning rooms'. Great, eh?

  • @scaper8

    @scaper8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not just her, there's a shitton of women that were largly ignored for their contributions to what we now call the STEM fields. Often by the very friends and coworkers whose names are sung today. Only in the last few years to decades have they and their works finally being begun to be recognized. Just off the top of my head we have the likes of (in addition to Anning) Ada Lovelace, Mileva Marić, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, and Katherine Johnson. Look 'em up if you aren't familiar with them.

  • @sqnkk

    @sqnkk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scaper8 Rosalind Franklin and Lise Meitner were given their fair recognition. Mileva Maric didn't do anything of note. With regards to Katherine Johnson, there were 1,000's of scientists/engineers that worked on the space program, many whose names you will never hear of, not because they were women, but because they were men.

  • @scaper8

    @scaper8

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@sqnkk Otto Hahn downplayed Meitner's insights every chance he got. During the war everyone who knew assumed it was just to keep in the government's good graces, but he kept on going long afterwards. James Watson still tries to downplay how much they shafted Franklin _to this day!_ (Though, admittedly, I suspect more out of genuine shame nowadays, to be fair to him.) Meitner did much of the legwork on several of Einstein's papers, this is generally accepted now. I think, many believe including his paper on the photoelectric effect for which he won his Nobel. He absolutely refused to say she did anything with it. And Johnson was left out of a number of lists that did include her immediate coworkers. We don't know that it was because she was a black women, but it is, by far, the most likely explainion for her conspicuous absence.

  • @sqnkk

    @sqnkk

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scaper8 Otto Han and James Watson are just two people. Also, did you see this video? About how Gideon Mansell was screwed over by Sir Richard Owen. There is a long history of scientists doing this to each other. Boltzman, Semmelweis and Tesla are some examples.

  • @NUFIGHTER
    @NUFIGHTER4 жыл бұрын

    "You've got old ghosts in your blood, you should drink powdered dragon (dinosaur) bones about it." -Chinese Apothecary

  • @brian5966
    @brian59662 жыл бұрын

    Mary Anning's story is incredible. Her determination to educate herself to the point that other experts knew and would admit her knowledge as superior is incredible. For her to educate herself to that extent is wildly impressive but gaining recognition and respect as a woman in those days seems an even greater feat.

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    @EyeHeytEwe4 жыл бұрын

    "Petrifying juices." Never has a phrase rubbed me the wrong way like this one. 😂

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    @bertsedgwick98284 жыл бұрын

    Today I Found Out..... How to cure my children from "manic running about" ...Now I just have to find a pharmacy that sells Dragons Teeth

  • @kevinj9059
    @kevinj90594 жыл бұрын

    Haha, the leg bone had a 'humerus' name... I'll see myself out.

  • @pygmybean8050

    @pygmybean8050

    4 жыл бұрын

    You've done gods work here

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    @BeastGuardian4 жыл бұрын

    my word, I have the exact same type of Scoliosis. I have a perfect s-curve, such that my hips and shoulders are even, and the common practice of checking 3 points on the spine always appeared in alignment as the points used happened to be at the terminus and center of the curvatures. It was only when it progressed to the extreme that the portion of my spine snaked significantly under my shoulderblade, forcing the scapula to protrude obviously, and I'd begun to suffer from compression of my lungs, that they finally did an x-ray and discovered I had scoliosis that required stabilization. Unfortunately, it was only safe to partially correct the curve, leaving me with a torso that's about 5 inches too short; my lowest ribs brush the illiac crests of my pelvic girdle. I can certainly confirm that this type of scoliosis can cause extreme pain, not only in the back, but throughout the torso due to abnormal compression. I'm stuck with debilitating pain. At times when I bend wrong it will cause pain in the hip and leg as well, sometimes causing my leg to fail. It also prevents me from sleeping as any little wrong shift will awaken me... assuming I manage to fall asleep at all. It's quite frustrating as this is not pain from inflammation and is not touched by conventional NSAID pain killers. It is neuropathic pain from nerve damage, something far harder to treat. This type of pain is what opioids are best suited for as they directly block this pain... but with the crack down of opioid medicines even those who never abused them are denied their use and are forced to live in constant debilitating agony. It's no wonder that the suicide rate is up among chronic neuropathic pain sufferers. Opioid cycling, in which you change the opiate medication you use from month to month, prevents developing dependence and allows you to use only the minimum dose to treat pain and reduces side effects, is not available to me and other sufferers as doctors fear heavy fines and the loss of their license if any regulator suspects them of prescribing too much or if their patients show any hint of abuse. The crazy thing is that taking too little of your medication can be seen as an abuse! If one only uses an opioid on an as-needed basis, something that also helps prevent addiction, and does not not get their medication refilled on time this can be marked as abuse, contributing to the number of opioid abusers in studies used to justify these crackdowns! It's ridiculous. I realize that opioids were overperscribed and are abused by some, but I wish we could find a way to regulate on a case-by-case basis so that people who need them can have access to these medicines and get back to being active participants in life rather than languishing in mind-numbing, sleep depriving, debilitating pain. Wow... that ended up being a long, weird, off-topic rant. I'll just get off the soapbox now.

  • @golddragonette7795

    @golddragonette7795

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just seen your comment - neuropathic pain can be helped by tricyclic anti depressants such as amitryptaline, gabapentine & pregabalin. Low doses of the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses helps some people too - LDN, low dose naltrexone

  • @roadrunnercrazy

    @roadrunnercrazy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@golddragonette7795 Bearing in mind that these only work for some people.

  • @pabmusic1
    @pabmusic14 жыл бұрын

    One of Richard Owen's nice little things was the fact that until 2009 (the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species) a statue of Owen stood on the most prominent place in the museum - on the stairway facing the entrance, whereas the statue of Darwin (whom Owen hated) was in a lower-floor cafe. The Darwin statue is now on the staircase, where it was moved in 2009.

  • @quierodesign3958

    @quierodesign3958

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, because despite Sir Richard Owen founding the museum, he believed in creation, so the religious zealots of Evolutionism had to move their high priest to the front...

  • @pabmusic1

    @pabmusic1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@quierodesign3958 He actually believed in many creations - God changing his mind constantly (that's how come there were extinct creatures). Trouble is, in every controversy between creation and evolution, it was evolution that had the evidence. Still is, come to that....

  • @semaj_5022

    @semaj_5022

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@quierodesign3958 Why in the world do creationists think that evolution is somehow a religious belief system? It's a rigorously tested and verified scientific theory based on over a century of observation and careful testing and reviewing. That's not even close to resembling a religious belief system.

  • @YouTubecanfuckagoat

    @YouTubecanfuckagoat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@quierodesign3958 You don’t understand what evolution is. If you did, you’d realize it’s based on scientific fact & verifiable evidence. Unlike creationism which seems based on bullshit & religious dogma.

  • @paulgibbon5991

    @paulgibbon5991

    Жыл бұрын

    I wonder, was it ever considered to have the two statues facing each other, with boxing gloves placed over their hands? (This is why I shouldn't ever be put in charge of arranging a museum.)

  • @Valandar2
    @Valandar23 жыл бұрын

    Mary Anning was surprisingly well respected by 19th century paleontologists... the fact that ANY of them gave her credit is remarkable, and the amount of respect and credit she DID get was unheard of for the time. She deserved far, FAR more, but that they even acknowledged her was amazing.

  • @JohnDlugosz
    @JohnDlugosz4 жыл бұрын

    Correction: The "giant's bones" described by the ancient Greeks were not dinosaurs, but much more recent mammals. The skeleton of a mammoth bears an uncanny resemblance to that of a human, and these were put together according to their conclusions and often reburied that way to further confound the next one to uncover it.

  • @mv7647
    @mv76474 жыл бұрын

    You should totally do a separate biography of Mary Anning, her life sounds fascinating! I can already picture: 'Mary Anning, the first female fossile finder'.

  • @matthewdrummond1340
    @matthewdrummond13404 жыл бұрын

    Today I found out the answer to a question I didn't know I wanted to know till I clicked the notification.

  • @JoseGranny

    @JoseGranny

    4 жыл бұрын

    This happens a lot 😅

  • @katdenning6535
    @katdenning65354 жыл бұрын

    I love hearing about the unsung heroes of scientific discovery. Mary Anning sounds like an amazing and dedicated woman.

  • @UFBMusic
    @UFBMusic4 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting how they couldn't nail down his age that accurately. My Great Grandfather also didn't know his exact birthday (he picked a random day when he signed up for WW1 at 14), so it must have been more common than I thought.

  • @DasAntiNaziBroetchen

    @DasAntiNaziBroetchen

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy. Did nobody check that shit back in the day?

  • @kaiseremotion854

    @kaiseremotion854

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DasAntiNaziBroetchen i mean before paper how can you track anything really.

  • @Robinthefox88

    @Robinthefox88

    4 жыл бұрын

    The births and deaths registrar in the UK is a fairly recent thing, and wasn't a legal requirement until much later, many people born before the early 20th century, and even well into the mid 20th century had to hope their families or local church kept an accurate record of their birth, and because literacy levels were very low back then, along with fewer people attending church, that was rarely the case as a large percentage of the population couldn't read or write, and didn't have their child baptised. There are even people still alive today in the UK that don't know when they were actually born, and not all of them are centenarians.

  • @Ty-vj4wg

    @Ty-vj4wg

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kaiseremotion854 There was paper during WW1

  • @Stroheim333
    @Stroheim3334 жыл бұрын

    And here is the simple explanation to why legends about dragons can be found all over the world: people found dinosaur fossils.

  • @Stroheim333

    @Stroheim333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @paul crowley No, your kind always think you are right. And because my name is not Dunning-Kruger, I know that Christians in general accept evolution. Your kind only hear the fringe voices, and in lack of common knowledge and life experience you believe they are the only groups that exist.

  • @windlepoons69

    @windlepoons69

    4 жыл бұрын

    @paul crowley Catholics don't believe in the young earth theory. Evolution is accepted as fact within the church. Gregor Mendel one of the first to propose an early idea of evolution, work that Darwin was obviously aware of, was a catholic monk. It was also a catholic priest that put forth the big bang theory. There is a lot of things to criticize the catholic church on, this is not one of them. You sir may be thinking of American Evangelicals.

  • @retroactivejealousy-worldl1805

    @retroactivejealousy-worldl1805

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stroheim333 This goes more into that side of it - kzread.info/dash/bejne/qayGprmMgJibiLw.html

  • @retroactivejealousy-worldl1805

    @retroactivejealousy-worldl1805

    4 жыл бұрын

    paul crowley I don’t think Catholics deny this. Mainly extreme American Fundamentalist Protestant churches

  • @Stroheim333

    @Stroheim333

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Asha No,they are not. Flat earthers are usually trolls who love to create hysteria among naive science nerds. Sorry!

  • @rachelb4398
    @rachelb43984 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate the amount of energy you put into saying the word "poo." But as a female I find it disturbing that men back in the day thought that vaginal discharge was something that needed to be cured.

  • @LadyWhinesalot

    @LadyWhinesalot

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rachel B I am pretty sure they meant discharge of an infectious nature

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    @theangryaustralian7624

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't take it personally we only just figured out you guys can have orgasms

  • @mechanicalfruit9659
    @mechanicalfruit96594 жыл бұрын

    "Thats one weird dog" - Abraham Lincoln 2004

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    @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS

    4 жыл бұрын

    I remember that guy.

  • @anondimwit

    @anondimwit

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are you dumb he didnt say that in 2004 it was 2003

  • @2legit2quit70

    @2legit2quit70

    4 жыл бұрын

    Abraham Lincoln wasnt born yet dummass

  • @anondimwit

    @anondimwit

    4 жыл бұрын

    2Legit2Quit it is a bird it is a plane no it is the joke flying over your head

  • @Justicsgenie

    @Justicsgenie

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@anondimwit dude you are missing the joke. He made a joke about how a ram Lincoln wasn't even born yet in 2003

  • @its_dippy6779
    @its_dippy67794 жыл бұрын

    What did we find out today? That we lost a great opportunity to snicker in Biology class when *"Scrotum Humanus"* is brought up. Damn you, International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature!

  • @Zamiiz
    @Zamiiz4 жыл бұрын

    I would totally watch a movie about Mary Anning

  • @regular-joe

    @regular-joe

    4 жыл бұрын

    Biographics!!

  • @glennmejorada7395

    @glennmejorada7395

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too. This is the first time i've heard of her. She should be an inspiration to all.

  • @CraftAero

    @CraftAero

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd prefer Mary Anning over Gingering.

  • @the57bears

    @the57bears

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, it is coming... it's called 'Ammonite', starring Kate Winslet as Anning and also Saoirse Ronan. Apparently coming out next year!

  • @adamwelch4336

    @adamwelch4336

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hells yeah!

  • @keithhunt8
    @keithhunt84 жыл бұрын

    Cool. So much more in this video than expected.

  • @TodayIFoundOut

    @TodayIFoundOut

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's what we always shoot for. :-) -Daven

  • @drivestowork
    @drivestowork4 жыл бұрын

    I can see where that spark starts!! I was quite pleased with myself, as a child, "discovering" clam and seashell fossils in th the gravel pit & corn fields of my uncle's farm in South Dakota.

  • @geofff.3343
    @geofff.33434 жыл бұрын

    Yay, Mary Anning reference, you sir get a like! :D She sells sea shells by the seashore!

  • @hashtag415
    @hashtag4154 жыл бұрын

    Why don't pterodactyls make a sound when they urinate? * the p is silent.

  • @CollinGerberding

    @CollinGerberding

    4 жыл бұрын

    You should use the word "urinate" instead of 'p' as it tips the bit. The repetition that close kinda ruins the joke, and who wants to disappoint a third grader?

  • @rjperkins365

    @rjperkins365

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why don't birds pee? Cause they eat with their pecker.

  • @hashtag415

    @hashtag415

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@CollinGerberding Thanks. How's that?

  • @Luckyleol

    @Luckyleol

    4 жыл бұрын

    their dead that's why :P

  • @hashtag415

    @hashtag415

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Luckyleol The abbreviation for "they are" is "they're". It's all about the details. ;P

  • @LeeA.D.
    @LeeA.D.4 жыл бұрын

    Humaning: my new favorite verb

  • @cheryls8987
    @cheryls89874 жыл бұрын

    Mary Anning's life is fictionalized in the wonderful book 'Remarkable Creatures' by Tracy Chevalier. I'd love to see a limited series on her life as there are too many amazing things that happened to be limited to a movie.

  • @IntrepidFraidyCat
    @IntrepidFraidyCat4 жыл бұрын

    Never knew it was such a cutthroat profession. Great video! Thanks😉

  • @IETCHX69

    @IETCHX69

    4 жыл бұрын

    Here in Alberta , 2 of my friends have been charged by the govt for digging . $2000 fines !

  • @the_algorithm

    @the_algorithm

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@IETCHX69 I've worked in Archaeology and many people will pillage known sites for pottery. They go as far as pillaging burial sites for the pottery buried with the remains so they can sell their "loot" on ebay. NEVER buy fossils or artifacts on ebay because you're just encouraging this behavior. Your friends were most likely fined for this reason.

  • @BigfootWithMemes
    @BigfootWithMemes4 жыл бұрын

    Well Idk about those people, but I'd have just been like "Wow, I found some big bones"

  • @lostpockets2227

    @lostpockets2227

    4 жыл бұрын

    i wooda thot it was jussa funny lookin rok or watever

  • @TodayIFoundOut

    @TodayIFoundOut

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly both of those were thought by various people. :-)

  • @RubyKing1997

    @RubyKing1997

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello some bigfoot on the interwebs

  • @Bakerb1942

    @Bakerb1942

    4 жыл бұрын

    @psyopus syzygy Look at this kid, making his youtube account in 2017 lmao 😂🤣😂

  • @KB-bd1xi

    @KB-bd1xi

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Time to leave, idk what brought this thing down but I'm not sticking around to find out!"

  • @ericsonofjames4573
    @ericsonofjames45734 жыл бұрын

    Now I know how to get rid of that old ghost that’s been bothering me. Dragon teeth! I’m off to China!

  • @nozecone

    @nozecone

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, no - I can sell you some; for the right quantity, I'll even throw in free shipping! But wait, there's more ....!!

  • @nicholascorbett1256
    @nicholascorbett12564 жыл бұрын

    Awesome work! I had some knowledge on this. But you really opened the door for me. Thank you for this great documentary.

  • @soullesshonky1707
    @soullesshonky17074 жыл бұрын

    That was a really great video. I had heard some of these names but did not know nearly this much about them. Probably one of my favorite videos of yours. Thanks again for the great work.

  • @ncshpfox
    @ncshpfox4 жыл бұрын

    I’m still trying to find all the damn bones in Red Dead 2.

  • @chimpinaneckbrace

    @chimpinaneckbrace

    4 жыл бұрын

    J Fox I found some but then my lumbago started acting up.

  • @darkcharizard52
    @darkcharizard524 жыл бұрын

    6:28 *Humerus* name? I see what you did there 😏

  • @deannfrey3469
    @deannfrey34694 жыл бұрын

    One of my absolute favorites. Stories like this are both inspiring and important.

  • @BeybladeDad
    @BeybladeDad4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for looking into this.. i rarely write on vids i watch. I truly enjoy the way you explain topics! Cheers

  • @sebione3576
    @sebione35764 жыл бұрын

    4:35 I guess when that was written they hadn't invented the run-on scentence yet.

  • @naverilllang

    @naverilllang

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a complete and gramatically correct sentence.

  • @nozecone

    @nozecone

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@naverilllang True - but it does go on and on and on and on ...........

  • @charlesmartin8454
    @charlesmartin84544 жыл бұрын

    Please do a story on Rosalind Franklin. She helped discover the shape of DNA.

  • @veralenora7368

    @veralenora7368

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. The only reason she did not share in the Nobel Prize with her team members was because she had died. The Prize goes only to the living. Both the Prize Committee and her teammates confirm this.

  • @michaellouton3870
    @michaellouton38704 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that’s awesome! Thanks for such a wonderful episode. I look forward to the next.

  • @redreaper2752
    @redreaper27523 жыл бұрын

    I had never heard of this woman, thank you for telling her story. As a life long lover of dinosaurs it was wrong that I have never heard of her. Her story should be taught in schools to teach poor girls and boys what is possible.

  • @JR-uz2ej
    @JR-uz2ej4 жыл бұрын

    "manic running about" : o ) that made my day!

  • @arielbravo2661
    @arielbravo26614 жыл бұрын

    What did people think when they first found a dinosaur bone? “Look, its a bone!”

  • @TheFantazingo

    @TheFantazingo

    4 жыл бұрын

    "it looks like balls"

  • @natas3.14
    @natas3.144 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much Simon. I enjoyed that very informative video quite a lot.

  • @blepsandbeans
    @blepsandbeans4 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos and i love your voice thanks for making videos!

  • @SmashGhost
    @SmashGhost3 жыл бұрын

    65 million year old stuff: Unearthed China: We will eat this

  • @z.deutch1334
    @z.deutch13344 жыл бұрын

    *"Here be dragons!"* is what they thought

  • @susanrobinson910
    @susanrobinson9104 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this amazing video! Many times, I have wondered the same thing regarding dinosaurs, especially when I was in college. I may or may not have been tokin a bowl whenever I had these, "Brainstorms"! 😁

  • @LandoHitman
    @LandoHitman4 жыл бұрын

    Who else just skips through the commercial via the tracking feature?

  • @odysseusrex5908

    @odysseusrex5908

    4 жыл бұрын

    My computer won't let me do that for some reason, but I always mute them.

  • @pr0ject_nihilist
    @pr0ject_nihilist4 жыл бұрын

    In that movie "pacific rim" when the Eastern guy tried to sell that dude some powered bone of a kaiju as a sex drug, I should have known that was based in reality. You just can't make that kind of stuff up.

  • @YourFavoritePlatypus
    @YourFavoritePlatypus4 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a modern movie about her life

  • @TodayIFoundOut

    @TodayIFoundOut

    4 жыл бұрын

    Starring Tom Hanks ;-) -Daven

  • @the57bears

    @the57bears

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is. It's called 'Ammonite'.

  • @scottmantooth8785

    @scottmantooth8785

    4 жыл бұрын

    maybe a Ken Burns documentary on Dinosaur Hunters: Dragons of Stone

  • @the57bears

    @the57bears

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, technically not out yet. Coming out next year. Just to clarify. Kate Winslet is Anning!

  • @tanyawade5197
    @tanyawade51972 жыл бұрын

    That was amazing! RIP Ms. Anning🕊. You have no equal💖.

  • @PupShepardRubberized
    @PupShepardRubberized4 жыл бұрын

    very well done video, takes a lot of work to put them together

  • @B3Band
    @B3Band4 жыл бұрын

    This video is like 17 different tangents and 14 seconds of actually answering the question.

  • @celinak5062

    @celinak5062

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glorious, isn't it

  • @LEDewey_MD
    @LEDewey_MD4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, especially the details concerning Mary Anning. Glad that she received some well-earned help and respect in the end.

  • @1TrueGem
    @1TrueGem3 жыл бұрын

    I clearly remember getting the sclerosis back test during gym period of middle school. We had no clue how imperishable that was then. I've of my casual friends had tested positive from that test, & ended up getting treatments/physical therapy of some sort for it with her doctors through her family.

  • @dankthegank1742
    @dankthegank17424 жыл бұрын

    "It mainly treats" *Lists 20 ailments*

  • @CrossBorderNerds
    @CrossBorderNerds4 жыл бұрын

    "the Chinese ground them up as medicine". Good to see this habit hasn't changed much.

  • @wiwysova

    @wiwysova

    4 жыл бұрын

    chinese "people"

  • @gst013

    @gst013

    4 жыл бұрын

    I know this didn't cause covid-19, but somehow this comment seems pretty dark now lol

  • @hatenate2070

    @hatenate2070

    4 жыл бұрын

    Grind up bat heads

  • @madeleinemumby4451

    @madeleinemumby4451

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wiwysova you would say the English or the French so why not the Chinese??

  • @JeremyWS
    @JeremyWS4 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else think that flat earthers, young-earth creationists, and dinosaur denialists could do with taking a few courses on Brilliant? I think that could help them. Nice video. I like learning.

  • @rosepetal84
    @rosepetal844 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for this video, especially the about Mary Anning :)

  • @brianconnolly3267
    @brianconnolly32674 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating video! Thank you.

  • @corestolmyhandle
    @corestolmyhandle4 жыл бұрын

    There is an amazing book ‘The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World’ that I can’t recommend enough. Definitely worth checking out if you like this video

  • @odysseusrex5908

    @odysseusrex5908

    4 жыл бұрын

    It focuses rather more on the author's personal life and human interest stories than on dinosaurs.

  • @TeslaHaxz
    @TeslaHaxz4 жыл бұрын

    i always thought fossils were the basis of dragon myths

  • @quierodesign3958

    @quierodesign3958

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, living dinosaurs are the basis of dragon reports. Research Mokele Mbembe.

  • @odysseusrex5908

    @odysseusrex5908

    4 жыл бұрын

    And you were quite right.

  • @odysseusrex5908

    @odysseusrex5908

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@quierodesign3958 (Sigh) Mokele Mbembe is just the rhinoceros. This has been confirmed many times by having African tribesmen identify pictures and point out the living creatures.

  • @markjarrett9400
    @markjarrett94004 жыл бұрын

    So enjoyed that. Thank you.

  • @marybethchmielewski3051
    @marybethchmielewski30514 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for including info on Mary Anning!

  • @michaellowe3665
    @michaellowe36654 жыл бұрын

    Knights thought they had found dragon bones, but clearly some knights came back and claimed to have killed those dragons

  • @vanaals
    @vanaals4 жыл бұрын

    When beginning to view the video, I wondered if Mary Anning would be included. I'm so glad that I was not disappointed.

  • @slricksy
    @slricksy2 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel! Loyal subscriber here! Thanks!

  • @susanrobinson910
    @susanrobinson9104 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what my Neurologist would say if I told him that all it would take to "cure" my epilepsy, which isn't currently controlled by medication even after almost thirty years, is some powdered Dragon Bones! 😉

  • @DasAntiNaziBroetchen

    @DasAntiNaziBroetchen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Czechmate, Neurologists. They been ripping you off with their "research" and "science".

  • @susanrobinson910

    @susanrobinson910

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DasAntiNaziBroetchen Indeed... ;-)

  • @ryebreadthewhite3392
    @ryebreadthewhite33924 жыл бұрын

    Disappointed he didn’t mention the myth of gryphons came from protoceratops skulls in the Gobi Desert

  • @June071710

    @June071710

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very very interesting. I didn't know about that connection. Thank you for sharing this info!

  • @odysseusrex5908

    @odysseusrex5908

    4 жыл бұрын

    I never knew that. Is there a book or website where I could learn more?

  • @TheNightstalkerShow

    @TheNightstalkerShow

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is KZread, make your own video! Get followers! :)

  • @quinnmorgendorffer531
    @quinnmorgendorffer5314 жыл бұрын

    "but before it was called the megalosaurus, it had a rather more HUMERUS name" ill let myself out

  • @walterbushell7029

    @walterbushell7029

    Жыл бұрын

    Better before someone pushes you down the stairs.

  • @cooper9287
    @cooper92874 жыл бұрын

    Thoroughly enjoyed this story!!and today I found out!

  • @leadingauctions8440
    @leadingauctions84404 жыл бұрын

    Great topic!!!

  • @alexanderandrew6535
    @alexanderandrew65354 жыл бұрын

    To think a dino might have been named,scrotumosaurus rex

  • @behavedave
    @behavedave3 жыл бұрын

    I’d heard that Owens and Mantel were unscrupulous but Owens sounds so much more, opening museums to the public on one side but an absolute scoundrel on the other. It seems like there has been a lot of love for Anning in her own time even if the system wasn’t in her favour.

  • @AGnorTheChannel
    @AGnorTheChannel10 ай бұрын

    I have a copy of a Michael Crichton novel that talks about a fictitious photographer who worked for a paleontologist during the Bone Wars. Can't seem to find it at the moment, but it's one of the few books of his that I've ever been able to get through.

  • @shootthemoon6072
    @shootthemoon60724 жыл бұрын

    Plastic Virtue; The new album from Pearl Jam.

  • @martabehr9976

    @martabehr9976

    4 жыл бұрын

    I miss old Pearl Jam..now that's wat I call music

  • @aeoo371
    @aeoo3714 жыл бұрын

    Simon at 10:43 it says”pretty illustration” not petty illustration.

  • @mattgies

    @mattgies

    4 жыл бұрын

    He also said "any thigh" at 5:36 when the text said "any thing".

  • @mattgies

    @mattgies

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, and at 4:41 he mispronounces "lineations" by subtracting a syllable, and then chances "eminencies" into the new word "eminessences".

  • @nozecone

    @nozecone

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mattgies Simon's not exactly a master of the English language, if you haven't noticed. It's just something we pedants will have to live with, I'm afraid, if we're going to insist on watching his videos ... !

  • @jackeroo_sundown
    @jackeroo_sundown4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this history so much

  • @knewledge8626
    @knewledge86264 жыл бұрын

    I have been inspired by this video. I'm going to go dig up a few of them old paleontologist and put them on display.

  • @irfanumar
    @irfanumar4 жыл бұрын

    I'm fairly sure the tongue twister "She sells seashells by the seashore" was about Mary Anning.

  • @TheSlizzer348
    @TheSlizzer3484 жыл бұрын

    The first 8 minutes are Dino’s, the rest is just about a grudge between two scientists and one of them’s scoliosis.

  • @SafetySpooon
    @SafetySpooon4 жыл бұрын

    My brother's scoliosis was diagnosed that way, but mine was missed. Of course, my brother's was worse than mine. I used to check my children obsessively when they were little, because the only cure anyone's got is a corset-like cast as soon as possible.

  • @williamthompson2941
    @williamthompson29414 жыл бұрын

    One of best yet

  • @bradfaught1695
    @bradfaught16954 жыл бұрын

    Gonna pour some liquor out for Mary Anning...she was a true G

  • @michaelkelligan7931
    @michaelkelligan79314 жыл бұрын

    The Romans and Greeks thought they were dragon bones! 🐉

  • @good_mourning

    @good_mourning

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the legend of the Cyclops was thought up by the Greeks after discovering the skulls of dwarf elephants that had once roamed the islands across the Mediterranean, from Malta to Cyprus. Not only do these particular species of elephant's skulls appear more human like than the skulls of other species of elephants, tho obviously much bigger lol, but the large nasal cavity in the center of the skull appeared to the Greeks as if it were one big "eye socket" in the middle of an over sized human skull, leading them to the assumption that the skull they had stumbled upon once belonged to a one eyed giant. Many creatures of legends can be traced back to the discovery and misidentification of skeletal/fossil remains of what are now known creatures, tho I do acknowledge the fact that ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks, were unaware that such prehistoric creatures ever existed, hence why they formulated their legends of dragons and giants to explain the origins of the skeletal remains they had discovered. Another example of which being that the Chinese believed that they had discovered "dragon's teeth," and they have been using those teeth in medicinal remedies for centuries, all the way up to present times. Turns out that the teeth never belonged to dragons (surprise, surprise lol), but were actually the teeth of Gigantopithecus, an extinct ape that was the largest of its kind to have ever existed.

  • @quierodesign3958

    @quierodesign3958

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's because they knew what dragons were from observation! Dinosaurs used to be called dragons .

  • @scaper8

    @scaper8

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@quierodesign3958 Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct long before the first human ever came about, so no one ever had direct observation of them or called them anything.

  • @danimotherofchickens479

    @danimotherofchickens479

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's Bc people were still actually seeing dragons when they explored in those days...

  • @jackaylward-williams9064
    @jackaylward-williams90643 жыл бұрын

    Any time I hear Sir Richard Owen’s name, the first thing I think of is a story that they tell at Lancaster Castle about how he was collecting a severed head from the gallows one night and slipped on the cobbles outside the main gate, causing the head to roll down the hill and end up outside the dead man’s front door, giving his wife a fright when she opened it.

  • @LambentLark
    @LambentLark4 жыл бұрын

    I bought a container full of dried bugs for my bird feeder. The wild birds weren't interested. My neighbors chickens on the other hand, love them. I started making this "pop, pop" sound with my mouth to call them each time before I give them some bugs. I totally see the dino DNA as the come running full tilt, though the trees, making corners and leaping down the hill. Add a couple zeros to their weight, they would be terrifying beasts.

  • @mjl167
    @mjl1674 жыл бұрын

    What is your process for researching videos like this?

  • @TodayIFoundOut

    @TodayIFoundOut

    4 жыл бұрын

    Google "How It's Made- a TIFO Story" :-) -Daven

  • @scottmantooth8785

    @scottmantooth8785

    4 жыл бұрын

    extensive and with very very tedious attention to detail and fact checking to insure the utmost quality

  • @priestmajic765
    @priestmajic7654 жыл бұрын

    THIS VIDEO AGGRESSIVELY WENT OFF THE SUBJECT! 🤔🙋🏾‍♂️

  • @TodayIFoundOut

    @TodayIFoundOut

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting related tangents is kind of what we do here. ;-) -Daven

  • @rebelliousnature4795

    @rebelliousnature4795

    4 жыл бұрын

    “Giants and Dragons” would of been a pretty short video, don’t you think Priestmajic?

  • @priestmajic765

    @priestmajic765

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TodayIFoundOut Yeah, but this one was almost 14 minutes, the video is only 22 minutes long. It started off great, then you became intoxicated with the tangent. lol!

  • @britzman9905

    @britzman9905

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TodayIFoundOut it kind of hampers the academic credibility of the channel

  • @collinbeal

    @collinbeal

    4 жыл бұрын

    This isn't a channel of "academic credibility". This isn't a thesis. It is entertainment. If dredging up pertinent albeit tangential nodes of thought creates entertainment value, then that is very well what this channel, with the sole purpose of entertainment, should commit to. If you are not entertained, I'm sure there's another channel you could take your pessimism to. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained.

  • @GillRant
    @GillRant4 жыл бұрын

    Shoutout to my hometown Maidstone which has an Iguanodon on its coat of arms. Due to the discovery of a fossil in Maidstone which was originally classified as an Iguanodon by Mantell, but it has since been reclassified as a Mantellodon, named after the man himself!

  • @RSEFX
    @RSEFX4 жыл бұрын

    And yet, I come back because he selects interesting subjects and covers them thoroughly.

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