Balaur bondoc: Transylvania's Ancient Dragon Bird

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Near to the end of the Cretaceous, a bizarre maniraptoran theropod stalked the forests of Transylvania... but what actually WAS it? Who was it closely related to, and how did it live? D.J. King investigates the literature to find out!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:28 - Csiki et al.'s description of Balaur
6:12 - The Brusatte et al. monograph
7:57 - Balaur was a bird?
13:09 - Revisions of Balaur's ecology
15:42 - Balaur was/n't a bird?
18:54 - Balaur's neighbours on Hateg
19:51 - Balaur's predators
24:14 - Wrap-Up

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@petrfedor1851 11 ай бұрын

Paleontologist: "What is your position withing stem-birds?" Balaur: "Yes."

@madelyntielking6483 9 ай бұрын

Balaur bondoc!!!! It's my favorite dinosaur :) I'm always so happy to learn more about it!

@Hooy-Jaymay 11 ай бұрын

I LOVE BALAUR I LOVE BIZZARE THERAPODS

@GeorgeTheDinoGuy 11 ай бұрын

Balaur is such a unique theropod, it could’ve been the first ever flightless bird, if it ever had flight, lol. I hope we are able to discover more about this dinosaurs evolutionary history!

@mymom1462 11 ай бұрын

Love your work brother! Keep going with your banger videos.

@TheFoshaMan 11 ай бұрын

Cool!

@Sara3346 10 ай бұрын

I dont understand why you are so unrated! Your amazing!

@geoduckgeoscience4300 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

@humblemarty 11 ай бұрын

Cool video

@canis2020 11 ай бұрын

Nice job my dude

@TheaSvendsen 10 ай бұрын

I love how in-depth your videos are and also really appreciate your way of teaching us about prehistoric earth and fauna; in a way that is easy to understand, yet not condescending (which can be quite difficult). Such an underrated channel but when you come across it, you stay :)

@geoduckgeoscience4300 10 ай бұрын

Really glad you're enjoying my videos!

@danielmalinen6337 5 ай бұрын

During the middle and late Cretaceous, abelisauroids became the most common large theropod in Europe, while tyrannosauroids and spinosauroids disappeared, so "Megalosaurus hungaricus" may well have been an abelisauroid, similar like Betasuchus, Tarascosaurus, Arcovenator and "Swedish Australovenator."

@danking9936 5 ай бұрын

As much as we are a lot more confident about spinosaurs disappearing, from what I've seen I don't think Europe's late Cretaceous fossil record is really concrete enough for me to concretely rule out the other groups, especially given how fragmented Europe was at the time.