Gen 8's fossil Pokemon all have this look to them that screams "kill me now". I honesty feel bad for reviving them.

Cara Liss is a monster. Every other scientist, in every other region, has been able to revive ancient Pokemon using only a fragment of said Pokemon for decades. She purposely wanted to experiment on Pokemon, no matter how much that Pokemon suffered because of it. And the player is partially responsible for crimes against Pokemon. And I find it odd that the Pokedex entries for these creations, throw random hypotheses of why they died out and never questioned their source or how these Pokemon came into being in the first place. There seems to be corruption in the Galar scientific community that the government is overlooking.

"Is Gamefreak testing out Pokemon Fusion?" *Necrozma and Kyurem exchange glances*

You want to talk about "incorrect dinosaurs?" Who else remembers when the T-Rex stood at a 90 degree angle?

Dracovish traded his ability to breathe for the ability to murder everything

Arctozolt: It's so cold. Dracovish: Why am I backwards? Arctovish: I can't breath. Dracozolt: Why am I thick? Fans: We'll fix you right up

"Evolution isn't mother nature just throwing things until they work" Well no, but actually kind of yes

I remember the excitement I felt upon getting my first two Galarian fossils and my utter confusion when Cara Liss made me select them one at a time. The horror and shame from seeing the Frankenstein monster I'd agreed to revive will haunt me more than any ghost girl ever will.

So... O.C. Marsh... invented a dinosaur that didn't exist... you could say... O.C. made an OC?

The fact that the fossil reviver is named Cara Liss suddenly makes sense.

I also personally appreciate the fact that all the shinies for them follow the same color scheme, where they're all grey'd out. To me, it feels like a nod to how they shouldn't be alive.

I like to think that the scientist Cara liss was once a respected Pokémon palaeontologist that lost her title. Compared to other region and possibly future region fossils, they did not know how to properly restore Galar fossils properly. Not enough DNA in the fossils, didn’t want them to be part rock or the entire practice to revive fossils in the first place had not been done. So Cara Liss had the idea to fuse the Pokémon fossils together to bring them back. This lead to the Galar fossils, originally she was proudest others were not. They removed her status and she was no longer a regarded scientist. Failure to see what she did wrong and claims to be the smartest palaeontologist, she still uses this process for trainers that bring them the right fossils

Arctovish is the embodiment of agony to me

I’ve always been a dinosaur nerd since I was a kid, and as much as I’d love to see the “regular” versions of these fossil Pokémon, I kinda really appreciate the historical reference in these wacky fusions. I mean, Galar is the perfect place; it’s based on the UK where dinosaurs were first identified/studied officially.

paleontologist:"voila, I've found a new dinosaur!" Dracovish:"please let me stay extinct..."

I took ONE look at my dracovish on my blind playthrough and immediately went "This thing's existence is pain." I feel terrible.

TL;DW The Galor Fossil Pokemon exist to roast early Paleontology, and the Jurassic Park series. In all seriousness though, I'd love to see Pokemon based on uniting the correct fossils, and/or the current fossil mon evolving to better fit together so they at least look a lot less miserable.

So if Pokémon die and you save their skeletons, you can mix and match the parts and revive the hybrid abomination in Galar to create super pokemon...

Child: Hey gramps, wanna watch Jurassic Park Bone War Veteran: **ptsd intensifies**

"I dint think paleontology was filled with so much drama...." Well, its is... like every month theres new drama..... its pretty fun I recommend. Cries in paleo noises.

Paleo nerd here to judge everything you say! Begin Sin Counter: 1. William Buckland technically discovered the first _dinosaur_ fossil. Fossils had been around long before that. Look up Mary Anning. In fact, giant ground sloths - a group of South and, later, North American sloths that thought they were elephants - were immensely popular in British museums before the good ol' dinosaurs came along. 2. Sauropod is the group, not the species. There were all kinds of sauropods - macronians, rebbeciosaurians, titanosaurs, diplodocids - each with many species within them. Brontosaurus was a type of Late Jurassic diplodocid - a sauropod, yes, but not THE sauropod. 3. It was not a Brachiosaurus skull, it was a Camarasaurus skull. Marsh found it near the body of the Apatosaurus and assumed they went together. 4. Small sin. Elasmosaurus is a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur. 5. The Triceratops/Torosaurus thing is pretty hotly contested, but generally agreed to be false. No baby Torosaurus have been found (yet, I've heard rumors that that's not true), but the animals lived in different areas. It seems unlikely to suggest that two animals that lived in different places were the same because you haven't found babies of one of them. 6. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were erected in 1852, before much paleontological work had been done in North America. The - strictly American - bone wars began in 1877. Your dates are wrong. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were not based on Cope and Marsh's work. 7. Again, abelisaurs are a group of dinosaurs - of which Carnotaurus is a member. You're probably thinking of Abelisaurus. 8. That's ma-JUNG-o-saurus, ROO-gops, and jig-a-NO-to-saurus. It's not actually ji-GAN-to-saurus. The English translation is Giant Southern Reptile. 9. Umm...are you thinking of the pachycephalosaurids? Dracorex is a dinosaur (or possibly a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus), but I know of no family of dinosaurs called Draconus. 10. The meteor theory is 100% confirmed. Volcanoes helped, but they weren't the catalyst. Also, just a small nitpick, dinosaurs never went extinct. Birds are still here. 11. SERIOUSLY?! HOW CAN A TWENTY-FOOT FISH WITH AN ARMORED SKULL AND TEETH FORMED FROM BONY PLATES POSSIBLY BORE YOU?!?! IT MAKES JAWS LOOK LIKE A LITTLE KITTEN!! I mean, not a sin, more of an opinion, but still... 12. DracoREX is not a maniraptor. It's an herbivorous pachycephalosaurid. Maniraptors are theropods. Also, you still seem to be somehow mixing up Dracorex the species and Pachycephalosaurid the family. Total sin counter: 12. Please don't hate me for this.

"Honestly, I never would've thought paleontology had so much drama..." Boy you don't know the half of it

I really hope to see the other halves in crown tundra. there's clearly a big thing for mining.

I really hope we get the correct halves in the dlc. I don’t really see why it shouldn’t happen since it would add how many more combinations of fossil Pokémon. But it is still game freak...

I also notice that the chimeras have a lower BST (505) than Tyrantrum’s and Aurorus’s 521. That could be significant, because those two are found in Kalos, which is based on France, and might be geographically close to Galar if the geography is similar to the real world. As such, there might be a lore reason for this: the inherent unnaturalness of the chimeras is reducing their strength, and the “true” versions have a base 521 stat distribution.

Gamefreak: what other fossil facts can I find?...oh. here we go! Players: WHAT MONSTROSITIES ARE THESE? Gamefreak: LORE. THEY ARE LORE DAMNIT.

The lady's name is "Cara Liss". As in "careless". What else could happen but abominations?

Lockstin: their going to cut the fossils from the next game, so no one gets a whole one Me: *transfers up 4 Pokemon, each holding one of the half fossils* Also me: *smiles evilly*

So this is what Galar thinks of fusion

"Your scientists were so preoccupied that they could that they didn't stop to think that they should." - Dr. Ian Malcom With the way these fossil mon turned out (especially Arctovish) this bit is brought to Its fullest meaning.

13:00 well technically it could run at 35-40 miles per hour... it'd just break every bone in it's legs within about 10 minutes of doing it

My theory: Fossilized Dino is the bottom half of what Dragapult was before becoming a Ghost type.

Fun fact, the human sized Velociraptors from Jurassic Park are actually Utahraptors (found in the state of Utah if you haven't guessed), which were, in actuality, roughly human sized. In fact, they even mentioned in the archaeological dig scene that the raptor they had found was IN UTAH. However, they chose to incorrectly call the Velociraptors because it sounded cooler.

Please, everyone. Be nice to your little fossil abominations. They deserve the same level of love and attention as the rest of your Pokemon friends. I mean, the poor things didn't ask to be born. It's not their fault they are a sin against everything natural in this world.

And Goh and Ash caught two of them (and they really love them). Aerodactyl, on the other hand, was freaking out when he saw Arctozolt. He was going “What the heck are you?”

I love arctozolt, they're so cute, and they even have the sniffles because the zolt part isn't used to the cold. AHHHHHHH. And their shaking generates its electricity

the bird fossil also says that the zolt half once "soared across the sky", referencing how nobody really knew what they were talking about.

lockstin you are not looking at the big part of these pokemon. why is it that you need half of a skeleton to revive the half, so you need another half to make them alive. but the other fossil pokemon you only need one bone, one shell, or one feather (aka archen) to revive the whole pokemon. and then you have aerodactyl who doesn't have any body parts, but blood. whats wrong the pokemon, or the "Jurassic park" science.

"Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak gems stronger" *Is offended in Gen 8 fossil 'mon*

When I saw these fossils for the first time. *Sees Arctovish* Me: Oh, that's cool! I want it! *Sees other fossils* *turns game off*

I mean god knows I love the fossil pokemon and the concept behind them in this generation, but there's NO denying that every single one of them is an act against god, and asking Cara Liss to make one for you is basically making yourself an accomplice in some VERY SERIOUS ETHICAL CRIMES if nothing else, I hope Pokemon Gun eventually lets us recreate the ACTUAL versions of these fossils later on, maybe even giving us the back halves of fossils to mix-and-match with will give us a bunch more combinations of Moral Sins. (honestly I just want the full version of Zolt. I need my pikaraptor ;A;)

I love how Dracozolt and Arctozolt look like Pikachu as a velociraptor.

For the longest time, I never realized Arctovish’s head is upside down...

I just hope the dlc reveals that we can find the other halves of the fossils so we can finally have their normal forms. This way both players will be happy.

take the fossils to someone who knows what they are doing, like the OTHER REGION'S fossil researchers who don't need a whole skeleton to revive the whole pokemon.

Remember the tongue twister : "she sells sea shells down by the sea sea shore" fun fact: she is actually selling dinosaur bones and she is the first person to find dino bones and her name is mary anning

They all look to be in pain - if they ever introduce the extra pieces - I hope there's a way to "evolve" them into their proper forms.

Anybody remember those weird Pokegods that were fusions of different Pokemons? Like: -Venustoise -Stonebro -Articzapmewtres -Ratichu In a million years from now when the next era of Pokemon happens and the first 807 become extinct, the scientists in those times might just end up making them.

You know, with the Diamond/Pearl remakes, there could be the Bone Wars equivalent with Cara arguing with Byron, who notices these fossil Pokemon and tries to reassemble them to the right forms and he and Cara would battle with their respective forms to see which one is right. Just food for thought.

Bone Wars. Not to be confused with the Skeleton War.

“It was not by my hand that I am given flesh. I was called here by HUMANS!”

Imagine being like an archeologist in like the year 4000, seeing an alligator skull then putting it on a cheetah skeleton and being like “that look cool”

If you dont write RIP on your tombstone you will be drafted to the bone wars

I wish you would've covered one of my biggest questions about these: Why the hell do the dex entries talk about them as if they really lived?

As a total paleontology nerd myself I was so excited to see this video.

According to the sword pokedex Dracovish is just insanely powerful, it says he hunted all his prey until he went extinct

Now here is where you are WRONG! Arcto is not a walrus, it is a PLESIOSSAURUS, it is called PLESIO in spanish and that's why it is called a DINO in English. The body is small but i'm sure it would have a long neck. Even some fan arts show how it could be and it fits perfectly.

Fans: could we pleaaasseee have the orig- Game Freak: sure. (removes the fusions and adds nothing) Fans: BUT WE- Game Freak: yes.

"and we're on the path to doing it again" that hits different now.

"It's a little dinosaur pikachu!" Putting it that way has made me dislike...zolt? We only see half of it, so I'll call it zolt.

Gnoggin is doing Mesozoic paleontology... Oh boy are the comments gonna go nuts. He is not an expert, nor does he claim to be one, and he honestly did a pretty decent job running down the basics. Please do not throw rocks at this good boy for pronunciations, classification mixups, and keep critiques on the hottly contested things civil. Literally new information comes out about this stuff monthly, so I do not blame him for being up to date on all the journals. Just remember we learn more about more about these ancient creatures (pokemon or dinosaurs? You decide!) all the time, and in another hundred years we will continue to look back and think "wow that was a wack theory, at least they were trying their best". That or just "wow, idiots" but I'm hopeful someone future scientist will take pitty.

Mewtwo had every right to be mad at biological engineering then.

Tbh, Arctozolt doesn't seem very sad. He seems uncharacteristically happy regardless of his condition.

Nice video! I had been avoiding Pokemon related content for a while until I could play the game for myself so I wouldn't have things spoiled for me. But now I'm back and I have lots of nice Pokemon videos to binge watch. And also, I especially loved this video because I had been thinking that these fossil Pokemon were probably referencing things like the Bone Wars. I'm also not just a big fan of Pokemon but also dinosaurs and paleontology as a whole. It's also very interesting to learn more about the history of paleontology as well.

Fun Fact: The T-rex from Jurassic park originally was even MORE inaccurate than in the movie! My comp professor back in college used to work special effects on the film and one of his favorite stories was always working on that damn T-rex. Apparently the original model they filmed with the toes were bright purple and NO ONE on the set wanted to fix it! Even during shooting it was always "Don't worry, we'll fix it in post" (A note for any aspiring film makers: *NEVER* utter this phrase out loud unless you want to be murdered by your post production) He actually had to go in and fix the toes in post. Quite literally re-shooting several shots with the correct dino feet just so he could have a decent looking composite (and I mean a composite in the 1990's definition of the term, not the modern process), and we're talking post-production technology and compositing way back in 1993 so I can only imagine how much of a pain that was to comp just to change the toe color. Bit of fun film trivia for you~ X3

Well, the Jurassic Park Velociraptors were more based on the larger Deinonychus, but Michael Crichton used the Velociraptor name because he thought it felt "more dramatic". The book version of Dilophosaurus was more accurate, bigger and no frill (though it still spit poison), it was made smaller in the movie so it wouldn't steal the thunder of the raptors.

I think it would be cool if Galarian fossil Pokémon had evolve forms which streamlined their hodge podge parts together into a more cohesive creature.

i hope when the dlc comes out that we can get the other halves of the fossils so we can get the correct ones

You know what I like about these fossil Pokemon? They're not half rock this time around.

Ok for the most part it's a solid video but there are MAJOR errors I have to address, coming from a Paleontological background. Firstly: The Bone Wars happened AFTER the Crystal Palace construction. The CP was based on the earliest reconstructions of dinosaurs, hence the much more lizard-like reconstructions of Iguanodon and Megalosaurus. By the time the Bone Wars happens dinosaurs were already starting to be reconstructed more like the upright walking, tail dragging forms that were made popular in Harryhausen films, so the reason the CP reconstructions were bad were because they were from the earliest days of paleontology, NOT the result of the Bone Wars. Secondly some of your justifications for the original forms aren't good. I still think the stegosaur interpretation is correct due to the large size, prominent backward pointing ischium and pubis (the "spike" coming out under the tail, which is smaller in pachycephalosaurs proportionally), and obviously the plates, which actually are more triangular in most stegosaur species. The whole "dracorex" interpretation is confusing since "Zolt" is clearly NOT from any known ceolorosaurian dinosaur name, and "Vish" just references the fact it's a fish and doesn't come from any part of the name "Dunkelosteus". Also no dinosaurs had elephantine feet, that is an outdated reconstruction. Even stegosaurus feet are closer to how they're presented in "Draco-". If anything the names reflect the types more than what they were from. "-vish" clearly comes from fish, which it was, but is also because fish are purely aquatic animals. "Arcto-" Reflects the ice type because of the Arctic. "-zolt" reflects the electric type, as in a jolt of electricity. And "Draco-" comes from the fact it's a dragon type. Quick side note, the Japanese often refer to dinosaurs as dragons, there's even a submarine in the Japan naval fleet called Kenryū , which means "Sword Dragon" and is nicknamed "Stegosaurus". As for the Arcto half... you completely forgot 2 major and famous types of marine reptiles that fit that body shape perfectly: the pliosaurs and plesiosaurs. Not only were pleiosaurs among the earliest described marine reptiles and portrayed alongside icthyosaurs in the earliest paleo art, we also know they had a small fluke on their short tails and would have used their long flippers for propulsion. Now I don't know if it's a pliosaur or plesiosaur as all the major differences are in the front half, but the more rounded shape of the flippers is a bit closer to plesiosaurs, compared to the much thinner and pointed flippers of pliosaurs. The walrus depiction doesn't fit in the slightest, especially since there aren't even that many distinct fossil walruses to be based on. Also the whole "Dino fossil" joke fits better since marine reptiles and pterosaurs are often mislabeled as "swimming and flying dinosaurs". Your description of zolt was pretty on point though, I will give you that. All in all I hope these 4 fossils are purged from future pokemon games. Replace them with the real forms and get these abominations against nature out of my sight. Not only do they look awful but they grossly oversimplify early paleontology which, as you said, was people trying to make sense of things no one has ever seen. I have never hated any pokemon design more than these four. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Fun fact: Dracorex is actually just a juvenile Pachycephalosaurs and/or Stygimoloch.

I love that you did a lot of research on this topic it makes me happy to see

I’m curious to see how the anime handles the fossil Pokémon

The biological implications of not only these Pokemon but potentially every Pokemon are also fascinating. Like Dracovish. It's head is connected to it's damn tail. Biologically, that's wack.

I don't remember how I found your channel this summer (other than obviously pokemon) but I am super glad I did. Thank you for your vids.

This is actually a way better concept than I initially thought. Great video.

The 4 fossil Pokémon assembled correctly will be Velocizolt/Electrozolt Dunkleovish/Aquovish Dracostego Arctosaur(It looked like Mosasaur if you ask me)

The Utah Raptor was pretty big, about the size of the velociraptors portrayed in Jurassic Park.

You have done the impossible and actually made me kinda like these pokemon! I could honestly watch a whole series just about fossils. Great video!

I would love to see the next generation that includes fossils go into the idea of the Jurassic Park way of making pokemon by having incomplete fossils that you have to combine with dna from already existing pokemon (maybe introduce a single frog-like pokemon whose characteristics build into each fossil in a subtle way or have each fossil have a pokemon that is somewhat similar to it that builds onto it, like combining an aquatic fossil with Sharpedo dna and it ends up being this Mosasaur with a face or coloration of sharpedo).

Heads up Lockstin! There's a fair amount of mixup in terms of the content in the video. While I understand that Dinosaur pronunciations can be....awkward, there's a bunch of facts in this video that actually aren't true. First of all Dracorex. It's name is actually Dracorex Hogwartsia, not 'Hogwartis', although that could have just been a mistake during the script process. But the bigger problem with it is the family. 'Draconis', as a family, does not exist, as Dracorex is part of the Pachycephalosaurus family. It's also not a Maniraptoran, which is what Dromaeosaurids (Like what Zolt is) is. Dracorex is a Ornithiscian, whereas Maniraptorans are Sauriscians. Now for the tail part. It's 'Dragon' association and name could very easily be from the fact that Stegosaurids (Which it's highly likely to be based off of) are most commonly found in China, which, typically a lot of Dinosaurs dug up in China get the 'Long' suffix, as in Chinese for Dragon. In terms of 'Arcto', Arcto seems to be a Plesiosaurus or Pliosaurus, which had short tails (With flukes, like what Arcto has). To add to this, the fact that Arctozolt walks but Arctovish swims could be a nod to the outdated belief that Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs could haul themselves up onto land, something we know wasn't actually possible. And as a fun little extra bit of info, Arctozolt is walking upright in an unrealistic posture for a Dinosaur, possibly in reference to the outdated depiction of 'tail dragging' or 'Kangaroo posture' that was common until the Dinosaur renaissance of the 60's.

Am I the only one who really liked these new fossil Pokémon? Yeah they're eternally suffering but the more jabs at paleontologists I see the more I get to appreciate their designs. Plus they all just look good to me on their own. Idk maybe I'm a sadist but I plan on using these guys in my various playthroughs of Sw&Sh. Was gonna use an Arctozolt on my first run actually, but I have Shield and I didn't know I could get all 4 fossil types until it was too late.

I would love to see more combos of these fossil Pokémon and even the real fossil Pokémon combinations

I wish in the expansion pass( the two of them) we get the completed Version the four prehistoric Pokémon.

12:00 is that why the exposed mid-section of dracozolt is electric yellow while on dracovish it's the same colour as the rest of the body?

As someone who was an avid dinosaur fossil lover when I was younger, hearing about how people sawed a trex skull in half just makes me sick.

Oddly enough, all of this happened more or less at the same time as the wild west in North America, not the UK.

I'm shiny hunting dracozolt while watching this, and this got me thinking: what if we get the other fossils in the expansion pass? That'd be neat...

If there's anything I can say 'bout Gen 8, it's that the pokemon's got pretty good concepts and designs... certainly could of had more of 'em tho.

Jam a puzzle piece hard enough and it will fit.... It won’t look pretty thou

I love when he has a voice break whenever he tries to be angry or loud 🤣🤣

I still want a proper dunkleosteus pokemon. Love that guy. Also more prehistoric mammals and proto mammals would be cool.

I wonder if the other halves of the fossils ended up in the mega evolution universe..

This fossils are straight up body horror, I love them!

Fun fact about the arcto side of the Galar fossils. It’s actually pretty easy to tell what Gamefreak based it off thanks to the translations of the item used. For example, the Japanese version of fossilised Dino translated is fossilised plesiosaur. So it’s clear this it is based of a plesiosaur or another marine reptile at the bare minimum. Plus how the flippers walk on land for arctozolt, it’s the same for scuba divers using flippers to swim better. Any animal with flippers would have difficulty walking properly like with an animal with feet. But that’s my two cents, otherwise it’s all pretty much good theories on what they are based on.

20:40 "By all known laws of aviation, zolts should not be able to fly. But the zolt does not care what humans think is possible"

“Need the proper hind limbs that act in a way that is classified in the group in Dino” Effigia:So I am a dinosaur right?

Originally, I thought these pokemon were absolute monstrosities and don't deserve this suffering. But now, Dracovish is my baby. I named mine Pörthing.

"Raptors the size of humans, ridiculous" Dakotaraptor: Allow me to introduce myself

For my fakemon region my fossil Pokemon are still partially fossilized. The rock ghost type Deniatrice, made with an eye fossil and a petrified egg, is the defensive fossil, based on a cockatrice, its feathers have fossilised, turning into stone scales, and it has a reptilian tail, and since it's real wings are fossilized, it instead uses dragon wings made of purple ghost energy. Then there's the bull-like rock grass type Gorgent, made with a horn fossil and a petrified log. It's the offensive variant and based on two interpretations of Gorgons, primarily the bull Gorgon. The medusa like Gorgons are referenced by Gorgent's twin python tails. It even wears armor made of petrified wood. It breathes gas that rapidly encases whatever it touches in a shell of mineral draining stone. Deniatrice can petrify it's allies to protect them and itself to tank attacks. Don't worry, the petrification for both Pokemon is temporary, and Deniatrice can unpetrify you with a glance.

Teacher: What are you laughing at? Me: Nothing. My brain: Dracovish